One side coating of continuous strand
AssigneeBethlehem Steel Corporation
InventorsHerbert Wald, Harold K. Young, Lacy C. Meadows
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Abstract
Improved method for the continuous coating of one side only of a metal strip with molten coating metal, more particularly, one side galvanizing of a ferrous metal strip. The method includes moving a metal strip, supported by a deflector roll having a width less than that of the strip, in an arcuate path through a bath of molten coating metal with the side of the strip to be uncoated contacting the deflector roll. To prevent coating of the strip, a stream of gas is directed toward the edges of the side of the strip contacting the roll which project beyond the roll and against the surface of the bath.
Claims6
The method of coating a metallic strip with a molten coating metal on one side only, the second side of said strip being free of said coating metal, said process comprising the steps of cleaning said strip such that at least said one side to be coated is free of oxides and is wettable by said molten coating metal, providing a container for said molten coating metal, maintaining a bath of molten coating metal at a predetermined level within said container, moving said strip through said bath below said predetermined level, said strip following an arcuate path through said bath and supported therein by means of a deflector roll in contact with said second side of said strip and having a width less than the width of said strip, and preventing the coating of said second side of said metallic strip by said molten coating metal by directing a stream of gas toward the strip edges of said second side projecting beyond said deflector roll and against the surface of said bath of molten coating metal as said metallic strip moves through said bath.
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