Abstract: A fine powder is prepared by directing a high velocity stream of molten droplets into a cooling fluid to form rapidly solidified powder. The powder is subjected to comminution at an energy sufficient to fragment at least a portion of the particles which are not completely rapidly solidified. The fragmented particles are removed to give a powder containing a greater proportion of rapidly solidified particles than the original mixture.

Abstract: A method for producing fiber-shaped tantalum powder by deforming a composite of tantalum powder and an auxiliary metal, and the powder produced thereby.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for processing beta-phase nickel/titanium-base alloys. According to the method, the alloys are warm worked and then warm annealed. The working and annealing temperatures are in the range of about 350.degree. to 600.degree. C. Also disclosed is an article produced by the method.

Abstract: A flame-cutter for separating a moving billet produced by a continuous caster wherein the billet is supported by at least one billet supporting roller. The flame-cutter includes a burner having a nozzle supported for synchronous movement with the billet, means for supplying oxygen to the billet and means for interrupting the supply of oxygen to the burner when the burner passes over each of the billet supporting rollers. Means are also provided for reducing the amount of oxygen escaping from the nozzle after interruption of the supply of cutting oxygen thereby minimizing damage to the supporting rollers and permitting a narrow optimized groove to be cut in the billet.

Abstract: This invention relates to (a) a powder of aluminium or an alloy thereof having at least 0.04% w/w of gallium concentrated on the grain boundaries of the particles in the powder, (b) a method of producing the powder by fragmenting a substrate of aluminium or an alloy thereof coated with gallium under a deforming stress, and (c) a method of forging the powder. The powder can be forged into complex shapes using fewer steps than hitherto possible especially with aluminium powders.

Abstract: Improved acicular fine particles of ferromagnetic metal having superior powder characteristics and tape characteristics are provided, which fine particles are prepared by adding to an aqueous suspension of acicular iron oxide or oxyhydroxide, a solution of a different kind and non-alkali metal salt of an organic acid in place of conventional inorganic acids, followed by making the mixture basic and heat reduction.

Abstract: This invention provides an elastomeric compressible mixture having the compressible properties of a rubber or rubber-like mixture with the heat characteristics of a conductive metal member. This compound material is made of two part polymerized tetrafluoro ethylene powder and the remainder about seventy five parts aluminum powder and twenty five parts silicone rubber. This mixture is attached as a flat sheet to a conductive metal backup member or may be a cover for a conductive metal roll. This mixture is used to accommodate irregular thicknesses of thermoplastic films. This mixture of material is used with heat and pressure to effect a seal of the heated thermoplastic film to an adjacent film.

Abstract: An alloy made by water atomizing the charge component into powder, extruding the powder, hot rolling the powder and heat treating the product. The alloy displays superior stress rupture characteristics when compared to a corresponding conventionally wrought alloy.

Abstract: Ferromagnetic Fe-Ni alloy powders having the combination of a coercive force of 550-900 Oe (oersted) and a saturation flux density of 90-170 emu/g are provided by applying a nickel compound in a liquid to a particulate, oxygen-containing iron compound having an average particle length of 0.5-5 .mu.m and an average particle width of 0.02-0.5 .mu.m, and then drying and reducing the treated material to produce a metallic powder. The ferromagnetic powders are suitable for production of magnetic recording media because of the balanced magnetic properties.

Abstract: A rotor shaft for steam turbines has a journal portion to be supported by a bearing. The journal portion is provided with a sleeve for a bearing made of an alloy of bainite structure comprising 0.04 to 0.35% C, 0.2 to 2% Mn, less than 1% Si, 0.5 to 3% Cr, less than 5% Ni, and less than 0.5% V, having yield strength of more than 50 kg/mm.sup.2 and Lt of less than 24. The sleeve is divided into two semicylindrical segments, and they are arranged on a small diameter portion of the shaft adjacent to said journal portion, welded into one piece, and subjected to stress relief treatment at a temperature higher than a temperature of tempering conducted to the sleeve before welding. The welded sleeve is fitted on the journal portion by shrink-fit so that the sleeve can be served as a superior bearing.

Abstract: A device for cutting a continuously cast strip conveyed on a roller bed includes a cutting machine having at least one flame cutting unit. A control unit controls the transverse movement of the flame cutting units in such a way that the flame cutting units are always between individual rollers during the cutting operation.

