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AssigneeGiovanni Arvedi
InventorsGiovanni Arvedi, Giovanni Gosio
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An induction furnace is described which is capable to heat a thin strip from a continuous casting apparatus throughout the furnace itself after a previous rolling, at a homogeneous temperature adapted to the subsequent rolling steps. The induction furnace of the present invention comprises, in a known manner, an array of toroidal coils being fed at M.F., with intermediate feeding rollers having reduced size along the strip feed direction with respect to the known coils so that the rollers are less spaced from each other. Flux concentrators are also provided, being distributed preferably in pairs on the inductor and mounted transversely movable with respect to the strip forward movement and possibly also in a plane perpendicular thereto.
An induction furnace for heating a steel strip (1) having a thickness lower than 30 mm and for rendering homogeneous the temperature up to a value required for the subsequent steps of hot rolling, said induction furnace comprising:
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