Abstract: A method for preparing glass-coated microwires is provided. A metal in a glass tube is superheated in a high frequency induction field, whereby the glass tube softens. A thin capillary tube is drawn from the softened glass and the glass tube fills with molten metal. The metal-filled capillary enters a cooling zone in the superheated state and the rate of cooling is controlled such that a microcrystalline or amorphous metal microstructure is obtained. The cooling zone includes a stream of cooling liquid through which the capillary passes. The microstructure of the microwire is controlled by choice of amorphisizers, cooling rate, nature of the cooling liquid, location of the cooling stream, dwell time in the cooling stream and degree of superheating and supercooling of the metal.

Abstract: The apparatus includes a molten material cladding apparatus comprising a crucible and a molten material dispensing tool engaged therewith. The crucible and molten material dispensing tool form a chamber to retain molten material, the molten material flowing through passageways in the molten material dispensing tool to form menisci in a bore thereof. An extrusion passing through the molten material dispensing tool punctures the menisci, wherein molten material flows through the molten material dispensing tool and clads the outer surface of the extruded product passing therethrough. By using menisci of molten material, a smooth surfaced, uniform thickness clad product is produced having a wide range of cladding thicknesses.

Abstract: The spray casting of metal wherein an atomized spray of metal droplets is caused to be deposited upon a moving metallic foil substrate. The metallic foil substrate is maintained under tension as it passes in a position to receive the deposit such that thermal distortion is eliminated without causing tensile failure. In the second embodiment, the leading edge of the spray is positioned such that it does not contact the foil whereby the low mass density thereof does not contribute to deposit helping to eliminate bottom porosity.

Abstract: A process for applying a metal coating 11 to a metal strip substrate 2 by preheating the casting surface in a non-oxidizing atmosphere and maintaining a casting surface temperature T.sub.s below the solidus temperature of the metal coating material, passing the casting surface through a melt pool 9 of the metal coating material at a pool temperature at least 25.degree. C. in excess of its melting temperature to deposit a melt layer 21 at a casting temperature T.sub.c, and simultaneously rapidly cooling the metal strip substrate from the back surface to solidify the melt layer to an adherent solid coating, wherein the surface temperature T.sub.s is less than about 20 percent (in .degree.K.) below the casting temperature T.sub.c.The process is particularly useful when coating metal strip with an alloy of limited solubility metals.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of making a sheet material adapted to make bonded electrical connections to an array of closely-spaced conductive terminal pads. The method comprises the steps of providing a thin, flexible, insulating substrate, and squirting a plurality of fine molten strands onto the substrate to form metal strands. The metal strands individually have a cross-section with an area of about 100 to 100,000 .mu.m.sup.2 and the cross-section having a flat section and an arcuate portion. An adhesive or conductive adhesive may be coated over the metal strands, or the adhesive may be provided on the substrate and the conductors imbedded into the adhesive by pressure or heat-sinking the conductors into the adhesive layer.

Abstract: The flow control of molten material in a tundish is improved by the design of a perpendicular turn in the path of flow of the molten material as the flow leaves an intermediate section of the tundish or casting receptacle and overflows transversely an exit lip to thereby contact a heat-extracting substrate. The perpendicular turn in the flow achieves improved control of the molten material's velocity profile, cooling rate, and depth and flow uniformity of the molten material in the casting receptacle. The essentially perpendicular turn in the path of the molten material from the intermediate section causes the molten material to approach the exit lip in a transverse direction unlike conventional laminar or direct delivery molten flow. The transverse flow relative to the direction of the exit overflow toward the casting or cooling surface facilitates improved mixing of the molten material, improved control of the depth gradient, and improved control of the velocity into the exit lip.

