Device for cooling metal wire
AssigneeAluminum Pechiney
InventorsJean-Louis Gaudilliere, Gilbert Dahan
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Abstract
The invention relates to a machine for cooling metal wire. This machine comprises a cooling tube, an injection device for the cooling fluid and a bypass device for the cooling fluid. The injection device comprises an oblique annular slot fed under high pressure and injectors fed under low pressure. The bypass device comprises an open elbow extending the tube and a second elbow of an opposite curvature terminating in a direction normal in relation to that of the wire. The invention is applied to the cooling of a metal wire, with or without hardening.
Claims5
A machine for cooling metal wire, comprising a cooling tube, an injection means for the introduction of cooling fluid into the tube and a discharge means for the cooling fluid jet leaving the tube, characterized by the fact that on the one hand the injection device includes, in advance of the cooling tube, an oblique annular slot, directed in the direction of the movement of the fluid, means for feeding cooling fluid under high pressure through the slot and into the tube and at least one cooling fluid injector in advance of the annular slot, and means for feeding cooling fluid at low pressure into said injector, and the discharge means is constituted of a curvilinear open elbow extending the cooling tube.
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