US1374038A - Process for producing zirconium steel - Google Patents

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US1374038A
US1374038A US398513A US39851320A US1374038A US 1374038 A US1374038 A US 1374038A US 398513 A US398513 A US 398513A US 39851320 A US39851320 A US 39851320A US 1374038 A US1374038 A US 1374038A
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  • PROCESS FOR PRODUCING ZIRCONIUM STEEL PROCESS FOR PRODUCING ZIRCONIUM STEEL.
  • This invention relates generally to the manufacture of zirconium steel and more particularly to a process of making such steel insuch a way that the physical qualities of the product will be substantially preserved throughout the process.
  • This invention overcomes the difliculties just set forth and the practice of the invention herein described will produce a product in which the zirconium is substantially protected from oxidation during the process and thereby a product of a predetermined composition can be secured and substantially none of the zirconium will be found in the resulting steel in a divided form.
  • the zirconiate of lime is always found in the slag and in particular in the basic processes, or with the alumina which is formed by the oxidation of aluminum which has been added as such to the molten bath as a deoxidizin agent or still found as an impurity in t e ferro-zirconium, if
  • An improved rocess of adding zirconium to steel whic h consists in adding to molten steel a ca-rbid of zirconium and silicon.

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bination is broken up HUG-HI G. SICARD, 0F BUFFALO, NEW YORK.
PROCESS FOR PRODUCING ZIRCONIUM STEEL.
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To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, HUGH C. SIGARD, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of the city of Buffalo, county of Erie, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Process for Producing Zirconium Steel, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.-
This invention relates generally to the manufacture of zirconium steel and more particularly to a process of making such steel insuch a way that the physical qualities of the product will be substantially preserved throughout the process.
On A ril 6th, 1920, I was granted U. S. Letters atent No. 1,335,992 for a process for producing zirconium steel. In carrying out the process described in the said patent, I used a ferro-zirconium-titanium alloy and I found that if a small quantity of the zirconium of such alloy is oxidized, it is left in the steel in a divided form thereby affecting somewhat the physical qualities of the zirconium steel. This invention overcomes the difliculties just set forth and the practice of the invention herein described will produce a product in which the zirconium is substantially protected from oxidation during the process and thereby a product of a predetermined composition can be secured and substantially none of the zirconium will be found in the resulting steel in a divided form.
I have discovered that by using an alloy of zirconium and silicon, with or without a carbon content, in which the zirconium exists mostly as zirconium silicids, such comwhen the alloy is added to the molten steel. The silicon then oxidizes rapidly and thereby substantially prevents the oxidation of the zirconium and at the same time combines with whatever zirconium has beenoxidized and gives a complex silicate and zirconiate of lime and alumina. The zirconiate of lime is always found in the slag and in particular in the basic processes, or with the alumina which is formed by the oxidation of aluminum which has been added as such to the molten bath as a deoxidizin agent or still found as an impurity in t e ferro-zirconium, if
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Patented Apr. 5, 1921.
Application filed July 23, 1920. Serial No. 398,513.
such alloy has been made thermic process. Therefore, in carrying out .my invention I use an alloy of zirconlum and silicon with or without a carbon content in which the zirconium is found mostly as zirconium silicids. This alloy is then added to the molten steel and the reactions above set forth occur. Thereby, the zirconium is protected and the resulting steel productis free from the objections hereinbefore noted.
have found that the best results have been secured by using an alloy in which the siliconcontent, is from 5% to 30% of the zirconium content. I have also found that an excess of silicon in the ferro-zirconium by the aluminoalloy is an objection, as, if it does not oxize it goes in solution in the ferrite as a complex silicid, and in all such grades of zirconium steel a certain amount of silicon is always specified.
Having thus described my invention what claim is:
1. An improved process of making zirconium steel which consists in adding to molten steel an alloy of zirconium and sili con.
2. An improved process of making zirconium steel which consists in adding to molten steel an alloy of zirconium and silicon having a carbon content.
3. An improved process of making zirconium steel which consists in adding to molten steel an alloy of zirconium and silicon in which the silicon content is from 5% to 30% of the zirconium content.
4. An improved process of making zirconium steel which consists in adding to molten steel an alloy of zirconium and silicon in which the silicon content is sufliciently great to react with all of the o-xids contained in the steel, thereby protecting the zirconium content of the steel.
5. An improved rocess of adding zirconium to steel whic h consists in adding to molten steel a ca-rbid of zirconium and silicon.
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whereof I have hereunto HUGH o. SICARD.
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US2840872A (en) * 1952-01-14 1958-07-01 Sharon Steel Corp Method of economically introducing zirconium into steel

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