Apparatus for continuous annealing of strip and method for continuous annealing of same

Abstract

An apparatus for continuous annealing of a strip comprises: a first heating zone configured to firstly heat a strip; a first cooling or constant temperature maintaining zone configured to cool the strip firstly heated in the first heating zone or to maintain the strip at a constant temperature; a second heating and soaking zone configured to secondarily heat and soak the strip cooled or remaining at the constant temperature in the first cooling or constant temperature maintaining zone; and a second cooling zone configured to cool the strip heated and soaked in the second heating and soaking zone.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.