EP0074692A2 - A method and an apparatus for the continuous plastic deformation of metal and for the pretreatment of said metal before said deformation - Google Patents
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- This invention relates to a method and a device for pretreating ductile non-ferrous metal for a continuous plastic deformation treatment in which the surface parts of the metal to be deformed do not substantially form surface parts of the material after said deformation.
- plastically deforming metals many different methods for plastically deforming metals are known, such as swaging, drawing, extruding and deep drawing. If therein the surface parts of the blank or other metal parts before deformation remain parts of the surface, as is usually the case in metal wire or rod drawing operations, contaminations such as oxides on the surface will also be present on the surface of the metal after deformation, often even in a much lower concentration or layer thickness because the surface area is increased considerably during the deformation. In drawing dies and other active surfaces of plastic deformation tools it is usual to add lubricants to decrease friction and such agents also remain on the surface of the metal and do not cause harm, are divided over a much larger area during the deformation and, if desired, are easily removable thereafter.
- Conform@-process for continuously extruding e. g . metal feedstock from a continuous casting process (vide e.g. Society of Manufacturing Engineers Technical Paper MF76-407, Dearborn Michigan: Eric Hunter: Continuous Extrusion by the Conform Process).
- Contaminations such as grease and oil and cxide layers will in such a method for the greater part turn up in the interior of the final product, where they may give considerable disadvantages. Parts subjected to high stresses, e.g. tubes under internal fluid pressure, may rupture thereby. It is sometimes of importance that such contaminations decrease the electric conductivity. Such contaminations will in part be present on the outer surface of the final product in an irregular, non uniform and locally limited way and this also gives many disadvantages, e.g. that they cannot be anodised uniformly and that there is unevenness and roughness of the surface impairing the appearance of the product and being disadvantageous for further treatment and operations.
- Grisal 4506 ® of Hoechst or a comparable agent manufactured by Henkel both having a PH of about 13.5.
- This is an agent on the basis of a strong alkali, mainly based on sodium hydroxide (caustic soda) and containing phospates, carbonates, carbon acids and salts, and being free from silicates, wetting agents, nitrates and nitrites.
- the metal surface Upon use of such an agent for some types of aluminium alloys, such as those containing magnesium, silicon and/or manganese, there will remain a coating layer containing one or more of these metals on the metal body to be treated and if this is so, it is preferred to spray the metal surface with an acid such as nitric acid immediately after spraying with the alkaline agent. After this spraying the metal should be rinsed e.g., by spraying with water to remove any remnants of the cleaning agent immediately after spraying with the alkaline and/or acid agent. Drying, e.g.
- pickling means and pickling methods for treating surfaces of metal bodies are known in many different embodiments.
- the coiling after pickling has the disadvantage that it complicates the total device and method considerably and takes more time, but particularly in a deforming method of the type to which this invention relates it is of the utmost importance that the metal does not get time to form a new oxide layer even if this would be very thin. This is avoided according to the invention, but if desired it is possible to guide the metal through a space with an inert atmosphere, as is known as such, between the last spraying step and the deforming device, which gives an additional safety against this phenomenon.
- the invention may be applied both for a coherent metal strand, strip, wire or rod, e.g. as leaving a continuous-casting device,and for separate metal parts, e.g. for diminuted waste metal such as old aluminium window and door frames cut into smaller parts and having e.g. anodised or similarly coated or treated surfaces.
- Such smaller parts may be fed through a spraying device and to a deforming device both according to the invention by and while being carried by a conveyor belt of gauze type, the supplying to the deforming device taking place by dumping, pushing or pressing.
- the starting material is a continuous or very long profile of small cross-section and easily bendable, e.g.
- a wire this may be in coil form when fed to the spraying device, being fed continuously from the coil by unwinding it, through the spraying device and to the deforming device.
- the unwinding and feeding through the spraying device and to the deforming device may take place by the pulling action of the deforming device or its direct supply means. It has appeared that a spraying time of 8 seconds in most cases gives a very good result.
