Patent ID: 8042600

Claim:
An apparatus for producing an alloy, wherein the device includes at least a casting device for casting a molten alloy by a strip casting method, a crushing device for crushing a cast alloy after casting, a heat-retaining device for maintaining the temperature of cast alloy flakes supplied from the crushing device, and a storage container for storing the cast alloy flakes after maintaining the temperature; and the heat-retaining device includes a heat-retaining container for storing the cast alloy flakes supplied from the crushing device, a heater for maintaining the temperature of the cast alloy flakes in the heat-retaining container, and an inclination device for inclining the heat-retaining container and sending the cast alloy flakes in the heat-retaining container to the storage container wherein the inclination device includes at least a pair of conveyor rollers, an endless conveyor belt which drives so as to rotate between a pair of the conveyor rollers, and a fixing member for fixing slidably the heat-retaining container on a conveyor surface of the endless conveyor belt; and the heat-retaining container is inclined when a moving direction of the endless conveyor belt is reversed by either conveyor roller of a pair of the conveyor rollers.