Abstract: The method for the heat treatment of a steel reinforcing element (F) for a tire comprises a transformation of the steel microstructure and in which the temperature of the reinforcing element (F) is reduced during the transformation of the steel microstructure by simultaneously extracting heat from the reinforcing element (F) and supplying heat to the reinforcing element (F).

Abstract: A hydrogen permeation membrane is provided that can include a metal and a ceramic material mixed together. The metal can be Ni, Zr, Nb, Ta, Y, Pd, Fe, Cr, Co, V, or combinations thereof, and the ceramic material can have the formula: BaZr1-x-yYxTyO3-? where 0?x?0.5, 0?y?0.5, (x+y)>0; 0???0.5, and T is Sc, Ti, Nb, Ta, Mo, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Ga, In, Sn, or combinations thereof. A method of forming such a membrane is also provided. A method is also provided for extracting hydrogen from a feed stream.

Abstract: A rolled wire rod includes, as a chemical component, by mass %, C: 0.95% to 1.10%, Si: 0.10% to 0.70%. Mn: 0.20% to 1.20%, and Cr: 0.90% to 1.60%, the balance consisting of Fe and unavoidable impurities, in which a metallographic structure of the rolled wire rod includes, by an area ratio, 90% to 100% of pearlite, 0% to 5% of proeutectoid cementite, and 0% to 10% of degenerate pearlite having granular cementite, an average size of a pearlite block of the pearlite is 1.0 ?m to 15 ?m, and a maximum size of the pearlite block is 1 to 4 times the average size.

Abstract: In a method of making a guide wire 1 by using a heat mold device 1, the metallic mold body 2 is made from the material, the thermal expansional coefficient of which is the same of a metallic coiled wire 91 to stabilize a shape-forming configuration 94. A plurality of the mold bodies 2 are arranged in a mold frame 6A to make the reverse side 22 of one mold body 2 tightly contact with the obverse side 21 of other mold body 2 among the neighboring mold bodies 2. A jig arm 7A sandwiches an array of metallic mold bodies 2 and the side plate 63 to serve as a securement member 7. Upon manufacturing the guide wire 9 for use in the medical field, the method of making the heat mold device 1 contributes to producing a high quality guide wire with a high productivity.

Abstract: A method of heat treatment of wire including cooling the wire stock immediately after the stock leaves the rolling heat region to a temperature below the starting temperature of martensite formation and, thereafter, forming wire coils.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method for manufacturing steel wire comprising the following steps: manufacturing a reinforcing wire of sizeable length by rolling or hot wire drawing from steel containing the following elements: 0.18% to 0.45 % C, 0.4% to 1.8% Mn, 1% to 4% Cr, 0.1% to 0.6% Si, 0% to 1.5% Mo, 0% to 1.5% Ni, at most 0.01% S and 0.02% P, the reinforcing wire having, after being rolled or hot drawn, a temperature at least higher than the AC3 temperature, preferably by 50 to 200° C. and in particular by 100 to 150° C.; winding the wire in reels before air cooling the raw manufacturing wire to obtain a HRC hardness not less than 40 and preferably higher than 45. In a variant, the method consists in quenching and tempering so that the wire has a hardness between 20 HRC and 35 HRC. The invention also concerns a reinforcing wire and a flexible tube for carrying effluents.

Abstract: Apparatus for the production and heat treatment of coiled elongated metal product of relatively small cross section, such as rods, bars and wire-rod material, is described. The elements required for the conduct of a variety of heat treatments can be performed on coiled product in a substantially continuous manner through the use of a ring conveyor with which the coilers of various process lines and a heat treating furnace communicate. Methods for performing various heat treatments using the described apparatus are also disclosed.

Abstract: A method of heat-treating a work piece of high-alloy steel by hardening involves relatively briefly annealing the work piece before hardening, followed by cooling the work piece. The brief annealing that is performed before the actual hardening and the ensuing cooling results in homogeneity of the material in the microscopic range. Following the annealing, the work piece is hardened, for instance by quenching in a salt bath, to achieve a super fine distribution of globular carbides in the microscopic structure with considerably reduced size as compared to the outset state. Also, the microscopic structure created by the method of the invention has improved toughness properties as well as increased microscopic structure stability to aging and leads to a longer service life.

