Metal treatment – Compositions – Heat treating
Patent
1976-06-16
1978-01-03
Stallard, W.
Metal treatment
Compositions
Heat treating
164 82, 427434D, 427434E, 427435, B22D 1112
Patent
active
040664759
ABSTRACT:
In a continuous casting system where molten copper is cast into a bar and then rolled into a rod, the copper rod is immediately hot-coiled before being subjected to any quenching or cooling operation. The hot-coiling of the rod is carried out at a temperature of from 700.degree. F. to 1200.degree. F. and preferably within a range of from 950.degree. F. to 1150.degree. F., so that the rod is hot-coiled at a high enough temperature to permit sufficient thermal vacancy diffusion to occur within the rod material, and thereafter gradually cooled to room temperature to thereby impart certain improved mechanical properties to the resultant rod product. A copper or copper alloy rod which is processed in this fashion has a lower yield tensile strength, lower ultimate tensile strength, lower recrystallization temperature, lower hardness and is much more ductile and hence easier to draw into wire than a corresponding rod which is quenched or cooled prior to coiling.
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Hanegan Herbert M.
Southwire Company
Stallard W.
Tate Stanley L.
Wilks Van C.
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