Patent ID: 6791064
Filing Date: 2004-09-14
Classification: B21C,B23K

Abstract:
A solid wire for arc welding manufactured by firstly drawing a solid wire material, heat treating the drawn wire material for work hardening it, secondary drawing the heat treated wire material, heat treating the secondary drawn wire material for removing internal residual stress of it, and finally drawing the heat treated wire material, wherein the final drawing step is carried successively out by a first die having a diameter reducing contact part of a smaller contact angle and a shorter bearing part for actually reducing a diameter of the wire to be worked, and a second die having a longer diameter correcting contact part than that of the first die for actually correcting the diameter of the wire, the second die being disposed in series with the first die, whereby a hardness difference between a central portion and an outer surface of the wire is less than 18 and a hardness difference between portions at intervals of 200 mm in the longitudinal direction is less than 15, when the hardness of respective wire portions is measured by Vickers Hardness tester.