- the device for performing the method according to the invention is mainly characterized in that it deludes conveying means for moving the metal to a device for said plastic deformation in a continuous path and spraying means for spraying the metal with a deoxydation and cleaning agent during this movement.
- Fig. 1, 1 indicates diagrammatically a supply for the metal to be treated.
- This supply may be the discharge of a continuous-casting device, e.g. casting vertically downwards in well-known manner to cast a strip, long rod or wire of simple cross-sectional shape, e.g. of an aluminium alloy.
- a reel containing a long wound wire or strip at this point.
- the metal body therefrom is first fed to a first spraying section 2. If necessary the vertically cast metal body is bent into a horizontal direction and at the entry of spraying section 2 there may be vertical guide rollers and horizontal straightening rollers, e.g.
- this spraying section is embodied as a trough 3 with a cover 4, normally closing the trough 3 entirely.
- the trough 3 has a number of ducts 5 for a spraying liquid, extending in vertical planes at mutually equal distances. Said liquid is supplied by a supply duct 6 extending along the trough and having, for each duct 5, a branch duct 7.
- each vertical dot and dash line in the trough represents a duct 5 and only three of the ducts 7 have been shown here.
- the ducts 5 are shown as extending along the outside of the trough 3, but they may extend along the inside wall thereof.
- Each duet 5 has a number of spray nozzles 8 within the trough and divided evenly along the length thereof, adapted to direct a forceful jet of spraying liquid onto the metal passing through the trough;, which metal is guided through the center of the trough. If the metal body would tend to sag too much, it is easy, as is usual in comparable situations, to apply support brackets or support rollers at adequate mutual distances in the trough.
- end walls At the entry and exit of the trough there may be rigid end walls with a small opening allowing passage of the metal and, if it is desired to close the trough entirely around the metal, such end walls may have or may be constituted by one or more curtains or sheets of synthetic rubber or a suitable elastic plastic material to close the end faces of the trough around the metal body. If desired, other end walls may be mounted if a metal body of a different cross-section has to be sprayed.
- the supply header duct 6 for the spraying liquid is fed by a pump 9 from a reservoir 10.
- the liquid sprayed on the metal in the trough is discharged therefrom through two or more openings 11 in the bottom, connected by a discharge pipe 13, from which the liquid thus collected with contaminations, is recycled to reservoir 10 through pipe 14.
- rollers 12 At the downstream end of trough 3, there are guide rollers 12, shown in Fig. 1 as having a vertical axis and also shown in Fig. 4. They not only guide the metal body, but also pinch it as it fits in grooves in the periphery of the rollers as shown for a circular rod in Fig. 4. If the metal body has a different shape of cross-section, the grooves in the roller periphery may be different to be adapted thereto.
- the rollers 12 may also have a horizontal axis and there may be two sets of rollers 12, one with horizontal and one with vertical axes. If the metal body is in the shape of a flat strip, there may be rollers with horizontal axis and of simple cylindrical shape.
- rollers 12 may have an outer periphery of an elastic material such as a synthetic rubber or polytetrafluoroethylene and contact the metal body under some pressure to remove as much of the liquid adhering to the metal surface as possible by pinching of the metal between opposite rollers.
- an elastic material such as a synthetic rubber or polytetrafluoroethylene
- a second spraying section 15 being shorter than section 2 and serving to spray the metal body with another liquid, e.g., for many aluminium alloys, with an acid such as nitric acid.
- Supply and recycling of the liquid take place by the same means as described for spraying section 2, there being a reservoir 16 for this liquid, and a pump, filter, ducts etc. to and from this reservoir etc., such parts not being shown.
- This spraying section 15 will have the same shape of the trough, spraying and guide means, rollers 12 and covers in the end walls as described for section 2.
- a spraying section 17 being fed with rinsing water from a reservoir 18 and being embodied in the same way as a trough like spraying sections 2 and 15, with supply duct, pump and return duct as described for section 2, but this section 17 may have a supply from the water means without a separate pump and return duct to reservoir 18, but discharging the water to a suitable cleaning device and from there to e.g. the municipal sewer system.
