Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for manufacturing of a flexible trailing arm for a wheel axle suspension of a vehicle such as a lorry or a trailer. In the method a steel blank is heated. Next, the blank is formed into the desired shape of the trailing arm by means of a suitable forming process. Following that the trailing arm is austempered by cooling it in a warm fluid medium.
Abstract:
A method for hardening the surfaces of work pieces made from stainless steel includes submerging the work pieces into a molten salt bath having the composition: potassium acetate 60-100 weight %; sodium acetate 0-100 weight %; metal salt 0-2 weight %, and are subjecting the work pieces to the molten salt bath for a period of 24 to 240 hours, during which the temperature of the molten salt bath is maintained less than 400° C.
Abstract:
A silent chain is provided which has reduced elongation based on wear and which is capable of maintaining a high accuracy over a long period of time in use. The inner surfaces of pin holes formed in at least joint trains of plates have been subjected to shaving, and a hard layer of at least one hard metal carbide selected from a group including CrC, TiC, VC and NbC, is formed on the surface of each pin. By shaving the inner surface of each pin hole, the surface pressure applied between the pin hole inner surface and the pin inserted therein becomes lower, whereby the wear of the pin and the pin hole is diminished. Further, since the hard layer on the pin surface is very hard and is chemically stable, the affinity of each plate for the inner surface of each pin hole formed therein is small. Thus, even under the condition of boundary lubrication, it is difficult for adhesion to occur between the pin hole inner surface and the pin inserted therein. Consequently, the amount of pin wear is lessened so that it becomes possible to minimize the elongation of the chain based on wear.
Abstract:
A method for salt bath-nitriding a metal member having a blind hole, which comprises supporting the metal member so that the open side of the blind hole is directed upward, filling a salt bath-nitriding agent into the blind hole and immersing the resultant metal member in a salt bath melt.
Abstract:
An apparatus and a process for the zone-annealing of a workpiece (1) consisting of a high-temperature material, in which the workpiece (1) is hung on a suspension device (2) actuated via a roller (3) driven by a drive motor (4) and is provided with a plate-shaped covering screen (10) having an orifice. For the dipping of the workpiece (1), there is underneath the latter a salt bath (5) which is enclosed in an insulating vessel (6) and is provided with a heating system (7) with centrally symmetrical guide plates (8) and which is closed off at the top by means of a floating insulating cover (9). The cooling of the part of the workpiece (1) which is not immersed is guaranteed by a cooling body (11) through which cooling air (14) flows and which has a central passage (12) and, at the lower end of the passage (12), a projecting edge (13) serving as a stop for the covering screen (10). The intended grain structure can be adjusted when the feed speed of the workpiece (1) is varied in portions by means of a drive motor (4) and the amount of cooling air (14). The lateral heat flux is reduced by means of jacket-like heat-insulating cladding of the workpiece (1).
Abstract:
In the art electric heat treat furnaces have a frame and an open top housing of refractory brick therein including a plurality of inner walls defining a chamber throughout its height adapted to receive a molten bath such as a salt bath into which metal pieces are suspended for heat treatment. The chamber has a top entrant passage of rectangular shape. Electrodes extend transversely through the housing adjacent the chamber for the passage of current through the bath between the electrodes to maintain the bath at a predetermined heat treat temperature. A transformer having primary and secondary pads includes electric connectors between the pads and the electrodes. The improvement herein comprises a plurality of vertically spaced tiers of vertically spaced electrodes arranged along the height of the chamber. At least one and, in some cases, a pair of spaced inner walls of the housing are laterally displaced outwardly of the entrant passage to provide a heat treat chamber which is laterally enlarged adjacent such displaced inner wall thereby spacing the electrodes laterally outward of the entrant passage and outward of the chamber. Thus, the workpieces to be treated may extend to the bottom of the chamber, the tiers of electrodes maintaining a substantially uniform temperature of the bath throughout the depth of the bath. The entrant passage serves to space the workpieces inwardly of the electrodes so as not to obstruct the current flow between such electrodes. A modification includes additional vertically spaced tiers of vertically spaced electrodes laterally spaced from the corresponding first mentioned tiers of electrodes.
Abstract:
A cyanide-free molten salt carburizing process and composition comprising an alkali metal salt bath having a cover of finely divided graphite particles in a size range of about 100 mesh to about 300 mesh. The bath is operated in the temperature range of about 1550.degree. F. to 1900.degree. F. and is provided with mechanical agitation to produce entrainment of air through the surface cover and sufficient mobility of carbon monoxide coated graphite particles to produce carbon diffusion by contact into the surface of the parts immersed in the bath. Total graphite content is between about 11/2% to about 7% of the active portion of the bath. The graphite is preferably of the synthetic type so as to produce an ash content below about 1%.
Abstract:
A method consisting in converting a coil of hot-rolled band steel for tools and razor blades into an open coil in which its convolutions are spaced apart from one another, and immersing the open coil in a series of salt baths. First of all, the open coil is immersed for 5 to 30 minutes in a salt bath held at a temperature in a range from 550.degree. to 750.degree. C. to preheat the open coil and cause preliminary precipitation of carbides. The preheated open coil is immersed for 5 to 30 minutes in a salt bath held at a temperature in a range from the temperature immediately above Acl point to the temperature of Acl point plus 50.degree. C. to make the band steel austenitic in structure. The open coil is then immersed for over 10 minutes in a salt bath held at a temperature in a range from the temperature immediately below Arl point to the temperature of Arl point minus 80.degree. C. so that the isothermal transformation may be completed. Finally, the open coil is immersed for 3 to 10 minutes in a salt bath held at a temperature in a range from 600.degree. to 650.degree. C. and air cooled thereafter. The method enables to produce band steels for tools and razor blades which contain carbides occurring in a small spheroidal structure of uniform size, have good cold-workability, have freedom from decarburizing and carburizing, and have high amenability to hardening.