IP Library Granted Patent US 9,022,097
Granted Patent B2
US 9,022,097 · App. 14/355,725 · Granted May 5, 2015

Method and installation for manufacturing thin metal strip

Inventors: MInoru Takashima (Tokyo, JP); Seiji Okabe (Tokyo, JP); Nobuo Shiga (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
B22D11/062B65H20/10B22D11/0611B22D11/0631B65H2301/5144B65H2406/122B22D11/0682B22D11/0694
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Patent No.
US 9,022,097
App. No.
14/355,725
Granted
May 5, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method for manufacturing a thin metal strip by pouring and rapidly solidifying molten metal onto a cooling roll rotating at a high speed to form a thin metal strip having a width of 50˜350 mm, blowing compression gas from substantially a tangential direction of the cooling roll toward the thin metal strip to separate the thin metal strip from the cooling roll, adsorbing the separated thin metal strip with a permeable belt of a suction type belt conveyor, and transporting to a take-up reel to wind in form of a coil, the thin metal strip is adsorbed by the belt under conditions that a nearest approaching distance L between the cooling roll and the suction type belt conveyor is 2˜50 mm and a suction width S of a suction box arranged in the suction type belt conveyor is 1.2˜2.5 times of a width W of the thin metal strip.

Claims (15)

1. A method for manufacturing a thin metal strip comprising:

pouring and rapidly solidifying molten metal onto an outer peripheral surface of a cooling roll rotating at a high speed to form a thin metal strip having a width of 50-350 mm,

blowing compression gas from substantially a tangential direction of the cooling roll toward the thin metal strip to separate the thin metal strip from the cooling roll,

adsorbing the separated thin metal strip with a permeable belt of a suction type belt conveyor, and

transporting to a take-up reel to wind in form of a coil,

wherein the thin metal strip is adsorbed by the belt under conditions that a nearest approaching distance L between the cooling roll and the suction type belt conveyor is 2-50 mm and a suction width S of a suction box arranged in the suction type belt conveyor is 1.2-2.5 times of a width W of the thin metal strip.

2. The method for manufacturing a thin metal strip according to claim 1 , wherein the width W of the thin metal strip is 250-350 mm.

3. An installation for manufacturing a thin metal strip, comprising:

a cooling roll rotating at a high speed,

a hot metal pouring port having a slit nozzle of 50-350 mm in width for pouring the molten metal onto an outer peripheral surface of the cooling roll,

an air nozzle for blowing compression gas from a substantially tangential direction of the outer peripheral surface of the cooling roll toward the thin metal strip to separate the thin metal strip,

a suction type belt conveyor for adsorbing and transporting the separated thin metal strip with a permeable belt by sucking air with a suction box, and

a take-up reel winding the transported thin metal strip in form of a coil,

wherein a nearest approaching distance L between the cooling roll and the suction type belt conveyor is 2-50 mm and a suction width S of a suction box arranged in the suction type belt conveyor is 1.2-2.5 times of a width W of the thin metal strip.

4. The installation for manufacturing a thin metal strip according to claim 3 , wherein the width of the slit nozzle is 250-350 mm.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 26, 2014
From: TAKASHIMA, MINORU; OKABE, SEIJI; SHIGA, NOBUO
To: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 033613/0174 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2011-248384 · Nov 14, 2011 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20140290900A1 · Oct 2, 2014