- drying section 19 having drying means for the metal, preferably by dry heated air, said air flowing at high speed and turbulently along the metal to dry it rapidly.
- the air may be guided to and fro by baffles to pass the metal several times between an inlet and an outlet.
- Electric heating means may be provided in this'section, together with fan means to circulate the air in the casing thereof to and along such heating means and then over the metal, in which case the air may thus circulate within this device so that only a small part thereof is withdrawn through an outlet to discharge the water vapour and is replaced by dryer air through an inlet.
- an inert gas may be used instead of 3 ir..
- the metal body 21 to be treated enters the deforming device 20, shown separately and somewhat diagrammatically in Fig. 2 and representing a Conform device as described by Hunter, mentioned above, in which the surface of the metal (here a rod, strip or bar 21) entering the device does substantially not form part of the surface of the extruded product.
- the strip, rod or bar 21 is fed into a groove 22 in a rotating roll 23, in which groove it fits.
- the roll 23 is rotated in the direction of the arrow shown therein.
- a shoe 24 is pivoted at 25, is pushed by a resilient force towards roll 23 (by a force represented by arrow 26) and at 27 has a stepped part to prevent further movement of the oncoming metal body 21.
- the device may have any desired position, e.g. the axis of roll 23 may be vertical.
- a conveyor belt shown as 30 in dashed lines in Fig. 3, passing from the metal supply station 1 through all the spraying troughs 3, 15, 17 and the drying means 19 to the extrusion device 20.
- the belt 30 may be a metal belt of gauze material, if desired coated with a layer of plastic material resistant against the spraying agents.
- the belt 30 will have to discharge the metal parts directly to the deforming device 20 and this may be accomplished by providing a small hopper in the entry zone, e.g. exactly on or near the spot where reference numeral 20 is positioned, and belt 30 will then terminate right above this small hopper. This hopper will bring the metal parts immediately in the groove 22 of roll 23 to be passed on, compressed and heated by friction and extruded.
- the metal to be treated is sprayed by strong jets from nozzles 8 in spraying section 2 with a strong alkali liquid as described before. Contaminations are thus liberated from the metal and rollers 12 and possibly the curtain in the end face of trough 3 remove much of the spraying liquid adhering to the metal. If the metal is of a type which makes it necessary to spray with an acid thereafter, the metal is sprayed with a solution of 30% nitric acid in water in spraying section 15. If no such treatment is necessary, section 15 may be omitted or removed or be used also to spray the metal with the alkaline agent or with an alkaline agent of a somewhat different composition. In section 17 the metal is rinsed by water, which may have been pretreated to remove hardness or control acidity. In section 19 the metal is dried and immediately thereafter it enters the deforming device 20.
- Alkaline agents such as Grisal ® indicated above are commercially available as powders.
- a suitable spraying liquid is made therefrom by solving thereof in water to form a solution of about 3% (by weight) of the powder.
- This liquid is preferably heated to a temperature not higher than 70°C and preferably about 55 0 C, giving a strong cleaning action without too much vapour.
- heating means and temperature control means not shown in the system of reservoir 10 and its ducting connecting it to trough 3.
- the nitric acid spraying liquid in spraying section 15 is preferably applied at room temperature.
- the rinsing water sprayed in section 17 is also preferably at a somewhat elevated temperature such as 55°C or somewhat higher, to remove the remnants of spraying liquid from the previous spraying section more efficiently and completely in the very short time available and to have the metal body enter the drying section 19 with an elevated temperature promoting rapid drying.
- the invention is intended to be applied to ductile non-ferrous metals and in particular to aluminium and copper and many of their alloys.
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- This invention relates to a method and a device for pretreating ductile non-ferrous metal for a continuous plastic deformation treatment in which the surface parts of the metal to be deformed do not substantially form surface parts of the material after said deformation.
