Patents by Inventor Enrique Calixta Chia

Enrique Calixta Chia has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Apparatus for continuous pickling of cast rod
    Patent number: 4005744
    Abstract: A system for continuously quench-pickling cast rod from a continuous casting machine wherein molten metal is poured into a mold of a casting device and cooled and solidified into a continuous solid bar, the bar is elongated and reduced in its cross-sectional area to form continuous rod, and the rod is arranged in a coil. The surface of the hot rod from the rolling mill is contacted with a pickling fluid, such as a citric acid solution, after the rod leaves the rolling mill and before the rod is arranged in a coil, to simultaneously quench and pickle the rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 1975
    Date of Patent: February 1, 1977
    Assignee: Southwire Company
    Inventors: Daniel B. Cofer, Enrique Calixta Chia, John E. Burnitt, Theodor W. Kaltenberg