Patents by Inventor Paul E. Amberson

Paul E. Amberson 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).

  • Method of and apparatus for hot dip coating of steel strip
    Patent number: 4478892
    Abstract: An improved method of and apparatus for hot dip metal coating of steel strip in which the strip is heated and cleaned in a furnace then passed through a protective hood containing a reducing gas and into the molten coating metal bath. Coating metal oxides evolved in the hood are removed by flowing a nonoxidizing gas across the surface of the coating metal in the hood and withdrawing the gas and entrained oxides from a location in the vicinity of the coating metal surface. The oxides are removed from the withdrawn gas, and the gas returned to be again flowed across the coating metal surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 23, 1984
    Assignee: National Steel Corporation
    Inventor: Paul E. Amberson