Method for inductively heating and quenching elongated workpieces
Abstract
Abstract A METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INDUCTIVELY HEATING AND QUENCHING AN ELONGATED SHAFT ELEMENT OVER SUBSTANTIALLY THE ENTIRE LENGTH THEREOF WHICH APPARATUS INCLUDES AN ELONGATED INDUCTOR THEREOF WHICH APPARATUS INCLUDES AN ELONGATED INDUCTOR HOUSING HAVING A GENERALLY U-SHAPED CROSS-SECTION WITH AN INDUCTOR LOOP IMBEDDED LONGITUDINALLY THEREIN AND AN ELONGATED QUENCHING APPARATUS DISPOSED IN GENERALLY PARALLEL SIDE-BY-SIDE RELATIONSHIP. THE SHAFT ELEMENT IS FED TO A POSITION DIRECTLY BELOW AND COEXTENSIVE WITH THE INDUCTOR HOUSING AND INDUCTOR AND THEN RAISED INTO INDUCTIVE COUPLING THEREWITH WHILE BEING ROTATED ABOUT ITS LONGITUDIANL AXIS. FOLLOWING HEATING, THE ELEMENT IS TRANSFERRED IN LIKE MANNER IN COMMUNICATION WITH THE QUENCHING APPARATUS HWERE IT IS QUENCHED WHILE BEING SIMILARLY ROTATED.
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- 👤 N Balzer
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