Abstract: A metal cleaning composition is provided comprising: a nonionic active agent and/or an anionic active agent having an HLB value ranging from 3 to 18; and a carboxylic acid or salt thereof represented by the formula,R--X--(CH.sub.2).sub.m --COOMin which X represents N--H, N(CH.sub.2).sub.n --COOM or CH--COOM, R represents a saturated or unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon group having from 4 to 18 carbon atoms, phenyl group or tolyl group, and M represents a cation; and a five-membered ring compound having either one nitrogen atom and one sulfur atom, or three nitrogen atoms, and/or a quinoline derivative having a hydroxyl group.The composition according to the invention is advantageous in washing steel or copper plates without inducing pitting corrosion on the metal surface being contacted therewith.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for continuously annealing cold rolled steel strips successively passing through a preheating zone, a low temperature heating zone, a high temperature heating soaking zone, a primary cooling zone and a secondary cooling zone. In each zone, the steel strip is driven by hearth rolls alternately upward and downward in a serpentine path. According to the invention, in a high temperature zone such as the high temperature heating zone and the primary cooling zone where the steel strip is prone to heat buckling, the steel strip is caused to pass only once in a single direction without passing along the serpentine path, thereby preventing meandering and heat buckling of the steel strip.

Abstract: An improved method of forming a skelp into a rounded tubular form in the preparation of an electric resistance welded steel pipe. Different from conventional methods, the skelp is bent in the initial and intermediate forming stages within a limited region alone along the centerline thereof to have a U-shaped flower pattern. Thereafter, the edge portions of the bent skelp are bent in the upstream fin pass rolls to have a curvature of at least 80% of the final curvature with simultaneous overbending in the boundary regions on both sides of the side portions of the rounded skelp. Finally, the rounded skelp is pressed down in the direction to decrease the vertical diameter to bulge out in the transverse direction with simultaneous unbending the overbent portions into the final curvature.

Abstract: According to the present invention, in a method of controlling a mill pacing in a rolling equipment wherein a plurality of serial rolling mills are provided downstream of a heating furnace in which a plurality of materials are rested on a furnace hearth integrally moving with the materials and can be successively extracted, respective rolling cycle times are sought from periods of time between the starts of rolling in respective rolling mills of a subsequent material to be extracted from the heating furnace and the readiness for rolling of the following material in the respective rolling mills, the maximum value of the above-described respective rolling cycle times is assumed as an extraction cycle time of the subsequent material to be extracted to thereby presuppose an extraction time of the subsequent material to be extracted from the heating furnace, allowable retard periods of time of the materials immediately before the respective rolling mills are predetermined, the presupposed retard periods of time of

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a thin cold rolled steel sheet, which is adapted to be formed into, for example, an external automotive plate. The method includes an appearance-finishing step by bake-coating as a final step after drawing (such as press molding), and has a remarkably high baking hardenability. The baking hardenability is a property for improving the yield strength due to the heating during the bake coating treatment and is particularly advantageous for producing a light weight automobile and for compensating the deterioration of dent resistance of the automotive plate due to the lowering of its weight, (without deteriorating the r value). The latter is an indication of the press moldability of the thin steel sheet. Furthermore, the present invention discloses an effective compounding amount of Ti which acts to fix C, S and N contained in the steel, and a continuous annealing condition properly selected depending upon the effective amount of Ti.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a grain-oriented silicon steel sheet having excellent magnetic properties. In this method, a silicon steel slab containing 2.0-4.5 wt % of Si, 0.02-0.10 wt % of Mn and 0.005-0.06 wt % in total of at least one of S, Se and Al is subjected to such a heat treatment prior to a hot rolling that the slab is heated to a slab center temperature of 900.degree.-1,230.degree. C. in a slab heating furnace of a gas firing type and placed in a slab induction heating furnace before the slab center temperature is less than 900.degree. C. and then held at a slab center temperature of 1,250.degree.-1,380.degree. C. for not less than 10 minutes.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of manufacturing a base steel sheet, which method comprises combined steps of: not rolling a steel slab containing not more than 0.0070% by weight of C (hereinafter referred to briefly as "%"), not more than 0.1% of Si, not more than 0.5% of Mn, 0.010 to 0.080% of Al, not more than 0.0050% of N, not more than 0.030% of S provided that the ratio of Mn/S is not less than 10, and not more than 0.030% of P while the hot rolling being terminated at a finish temperature of not less than 800.degree. C.; cold rolling thus obtained hot rolled steel sheet in an ordinary manner; continuously annealing the cold rolled steel sheet in which heating is done up to a temperature from a recrystallization temperature to 800.degree. C.