Abstract: Known methods of melting Titanium and its alloys for the purpose of sheathing a ceramic filament include the premelting of the metal in a crucible. This method results in contamination of the metal. The present invention obviates the crucible and instead positions a rod of solid Titanium or an alloy thereof adjacent the filament and locally heats the end of the rod. The melt continuously coats the filament which is then traversed laterally of the rod. The method is employed in an inert atmosphere and contamination is thus avoided. In a preferred embodiment, a computer controls the rate of melting of the rod, the movement of the rod, and the lateral movement of the filament.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for the manufacture of a sheathed superconducting ceramic strip. The apparatus includes a chill wheel and metal casting apparatus wherein means are provided within the metal casting apparatus to cause oxygen to react with molten metal, comprising the base alloy from which a superconducting ceramic is formed, in a controlled manner. Strips of superconducting ceramic partially sheathed in the molten metal emerge from the metal casting apparatus and are engaged by the chill wheel, which solidifies the molten metal to form a continuous strip.

Abstract: A method of altering the crystal form of an alloy is disclosed. To accomplish this change in crystal form, the concentrations of the more volatile constituents of the alloy are reduced and the concentration of the less volatile constituents is increased on a relative basis. The process may be carried out in forming a reinforced structure. For this purpose, an improved reinforced matrix and a method of forming it are taught. The reinforcement may be silicon carbide filaments or other reinforcing filaments. The matrix is a titanium 1421 alloy nominally containing 14 weight percent of aluminum and 21 weight percent of niobium. The matrix is formed by plasma-spray forming a powder of the alloy to impart to the alloy particles a superheat during the plasma-spraying as the particles traverse the plasma plume. As a result of the superheat, the alloy is changed in its composition to reduce the aluminum concentration and to increase the niobium and titanium concentrations on a relative basis.

Abstract: The continuous manufacture of a composite in which dispersates are mixed within a matrix material is set forth. Molten metal alloy and concentrated dispersion containing a particulate ceramic dispersate in a precurser dispersion material are continuously fed into a chamber where the mixture is first blended, then agitated to shear both the particulate and matrix. Well dispersed slurry is then fed into a crucible for solidification processing, or is continuously cast into a billet.

Abstract: A method for producing a crystalline reinforced block material, wherein a crystalline material in molten state at a high temperature is laminated in thin film form on a base material. Heat is dissipated in the direction of the base material to rapidly cool the crystalline material. Simultaneously high pressure and large shearing force is applied to the crystalline material, as the material is cooled, by a pressing means to cool and solidify the crystalline material into a thin film form on the base material. Further laminates of the crystalline material in molten state at a high temperature are laminated in a thin film form on underlying thin layer surface in molten state or semisolidified state, one after the other on the immediately proceeding laminated thin layer.

Abstract: A method and system for forming a composite mixture of at least two materials, at least one of which is a metal or metal alloy. The materials in a molten state are supplied via inlet channels to a mixing region so as to indirectly impinge on each other and then to flow through an outlet channel to a cooling system, such as a casting or mold device or a device for providing rapid solidification thereof. The ratio of the cross-sectional area of the outlet channel to the sum of the cross-sectional areas of the inlet channels is arranged to be less than 32 and the ratio of the distance from the input side of the outlet channel to the input of the cooling system to the diameter of the outlet channel is arranged to be greater than 5.

Abstract: A method for forming a fiber-reinforced metal sheet including the steps of preparing a wire preform in which fibers and a matrix are combined together; arranging regularly a plurality of wire preforms in a predetermined direction in a side-by-side relation; irradiating simultaneously using a CO.sub.2 laser beam, and a YAG laser beam the regularly arranged wire preforms to elevate the temperature of the wire preforms; and pressing the wire preforms by rollers while the wire preforms are at the elevated temperature.

Abstract: A dip forming apparatus for continuously forming a cast rod includes a furnace for holding molten metal, and a crucible having an open top and a bottom wall. The crucible has a core wire-passing region vertically extending therethrough. The crucible has a hole formed through the bottom wall. A passage connects the furnaces to the core wire-passing region. A device is provided for keeping the molten metal in the furnace at a predetermined level so as to flow the molten metal from the furnace to the core wire-passing region through the passage. A partition wall is disposed in the passage and has a throttling orifice of a predetermined size formed therethrough so as to allow the molten metal to pass therethrough to limit the flow of the molten metal from the furnace to the core wire-passing region.

