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US 5,472,739 AGranted
Process of producing a hot dipped wire from a base wire, with the absence of iron-based, iron oxide-based and iron hydroxide-based minute particles on surfaces of the base wire
AssigneeTotoku Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorsMisao Kubota, Yoshitada Hanai, Kouichi Otani
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Abstract
A process of producing a hot dipped wire. During the wire drawing, the base wire is passed over a passage surface made of a non-iron material. After steam heating, cleaning and drying steps, the wire is heated in an atmosphere of a reducing gas for effectively removing an oxide layer on the surface of the wire and for preheating the wire to accelerate a reaction between the wire and a molten hot dipping metal used in the subsequent hot dipping step.
Claims5
A process of producing hot dipped wire, comprising the steps of:
- wire drawing a base wire, said base wire made of a material selected from the group consisting of copper and copper alloy, in a water soluble lubricant by means of a wire drawing machine to obtain a wire to be plated;
- winding the wire to be plated around a spool;
- pretreating the wire to be plated, the step of pretreating including the steps of:
- steam heating the wire to be plated,
- cleaning the wire to be plated,
- drying the wire to be plated, and
- heating the dried wire to be plated in an atmosphere of a reducing gas;
- hot dipping the wire to be plated with a molten material selected from the group consisting of tin and tin-alloy, and
- wherein the improvement comprises the step of:
- providing a passage along which the base wire and the wire to be plated is passed, in all of the steps before the hot dipping step, so as to inhibit physical deposition of iron-based, iron oxide-based and iron hydroxide-based minute particles on surfaces of the base wire and the wire to be plated and on surfaces of the passage contacted by the base wire and the wire to be plated.
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A process of producing hot dipped wire, comprising the steps of:
- wire drawing a base wire, said base wire made of a material selected from the group consisting of copper and copper alloy, in a water soluble lubricant by means of a wire drawing machine to obtain a wire to be plated;
- pretreating the wire to be plated, the step of pretreating including the steps of:
- steam heating the wire to be plated,
- cleaning the wire to be plated,
- drying the wire to be plated,
- heating the dried wire to be plated in an atmosphere of a reducing gas, and
- continuously guiding and running the wire to be plated from said wire drawing step along a passage in said steam heating, cleaning, drying and heating steps;
- and
- hot dipping the wire to be plated with a molten material selected from the group consisting of tin and tin-alloy,
- wherein the improvement comprises the step of:
- providing said passage along which the base wire and the wire to be plated are passed, in all of the steps before the hot dipping step, so as to inhibit physical deposition of iron-based, iron oxide-based and iron hydroxide-based minute particles on surfaces of the base wire and the wire to be plated and on surfaces of the passage contacted by the base wire and the wire to be plated.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.