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US3681062A
US3681062A US839847A US3681062DA US3681062A US 3681062 A US3681062 A US 3681062A US 839847 A US839847 A US 839847A US 3681062D A US3681062D A US 3681062DA US 3681062 A US3681062 A US 3681062A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B22—CASTING; POWDER METALLURGY
    • B22F—WORKING METALLIC POWDER; MANUFACTURE OF ARTICLES FROM METALLIC POWDER; MAKING METALLIC POWDER; APPARATUS OR DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR METALLIC POWDER
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    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C23—COATING METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL; CHEMICAL SURFACE TREATMENT; DIFFUSION TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING BY VACUUM EVAPORATION, BY SPUTTERING, BY ION IMPLANTATION OR BY CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION, IN GENERAL; INHIBITING CORROSION OF METALLIC MATERIAL OR INCRUSTATION IN GENERAL
    • C23C—COATING METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL; SURFACE TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL BY DIFFUSION INTO THE SURFACE, BY CHEMICAL CONVERSION OR SUBSTITUTION; COATING BY VACUUM EVAPORATION, BY SPUTTERING, BY ION IMPLANTATION OR BY CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION, IN GENERAL
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  • a method is provided for producing a continuous sintered ferrous metal length having at least one metallic chromium-containing surface from powdered metallic materials. Unsupported ferrous metal powder is passed through the nip of a first pair of compaction rollers to produce a continuous length of ferrous metal. At least one surface of the length of ferrous metal is coated with a metallic chromium-containing powder and the metallic chromium-containing powder is compacted thereto by passing the coated length through the nip of a second pair of compaction rollers.
  • the coated length of ferrous metal is heat treated to effect sintering thereof in the presence of a halogen-containing material which, during the heat treating, promotes the fusion of the metallic chromium into the coated surface of the length of ferrous metal.
  • the method is especially useful in producing a length of a stainless iron, or a length of stainless steel foil, which is corrosion resistant throughout.
  • This invention concerns a method of producing a ferrous metal length at least one surface of which is constituted by an alloy and, although the invention is not so restricted, it is more particularly concerned with a method of producing a length of a stainless iron or stainless steel foil, which is corrosion resistant throughout.
  • a method of producing a continuous sintered ferrous metal length having at least one metallic chromium-containing surface from powdered metallic materials Unsupported ferrous metal powder is passed through the nip of a first pair of compaction rollers to produce a continuous length of ferrous metal. At least one surface of the length of ferrous metal is coated with a metallic chromium-containing powder and the metallic chromium-containing powder is compacted thereto by passing the coated length through the nip of a second pair of compaction rollers.
  • the coated length of ferrous metal is heat treated to effect sintering thereof in the presence of a halogen-containing material which, during the heat treating, promotes the fusion of the metallic chromium into the coated surface of the length of ferrous metal.
  • the method is especially useful in producing a length of stainless iron, or a length of stainless steel foil, which is corrosion resistant throughout.
  • the coated length after passing through the nip of the second pair of compaction rollers and prior to the said heat treating, has the said halogen-containing material applied thereto.
  • the coated length of ferrous metal is formed into a coil.
  • at least the initial part of the said heat treating is carried out in a reducing atmosphere.
  • halogen-containing material may be a powdered material but is preferably in the form of an aqueous solution.
  • the halogen-containing material preferably comprises ferrous chloride and/or ammonium chloride,
  • the length of ferrous metal may be formed by passing wetted ferrous metal powder through a dryer, in which it is substantially dried, and then through the nip of the first pair of compaction rollers.
  • the said wetted ferrous metal powder may be supplied to an endless belt, it being carried by the latter through the dryer and thence to the said first pair of compaction rollers.
  • the said length of ferrous metal leaving the said first pair of compaction rollers may be heated.
  • T he sintered ferrous metal length thus produced may be a length of metallic ferrous metal foil, which may be corrosion resistant throughout.
  • the ferrous powdered material may have nickel adrnixed therewith, or the chromium-containing powdered material may also contain nickel, or nickel may be electroplated onto the said pre-compacted length prior to the application thereto of the chromium-containing powdered material.
  • the invention also comprises a metallic length when made by the method set forth above.
  • EXAMPLE I An aqueous slurry containing powdered low carbon mild steel particles together with an inhibitor and a binder, such as sodium carboxy methyl cellulose, was east onto a moving endless belt and carried by the latter through a dryer, in which the slurry was substantially dried, and thence to the nip of a pair of compaction rollers, the said binder giving the slurry (which contained little water) sufficient strength to bridge the small gap which was provided between the endless belt and the compaction rollers.
  • a binder such as sodium carboxy methyl cellulose
  • the ferrous length which was pre-compacted thereby, was passed for a period of 5 seconds through a furnace which was heated to a temperature of 800 C. so as to strengthen the said ferrous length and to burn off the binder.
  • Chromium powder was then applied (e.g. electrostatically) to both sides of the said ferrous length so as to form 18% of the total weight thereof, the ferrous length having been previously wetted, if desired, with a sodium or potassium silicate solution, or with a 0.050.25% solution of sodium carboxy methyl cellulose, or with a suspension of a gelatinous metal hydroxide, e.g. Ni(OH)2 or Al(OH)3, which assists in retaining the chromium powder on the said ferrous length, and which solution or suspension 'was dried olf after the application of the said powder.
