WO1998038346A1 - Method and installation for tempering metallic strips - Google Patents
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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
- C21D9/00—Heat treatment, e.g. annealing, hardening, quenching or tempering, adapted for particular articles; Furnaces therefor
- C21D9/52—Heat treatment, e.g. annealing, hardening, quenching or tempering, adapted for particular articles; Furnaces therefor for wires; for strips ; for rods of unlimited length
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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
- C21D9/00—Heat treatment, e.g. annealing, hardening, quenching or tempering, adapted for particular articles; Furnaces therefor
- C21D9/52—Heat treatment, e.g. annealing, hardening, quenching or tempering, adapted for particular articles; Furnaces therefor for wires; for strips ; for rods of unlimited length
- C21D9/54—Furnaces for treating strips or wire
- C21D9/56—Continuous furnaces for strip or wire
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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
- C21D1/00—General methods or devices for heat treatment, e.g. annealing, hardening, quenching or tempering
- C21D1/18—Hardening; Quenching with or without subsequent tempering
- C21D1/25—Hardening, combined with annealing between 300 degrees Celsius and 600 degrees Celsius, i.e. heat refining ("Vergüten")
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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
- C21D1/00—General methods or devices for heat treatment, e.g. annealing, hardening, quenching or tempering
- C21D1/78—Combined heat-treatments not provided for above
- C21D1/785—Thermocycling
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- the present invention relates to a tempering system and apparatus for use in the heat treatment of metal materials and in particular elongate strip metal of the type used in for example band saw blades .
- the conventional and known method of heat treating saw blades involves firstly hardening the material at very high temperatures e.g. 1200°C followed by quenching and then placing in a tempering furnace and soaking at a temperature below the critical temperature e.g. 550°C for a number typically three of predetermined, e.g. two hour periods, each soak being followed by quenching so as to increase the hardness by so-called secondary hardening.
- the conventional method is essentially a batch process and involves the uncoiling of a typically 500 feet (152.4m) long coil of band saw material and passing this through the first hardening or austenitising process in a continuous flow process, and then coiling up again into a roll.
- the coils are then placed in the tempering furnace for tempering and it will be appreciated that in a large roll of material the outside of the roll will reach the desired tempering temperature more quickly than the core portions resulting in outer portions receiving a longer period at the tempering temperature and thereby uneven tempering of the material and inconsistent results.
- the winding on the coil is reversed - "coil reversing" .
- HSS high speed steel
- the present invention provides a tempering system for use in the heat treatment of elongate strip metal, which system comprises material heating means formed and arranged for heating material to be treated to a tempering temperature in a heating zone thereof; material quenching means for cooling material heated to said tempering temperature; and material transport means for conveying substantially continuously a substantially continuous elongate length of said material to be heat treated sequentially through said heating zone and said material quenching means, so that said material is heated to said tempering temperature for a predetermined tempering period as it passes through said heating means and is substantially cooled and hardened upon passing through said quenching means.
- a very long length of elongate strip material may be rapidly and safely tempered in a substantially continuous "in-line" process.
- the tempering system of the invention is formed and arranged so as to provide at least two tempering cycles, for example by providing a series of successive tempering heating zones and quenching means or by recycling the strip one or more times through a single tempering heating zone and quenching means .
- said tempering system is coupled in-line with a hardening system having a material hardening heating means for heating said material to a hardening temperature; said hardening heating means and said tempering system being spaced apart by a quenching zone; whereby said material to be treated passes from said hardening heating means via said quenching zone to said tempering heating zone of said tempering system.
- the hardening heating means is formed and arranged to heat strip metal passing therethrough to a substantially elevated temperature above the critical temperature of the metal so as to transform the metallurgy of the metal to austenite.
- said tempering temperature is any temperature below the critical temperature, that is the temperature at which there is a change in the metallurgical structure so that the retained austenite in the material is transformed to martensite.
- the tempering temperature for use with the system according to the invention is in the range of 550° to 650°C, desirably 580-610°C.
- the hardening temperature is preferably in the range of 1100 to 1200°C desirably 1150-1190°C.
- said material transport means of said tempering system is formed and arranged with a material transport means of said hardening means so that material passes through said hardening means first and once only before entering the tempering system.
- metal material having been first heated in said hardening heating means and quenched in said quenching zone between said hardening heating means and said material heating means passes through said tempering heating zone at least twice, desirably three though it may be passed up to six times depending on material mass and size and is quenched after each successive pass therethrough.
- said tempering heating zone of said material heating means comprises a single elongate furnace means provided, at each end thereof, with a quenching zone of said quenching means and material transport return means for recycling material exiting a said end of said tempering heating zone and quenched in said quenching zone, back into the tempering heating zone of said tempering heating means, whereby said successive passes through said tempering heating zone and exposure to said tempering temperature and rapid cooling by quenching in said quenching zone cause said material to exhibit secondary or precipitation hardening.
- said material transport means comprises at least one of material pull through apparatus; turntable; wind up system; coiling and uncoiling apparatus and a plurality of roller guides formed and arranged for guiding metal material to be treated held in an untreated coiled form through said respective hardening, tempering and quenching zones and into a second treated coiled form.
- said material transport means and said heating means and quenching means is formed and arranged so that two lengths of elongate strip metal may be processed more or less continuously and simultaneously in side-by-side, parallel relation.
- the tempering furnace means has a length of approximately 40 to 50 feet (12-15m) though longer or shorter furnace means may be used depending inter alia on the strip transport speeds used and tempering heating zone residence requirements.
