Abstract: The invention provides a slab transport tire roller which is easy to assemble and wherein a heat-insulating material is protected to render the roller reliably operable over a prolonged period of time. The tire roller comprises tires fixedly arranged respectively on outer peripheral portions of a pipe for passing cooling water therethrough, and a tubular protective sleeve fitted around the pipe between the tires with the heat-insulating material accommodated in the sleeve. The protective sleeve is engaged with the pipe or with at least one of the tires adjacent to the sleeve rotatably therewith. The protective sleeve can be composed of a tubular sleeve member and side plates attached to respective open ends of the sleeve member.

Abstract: A slab transport tire roller includes a tire which is diminished in thermal stress. A tire assembly disposed at each of outer peripheral portions of a pipe for passing cooling water therethrough includes the tire adapted to contact a slab, support members connecting the tire to the pipe, and rotation preventing means engaging the tire with the support members to render the tire rotatable with the support members.

Abstract: A heat-resistant alloy comprising, as expressed in % by weight, 0.03 to 0.1% of C, 0.2 to 0.7% of Si, 0.2 to 0.7% of Mn, 42 to 60% of Ni, 25 to 35%0 of Cr, 8 to 20% of W, over 0% to not more than 8% Mo, over 0% to not more than 5% of Co, and the balance substantially Fe. The alloy has improved resistance to compressive deformation and oxidation resistance for use in oxidizing atmospheres having a high temperature of 1250.degree. C.

Abstract: A heat-resistant material having excellent high-temperature strength and high oxidation resistance at temperatures exceeding 1300.degree. C. The material is a heat-resistant Cr-Fe alloy including at least 60% of Cr and at least 5% of Fe, and having a mean grain size of at least 50 .mu.m and having a melting point of at least 1600 .degree. C., or a composite material composed of the said heat-resistant alloy serving as a metal matrix and a ceramic, and containing up to 40% by volume of a dispersed ceramic phase in the metal matrix.

Abstract: A skid beam for use in a walking beam type heating furnace which has operating temperature exceeding 1000.degree. C. comprises a hollow skid pipe of heat resistant alloy, skid buttons provided upright on the skid pipe and arranged axially thereof at a predetermined spacing, and a refractory lining covering the outer peripheral surface of the skid pipe and each of the skid buttons over the base portion thereof toward its upper portion. Each of the skid buttons comprises a first member attached to the skid pipe and made of a heat-resistant alloy, and a second member to be brought into contact with the material to be heated. The second member is made of a composite material composed of a heat-resistant alloy and ceramic particles dispersed therein in an amount of 30 to 70% by weight based on the composite material. The skid button has a height exceeding 120 mm.

Abstract: A process for manufacturing a walking bar member for continuous casting from an elongated tubular metal blank by heating the blank at a temperature of 550.degree. to 1250.degree. C., subjecting the heated blank to plastic working which achieves a working ratio of up to 65% or a flattening ratio of over 1 but not greater than 3.0 to flatten the blank into a tubular body by compression over the entire length thereof, and machining a surface of the tubular body at the side thereof to be brought into contact with a slab to smooth the surface and provide a reduced wall thickness, the working ratio and the flattening ratio being represented by (D-H)/D.times.100 and W/H, respectively, wherein D is the outside diameter of the blank before the plastic working, H is the minor diameter of the tubular body after the plastic working, and W is the major diameter of the tubular body after the plastic working.