Abstract: A boiler for heating a heat-transfer medium, such as water in a domestic heating system with water-carried heat. The boiler comprises a tank (2) for the radiator water; a combustion chamber (3); combustion-gas pipes (4) which extend down through the tank and which discharge at the bottom thereof in a collecting chamber (5) for combustion gases. At the upper part of the tank (2) there is arranged an outlet (7) to the radiators, while a tank-inlet (8) from the radiators is arranged at the lower part of the tank. Also arranged in the tank (2) is a reservoir (17,20) for heating tap water, whereat the reservoir-inlet (10) for tap water is connected to a fresh cold-water pipe and is located at a level which lies beneath that of the tank inlet (8) from the radiators.

Abstract: A rolled wire or rod of stainless steel having a fine-grain structure and intended for the manufacture of drawn spring wire and rope wire of high mechanical strength and high ductility. The carbon content, 0.04-0.07%, is much lower than in conventional stainless steels for spring wire and rope wire, and the nickel and chromium contents, 8-9.5% and 18-19% respectively, have been adjusted to said carbon content such that a chromium content of 18% corresponds to a nickel content of 8.0-8.8% when the carbon content is 0.04% and to a nickel content of 8.8-9.5% when the carbon content is 0.07%, and a chromium content of 19% corresponds to a nickel content below 8.3% when the carbon content is 0.04% and to a nickel content of 8.4-9.2% when the carbon content is 0.07%. The grain size of the wire or rod is 8-13 ASTM, preferably 10-12 ASTM.

Abstract: An austenitic stainless steel which is completely or practically completely austenitic in a hot worked, solution treated state, with properties characteristic for such steel and with a corrosion resistance clearly superior to the AISI 304 type of 18/8-steel, at least on a par with AISI 316 type of acid resistant steel 17/12-2Mo. The steel consists essentially of less than 0.10% C, less than 1.5% Si, between 0.10 and 0.30% Mn, between 17 and 20% Cr, between 6 and 16% Ni, between 2.0 and 4.0% Cu, less than 0.40% N, less than 1.0% Ti, less than 1.5% Nb and less than 100 ppm B, the balance being iron and impurities such as S, P and Mo usually present in steel.

Abstract: A method for casting steel ingots in molds is provided wherein the upper surface of the ingot is caused to solidify before the interior of the ingot is solidified in order to provide an improved ingot having sound and homogeneous material over all the surfaces of the ingot and a good distribution of segregates throughout the cross section of the ingot. In the improved method, the surface temperature of the upper surface of the ingots is maintained at or near the liquidus temperature of the steel being casted for at least 10 seconds after casting so that the upper surface of the ingot remains fluid to allow slag inclusions to float to the upper surface of the ingot. The upper surface of the ingot is then solidified between 10 seconds and 2 minutes after casting by lowering the surface temperature of the ingot to a temperature at or near the solidus temperature of the steel so that the upper surface of the ingot solidifies before the interior of the ingot is solidified.

Abstract: A method for producing a multi-layer metal strip comprising at least one strip of a high-speed steel alloy which in addition to iron and normal impurities contains 0.60-1.30 % C, 3.0-5.0 % Cr, 1.0-10 % Mo, 1.0-20 % W, up to 12 % Co and 0.5-4.0 % V, and which is cemented onto a carrier strip by electron-beam welding. In order to attain a good flow of the molten metal in the gap between the high-speed steel strip and the carrier strip 0.005-0.5 % Ce is added to the high-speed steel alloy. Ce can be added as a "misch metal" and may then contain the lanthanides normally present in misch metal. The multi-layer metal strip thus produced is used in the manufacture of hacksaws.