Abstract: A connector, for example for connecting a tubular member such as a pipe, comprises a male member which has an external frusto-conical surface provided with a thread and a female member having an internal frusto-conical surface provided with a thread for engagement with the thread of the male member. The members are provided with sealing surfaces which are brought into sealing abutment under an axially directed compressive force when the members are fully engaged together, as a result of which one member is partly compressed and the other tensioned. To improve the load distribution along the threads of the members, the pitch of the thread is varied along the axial length of the threaded surfaces. Specifically the surfaces are divided into three portions, an intermediate portion in which the pitches of the threads of the members are the same, and end portions at either end of the intermediate portion, in which the pitches of the threads differ.

Abstract: An electromagnetic stirring mold for the manufacture of continuously cast bloom, which includes a copper plate constituting a water-cooling type mold, a backup frame, a mold frame and an electromagnetic stirrer. In this mold, water-cooling passages are defined between the copper plate and the backup frame and between the backup frame and the mold frame, respectively, which are communicated at their upper parts to water supply and discharge passages located in the upper part of the mold frame, whereby a mounting space for the electromagnetic stirrer is sufficiently formed down below the lower part of the mold frame.

Abstract: A method of heating a molten steel in a tundish for a continuous casting apparatus while the molten steel being introduced and circulated in a roundabout channel of a horizontal channel type induction heater attached to the side wall of the tundish. This relates to the technique in which electric power is applied to the induction heater depending upon the stored amount of the molten steel in the tundish, for instance, the power is increasingly supplied gradually in the case of the pouring at an initial stage, to effectively eliminate the current interference due to the pinching, and compensate the reduction in the temperature accompanied by the molten steel pouring at the time of the continuous casting.

Abstract: A continuous casting apparatus for the production of cast sheets having a casting space defined by a pair of opposed endless belts and a pair of side plates arranged near the side edge portions of the belts while being brought into intimate contact therewith and designed to be converged toward a drawing direction. In this apparatus, a filmy water flow-forming pad arranged behind each of the belts, and each of the side plates are so profiled that the casting space inclusive of the tapered portion depicts a smooth curve at at least a transition area from the taper end portion to a constant thickness portion.

Abstract: Tin-free steel sheets having intimately bonded metallic chromium and hydrated chromium oxide coatings thereon and possessing improved resistance to retorting treatment and improved adhesion to paint films to be applied thereon are produced by chromium plating a steel sheet in a chromium plating bath containing an assistant to deposit and form metallic chromium and hydrated chromium oxide coatings on the sheet surface, subjecting the sheet to reverse electrolysis in the same chromium plating bath to partially dissolve away the metallic chromium and hydrated chromium oxide coatings together with the assistant anions codeposited in the hydrated chromium oxide coating, rinsing the sheet with water, and thereafter subjecting the sheet to an electrolytic chromate treatment in an electrolytic chromate treating bath.

Abstract: A surface-treated steel strip comprising a steel substrate, islands of metallic tin distributed on one major surface of the steel substrate, and a chromate coating deposited on the substrate major surface to cover the tin islands can be coated with lacquer, baked and then seam welded into food cans.

