Abstract: As an article for manufacture, a tin, lead, indium, and alloys of each, admixed with a carbide or carbonyl former, for forming these with said tin, lead and indium, and their alloys into an "active" alloy form; these "active" alloy forms are suitable for making wettable carbon, graphite, diamond, sapphire, alumina, metal carbide, quartz, silicon metal, etc., composites which will not dewet upon heating but form strong bonds; methods for preparing said composites of various shapes, layers, coatings, and sandwiches; alloys, preforms and various metal-graphite, diamond, sapphire, alumina, metal carbide, quartz, silicon metal etc., structures also disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a ductile cast iron roll which is excellent in its resistance breaking and which has the chemical composition comprising 3.0-3.8% C, 1.5-2.5% Si, 0.2-1.0% Mn, 0.01-0.2% P, less than 0.06% S, 0.7-3.0% Ni, 0.1-0.6% Cr, 0.1-0.8% Mo, 0.02-0.1% Mg, balance iron and unavoidable impurities and the base structure having a fine two-phase structure of ferrite mingled with pearlite.The cast iron roll is manufactured by holding the said cast iron roll at the temperature 780.degree..about.850.degree. C. for less than 20 hours; and after that by cooling the same down to 760.degree. C. at the cooling speed 50.about.300.degree. C./Hr; and after that by holding the same at the temperature 450.degree..about.650.degree. C. for less than 20 hours.

Abstract: A thermal deburring chamber has interchangeable inner parts exposed to wear backed by permanent parts providing support and cooling. The inner parts fit so as to permit some expansion without transmitting excessive thermal or mechanical shock to the backing members.

Abstract: A torch guide for use in cutting metal plate. The guide includes a base member which has a longitudinal channel therein and a magnet on one side thereof for removable attachment of the base member to a metal plate. An elongate straight edge is at least partially mounted within the channel in the base member for slidable movement relative thereto, the ends of the straight edge extending beyond the ends of the base member. A plurality of thumb wheels mounted in the base member lock the straight edge relative to the base member to prevent relative movement therebetween. An end support member is connectable to either end of the straight edge, the end support member also having a magnet on one side thereof for permitting removable attachment thereof to the metal plate. A torch tip holder slidably engages the straight edge for maintaining the torch tip at a uniform distance and at a preselected angle relative to the metal plate.

Abstract: A weldable oxide dispersion strengthened alloy which provides improved welds and welded structures of oxide dispersion strengthened materials is characterized by good retention of dispersoid distribution in the fusion weld zone.

Abstract: Steel is to be austenitic-ferritic at a 1:1 ratio of austenite to ferrite and contains particular alloy elements. The principal feature is, limiting the sulphure content to below 0.005% in order to obtain a particularly high toughness transversely to the main direction of working.

Abstract: Apparatus for removing a torch-cutting slag of a slab, wherein a cutting tool mount vertically and rotatably controllable is transversely racked beneath a conveying roller table for conveying the slab fusion-cut to a predetermined length in a direction perpendicular to the conveying roller table, and cutting tools for cutting the torch-cutting slag of the slab are provided at least at positions symmetrical with each other along the longitudinal outer surfaces of the cutting tool mount. The cutting tools for cutting the torch-cutting slag are constituted by a plurality of cutting tools arranged in succession from the center of the forward portion, i.e., the input side, to opposite sides of the rear portion of the cutting tool mount, the cutting tools are gradually increased in the level of projection from the forward portion to the rear portion on the cutting tool mount and are resiliently supported on the cutting tool mount through springs.

Abstract: Master alloys of lithium or other alkali metal with a second metal such as alumium are made by exposing mechanically aloyed powder of the second metal to molten alkali metal. The exposure can be in an inert liquid medium such as a high boiling point hydrocarbon or in a dry, inert gas medium. In order that contact between the lithium and the second metal be efficient, significant, shear inducing agitation is required when the process is carried out in a liquid medium and kneading action, either manual or mechanical is required when the process is carried out dry in an inert gas medium.

Abstract: A process for cutting metal members 3 by means of jets of gas emitted by nozzles (a.sub.1, a.sub.2, a.sub.3 . . . a.sub.63) which are disposed at regular spacings on the periphery 2 of the disc 1 which rotates at high speed.Preheating for initiating the cutting is provided by a heating nozzle b.

Abstract: A process for producing an agglomerated metallurgical composition involving contacting a flowable mass of metal powder, e.g. aluminum powder having a melting point above about 500.degree. C. with a lesser mass of alkali metal, e.g. lithium at a temperature between the melting point of the alkai metal and the melting point of the metal of the powder. The contact is made under a protective atmosphere, e.g. argon or helium and is effected by kneading the metal powder and the molten metal for sufficient time to form agglomerates of substantially uniform composition.

Abstract: A cutting torch guide comprises a torch mounting carriage advanceable along a track by a threaded member on the carriage in releasable engagement with a feed screw. Release of the bearing from the feed screw allows rapid return of the carriage. Accessories for the guide include a vertically adjustable bench on which the guide may be attachably mounted in a cantilever fashion, a pipe cutter attachment, an arc cutter attachment, and two disc cutter attachments which are adapted for cutting large and small circles, and the like.

