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US 2001/0011566 A1Published application
Method of heat treatment of wire
AssigneeSMS Demag AG
InventorsMeinert Meyer, Uwe Plociennik, Klaus Küppers, Rainer Kohlmann
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Abstract
A method of heat treatment of wire including cooling the wire stock immediately after the stock leaves the rolling heat region to a temperature below the starting temperature of martensite formation and, thereafter, forming wire coils.
Claims9
A method of heat treatment of wire, comprising the steps of cooling a longlength wire stock immediately after the stock leaves a rolling heat region to a temperature below a starting temperature of martensite formation;
- and, thereafter, forming a wire coil.
An installation for heat treatment of wire, comprising a cooling line located immediately downstream of a last rolling mill stand;
- means for forming wire coils located downstream of the cooling line;
- and a tempering furnace located downstream of the wire coil forming means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.