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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2007
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2004
Ali Ünal, Export, PA (US);
Gavin Federick Wyatt-mair, Lafayette, CA (US);
David Allen Tomes, Jr., Sparks, NV (US);
David Wayne Timmons, Reno, NV (US);
Ali Ünal, Export, PA (US);
Gavin Federick Wyatt-Mair, Lafayette, CA (US);
David Allen Tomes, Jr., Sparks, NV (US);
David Wayne Timmons, Reno, NV (US);
Alcoa Inc., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Abstract
A method of making aluminum alloy sheet in a continuous in-line process is provided. A continuously-cast aluminum alloy strip is optionally quenched, hot or warm rolled, annealed or heat-treated in-line, optionally quenched, and preferably coiled, with additional hot, warm or cold rolling steps as needed to reach the desired gauge. The process can be used to make aluminum alloy sheet of T or O temper having the desired properties, in a much shorter processing time.