Abstract: The present invention provides a lead-containing additive for steel melts, wherein it is in the form of a cored wire consisting of a metallic sheath and finely-divided filling material, the finely-divided filling material consisting of(a) metallic lead and/or lead alloy(s), as well as(b) a lime-containing material which splits off carbon dioxide at the temperature of the steel melt.

Abstract: A vertical first stream of molten metal flows from a ladle into the tundish of a continuous casting apparatus. A second stream composed of solid, particulate alloying ingredient and a non-oxidizing carrier gas is directed into the first stream with a nozzle. The two streams each have unenclosed parts exposed to the atmosphere surrounding the ladle and the tundish. The nozzle is cooled with a non-oxidizing gas flowing through a nozzle cooling jacket and exhausted at the outlet end of the nozzle. The nozzle interior has a converging downstream end portion for converging the second stream just before it leaves the nozzle.

Abstract: Sulfur-containing free-cutting steel may have an improved machinability and fewer defects by adding certain amounts of Te, Pb and Bi to prevent elongation of sulfide inclusion particles, and by lowering Al-content to decrease Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 of oxide inclusions or by lowering O-content to decrease large Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 inclusion particles. The free-cutting steel may be produced by continuous casting.

Abstract: A method of producing a steel alloy containing lead or bismuth which includes fluorine molten lead or bismuth through a hollomed stopper rod positioned above a nozzle opening in the bottom of a vessel containing molten steel.

Abstract: A method of adding low-melting-point metal to molten steel by injecting molten low-melting-point metal into the vessel containing the molten steel through a portion of the side wall of the vessel that is located below the surface level of the molten steel.

Abstract: A vertical conduit extends from the bottom of a ladle containing molten metal and terminates at a lower end above a tundish for receiving the molten metal. A vertical shroud encloses the vertical conduit from a location above the conduits's lower end, and the shroud extends into the tundish. A nozzle extends into the interior of the shroud for feeding alloying ingredient, as shot, into a stream of the molten metal, within the shroud. Structure is provided for circulating a cooling fluid through the nozzle. The nozzle is connected to flexible feed lines for transporting shot and cooling fluid to the nozzle. Additional structure is provided for preventing the flexible feed lines from bending, twisting, kinking or the like when the nozzle, shroud and vertical conduit are rotated about a vertical axis spaced from the center line of the vertical conduit.

Abstract: Amorphous alloys having high strength, high hardness, high crystallization temperature, high saturation magnetic induction, low coercive force, high magnetic permeability and particularly low deterioration of magnetic properties with lapse of time, have a composition formula ofT.sub.a X.sub.b Z.sub.c or T.sub.a' X.sub.b' Z.sub.c' M.sub.d,whereinT is at least one of Fe, Co and Ni,X is at least one of Zr, Ti, Hf and Y,Z is at least one of B, C, Si, Al, Ge, Bi, S and P,a is 70-98 atomic %,b is not more than 30 atomic %,c is not more than 15 atomic %,sum of a, b and c is 100 atomic %,M is at least one Mo, Cr, W, V, Nb, Ta, Cu, Mn, Zn, Sb, Sn, Be, Mg, Pd, Pt, Ru, Os, Rh, Ir, Ce, La, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb and Dy,a' is 70-98 atomic %,b' is not more than 30 atomic %,c' is not more than 15 atomic %,d is not more than 20 atomic %, andsum of a', b', c' and d is 100 atomic %.