US2783788A - Device and method for hardening sheet metal - Google Patents

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US2783788A
US2783788A US232365A US23236551A US2783788A US 2783788 A US2783788 A US 2783788A US 232365 A US232365 A US 232365A US 23236551 A US23236551 A US 23236551A US 2783788 A US2783788 A US 2783788A
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    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C21—METALLURGY OF IRON
    • C21D—MODIFYING THE PHYSICAL STRUCTURE OF FERROUS METALS; GENERAL DEVICES FOR HEAT TREATMENT OF FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS METALS OR ALLOYS; MAKING METAL MALLEABLE, e.g. BY DECARBURISATION OR TEMPERING
    • C21D8/00—Modifying the physical properties by deformation combined with, or followed by, heat treatment
    • C21D8/02—Modifying the physical properties by deformation combined with, or followed by, heat treatment during manufacturing of plates or strips
    • C21D8/0247—Modifying the physical properties by deformation combined with, or followed by, heat treatment during manufacturing of plates or strips characterised by the heat treatment
    • C21D8/0252—Modifying the physical properties by deformation combined with, or followed by, heat treatment during manufacturing of plates or strips characterised by the heat treatment with application of tension
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C21—METALLURGY OF IRON
    • C21D—MODIFYING THE PHYSICAL STRUCTURE OF FERROUS METALS; GENERAL DEVICES FOR HEAT TREATMENT OF FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS METALS OR ALLOYS; MAKING METAL MALLEABLE, e.g. BY DECARBURISATION OR TEMPERING
    • C21D9/00—Heat treatment, e.g. annealing, hardening, quenching or tempering, adapted for particular articles; Furnaces therefor
    • C21D9/46—Heat treatment, e.g. annealing, hardening, quenching or tempering, adapted for particular articles; Furnaces therefor for sheet metals
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C21—METALLURGY OF IRON
    • C21D—MODIFYING THE PHYSICAL STRUCTURE OF FERROUS METALS; GENERAL DEVICES FOR HEAT TREATMENT OF FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS METALS OR ALLOYS; MAKING METAL MALLEABLE, e.g. BY DECARBURISATION OR TEMPERING
    • C21D1/00—General methods or devices for heat treatment, e.g. annealing, hardening, quenching or tempering
    • C21D1/34—Methods of heating
    • C21D1/52—Methods of heating with flames
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C21—METALLURGY OF IRON
    • C21D—MODIFYING THE PHYSICAL STRUCTURE OF FERROUS METALS; GENERAL DEVICES FOR HEAT TREATMENT OF FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS METALS OR ALLOYS; MAKING METAL MALLEABLE, e.g. BY DECARBURISATION OR TEMPERING
    • C21D1/00—General methods or devices for heat treatment, e.g. annealing, hardening, quenching or tempering
    • C21D1/62—Quenching devices
    • C21D1/667—Quenching devices for spray quenching

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  • the heating and quenching machinery is, therefore, designed in such a way that the sheet metal is caused to pass between burners and water nozzles in such a manner that a narrow heated zone which is directly followed by a quenching zone constantly travels along in the material, while the forward feeding or conveying of the sheet metal may be effected by means of conveyi n g rollers or clamping members.
  • Theburners and water nozzles should be so arranged that said narrow heating and quenching zones extend across the entire width of the sheet metal perpendicular to the direction in which the material is moved through the machinery. In this way the entire area of the sheet metal can be successively subjected to the heating and subsequentquenching treatment without the risk of deformation and warping of the material.
  • the invention also contemplates the provision of another heating zone behind the quenching zone in which the sheet metal is heated to tempering temperature to thereby remove inner stresses resulting from the hardening of the material.
  • the metal sheet is conveyed through the hardening means in slightly tensioned condition.
  • This tensioned condition of the material can be obtained by giving the conveying rollers or conveying clamps which extract the material from the hardening means a slight advance in rotation or operation with respect to the conveying rollers or conveying clamps which feed the material into the hardening means.
  • This advance in rotation or operation amounts to a constant angle of one revolution or to a constant portion of the path to he travelled.
  • Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the first form of construction provided with feed or conveying rollers and with a preliminary and final straightening machne;
  • Figs. 2 to 5 are diagrammatic illustrations of the second form of construction provided with clamping members, the position of the clamping members being shown at various stages of operation;
  • Fig. 6 is a front elevation, partly in section, of a clamp: ing member and;
  • Fig. 7 is a top view of a clamping member.