- Said tempering heating zone of said material heating means is preferably formed and arranged to heat material to be treated up to a temperature in the range of 550 to 650°C.
- Said material transportation means is preferably formed and arranged for exposing said material to be treated to said tempering temperature in said tempering heating zone of said material heating means for a period of time of from four to thirty minutes, desirably five to 15 minutes depending on material mass and size, during the or each passage therethrough.
- said quenching means are formed and arranged for cooling rapidly material exiting said tempering zone to a generally ambient temperature.
- the present invention provides a method of tempering continuous extended lengths of strip metal comprising the steps of subjecting said strip metal to at least one, preferably two, tempering cycle, each said tempering cycle comprising feeding said strip metal through a tempering furnace in a substantially extended form, for a short period of time at an elevated tempering temperature, sufficient for tempering said strip metal without softening thereof, and then through a quenching means.
- the present invention provides a method of heat treating elongate strip metal, so as to increase its hardness which method comprises the steps of : providing a tempering system according to the invention; passing said material more or less continuously through said material heating means and said quenching means sequentially by said material transport means so that said material is heated to a tempering temperature for a more or less predetermined period of time and cooled more or less rapidly.
- Preferably said method includes an additional first step prior to heating to said tempering temperature of heating to a substantially elevated hardening temperature and quenching.
- Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram showing a band saw strip hardening and tempering system according to the present invention
- Fig. 2 is a graph showing the temperature profile for a length of material tempered by the tempering system shown schematically in Fig. 1;
- Fig. 3 shows a series of photomicrographs illustrating the microstructure of band saw blade strip treated by the system
- Fig. 4 and 5 are graphs showing comparatively the performance data of band saw blades treated by the system.
- the apparatus 1 comprises a furnace 2 for heating a continuous length of bi-metal strip 4 (27mm x 0.9mm M42 metal) held by and transported by a series of rollers 6. At each end 8, 10 of the furnace 2 are quenching zones 12, 14 for cooling rapidly the strip metal 4 as it exits each side of the furnace 2.
- the rollers are arranged so that a strip of elongate bi-metal strip 4 held on a supply coil 15 passes through the furnace 2 a first time, indicated by reference Tl, through the left hand quenching zone 12 at the left hand side 8 of the furnace 2, around a return roller 16 and back into the furnace (indicated by T2) and out of the furnace 2 into a right hand quenching zone 14; around a further return roller 17 and back through the furnace 2 for a third time (indicated by T3) and is then quenched by the left hand quenching zone 12 before being coiled up on a finish coil 18.
- the furnace 2 has a length of 50 feet and the apparatus is arranged to process coils of bi-metal strip upto 500 feet (152m) long.
- the apparatus 1 is provided with a hardening heating unit 19, placed between the supply coil 15 and the right hand quenching zone 14 of the system.
- the hardening unit 19 comprises a furnace which heats the strip metal rapidly to an
- the strip metal is quenched in the right hand quenching zone 14 so that it is cooled very rapidly so that martensite is formed in the metal structure and the metal is hardened.
- the subsequent passes through the furnace are done at a tempering temperature of
- the time any given section of strip material is held at the tempering temperature in the furnace is five minutes and is determined by the speed at which the bi-metal strip is passed through the furnace 2.
- the graph shown in Fig. 2 shows a temperature/distance profile for the apparatus shown in Fig. 1. Examples of typical operational parameters for the system are given below in Table 1.
- Fig. 3 shows the five photo micrographs a - e (x 690 magnification) illustrating the optical microstructure produced in M42 bi-metal handsaw strip resulting from five 0 minute tempering at 590°C of metal strip hardened for 2 minutes at 1180°C and having a grain size (G/S) of 20/22 (Fig. 3a) .
- G/S grain size
- Fig. 3b-e the microstructure transforms gradually after each successive tempering stage resulting in a microstructure (Fig. 3e) broadly similar to 5 the microstructure of bandsaw strip (Fig. 3f) tempered by using known conventional process.
- Fig. 4 is a graph showing the performance data for M42 bimetal bandsaw blade of cutting time against number of cuts 0 comparing a standard blade heat treated using conventional technique (STD H/T) and blades of the invention. It will be seen that blades having three and four tempering soaks of five minutes at 590°C have improved performance over blades tempered conventionally (indicated by STD H/T) . 5
- Fig. 5 shows a life comparison (indicated by the number of cuts) of blades treated using different numbers of soak times and length of soak times compared against conventionally heat treated materials (STD H/Tl and 2) . 0
- T the temperature in absolute degrees (°C plus 273)
- t time in hours.
- Fig. 6 shows the relationship between tempering time (t) and temperature (T) to achieve a constant hardness of HRC67.
- Fig. 7 is a graph of temperature against speed (ins/min and m/min) to achieve constant tempering parameter of 16347 (67HRC) for the in-line tempering of M42 bi-metal bandsaw material .
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EP98907077A EP0961840A1 (en) | 1997-02-26 | 1998-02-26 | Method and installation for tempering metallic strips |
GB9919935A GB2336851A (en) | 1997-02-26 | 1998-02-26 | Method and installation for tempering metallic strips |
AU63051/98A AU6305198A (en) | 1997-02-26 | 1998-02-26 | Method and installation for tempering metallic strips |
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GBGB9703957.2A GB9703957D0 (en) | 1997-02-26 | 1997-02-26 | Tempering system |
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