Apparatus for coating wire or strip with molten aluminum

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR USE IN THE PRODUCTION OF AN EVEN COATING OF ALUMINUM ON WIRE OR STRIP, WHICH COMPRISES A POT FOR HOLDING MOTEL METAL, MEANT FOR PASSING SAID WIRE OR STRIP INTO A BATH OF MOLTEN METAL IN SAID POT AND OUT OF THE SURFACE OF SAID MOLTEN METAL AT A POINT SEPERATED FROM THE SURROUNDING WALLS OF SAID POT, INDUCTION HEATING MEANS FOR THE MOLTEN IN SAID POT, SAID INDUCTION HEATING MEANS BEING LOCATED EXTERNALLY OF SAID POT AND HAVING CHANNELS LEASING INTO SAID POT THROUGH THE WALLS THEREOF AT POINTS ADJACENT TO THE BOTTOM OF SAID POT, ONE AT LEAST OF SAID CHANNELS SERVING AS EXIT MEANS FOR MOLTEN METAL FROM SAID POT AND ANOTHER AT LEAST OF SAID CHANNELS SERVING AS ENTRANCE MEANS FOR MOLTEN METAL INTO SAID POT, SAID INDUCTION HEATING MEANS SERVING TO PORPEL THE MOLTEN METAL THROUGH SAID CHANNELS AND HEAT IT WHILE BEING PROPELLED, AND A HOLLOW FITTING OF TUBULAR FROM CONNECTED WITH SAID ENTRANCE CHANNEL BENEATH THE SURFACE OF SAID BATH AND EXTENDING TO THE SURFACE OF SAID MOLTEN AT THE SAID EXIT POINT FOR SAID STRIP OR WIRE, AND SERVING TO ISOLATE THE ENTERING MOLTEN METAL FROM SAID BATH SUBSTANTIALLY TO SAID EXIT POINT WHEREBY TO DELIVER TO SAID EXIT POINT THE INCOMING MOLTEN METAL IN A STREAM OF SUBSTANTIALLY UNDIMINISHED FORCE AND WHEREBY SAID WIRE OF STRIPS IS CAUSED TO EXIT FROM SAID BATH IN SAID STREAM.