Abstract: A method of producing a composite metal material such as clad bloom by continuous casting comprises the steps of supplying molten metals of different compositions by using two immersion nozzles into the strand pool at different positions and forming a static magnetic field zone on the boundary between the two types of metals to prevent mixing of the metals of different composition. The method enables production of a composite material exhibiting a sharp boundary between the two types of metals used and enables the thickness of the respective metal layers to be easily controlled by adjusting the location of application of the static magnetic field or the withdrawal speed of the strand of cast metal.

Abstract: A bonded strip of similar rod-like members like nails comprise a plurality of shanks aligned in an adjacent side-by-side flat parallel array, each shank having a longitudinal cylindrical shank. The shanks define at one end, a head of larger transverse dimension than the shank along most of the head transverse dimension while also communicating with a point on the circumference of the shank so that 2 adjacent nails so formed may be placed so that the shanks are preferably juxtaposed and are held by a bonding material surrounding each shank and interjoining the next with a meniscus so as to hold the strip rigid. The bonding material preferably has a melting temperature above ambient temperature during normal working conditions.

Abstract: A number of individual silicon carbide filaments are assembled to form a tape. The tape is passed across a drum in a low pressure plasma deposition apparatus where the surface of the drum is formed of a polished and cooled refractory metal. The tape is sprayed with a plasma spray of the titanium base alloy metal to form a sheet of such metal on the tape and on the surface of the drum. The deposited sheet including the silicon carbide reinforcement tape is removed from the drum surface by peeling. The peeled product is a composite of titanium base sheet metal which is impregnated with the filaments of silicon carbide, i.e. a metal impregnated tape.

Abstract: An apparatus and process for the continuous casting of tubular shapes wherein molten metal from which the tubular shape is formed is centrifugally deposited adjacent to the outlet of a fluid-cooled mold by a nozzle assembly, with the metal being cooled and rapidly solidified by the mold to form a cylindrical shell upon which additional metal is deposited to incrementally build the thickness of the tubular shape. The tubular shape being formed is withdrawn continuously from the mold, and is further cooled by coolant directed thereon. The nozzle assembly may be rotated to discharge the molten metal or, alternatively, the mold may be rotated as the metal is deposited thereon. Single-layer tubular shapes, with or without reinforcing material, may be cast and multiple-layer composite shapes may be produced having layers of different material composition and thicknesses. An inert atmosphere is maintained to prevent oxidation of the molten metal.

Abstract: The utilization of a feeder immersion type pipe for continuous casting is avoided through an antechamber-like feeder vessel on top of the mold for continuous casting, having a short extension that reaches into the mold cavity and defines a step towards the wall proper from which steel flows in widening cross section to directly form the casting strand. Casting extraction is enhanced by feeding appropriate material, either fluid or a foil, into the space of the mold cavity immediately underneath this step.

Abstract: Molten metal is continuously teemed from a ladle into a tundish. The latter feeds a continuous stream of the molten metal to a cooled mold having opposite open ends connected by a casting passage. The molten metal enters the mold at one end and partially solidifies in the casting passage to form a continuously cast strand which is withdrawn from the mold at its other end. The strand initially consists of a thin shell of solidified metal, and a molten core which is confined by the shell. Upon leaving the mold, the strand is conveyed through a bath of molten metal. The metal of the bath has a lower melting point than, and a specific gravity comparable to that of, the metal being cast. The bath functions to cool the strand uniformly so that the quality of the strand is maintained. The bath further counteracts the tendency of the molten core to cause bulging of the solidified shell which also serves to enhance the quality of the strand.