Abstract: Scarfing apparatus for thermochemically treating a metal surface including a desurfacing head and an upper and lower block extending from the head in spaced apart relation to define a slot-like nozzle, output discharge means in at least one of the blocks for discharging a gas and a gas distribution assembly for distributing gas evenly across said output discharge means with the gas distribution assembly including an inlet supply chamber, a manifold discharge chamber which intersects the inlet supply chamber to form a ledge and a gas redistribution member supported upon said ledge for redirecting gas flow from said inlet supply chamber into said manifold discharge chamber.

Abstract: Sponge iron pellets are protected against re-oxidation by pre-wetting them with water or steam, coating them with a pulverulent passivating agent which is a mixture of iron oxide particles and hydraulic cement particles, then drying the treated pellets. Especially good results are achieved by using a hydraulic cement such as Portland cement and an iron oxide/cement ratio of 40:60 to 70:30.

Abstract: Finished components made from Ni/Ti or Ni/Ti/Cu memory alloys can be manufactured by isothermal or quasi-isothermal ("hot die") working of sections of semifinished product, and by subsequent additional cold-working in the temperature region of the martensitic transformation by flow-turning, tapering, necking, ironing or spinning, it being possible to dispense, completely or at least to a large extent, with an additional machining operation of the metal-cutting type. Manufacture of complicated connecting elements, using the memory effect, for connecting rods, tubes, plates, etc.

Abstract: The specification describes a method for producing compound-type superconducting wire of excellent mechanical and electrical properties. A green compact is first formed with copper powder and one of two metals which form a superconducting compound through a reaction therebetween. The latter metal is in a very fine hydrogenated form. The green compact is then heated in vacuo so as to dehydrogenate the hydride of the latter metal and sinter the green compact into a sintered mass. Before or after drawing the sintered mass into a wire, it is composited with the other metal of the two metals, thereby forming a composite wire. It is then subjected to a further heat treatment to cause the reaction to occur between the two metals. To improve its properties, it may be held in a high temperature, high pressure gaseous atmosphere to cause plastic deformation to occur. Since the dehydrogenation and annealing are performed in a single step, the overall process has been simplified.

Abstract: A highly heat resistant, austenitic, iron-nickel-chromium alloy which is resistant to neutron induced swelling and to corrosion by liquid sodium, containing 8.0% to 15.0% by weight, chromium and 14.5% to 25.5%, by weight, nickel. When nickel is present in an amount of 14.0% to 21.0% by weight, the percent by weight of chromium present is less than or equal to 0.66.times.(the percentage of nickel)+1.6%.

Abstract: A thermal cutting machine for laterally cutting a displaceable strand of metal includes a car selectively engageable with the top surface of the strand, the car being adapted to travel on rails aligned with the direction of displacement of the strand. The car carries a movable cutter. In one preferred embodiment the load of the car on the rails at one end of the car is substantially constant whether or not the car is engaged with the top of the strand.

Abstract: A method for producing a molten puddle on the surface of a metal workpiece to be scarfed consists of igniting a mixture of fuel gas and oxygen. The resultant flame is used for heating a steel wire to a temperature of from 900.degree. to 1450.degree. C., whereupon the steel wire is intermittently fed into a stream of scarfing oxygen to produce droplets of molten metal, which are then transferred by a flow of scarfing oxygen on to the work surface. There is provided apparatus for carrying into effect the above method, which comprises a housing having ducts for supplying a fuel gas and oxygen formed on its periphery; an additional duct for supplying a fuel gas being made in the central part of the housing; a duct for feeding steel wire is provided in the housing in coaxial arrangement with the additional fuel gas supply duct; a scarfing oxygen feeding duct formed in the housing is interposed between the oxygen supply duct and the additional fuel gas supply duct.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for cutting a pipe. A pipe is positioned on a plurality of support rollers for rotating the pipe. A cutting torch, mounted on a telescoping arm, is movable along the longitudinal axis of the pipe. The angle that the cutting torch makes with the surface of the pipe is varied by rotating the cutting torch along an arcuate path that is in a plane parallel and perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the pipe. The cutting torch is directed towards the radial center of the arcuate path that is on the surface of the pipe. Servo motors selectively vary the rotational angle of the pipe, the position of the cutting torch and the angle of the cutting torch. A computer automatically controls the operation of the servo motors with the aid of a pre-programmed mathematical function. The mathematical function uses characteristic data for the pipe and feedback data from the servo motors.

Abstract: Cold reduced, annealed steel strip and sheet stock having 0.2% yield strength of 45 to 65 ksi with an elongation of at least 25%, or having a yield strength of at least 90 ksi with an elongation of at least 10%. A low carbon steel (0.02-0.10% C) typical of rimmed or drawing steel analysis is preferably vacuum degassed, and 0.02% to 0.18% columbium is added. The casting is hot rolled, coiled not higher than 1300.degree. F., cold reduced 40% to 70%, and annealed at low temperature for a time sufficient to restore desired ductility without substantially decreasing yield strength.