- Many different methods for plastically deforming metals are known, such as swaging, drawing, extruding and deep drawing. If therein the surface parts of the blank or other metal parts before deformation remain parts of the surface, as is usually the case in metal wire or rod drawing operations, contaminations such as oxides on the surface will also be present on the surface of the metal after deformation, often even in a much lower concentration or layer thickness because the surface area is increased considerably during the deformation. In drawing dies and other active surfaces of plastic deformation tools it is usual to add lubricants to decrease friction and such agents also remain on the surface of the metal and do not cause harm, are divided over a much larger area during the deformation and, if desired, are easily removable thereafter.
- The situation is different for deformation methods, in which the surface parts of the metal before deformation will become positioned to a considerable extent inside the metal by the deformation. This is particularly the case in the transverse extruding of metal supplied by a friction roll to the extrusion space, in which in many cases the surface area of the metal after deformation may become even considerably smaller than the surface area before deformation.
- Such a method, especially for aluminium and copper, is known as the Conform@-process for continuously extruding e.g. metal feedstock from a continuous casting process (vide e.g. Society of Manufacturing Engineers Technical Paper MF76-407, Dearborn Michigan: Eric Hunter: Continuous Extrusion by the Conform Process).
- Contaminations such as grease and oil and cxide layers will in such a method for the greater part turn up in the interior of the final product, where they may give considerable disadvantages. Parts subjected to high stresses, e.g. tubes under internal fluid pressure, may rupture thereby. It is sometimes of importance that such contaminations decrease the electric conductivity. Such contaminations will in part be present on the outer surface of the final product in an irregular, non uniform and locally limited way and this also gives many disadvantages, e.g. that they cannot be anodised uniformly and that there is unevenness and roughness of the surface impairing the appearance of the product and being disadvantageous for further treatment and operations.
- It has been tried before to find a solution for such problems by mechanical scaling or shaving away a thin layer of the material before deformation, e.g. a layer of a thickness between .8 and 1.4 mm thickness. Deformation methods, to which the invention relates, are normally performed with metal, of which the transverse dimensions are not above 25 mm. This means that the layer scaled off gives a high percentage of refuse material and moreover the scaling or shaving costs much energy, and it is not allowable to lubricate the knives for this treatment as the lubricant would again give the mentioned disadvantage.
- It is an object of the invention to give a solution for the problems described so as to avoid the mentioned disadvantages and to this end a method as given in the preamble above is according to the invention characterized in that the metal, directly before the plastic deformation and while being supplied to a deforming device for such plastic deformation, continuously and synchronously therewith and directly before reaching said deforming device is sprayed with a liquid deoxidation and cleaning agent.
- As a deoxidizing and cleaning agent it is possible to apply Grisal 4506® of Hoechst or a comparable agent manufactured by Henkel, both having a PH of about 13.5. This is an agent on the basis of a strong alkali, mainly based on sodium hydroxide (caustic soda) and containing phospates, carbonates, carbon acids and salts, and being free from silicates, wetting agents, nitrates and nitrites. Upon use of such an agent for some types of aluminium alloys, such as those containing magnesium, silicon and/or manganese, there will remain a coating layer containing one or more of these metals on the metal body to be treated and if this is so, it is preferred to spray the metal surface with an acid such as nitric acid immediately after spraying with the alkaline agent. After this spraying the metal should be rinsed e.g., by spraying with water to remove any remnants of the cleaning agent immediately after spraying with the alkaline and/or acid agent. Drying, e.g. by hot air, will be performed after the rinsing with water, but according to the invention also these steps have to take place while the metal is moving to the deforming device and in a through-flow through spraying, rinsing and drying steps immediately upstream of the deforming device as seen in the direction of movement of the metal.
- As such, pickling means and pickling methods for treating surfaces of metal bodies are known in many different embodiments.