Abstract: There is disclosed a bushing for use in an apparatus for continuously passing a core wire through a crucible holding molten metal to accrete the molten metal on the core wire to form a cast rod. The bushing is connected to the crucible for passing the core wire therethrough into the crucible. The bushing is tubular and has an engaging portion for engaging with the core wire passing therethrough. The engaging portion is made of ceramics material containing a major proportion of at least one selected from the group consisting of zirconia, silicon carbide and silicon nitride.

Abstract: A compound roll for rolling composed of a shell made of adamite having a carbon content of 1.4-2.5 weight % and a core made of forged or cast steel, the shell being metallurgically bonded to the core by casting an adamite melt around the already prepared core, and the shell having a large residual compressive stress. The adamite shell has a composition consisting essentially, by weight, of 1.4-2.5% of C, 0.6-0.8% of Si, 0.8-1.0% of Mn, 0.5-2.5% of Ni, 1.0-4.0% of Cr, 0.2-2.0% of Mo and the balance being essentially Fe. The residual compressive stress of the shell is desirably at least 20 kg/mm.sup.2 so that cracks are effectively prevented from penetrating into the depths of the shell, thereby preventing the breakage of the compound roll at a roll body thereof.

Abstract: A compound roll for rollng composed of a shell made of high-chromium cast iron and a core made of cast or forged steel. The shell has a large residual compressive stress. The high-chromium cast iron shell has a composition by weight of 2.0-3.5% C, 0.5-1.5% Si, 0.4-1.5% Mn, 8-25% Cr, 0.5-3.0% Mo, 1.5% or less Ni and the balance being essentially Fe for hot rolling, and 2.5-3.5% C, 0.5-1.5% Si, 0.4-1.5% Mn, 0.5-3.0% Ni, 8-25% Cr, 1.0-5.0% Mo and the balance being essentially Fe for cold rolling. The shell's Shore hardness is 70 or more for hot rolling and 90 or more for cold rolling, and the core's tensile strength and elongation are 55 kg/mm.sup.2 or more and 1.0% or more, respectively. The residual compressive stress of the shell is 20 kg/mm.sup.2 or more and serves to prevent cracks from penetrating into the depths of the shell, thereby preventing spalling effectively. This compound roll can be manufactured by a shell casting method.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process and apparatus for the casting of metal strands, more particularly in the form of strips. The molten metal emerging from a slotted die 2 is applied to the cooling surface of a cooling member 1 which is moved past the slotted die 2. Allowing for the law of solidification, at the start of casting the strip outlet side die lip is gradually increased from a minimum distance from the cooling surface to the required final distance in such a way that the free gap between the wedge-shaped developing solidification front of the cast strip 7 and the die lip 5 remains small enough to prevent the molten metal from flowing out through the gap in an uncontrolled manner. The end face edge of the slotted die 2 can be borne via one or more gas cushions on the cooling surface and the free surface of the cast strand.

Abstract: The metal substrate (4) is covered with a coating (6) consisting of another metal or alloy having a thickness of 4 to 50 .mu.m, by deposition of molten metal or alloy (5) through a nozzle (2), this melting point [sic] being lower than that of the substrate metal. This coating comprises, at the interface with the substrate, a layer of intermetallic compound with a thickness of between 0.5 and 4 .mu.m not exceeding 40% of the total thickness, the remainder consisting of the initial metal or alloy used for the coating, in a proportion of between 97% and 99.5% by weight.

Abstract: A method of and apparatus for sequentially continuously casting molten steels of different compositional grades is provided using mechanical separators of particular configuration. Such separators or chill units have a geometric shape selected from the group of spheroids, ellipsoids, and polyhedra and can be easily used to shorten the time between pouring the different compositional grades as well as for improving product yield for the cast slab.

Abstract: Reinforced composite aluminum-matrix articles containing silicon carbide fibers or particles, are produced by a casting process wherein the silicon carbide fibers or particles are mixed with dehydrated sodium tetraborate and mixed with molten aluminum or aluminum alloy whereby wetting of the reinforcing material and ready dispersal thereof in the aluminum matrix alloy is facilitated.

