Device for cooling and/or rinsing steel wires and/or tapes
AssigneeLe Four Industriel Belge
InventorJacques Bauden
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Abstract
Disclosed is a device for cooling and/or rinsing at least one steel wire and/or tape, with a member for conveying at least one steel wire and/or tape, a basin which contains a cooling and/or rinsing liquid and is provided with outlets from which a certain number of successive liquid curtains flow in a turbulent manner, the at least one steel wire and/or tape being conveyed through the liquid curtains, and an adjustor for adjusting the number of successive curtains to be penetrated by the at least one steel wire and/or tape according to the cooling and/or rinsing that is to be obtained.
Claims6
A device for cooling and/or rinsing at least one steel wire and/or ribbon, comprising
- driving means for moving at least one steel wire or ribbon,
- a vessel arranged below the at least one moving steel wire and/or ribbon and containing a cooling and/or rinsing liquid, the vessel being provided with outlets from which a certain number of successive curtains of liquid flow turbulently, and
- spouting means for spouting the curtains of liquid from the outlets of the vessel in a rising curtain flow, the at least one moving steel wire and/or ribbon passing through successive curtains, the spouting means comprising:
- supply means for supplying pressurized gas bubbles in a bottom part of the vessel and
- guidance means for forcibly guiding the bubbles towards the outlets, the bubbles entraining the liquid upwardly in a form of rising turbulent-flow curtains of liquid.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.