Patent ID: 6054095
Filing Date: 2000-04-25
Classification: C21D

Abstract:
A cooling system for cooling a strip in a vertical path of a continuous strip heat-treating process comprising:a row of cooling nozzles disposed in said vertical path comprising a first group of cooling nozzles and a second group of cooling nozzles arranged in the width direction of the strip on a surface of a cooling header arranged closely opposed to a surface of the strip, with the strip having a first edge portion and an opposed second edge portion in the width direction of the strip wherein each cooling nozzle of the first group is inclined toward the first edge portion and each cooling nozzle of the second group is inclined toward the second edge portion by an inclination angle in such a manner that a center line of a jet of a cooling medium, which is jetted out from the cooling nozzle, is inclined with respect to a normal line at a position on the strip where the center line of the jet of the cooling medium crosses the strip.