Abstract: A method of making a laminated structure for use in an electrical apparatus. A female mold is produced having an upwardly facing cavity of a shape corresponding to the laminated structure. A layer of a ferrous metal is sprayed onto the bottom surface of the mold and subsequently an electrically insulated layer is applied to the layer of metal. Alternate layers of the ferrous metal and the insulating layer are deposited in the cavity of the mold to provide a laminated structure in which the metal and insulating layers are integrally bonded together. Through use of the method of the invention, a ferrous metal with the most desirable electrical characteristics can be employed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for casting a sacrificial anode having a tubular steel insert bonded over its length to a dissimilar metal by casting and solidifying molten dissimilar metal on the steel insert in a vertical ingot mold having a movable base. A cooling fluid is passed through a pipe means located internal to the insert, to the level of solidification of the molten dissimilar metal, and the cooling fluid is then applied to the internal surface of the insert at the level of solidification. The level of solidification is raised by the cooling fluid relative to the level without cooling by a height equal to between about 1/4 and 3/4 of the maximum height of molten metal in the mold. The bond strength between the steel insert and the dissimilar metal is improved by this method.

Abstract: Two-drum, two-layer continuous casting method and apparatus for casting metallic strip from molten metal in which two closely spaced drums with parallel horizontal axes define the bite region between them. The drums are revolved in opposite directions at approximately the same surface speed with the surface of each drum moving downwardly in the bite region. The two drums are hollow and are internally cooled in a manner to keep their external surfaces at a temperature in the range from and including 100.degree. C. to 400.degree. C. The molten metal flows in a launder at controlled velocity toward the crest of each revolving drum, and the drum surface is travelling at speed faster than this controlled flow velocity, at least 1.

Abstract: Disclosed are method of and apparatus for continuously casting a compound metal bar, the bar comprising a core member encased in a clad member which in combination form a unitary metal matrix. Said compound metal bar is cast by continuously pouring a first molten metal into a casting mold and discharging a second molten metal beneath the surface of the first molten metal beneath the surface of the first molten metal and continuously solidifying both molten metals to form said compound metal bar.

Abstract: A silver-copper-titanium brazing alloy foil was produced by a rapid solidification processing method(s). The composition ranged from 10 to 50 weight percent copper, 0.1 to 9.5 weight percent titanium and the balance silver. Since the method provides high cooling rates, at least 10000.degree. C. per second, unique alloy structures and properties were obtained. This resulting foil can be used in the as cast form, it can be rolled down to a thinner dimension having also a more uniform surface finish, or it can be punched into preforms.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus are described for anchoring cables, bundles of parallel or standard wire, or the like, of preferably high-tensile steel wire. At least one end of the cable or the like is introduced into a fixed anchoring socket and sealed with a pourable material. In order for the anchoring apparatus to have improved properties under static stress, and in particular under great dynamic stress, without requiring additional structural safety features, while enabling lower-cost manufacture, it is provided that the bundle be twisted and the bundle or cable opened for some distance from the associated end in such a manner that the wires or strands extend uniformly all the way through the conical inner region of the anchoring socket. Further, a metallic casting material is poured into the anchoring socket between the opened wires or strands, and a direct metal-to-metal joint is established between the metallic casting material and the wires or strands of the cable or bundle.

Abstract: Reinforced composite aluminum-matrix articles containing a non-oxide reinforcing material, such as silicon carbide fibers or particles, are produced by a casting process wherein a small amount of lithium less than about 1%, by weight, is included in a melt of aluminum matrix alloy to facilitate wetting of the reinforcing material and ready dispersal thereof in the aluminum matrix alloy.

Abstract: The invention provides for a lowering of sheet stock into a mold for continuous casting. The rate of cooling of the molten metal as so fed within the mold is determined by a particular mass throughput in conjunction with the surface area being offered by the sheet stock as it is being lowered into the mold. That surface area in particular will be determined by providing more than one sheet to be run into the mold in parallel relationship. Of course the number of sheets may be determined by the laminate structure being desired. It is important that the casting of metal around the lowered sheet stock occurs outside of the range of feeding molten metal into the mold. This way it is avoided that the temperature in the mold is lowered to the point of "freezing" while on the other hand cooling is not unduly delayed.