  • the ferrous length was then passed through the nip of a pair of compaction rollers which compacted the chromium powder thereto, and which produced a length of foil formed of compacted unsintered material having a thickness not exceeding 0.010".
  • halogen-containing material which may be a fluoride, chloride, bromide or iodide, and which was employed in an amount of 15 to 25% by weight of the amount 0f chromium powder applied to the ferrous length.
  • the halogen-containing material may, for example, be an aqueous solution containing 4 parts by weight of ferrous chloride tetrahydrate and l part by weight of ammonium chloride. The said solution, if employed, was dried by passing the length of foil through an infra-red heater.
  • the length of foil was formed into a coil which was then passed to a furnace which was purged with hydrogen or a mixture of hydrogen and argon (e.g. -95% argon .and -10% hydrogen) during heating to 400 C., e.g. over hours, after which the ow of gas was stopped and the temperature gradually raised to 950J C. over a period of 10 to 2O hours and retained at this temperature for to 25 hours.
  • hydrogen or a mixture of hydrogen and argon e.g. -95% argon .and -10% hydrogen
  • the coil was removed from the furnace and washed with water to remove excess halide. Final tempering of the foil could then be effected if desired.
  • the treatment of the coil in the furnace caused sintering of the compacted, unsintered material of the foil so as to produce a stainless iron alloy foil (e.g. 0.003 to 0.005" thick), the addition of the halogen-containing material promoting substantial diffusion of the chromium into the iron by an interchange mechanism arising from the fact that both the chromium and the iron react with the halogen.
  • the halogen-containing material reacts with the chromium to form chromous halide CrXz.
  • the chromium is thus deposited on the iron of the ferrous length and the ferrous halide reacts with the chromium powder.
  • the iron is thus deposited on the iron of the ferrous length.
  • a chromium-rich layer is thus built up on each surface of the ferrous length, which thus becomes chromised
  • ammonium chloride mentioned above as forming a possible part of the halogen-containing material dissociates into gaseous products at about 350 C. thereby purging out any water formed in the convolutions of the coil by the dehydration of the above-mentioned ferrous chloride tetrahydrate.
  • the various different powdered materials which are employed in the formation of the foil respectively contain the various elements of the stainless iron alloy.
  • the foil so produced will be corrosion resistant throughout but, as indicated in the graph constituting the accompanying drawing, will have a chromium concentration which is at its maximum at the two surfaces of the foil, and which is at its minimum at the centre thereof.
  • the surface layers of the foil are very rich in chromium, probably by reason of a very small amount of substantially undiffused chromium which has sintered during the heat treatment in the furnace.
  • the centre of the foil has the lowest chromium content, but provided that the foil is not too thick, or the diffusion time too short, the foil will be corrosion resistant even at its centre.
  • the chromium powder could be replaced by ferrochrome powder, or alternatively, by a mixture of chromium and nickel powders such as to produce a stainless steel foil having an average composition of 18% chromium and 8% nickel by weight.
  • the chromium powder could also be mixed with titanium, molybdenum, aluminium, vanadium, or silicon-containing powders.
  • a ferrochrome powder may have a composition of 80% chromium and 20% iron by weight. As Iwill be appreciated, the total weight of ferrochrome powder applied to the ferrous length to achieve the said average composition of 18% chromium would need to be adjusted according to the chromium content of the ferrochrome powder.
  • the necessary nickel may be introduced by mixing it with the mild steel (or iron) powder in the slurry, or, as suggested above, by mixing it with the chromium powder, or by replacing the latter by a nickelchromium alloy powder, or by electroplating nickel onto the ferrous length prior to the application thereto of the chromium or ferrochrome powder.
  • EXAMPLE 2 A mixture of iron powder (or mild steel powder) and of ferrochrome powder (together with any other ingredients of the final stainless iron alloy to be produced) was wetted to form an aqueous slurry containing an inhibitor and a binder. This slurry was then cast onto a moving endless belt which carried the length of material so formed through a dryer, in which the slurry was substantially dried, and thence to the nip of a pair of compaction rollers, the said binder giving the slurry (which contained little water) sufcient strength to bridge the small gap which was provided between the endless belt and the compaction rollers. The said length of material, which was now constituted by a length of compacted, unsintered material, was heated to a temperature of 800 C. so as to strengthen it and burn off the binder.
  • the said length then had halogen-containing material applied to each side thereof, the remaining steps in the process by which it was formed into stainless iron foil, e.g. of homogeneous composition throughout, being the same as described above in Example 1.
  • the materials to be compacted may be supplied to a hopper disposed immediately above the nip of a pair of compaction rollers, which are arranged horizontally, the compacted material being fed downwardly, by a flooded nip technique to a furnace to impart strength.
  • a method of producing a sintered ferrous metal length having at least one metallic chromium-containing surface comprising passing unsupported ferrous metal powder through the nip of a first pair of compaction rollers to produce a length of ferrous metal, coating at least one surface of the said length of ferrous metal with a metallic chromium-containing powder and compacting the metallic chromium-containing powder thereto by passing the coated length thus prepared through the nip of a second pair of compaction rollers, applying halogen-containing material to said coated length, forming said coated length having the halogen-containing material applied thereon into a coil, and thereafter heat treating the said coil of the coated length to effect sintering thereof in the presence of the halogen-containing material, the halogen-containing material, during the said heat treating, promoting diffusion of the metallic chromium into the coated surface of the said length of ferrous metal.
  • halogencontaining material comprises at least one substance selected from the group consisting of ferrous chloride and ammonium chloride.

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