  • the hardening device consists of the burners 1 and 2v and of the water nozzles 3 and 4, which in both of the embodiments illustrated in the drawings are arranged above andbelow the material 5 to be hardened and are uniformly distributed in rows across the entire width of the sheet material, which is moving in the direction indicated by the arrow A, and which may either be a continuous band of sheet metal or consist of individual sheet metal plates.
  • Arranged behind the water nozzles 3 and 4 in the direction in which the material is moving may be additional burners 6 and '7 by means of which the material 5 is reheated, but to a lesser degree, for the purpose of tempering after the quenching.
  • Each of the burners 1 and 2, which heat the material up to hardening temperature, is in known manner provided with gas and air piping.
  • the cooling liquid supplied to the nozzles 3 and 4 may be either water or oil or any other liquid suited for the quenching of sheet metal.
  • the forward feeding or conveying of'the material is straightening rollers 16, and a final straightening ma-' chine 15 provided with the straightening rollers .17, whereby the preliminary straightening machine and rollers 8 are arranged before the hardening.means, while the final straightening machine and rollers 9 are positioned behind the hardening device seen in the direction in which the material is fed through the several devices.
  • the straightening rollers 17 of the final straightening machine 15 and the rollers 9 are given a slight advance in rotation with respect to the straightening rollers 16 of the preliminary straightening machine and the feed [rollers 8, the angle of this rotational advance being a constant one depending upon the tension at which the sheet metal band or plates are to travel between the burners 1 and 2 and the water nozzles 3 and 4. Consequently, the rollers 8, 16 and the rollers 9, 17 constitute a pair of tensioning conveyor means for tensioning, moving and straightening the sheet.
  • the preliminary straightening machine 14 chiefly serves the purpose of supplying the material to the burners in fairly straightened-out condition, while the final straightening after the hardening and tempering is accomplished by the straightening machine 15.
  • clamping members 10, 11 and 12, 13 take the place of the feed rollers 8 and 9 of the first form of construction and constitute a pair of tensioning conveyor means.
  • the cooperating clamping members 11 and 13 are closed, that is to sa they have seized the continuous sheet metal band or plate 5 and are conveying it at constant speed in the direction indicated by the arrow A.
  • the clamping members 10 and 12 have reached their starting position on the left, reversed their direction of motion and after acceleration of their speed to constant conveying speed are seizing the material 5 in order to convey it for a short moment conjointly with the clamping members 11 and 13 (see Fig. 3).
  • the clamping members 12 and 13 are given a slight advance in operation with respect to the clamping members 10 and 11, the length of that advance in operation being a constant one and depending upon the degree of tensioning required for the material in question.
  • clamping members 13 are opened up and returned to clamping position by hydraulic means.
  • the backward and forward movement of the clamping members may be produced in known manner either by synchronized hydraulic actuation or by mechanical means, such as cam control or the like. It is important that the material is fed forward at prefectly constant speed.
  • a method for hardening a metal sheet having a predetermined transversc width comprising, in combination,
  • Apparatus for hardening a metal sheet having a predetermined transverse width comprising, in combination, a pair of tensioning conveyor means spaced from each other in. a conveying direction and having in a direction transverse to said conveying direction a predetermined transverse extension, said tensioning conveyor means being adapted to engage a sheet conveyed by the same along the entire transverse width of the sheet and to uniformly tension in said conveying direction and throughout the entire transverse width of the sheet the portion of the sheet located between said conveyor means; heating means located between said pair of tensioning conveyor means for heating a narrow strip shaped zone ofthe sheet having in.
  • said transverse direction an extension substantially greater than in said conveying direction; and quenching means located directly adjacent said heating means intermediate the same and the one of said tensioning conveyor means located forwardly in said conveying direction, said quenching means having in said transverse direction an extension substantially equal to said transverse extension of said tensioning conveyor means for quenching said strip-shaped heated zones so that said portion of the sheet is heated and quenched along narrow strip-shaped zones extending throughout its entire transverse extension, and simultaneously uniformly tensioned whereby warping of the sheet is preevnted.