Abstract: A spiral parts heat treatment apparatus includes a first guide, a transfer unit, a second guide, and a controller. The first guide has a carrier portion that continuously conveys the manufactured spiral parts carried thereon in a longitudinal direction. The transfer unit is disposed downstream from the first guide to feed the spiral parts one by one after discrimination. The second guide is provided continuously to the transfer unit and has a carrier portion and a driving portion. The carrier portion serves to guide the spiral parts carried thereon in the longitudinal direction in the heat treatment furnace. The driving portion serves to push the spiral parts from a rear end side thereof and a driving portion. The controller performs a control operation so as to feed the spiral parts one by one.

Abstract: A machine for warming and spraying paint comprising a water cooled internal combustion engine, a pump for pumping the paint, a power transfer means linking the engine drive linkage to the pump drive linkage, a heat exchange chamber having an interior channel therethrough enabling heated liquid coolant and paint introduced into the heat exchange chamber to flow therethrough and exchange heat without commingling of the two fluids, a liquid coolant transfer means for carrying the liquid coolant in a circuit path including the internal combustion engine radiator, the internal combustion engine, and the heat exchange chamber, and a paint transfer means allowing paint to travel through an open ended path including the pump and the heat exchange chamber, the paint transfer means allowing the paint to be pumped by the internal combustion engine and the pump and to be simultaneously warmed by heat transferred from the liquid coolant to the paint within the heat exchange chamber.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing hot-worked elongated products, such as bars or tubes, from high-alloy or hypereutectoid steel in which a feedstock is heated to a deformation temperature and undergoes at least one deformation step. Following the at least one deformation step, the deformed feedstock is either cooled or heated at a specific temperature to achieve a uniform temperature distribution throughout the length and thickness of the deformed feedstock. Next the deformed feedstock is reheated to a temperature below the deformation temperature. The reheated feedstock is continuously rolled in a multi-stand reducing mill to its final size and then cooled by ambient air.

Abstract: A self propelled, walk-behind or surrey drawn striping machine includes a single fluid tank for confining and, delivering under a pressure, fluid drive, heated thermoplastic, paint and the new, environmentally preferred, thin line thermoplastic. The machine is propelled by hydraulic wheel motors. A primary material tank comprises a pressurized interior vessel that is substantially surrounded by a heating fluid circulation jacket. A third wall around the fluid circulation jacket provides a heat riser insulating space. Combustion products from a burner head below the circulation jacket rise through the insulating space. A coaxial flow channel around the conduits that deliver the striping material to a spray head carries heat transfer medium such as hot oil drawn from the heating fluid circulation jacket.

Abstract: A process for progressively manufacturing cutting edge needles or wire members. Needle blanks or wire blanks are cut from a roll of wire and mounted to a carrier strip. The carrier strip and needles are moved through a succession of coining dies and at least one trimming die, wherein the first coining die is an open coining die and the one or more successive coining dies are closed coining dies. The needle blanks or wire members are optionally curved, heat treated and electrochemically treated resulting in cutting edge needles or wire members formed without a grinding step and without adversely affecting point ductility.

Abstract: A conveyor moves forward an unconcentrically spiralled loose coil of steel wire rod having a temperature not lower than Ar.sub.3 into a retention bath of molten salt for heat treatment. Just before entering the retention bath, the coil is quenched by spraying a solution of molten salt kept at a temperature between 400.degree. and 600.degree. C. and not higher than the temperature of the retention bath either from above and below or from only above the coil. Then, the quenched coil is retained in the retention bath of molten salt kept at a temperature between 400.degree. and 600.degree. C., thereby causing pearlite transformation and forming a fine pearlite structure in the wire rod.

Abstract: A method of making flat steel strapping or strip from rods, bars or slit steel includes the steps of heating a piece of steel to an elevated temperature greater than the upper critical temperature, hot rolling the steel and quenching the rolled steel from a temperature that is above the upper critical temperature or in the range of the lower critical temperature to the upper critical temperature.

Abstract: A method and for the heat treatment of at least one metal wire (1), chararized by passing the wire (1) within at least one pair of thermal transfer plates (2, 2a, 2b) between two grooves (8, 8a, 8b) made in the two plates (2, 2a, 2b) of each of said pairs, adjusting the variable distance (E) between the plates, so that the wire (1) is directly in contact with a gas (11) which is practically without forced ventilation and is disposed between the grooves (8, 8a, 8b).