Chill roll casting of continuous filament
AssigneeAllied Chemical Corporation
InventorsJohn R. Bedell, Naim Hemmat, Donald E. Polk
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Abstract
Improvement in apparatus for making metal filament by depositing a stream of molten metal onto the inner surface of an annular chill roll as it is being rotated includes provision of a rotably mounted annular chill roll having an inner surface substantially parallel to its axis of rotation, and means for stripping the metal filament from the inner surface of the chill roll and for guiding the stripped metal filament away from the chill roll.
Claims15
Apparatus for making continuous metal filament comprising an annular chill roll mounted for rotation around its axis, said chill roll providing an inner casting surface which is in its entirety parallel to the axis of rotation of the chill roll;
- means for producing a jet of molten metal and directing it into the inner surface of the annular chill roll as it is being rotated;
- and means for stripping the metal filament from the inner surface of the rotating chill roll beyond the point of solidification of the molten metal deposited thereon, and for guiding the stripped metal filament away from the chill roll.
A process for making metal filament which comprises directing a jet of molten metal onto the inner surface of a rotating annular chill roll, which inner surface in its entirety is parallel to the axis of rotation of the chill roll, stripping the metal filament formed by solidification of the molten metal in contact with the inner surface of the rotating chill roll at a point beyond which solidification occurred, and guiding the stripped metal filament away from the inner surface of the chill roll.
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