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US3148093A (en) * 1960-12-07 1964-09-08 Westinghouse Electric Corp Heat treating method and apparatus for elongated workpieces
US3201287A (en) * 1959-07-07 1965-08-17 Crucible Steel Co America Heat treating method
US3202555A (en) * 1964-09-28 1965-08-24 Ohio Crankshaft Co Apparatus and method of inductively hardening a shaft-like member
US3255053A (en) * 1961-10-16 1966-06-07 Armco Steel Corp Method for manufacturing treated grinding rods
DE1257816B (de) * 1959-11-02 1968-01-04 Gen Electric Einrichtung zum Kuehlen oder Erhitzen eines Metallbandes
US3367639A (en) * 1965-08-09 1968-02-06 Westinghouse Electric Corp Continuous strip heating apparatus
US3469829A (en) * 1966-06-16 1969-09-30 Nippon Kokan Kk Apparatus for producing wire of high tensile strength
US3522111A (en) * 1967-10-24 1970-07-28 Republic Steel Corp Method of making a composite metal product
US4773949A (en) * 1986-09-09 1988-09-27 Kawasaki Steel Corporation Process for preventing transverse displacement of metal strip
US4826138A (en) * 1984-02-24 1989-05-02 Van Dorn Company Apparatus for heat treating steel plates
US5252152A (en) * 1992-10-26 1993-10-12 David J. Seror Method of controlling warpage in workpiece by selective flame-hardening and vibrations
US6454884B1 (en) 2000-06-12 2002-09-24 Pullman Industries, Inc. Method of manufacturing a vehicle structural beam
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US1671810A (en) * 1926-02-23 1928-05-29 Edward G Caughey Annealing apparatus
US1732244A (en) * 1928-03-29 1929-10-22 Samuel I Salzman Method of hardening steel
US2196902A (en) * 1937-08-24 1940-04-09 Linde Air Prod Co Method of heat treating metal bodies
US2238667A (en) * 1937-10-20 1941-04-15 Wales Charles Clarke Apparatus for treating strip steel
US2428825A (en) * 1941-02-27 1947-10-14 Linde Air Prod Co Method of controlling distortion, straightening distorted objects, and/or altering the shape of metal objects
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US2401899A (en) * 1942-04-30 1946-06-11 Rca Corp Apparatus for treating metal
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US3109044A (en) * 1959-07-07 1963-10-29 Crucible Steel Co America Heat treating apparatus
US3201287A (en) * 1959-07-07 1965-08-17 Crucible Steel Co America Heat treating method
DE1257816B (de) * 1959-11-02 1968-01-04 Gen Electric Einrichtung zum Kuehlen oder Erhitzen eines Metallbandes
US3148093A (en) * 1960-12-07 1964-09-08 Westinghouse Electric Corp Heat treating method and apparatus for elongated workpieces
US3255053A (en) * 1961-10-16 1966-06-07 Armco Steel Corp Method for manufacturing treated grinding rods
US3202555A (en) * 1964-09-28 1965-08-24 Ohio Crankshaft Co Apparatus and method of inductively hardening a shaft-like member
US3367639A (en) * 1965-08-09 1968-02-06 Westinghouse Electric Corp Continuous strip heating apparatus
US3469829A (en) * 1966-06-16 1969-09-30 Nippon Kokan Kk Apparatus for producing wire of high tensile strength
US3522111A (en) * 1967-10-24 1970-07-28 Republic Steel Corp Method of making a composite metal product
US4826138A (en) * 1984-02-24 1989-05-02 Van Dorn Company Apparatus for heat treating steel plates
US4773949A (en) * 1986-09-09 1988-09-27 Kawasaki Steel Corporation Process for preventing transverse displacement of metal strip
US5252152A (en) * 1992-10-26 1993-10-12 David J. Seror Method of controlling warpage in workpiece by selective flame-hardening and vibrations
US6454884B1 (en) 2000-06-12 2002-09-24 Pullman Industries, Inc. Method of manufacturing a vehicle structural beam
US6793743B2 (en) 2000-06-12 2004-09-21 Pullman Industries, Inc. Vehicle structural beam and method of manufacture
US20080054656A1 (en) * 2006-08-30 2008-03-06 Shape Corporation Selectively annealed bumper beam
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CN103305666A (zh) * 2013-07-11 2013-09-18 吉林圆方机械集团有限公司 半轴的淬火机床及其喷水装置
CN103305666B (zh) * 2013-07-11 2015-02-25 吉林圆方机械集团有限公司 半轴的淬火机床及其喷水装置
CN104451117A (zh) * 2014-09-23 2015-03-25 中冶赛迪工程技术股份有限公司 一种淬火板板形控制方法和装置

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