- It has, however, not been suggested before to synchronously clean and deform the metal so that it is cleaned by spraying immediately before a continuous plastic deformation method and while moving with the same speed, with which it is fed thereto. It is usual to perform the known pickling methods before plastically deforming the metal in such a way that it is separate from the deformation method and does not take place continuously and synchronously therewith. Wire and strip metal is often supplied to the pickling device as coils, which are unwound to pass through said device and are wound to a coil again after said treatment (USP 2.279.217). It is also possible to wind the metal e.g. as wire material to a coil, which is fed through a pickling bath without uncoiling.
- Pickling of material in coil form takes much time by the compact mass of the coils. In pickling baths, whether the metal is in coil form or is fed in unwound condition therethrough, there are usually exothermic chemical reactions between picling liquid and oxides etc., so that a thin vapour layer is formed on the rretal, which retards the pickling by a decrease of contact between both and metal. B; the continuous spraying according to the invention this disadvantage does not occur and this allows much more rapid cleaning immediately before and synchronously and continuously with the deforming operation.
- The coiling after pickling has the disadvantage that it complicates the total device and method considerably and takes more time, but particularly in a deforming method of the type to which this invention relates it is of the utmost importance that the metal does not get time to form a new oxide layer even if this would be very thin. This is avoided according to the invention, but if desired it is possible to guide the metal through a space with an inert atmosphere, as is known as such, between the last spraying step and the deforming device, which gives an additional safety against this phenomenon.
- The invention may be applied both for a coherent metal strand, strip, wire or rod, e.g. as leaving a continuous-casting device,and for separate metal parts, e.g. for diminuted waste metal such as old aluminium window and door frames cut into smaller parts and having e.g. anodised or similarly coated or treated surfaces. Such smaller parts may be fed through a spraying device and to a deforming device both according to the invention by and while being carried by a conveyor belt of gauze type, the supplying to the deforming device taking place by dumping, pushing or pressing. If the starting material is a continuous or very long profile of small cross-section and easily bendable, e.g. a wire, this may be in coil form when fed to the spraying device, being fed continuously from the coil by unwinding it, through the spraying device and to the deforming device. The unwinding and feeding through the spraying device and to the deforming device may take place by the pulling action of the deforming device or its direct supply means. It has appeared that a spraying time of 8 seconds in most cases gives a very good result.
- The device for performing the method according to the invention is mainly characterized in that it deludes conveying means for moving the metal to a device for said plastic deformation in a continuous path and spraying means for spraying the metal with a deoxydation and cleaning agent during this movement.
- The invention will now be explained in more detail on the basis of and with reference to the enclosed drawings giving, by way of example only, a preferred embodiment of a device for applying the cleaning method. In said drawings:
- Fig. 1 is a diagrammatic top view of this device;
- Fig. 2 is a vertical (or horizontal) section of the extrusion device used therewith;
- Fig. 3 shows a section on a larger scale through the spraying device along the line III - III in Fig. 1; and
- Fig. 4 shows pinching rollers to be applied right after the spraying treatment.
- In Fig. 1, 1 indicates diagrammatically a supply for the metal to be treated. This supply may be the discharge of a continuous-casting device, e.g. casting vertically downwards in well-known manner to cast a strip, long rod or wire of simple cross-sectional shape, e.g. of an aluminium alloy. There may, however, also be a reel containing a long wound wire or strip at this point. The metal body therefrom is first fed to a
first spraying section 2. If necessary the vertically cast metal body is bent into a horizontal direction and at the entry ofspraying section 2 there may be vertical guide rollers and horizontal straightening rollers, e.g. in two pairs one after the other, each of two cooperating rollers in the same plane perpendicular to the horizontal direction of movement of the metal body. As appears from Fig. 3, this spraying section is embodied as a trough 3 with a cover 4, normally closing the trough 3 entirely. The trough 3 has a number ofducts 5 for a spraying liquid, extending in vertical planes at mutually equal distances. Said liquid is supplied by asupply duct 6 extending along the trough and having, for eachduct 5, abranch duct 7. In Fig. 1 each vertical dot and dash line in the trough represents aduct 5 and only three of theducts 7 have been shown here. Theducts 5 are shown as extending along the outside of the trough 3, but they may extend along the inside wall thereof. Eachduet 5 has a number of spray nozzles 8 within the trough and divided evenly along the length thereof, adapted to direct a forceful jet of spraying liquid onto the metal passing through the trough;, which metal is guided through the center of the trough. If the metal body would tend to sag too much, it is easy, as is usual in comparable situations, to apply support brackets or support rollers at adequate mutual distances in the trough. - At the entry and exit of the trough there may be rigid end walls with a small opening allowing passage of the metal and, if it is desired to close the trough entirely around the metal, such end walls may have or may be constituted by one or more curtains or sheets of synthetic rubber or a suitable elastic plastic material to close the end faces of the trough around the metal body. If desired, other end walls may be mounted if a metal body of a different cross-section has to be sprayed.