Abstract: Grain oriented silicon steel sheets having a very low iron loss W.sub.17/50 of lower than 0.90 W/kg, in which Si content is 2-4%, are produced by containing at least one of Se and S in an amount of 0.010-0.035% and at least one of Sb, As, Bi and Sn in an amount of 0.010-0.080% as inhibitor, making a final gauge to be 0.15-0.25 mm, forsterite coating formed on the steel sheet surfaces in the final annealing to be 1-4 g/m.sup.2 per one surface and a secondary crystallized grain size to be 1-6 mm.

Abstract: A precursor pitch suitable for production of carbon fiber which is excellent in thermal stability, spinnability, infusibility and is few in impurities, is produced by heating a coal tar pitch at a temperature of 350.degree.-500.degree. C. to form mesophase and extracting the thus heated pitch with a tar series light oil to obtain the precursor pitch.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of producing a cold rolled steel sheet for deep drawing. In order to improve the deep drawability (r-value), ductility (yield strength and elongation El) and the like of cold rolled sheet of ultra-low carbon aluminum killed steel, the chemical composition (% by weight) of the steel is adjusted such that the steel contains C: .ltoreq.0.015%, Mn: .ltoreq.0.4%, P: .ltoreq.0.03%, sol. Al: 0.005-0.100%, N: .ltoreq.0.010%, Ti (exclusive of Ti present in the form of oxide): in an amount satisfying a formula of ##EQU1## the hot rolling of the steel slab is effected at a soaking temperature lower than 1,100.degree. C. and at a finishing temperature of 600.degree.-780.degree. C. As illustrated in the drawings, a low temperature rolling can be carried out, and the resulting cold rolled steel sheet is excellent in the deep drawability and ductility and further excellent in the treatable property of the surface and in the surface property.

Abstract: An apparatus for grinding edges of running metal strips by a rotating grinding wheel, including a grinding wheel supporting table carrying thereon the grinding wheel and a motor for driving the grinding wheel, and driving means for forward and backward driving the table toward and away from the edges of the metal strips. According to the invention, the apparatus further comprises a spring arranged between the table and the driving means, springs hanging the table from a stationary member, and control means for controlling the driving means in response to vibration component free signals without being annoyed with variation in load current of the motor for driving the grinding wheel, thereby eliminating the uneven grinding due to external disturbance during the running of the metal strip.

Abstract: A method of coiling a thin strip on a tension reel, which comprises coiling a strip rolled to a thickness of not more than 0.3 mm through a last stand of a cold tandem mill at different values of delivery side tension of the last stand and coiling tension produced by arranging a tension control means between the last stand and the tension reel.

Abstract: Based on the investigation as to the correlative relationship between the composition of a steel material, particularly the content of carbon and a soaking temperature for the hot rolling, the improvements of the stretch formability, deep-drawability and aging resistance of the cold rolled steel sheet and the peculiar behaviors of the effective additive ingredients under the above correlative relationship, a cold rolled steel sheet having excellent press-formability is obtained by soaking at 800.degree.-1,100.degree. C., a steel slab consisting of not more than 1.2% by weight of Si, 0.05-1.00% by weight of Mn, not more than 0.150% by weight of P, at least one of elements selected from the group consisting of Nb, Cr, Ti, Al, B and W in a total amount of 0.002-0.150% by weight in an extremely low range of not more than 0.005% by weight of C, followed by ordinary hot rolling, cold rolling and recrystallization annealing.

Abstract: A continuous annealing apparatus for metal strips comprises cylindrical rolls each arranged at a location immediately before the metal strip passes about a hearth roll in a high temperature heat-treatment region of the apparatus. An axis of the cylindrical roll is finely tilted relative to the hearth roll within 0.15 degree in directions compensating for shifted distances of the metal strip on the hearth roll in response to every 50 mm shift of the strip, thereby preventing meandering and buckling of the metal strip caused by the hearth rolls.