Abstract: Reinforced composite magnesium-matrix articles, containing silicon carbide fibers or particles, are produced by a casting process wherein a small amount of lithium, less than about 0.7% by weight, is included in a melt of magnesium matrix alloy to facilitate wetting of the reinforcing material and ready dispersal thereof in the magnesium matrix alloy.

Abstract: Juxtaposed nozzle openings apply the same or different melts to the surface of a moving cooler surface for producing thin metal strips or foils with a considerable width. The nozzle openings can be staggered in the direction of movement of the cooler surface and apply different materials to produce a metal strip with juxtaposed and sharply defined regions with different characteristics. Amorphous or mixed amorphous/-crystalline, or solely crystalline material structures can also be produced. Alternatively, different cooling capacities on different cooler surface areas and different structuring of different cooler surface areas permit the melt to solidify on the cooler surface such that the strips or foils obtained have adjacent regions with different metallic and/or geometrical structures. By geometrical configuration of the cooler surface, foils with a structured surface or with shape-limited individual regions can be used for mass production of small parts from sheet or strip material.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method of continuously casting metal rods wherein the metal is forced to pass through an elongate tube while in a molten state, a cooling medium is circulated about the tube and the metal as it emerges from the tube in order to form a continuous cast rod, and the rod is passed through a bath of another metal whose temperature is sufficiently lower than the melting point of the rod to cool the rod below its critical temperature.

Abstract: Cast articles of fiber-reinforced aluminum composite excellent in plastic moldability and capable of forming drawn products featuring good mechanical properties, particularly wear resistance, are manufactured by mixing under pressure an inorganic fibrous material prepared in advance in the form of a multiplicity of doughy pills, with an aluminum melt thereby producing a mixed melt and casting this mixed melt in a desired shape.

Abstract: A process and apparatus for continuously casting a castable material to a thickness of 10 to 40 mils. A molten material is first spread onto a spreading roller to a uniform thickness and then transferred to a quenching roller whereon the material is cooled until dimensionally stable. The apparatus may be employed to continuously cast thin sheet, platelets, wire, etc. The materials castable by this process and apparatus include metals, alloys, glasses, thermoplastic materials and metalloids.

Abstract: A method of forming, by melt-spinning techniques, a laminated ribbon structure consisting, for example, of a semiconductor disposed on a metal ribbon substrate. The substrate may be 10-50 .mu.m thick and the semiconductor may be 10-50 .mu.m thick, for example; typically the ribbon width is about one millimeter to several centimeters.

Abstract: A method and system for continuously or semicontinuously casting a composite metal article, such as a structurally composite ingot or the like, wherein one of the principal structural components of the ingot comprises an aluminum-lithium alloy. During such casting by a D.C. (direct chill) conventional tubular mold or electromagnetic process, the aluminum-lithium structural component of a structurally composite ingot is encircled or peripherally encased by a further outer metal cladding component that can be cast simultaneously with the aluminum-lithium component such as another outer aluminous alloy from which lithium is absent as a constituent or impurity, although it may be present and tolerated as a trace element. In this arrangement the aluminum-lithium structural component is prevented during casting from coming into direct contact with the chilling coolant, normally water, with which lithium can react violently.

Abstract: Disclosed are method of and apparatus for continuously casting a compound metal bar, the bar comprising a core member encased in a clad member which in combination form a unitary metal matrix. Said compound metal bar is cast by continuously pouring a first molten metal into a casting mold and discharging a second molten metal beneath the surface of the first molten metal beneath the surface of the first molten metal and continuously solidifying both molten metals to form said compound metal bar.