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supply header duct 6 for the spraying liquid is fed by a pump 9 from areservoir 10. The liquid sprayed on the metal in the trough is discharged therefrom through two ormore openings 11 in the bottom, connected by a discharge pipe 13, from which the liquid thus collected with contaminations, is recycled toreservoir 10 through pipe 14. There are filtering and, if desired, further cleaning means, not shown, to clean this recycled liquid and to remove oxide particles etc. therefrom before it entersreservoir 10. - At the downstream end of trough 3, there are
guide rollers 12, shown in Fig. 1 as having a vertical axis and also shown in Fig. 4. They not only guide the metal body, but also pinch it as it fits in grooves in the periphery of the rollers as shown for a circular rod in Fig. 4. If the metal body has a different shape of cross-section, the grooves in the roller periphery may be different to be adapted thereto. Therollers 12 may also have a horizontal axis and there may be two sets ofrollers 12, one with horizontal and one with vertical axes. If the metal body is in the shape of a flat strip, there may be rollers with horizontal axis and of simple cylindrical shape. Theserollers 12 may have an outer periphery of an elastic material such as a synthetic rubber or polytetrafluoroethylene and contact the metal body under some pressure to remove as much of the liquid adhering to the metal surface as possible by pinching of the metal between opposite rollers. - From trough 3 the metal body passes to a
second spraying section 15, being shorter thansection 2 and serving to spray the metal body with another liquid, e.g., for many aluminium alloys, with an acid such as nitric acid. Supply and recycling of the liquid take place by the same means as described for sprayingsection 2, there being areservoir 16 for this liquid, and a pump, filter, ducts etc. to and from this reservoir etc., such parts not being shown. Thisspraying section 15 will have the same shape of the trough, spraying and guide means,rollers 12 and covers in the end walls as described forsection 2. - From this
section 15 the metal body passes to aspraying section 17 being fed with rinsing water from areservoir 18 and being embodied in the same way as a trough like sprayingsections section 2, but thissection 17 may have a supply from the water means without a separate pump and return duct toreservoir 18, but discharging the water to a suitable cleaning device and from there to e.g. the municipal sewer system. - Immediately
adjacent spraying section 17 there is a dryingsection 19 having drying means for the metal, preferably by dry heated air, said air flowing at high speed and turbulently along the metal to dry it rapidly. The air may be guided to and fro by baffles to pass the metal several times between an inlet and an outlet. Electric heating means may be provided in this'section, together with fan means to circulate the air in the casing thereof to and along such heating means and then over the metal, in which case the air may thus circulate within this device so that only a small part thereof is withdrawn through an outlet to discharge the water vapour and is replaced by dryer air through an inlet. For metal to be treated, which is very vulnerable as to rapid oxidation, an inert gas may be used instead of 3ir.. - From this drying device the
metal body 21 to be treated enters the deformingdevice 20, shown separately and somewhat diagrammatically in Fig. 2 and representing a Conform device as described by Hunter, mentioned above, in which the surface of the metal (here a rod, strip or bar 21) entering the device does substantially not form part of the surface of the extruded product. The strip, rod orbar 21 is fed into agroove 22 in arotating roll 23, in which groove it fits. Theroll 23 is rotated in the direction of the arrow shown therein. - A
