Manufacture of steel products
AssigneeBritish Steel Corporation
InventorsDonald Barwick, Malcolm Brownlee
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Abstract
A process for the production of a high strength steel rod or bar which is capable of being substantially cold drawn without any intermediate heat treatment. The steel is hot rolled in a continuous rolling mill and exits from the last stand at a temperature greater than 1000.degree. C. It is then cooled in water to an equalization temperature of between 300.degree. C. and 700.degree. C., and is immediately layed in flat overlapping non-concentric rings on a moving conveyor which allows the rod to be cooled in air as it passes along the conveyor. The rings are collected at the end of the conveyor and formed into coils.
Claims8
A process for producing hot rolled semi-killed or killed carbon-manganese steel rod having a manganese content of not more than about 0.8% including the steps of
- hot rolling the steel in a continuous rolling mill, the rod exiting from the last stand of the mill having a temperature in excess of 1000.degree. C.,
- superficially cooling the rod in water from a temperature of above 1000.degree. C. to an equalisation temperature of between 300.degree. C. and 700.degree. C., to produce a martensitic surface layer,
- laying the rod on a moving conveyor so that the rod forms flat overlapping non-concentric rings,
- allowing the rod to be cooled in air as it passes along the conveyor and then collecting the non-concentric rings to form coils.
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