Alloys or metallic compositions – Ferrous – Chromium containing – but less than 9 percent
Patent
1995-06-26
1996-10-08
Yee, Deborah
Alloys or metallic compositions
Ferrous
Chromium containing, but less than 9 percent
148335, C22C 3844
Patent
active
055628818
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to the use of a special-steel alloy containing proportions of carbon, silicon, manganese, phosphorus, sulfur, chromium, molybdenum, nickel, aluminum and iron, the balance consisting of impurities resulting from manufacture, in accordance with the features of the Claim, as material for the manufacture of chains and chain parts.
THE PRIOR ART
Such an alloy is known, in principle, from U.S. Pat. No. 4,729,872. This does not apply, to be sure, with respect to the use of such an alloy for chains or chain parts.
A conventional material for chains and chain parts has the following chemical composition with respect to the essential secondary components:
______________________________________ C Si Mn P S Cr
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0.20- <0.25% 1.10- <0.020% <0.020% 0.40-
0.26% 1.40% 0.60%
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Mo Ni Al Cu N
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0.50- 0.90- 0.020- <0.25% <0.012%
0.60% 1.10% 0.050%
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In order to optimize this known material, the tolerance limits for the alloy percentages have in part been narrowed and in part widened but the composition has been left essentially unchanged because in addition to the strength, the necessary heat treatment of the special-steels upon the manufacture of chains and chain parts must also be taken into account, since, in particular, flash welding and resistance welding must be used in the manufacture of chain links. Here, it is important that the necessary technological properties of the material be retained also in the welded region-of the chain links. Furthermore, upon the heat treatment of the finished chain, a compromise must be found between the hardness, and therefore the strength of the material, and the resistance of wear, in order to take into account the toughness properties which are generally reduced with a higher strength.
In order to meet the increasing demands on round-steel chains and accessories for mining, namely so-called mining chains, longer lives have been obtained by changes in the geometry of the chain links and the chain parts. However, in this connection, one rapidly encounters the geometrical limit conditions which are established by the cases of use. In the case of conveyor chains with larger dimension, larger sprocket wheels are necessary, which require a corresponding structural height. Particularly in underground operation, it is necessary, in the case of conveyor systems, to save on height of installation, for which purpose recourse has already been had, in the geometrical shaping of the chain links and chain parts, to different means such as flattening the chain links or providing different pitches of the vertically and horizontally extending chain links .
THE INVENTION
The present invention is based on the use of an improved alloy material for the chain parts and chain accessories. With the alloy used in accordance with the invention, higher strength and toughness of the special-steel provided for chains and chain accessories is obtained due to the additional alloying proportion of tungsten, without the forgeability, weldability and heat-treatment properties of the chain being impaired, as is an indispensable requirement for high-strength chains and chain parts, particularly mining chains and accessories.
The special-steel alloy for chains and chain accessories used in accordance with the invention makes it possible, with the same geometrical dimensions of the chain links or chain parts to obtain improved performance while, conversely, for the same performance, the amount of material used for chains and chain accessories can be reduced. Thus, a saving of energy and raw material is furthermore obtained as compared with the previously obtained increases in performance in the case of chains and chain parts.
1. A chain link made from a steel alloy consisting by weight of the following:
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THE INVENTION
The present invention is based on the use of an improved al
Baxley Esq. Charles E.
J.D. Theile GmbH & Co. KG
Yee Deborah
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