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AssigneeAustralian Wire Industries Proprietary Limited
InventorsMaxwell R. Porter, Jack P. Sciffer, Zigmunt P. Adamiak, Alexander Dim
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A method of wiping hot dipped metal coated wire or strip, and an apparatus for performing the method, involving drawing the wire or strip upwardly from a bath of molten metal through a wiping bed located at the point of emergence from the bath, with an interference device being positioned adjacent the wire or strip below the surface of the molten bath such as to restrict the lamella flow of molten metal entrained by the moving wire or strip. The interference device wholly or partly surrounds the wire or strip and is located below the wiping bed, which bed in turn may be laterally confined or unconfined. The interference device may be of any convenient configuration such as in the form of a horizontally disposed flat plate provided with one or more slots, grooves or other apertures through which the wire or strip passes.
A method of continuously wiping hot dipped metal coated wire or strip by withdrawing said wire or strip vertically upwards from a bath of molten metal through a wiping bed located at the point of emergence, characterised by the positioning of a static interference device adjacent the wire or strip below the surface of the molten metal bath and below and spaced from said wiping bed, said spacing not exceeding 50 mm, and such that it restricts the lamella flow of molten metal entrained by the moving wire or strip.
An apparatus for continuously wiping hot dipped metal coated wire or strip, comprising a static interference device which wholly or partly surrounds the wire or strip and is arranged within the bath of molten coating metal and below and spaced from a wiping bed located at the point of emergence, said spacing not exceeding 50 mm, whereby said device restricts the lamella flow of molten metal entrained by the moving wire or strip.
An apparatus according to claimm 8 which the plate is corrugated and the slot or slots are formed in the hills and/or valleys of the corrugations.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.