Abstract: An inert gas stream carries crystalline or amorphous phase particles which are blown at a metal melt puddle from the exterior of a crucible nozzle facing a contact surface of a continuously moving chill body and spaced slightly therefrom through which is forced a stream of molten metal. This effects homogeneous distribution of a high volume fraction of second phase particles momentarily within the melt into ribbon form prior to rapid solidification during movement away from the nozzle orifice without particle clumping. The particles may be preheated to prevent particle clumping.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing a shaped composite article from a matrix material and a reinforcing material is disclosed wherein the composite article has predetermined physical and mechanical properties. As illustrated, the apparatus includes a matrix crucible (18) in which a matrix material is contained. A piston (30) is provided for maintaining and controlling the level of the matrix material (19) in the crucible (18) and for controlling the temperature of the matrix material by means of utilizing either a cooling coil (36) or a heating coil (40). A plurality of capillary tubes (26) are carried in a capillary plug (24) through which the reinforcing material is pulled during the process. Shape forming means includes a shape forming plate (42) having an opening (48) formed therein corresponding to the shape of the object being formed.

Abstract: Iron or steel products are produced from oxide ores in a unique process which utilizes air and regular coal as its primary energy source and wherein the ore is melted in a carbon dioxide zone for separation and absorption of the iron oxides into a slag which is transferred to a carbon-monoxide generating zone. In the latter zone the iron oxides are reduced to form the iron or steel product. Carbon monoxide containing flue gas from the latter zone is burned with air and utilized as a heat source in the carbon dioxide zone. Slag from the various unit processes is collected and used to preheat process air by either continuous operation or in a semi-continuous regeneration process. In both modes of slag preheating, flue gas is utilized to maintain the temperature of the slag bath and high temperature air preheating prior to the slag bath.

Abstract: A coating of metal is applied to a metal wire having substantially the same melting point as the metal coating. The wire is passed through a bath of molten metal contained in a container and out through an outlet hole in the container bottom. The diameter-like dimension of the hole is 1.5 to 2 times the like dimension of the wire so that molten metal flows down through the outlet hole along the wire. The wire and molten metal then are cooled to solidify the coating on the wire.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a multi-layer amorphous alloy having at least one layer of amorphous alloy, comprises the steps of ejecting a first molten metal on one of a pair of rollers rotating at a high speed, and rotating the ejected metal with the roller in a shape of a layer for rapid cooling; forming two molten metal layers on the rotating roller or belt by ejecting a second molten metal different from the first metal on the first molten metal for rapid cooling; and adhering under pressure and rolling the molten metal layers between the pair of rollers; and the method of the present invention is applicable to the manufacture of multi-layer alloys which may be used as various composite alloy materials such as high-sensitivity bimetals, superconductive wires, contact spring composite alloys, latching relays having two-stepped magnetic hysteresis, and high fidelty magnetic heads.

Abstract: Molten material is fed into an elongated outwardly open mold, moving in a predetermined path, and is thereafter conveyed by the mold movement at least partway through a region of such path over which a closure for the outward opening of the mold moves along therewith, the material concurrently being cooled to become solidified. The movements of such mold and closure cause the solidified material to be extruded through stationary die means disposed in such region. Such material may solder metal formed into a tube into which is inserted rosin, the same heat exchange medium being used both to cool the metal prior to its extrusion and to keep the rosin molten prior to such insertion thereof.

Abstract: An improved method for manufacturing a composite metal wire including a core metal wire having extruded therearound a coating metal layer which is different in material from the core metal wire, includes feeding the coating metal into a narrow passageway which is defined between a circumferential groove formed on the outer edge of a rotary wheel and a close fitting surface of a fixed shoe block, carrying the coating metal towards an outlet end of the passageway by frictional drag with the surface of the passageway in accordance with the rotation of the wheel, and passing a core metal wire harder in material than the coating metal through a covering chamber of a larger cross sectional area which is provided with a die and a nipple at the front and rear portions, respectively, whereby the core metal wire is covered with the coating metal in the covering chamber so that a predetermined construction of a composite metal wire is extruded through the die.