Abstract: A method and an apparatus for accurately weighing by a ladle weighing unit (2) of a metal melt in a ladle (3), in which the melt can be heated and stirred by power supplied by an induction coil (4). The induction field of the coil (4) is also applied to a coil weighing unit (1) so that the reaction force of the magnetic field influencing the melt is measured. In a weighing system (5), the net weight of melt is calculated by subtracting the signal of the coil weighing unit (1) from that of the ladle weighing unit (2). The weight change per time unit, which represents the mass flow rate of melt from the ladle, is calculated in the control system (6) and is used to control the pressure in the ladle in such a way the metal flow is kept constant.

Abstract: A parting or grooving tool includes a narrow support blade and a cutting insert removably securable in a recess formed by upper and lower jaws at the front portion of the blade. The inert is clamped into place by an actuator which engages in a slot that extends at an angle in relation to the longitudinal axis of the recess such that the lower jaw is subjected to an elastic bending of such nature that a downwardly directed clamping force is exerted towards the upper surface of the cutting insert.

Abstract: An insert for metal turning and grooving has an annular cutting edge. A chipformer surface is disposed radially inside of the cutting edge. A chip breaking wall is disposed radially inside of the chipformer surface. The chip breaking wall is inclined upwardly. A first section of the chip breaking wall located adjacent a front end of the insert has a steeper inclination than a second section thereof spaced circumferentially from the first section in a direction toward the rear end of the insert. The inclination of the chip breaking wall varies progressively from the first section to the second section.

Abstract: An insert for a milling cutter has a chip face and a bottom face which are interconnected by side surfaces. The intersection of side surfaces with the chip face forms four cutting edges. Each side surface is beveled at its intersection with a cutting edge to form a planar clearance face, the width of which increases toward one of the cutting corners. Each cutting edge includes a main edge portion, a corner edge portion, and a secondary edge portion. Each secondary edge portion extends inwardly from an associated secondary edge at an angle no greater than four degrees. At each corner, a secondary edge portion of one cutting edge forms an actual angle with a main edge portion of another cutting edge greater than ninety degrees. The insert is mounted at a negative radial rake and a positive axial rake such that such actual angle presents to a workpiece an effective angle of ninety degrees to cut a ninety degree shoulder in the workpiece.

Abstract: A ball nose end mill comprises a body having a semi-spherical front surface and a plurality of indexable cutting inserts. A central one of the inserts is of generally triangular shape, and the additional inserts are of generally rectangular shape. The central insert has a generally convexly curved top surface, and the cutting edges thereof include main cutting edges which are convexly curved when the central insert is viewed from the side.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a roll for hot and/or cold rolling. The rolling track comprises one or several cemented carbide rings, which are cast into a casing made by an iron alloy. The cast alloy comprises a materially graphitic cast iron, which after the casting contains residual austenite. This residual austenite is at subsequent heat treatment or treatments partly or totally transformed under volume increase to mainly bainite with the aim of reducing or totally eliminating the differential shrinkage between the cast iron and the cemented carbide as a result from cooling after the casting.

Abstract: A saw chain is composed of a plurality of cutter links, each link comprising a cutter part and a depth gauge located ahead of the cutter part. The links are designed to enable a cutting edge of the cutter part to be resharpened without having to remove the entire top surface of the depth gauge, and without changing the geometry of the link to such an extent as would result in significantly different cutting characteristics.

Abstract: Improved properties of aluminum oxide water layers on cemented carbides and related substrates can be obtained by having the outermost alumina layer in the form of kappa-Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 deposited on a kappa-modification layer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a rock bit button of cemented carbide for percussive or rotary crushing rock drilling. The button is provided with one or more bodies of polycrystalline diamond in the surface produced at high pressure and high temperature in the diamond stable area. Each diamond body is completely surrounded by cemented carbide except the top surface.

Abstract: The present invention is a method for densifying powder metallurgical parts to 100% theoretical density. The method comprises applying a high pressure of 0.1-100 MPa during sintering in a high pressure furnace at a temperature before which the liquid phase is formed and maintaining this pressure during the rest of the sintering cycle until the furnace has cooled to almost room temperature. The method achieves rapid, complete closure of the porosity which results in parts with close dimensional tolerances and practically no warpage.

Abstract: The invention relates to a high silicon containing stainless steel alloy in which the amounts of the alloy elements have been balanced such that the austenite phase remains stable without being deformed into martensite even under large amounts of working. The steel alloy comprises 0.04-0.25% C, 2.0-5.0% Si, 3.5-7.5% Mn, 16-21% Cr, 8-11% Ni, 0.10-0.45% N, the remainder being iron and normal impurities.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a ceramic whisker-containing cutting insert for chipforming machining of steel having improved mechanical, thermal and wearing properties.Besides an oxide-based matrix, the material contains 5-50, preferably 10-40, % by volume of homogeneously distributed whiskers or platelets of nitrides, carbides and/or borides of metals from group IVB (Ti, Zr or Hf) and/or VB (V, Nb or Ta) in the periodic system (or solid solutions thereof) having a linear expansion coefficient being lower than that of Al.sub.2 O.sub.3, preferably at the most 85% of that for Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 measured at 300-1300 K. The properties of the composite material can be further modified by coating the whisker material with thin layers. The whisker reinforced cutting tool material shows an improved toughness behavior.

Abstract: According to the present invention there is now provided a method of making a sintered titanium-based carbonitride alloy. According to the method, melt-metallurgical raw materials containing the metallic alloying elements for hard constituent-forming as well as binder phase-forming elements are melted and cast, using no intentional additions of the elements C, N, B and O, to form a pre-alloy which in solidified condition of brittle intermetallic phases with hard constituent-forming and binder phase-forming elements mixed in atomic scale. The pre-alloy is crushed and/or milled to powder with grain size <50 .mu.m. The powder is carbonitrided for simultaneous formation in situ of extremely fine-grained <0.1 .mu.m, hard constituent particles enclosed in their binder phase.