1 2 , 0 0 0 cubic' f e e t o f i n e r t gas fiSS this furnace to help U· S. STEEL produce cleaner, brighter tin plate
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Strip is only in this furnace about 105 seconds: 2 0 seconds in the heating zone, 15 seconds in the holding zone, 15 seconds for slow cooling and then into the rapid cooling z o n e .
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30 tons of tin plate per hour! That's the prodoctioa pushed through this tower-type annealing furnace a t U. S*. Steel's Sheet and Tin Mill in Gary. And the strip comes out uniformly annealed, flat', clean and bright.
The DRY protective atmosphere that fills the furnace? assures that brightness. Two blowers recirculate this g a s , creating considerable turbulence t o accelerate heat transfer. Five Lcctrodryers keep the ga.« DRY. To men having trouble with unwanted moisture £n air, gases o r organic liquids, Lectrodryer engineers offer their services. Write Pittsburgh Lectrodryer Corporation, 5-05 32nd Street, Pittsburgh 30, Pennsylvania.
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