Abstract: Microalloyed steel containing, among other ingredients, at least 0.02% niobium, between 0.005 and 0.01% nitrogen, and titanium in a proportion equaling about 3.5 to 4 times that of nitrogen is continuously cast into a slab which is heated to a temperature between about 1120.degree. and 1160.degree. C. whereby titanium nitride precipitates in particles ranging between about 0.06 and 0.2.mu.. The slab is thermomechanically treated at this temperature and after intermediate cooling in several hot-rolling stages, with an initial deformation of at least 55%; after final rolling, the slab is cooled in water at a rate of at least 10.degree. C. per second to a temperature of about 500.degree. to 550.degree. C. Niobium, which goes into solution at the elevated initial temperature, forms NbC precipitates during the subsequent treatment; this has a hardening and grain-refining effect.

Abstract: Large crystal grains or a single crystal of molybdenum composed of molybdenum and at least one trace element selected from the group consisting of calcium and magnesium, the amount of the trace element being 0.003 to 0.12 atomic percent based on the total amount of the components of the large crystal grains or single crystal, and a process for producing large crystal grains or a single crystal of molybdenum, which comprises working at a temperature of 900.degree. to 1500.degree. C. a polycrystalline material composed of molybdenum and 0.003 to 0.12 atomic percent, based on the total amount of the components of the material, of at least one trace element selected from the group consisting of calcium and magnesium, and thereafter annealing the worked material in a non-oxidizing atmosphere to a temperature of at least 1800.degree. C. but below the melting point of molybdenum.

Abstract: An electrode material for semi-conductor device such as solar cells comprises Ag powders, at least one metal of zirconium, hafnium, vanadium, niobium, and tantalum, an organic binder, and an organic solvent, and, if necessary, glass, Pd powders and Pt powders.The electrodes are prepared from the electrode material by printing, drying and firing at a low temperature and have a low contact resistance without any junction breakage or increase in leak current.

Abstract: At the outlet of a hot rolling mill the temperature of a hot rolled rail is reduced to a value not lower than that at which the pearlitic transformation begins in the rail head. The continuously moving rail is then rapidly cooled to below 650.degree. C. so that at least 80% of the austenite-pearlite transformation has occurred at the end of rapid cooling. The rail is then cooled to ambient temperature.

Abstract: A process for producing heat-resistant ferritic stainless steel sheet which exhibits improved toughness and productivity is disclosed. The process comprises the following steps:(a) hot rolling a steel with a finishing temperature of not higher than 850.degree. C., said steel comprising, by weight %,C: not more than 0.07%,Si: 1.5-3.5%,Mn: not more than 2.0%,Cr: 10-25% ,N: not more than 0.05%,Nb: 5X(C %+N %)-20X(C %+N %),optionally at least one element selected from the group consisting of Al, Y, Ca, and REM in a total amount of 0.3% or less, andthe balance iron and incidental impurities; and(b) annealing the resulting hot rolled steel sheet at a temperature of 820.degree.-1000.degree. C.Cold rolling may be applied to the annealed hot-rolled steel sheet.

Abstract: A method of treating an integral piece of thermosensitive material which undergoes thermoelastic, martensitic phase transformation in response to heat to pass from a martensitic phase when at a temperature below a phase transformation temperature range and capable of a first high level of recoverable strain to a parent austenitic phase and memory shape when at a temperature above the phase transformation temperature range and capable of a second lower level of recoverable strain. The method is characterized by first cold working the material to a cold worked state comprising a disordered combination of martensitic and austenitic structures and then memory annealing a first portion of the integral piece of material to establish the martensitic and austenitic phases and the memory shape in the austenitic phase while retaining a second portion of the integral piece of material in the cold worked state and incapable of shape memory response.

Abstract: A method of making a fine powder of a metal and another element in an intimate mutual relation such as an alloy or a chemical compound of a metal and a non metallic element, wherein a gaseous mixture of the metal and the other element is passed through a convergent-divergent nozzle and is thereby rapidly cooled by adiabatic expansion so that the metal and the other element react with each other while the resulting alloy or chemical compound is solidified to form fine particles.

Abstract: Disclosed is a process for the preparation of chalcogenide alloys in high purity which comprises providing a solution mixture of oxides of the desired chalcogens, and subsequently subjecting this mixture to a simultaneous coreduction reaction.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for cutting a series of patterns spaced along the length of a tubular member (e.g. drill collar). A cutting torch is positioned and manuevered within the bore of the pipe so that all cutting is done in an inside-to-outside direction. All slag formed by the cutting action is blown away from the pipe and does not collect within the pipe bore as in previous cutting operations of this type. Further, since there is no cross-wash of the torch, there is no substantially no heat buildup in the pipe during cutting which allows proper preheating of the pipe thereby alleviating cold cuts in the pattern.