shoe 24 is pivoted at 25, is pushed by a resilient force towards roll 23 (by a force represented by arrow 26) and at 27 has a stepped part to prevent further movement of the oncomingmetal body 21. By friction in thegroove 22 ofroll 23 and under contact with theshoe 24 keeping the metal body in good contact with the groove the metal is heated and is, by the friction and the continuous supply caused by said friction pulling and pushing the metal up topart 27, put under high pressure. It thus softens and is extruded sideways, in Fig. 2 throughopening 28 in the shoe, but there may be an extrusion passage perpendicular to the plane of the drawing, so that the metal leaves the device in a direction which is perpendicular to the direction of supply, as shown by arrow 29 in Fig. 1. There may be,in known manner, more than one extrusion opening; they may have all kinds of shapes, also, if desired, intricate shapes. The device may have any desired position, e.g. the axis ofroll 23 may be vertical. - There may be conveying rollers drawing the
metal body 21 towards themselves and feeding it to the device. The pulling of such rollers and even, without such rollers, the friction ofroll 23 on the metal may pull the metal body from the feed at 1 in Fig. 1 entirely through the spraying device as described, so that the guide means in the latter device need not drive the metal body. - If it is desired to treat discrete metal parts such as waste metal, a.o. shredded window and door frames, such parts are treated in the same way but of course have to be supported over the entire length of the spraying device. To this end, there may be a conveyor belt, shown as 30 in dashed lines in Fig. 3, passing from the metal supply station 1 through all the spraying
troughs extrusion device 20. Thebelt 30 may be a metal belt of gauze material, if desired coated with a layer of plastic material resistant against the spraying agents. - The
belt 30 will have to discharge the metal parts directly to the deformingdevice 20 and this may be accomplished by providing a small hopper in the entry zone, e.g. exactly on or near the spot wherereference numeral 20 is positioned, andbelt 30 will then terminate right above this small hopper. This hopper will bring the metal parts immediately in thegroove 22 ofroll 23 to be passed on, compressed and heated by friction and extruded. - In short, in operation the metal to be treated is sprayed by strong jets from nozzles 8 in spraying
section 2 with a strong alkali liquid as described before. Contaminations are thus liberated from the metal androllers 12 and possibly the curtain in the end face of trough 3 remove much of the spraying liquid adhering to the metal. If the metal is of a type which makes it necessary to spray with an acid thereafter, the metal is sprayed with a solution of 30% nitric acid in water in sprayingsection 15. If no such treatment is necessary,section 15 may be omitted or removed or be used also to spray the metal with the alkaline agent or with an alkaline agent of a somewhat different composition. Insection 17 the metal is rinsed by water, which may have been pretreated to remove hardness or control acidity. Insection 19 the metal is dried and immediately thereafter it enters the deforming device 20. - Alkaline agents such as Grisal® indicated above are commercially available as powders. A suitable spraying liquid is made therefrom by solving thereof in water to form a solution of about 3% (by weight) of the powder. This liquid is preferably heated to a temperature not higher than 70°C and preferably about 550C, giving a strong cleaning action without too much vapour. There will be heating means and temperature control means not shown in the system of
reservoir 10 and its ducting connecting it to trough 3. - The nitric acid spraying liquid in spraying
section 15 is preferably applied at room temperature. - The rinsing water sprayed in
section 17 is also preferably at a somewhat elevated temperature such as 55°C or somewhat higher, to remove the remnants of spraying liquid from the previous spraying section more efficiently and completely in the very short time available and to have the metal body enter thedrying section 19 with an elevated temperature promoting rapid drying. - The invention is intended to be applied to ductile non-ferrous metals and in particular to aluminium and copper and many of their alloys.
- Many deviations from the above described embodiments are possible within the scope of the appended claims.
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