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Method and apparatus for heat treating welded joints

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专利汇可以提供Method and apparatus for heat treating welded joints专利检索,专利查询,专利分析的服务。并且A series of torches mounted on a single traveling carrier and spaced apart in sequence are passed along a newly welded joint such as a girth joint in a pipeline to heat the metal and relieve high hardness commonly found in the zone adjacent deposited weld metal. The invention is used especially to relieve heat induced stresses in electric arc welding of large work pieces, such as thick walled pipes. Acetylene or other high energy fuel is supplied at a closely controlled rate to each torch. All torches are carried along the joint in a group at a predetermined and controlled rate. Spacing between each torch and the work is carefully adjusted and maintained to control the sequential heat inputs into the interior of the work metal. The first torch applies high intensity heat preferably directly on the weld with succeeding torches apply progressively softer flames. The critical area along the weld thus is quickly brought to austenitic temperature range, followed by slower heating and then by slow cooling, to relieve stress and/or to correct grain growth and related crystalline conditions in the metal. A series of four torches attached to a self-propelled and track-guided carrier are preferred. Since the torches are spaced progressively farther and farther from the work surface, the breadth of heat application by successive torches is progressively widened while heat intensity is reduced. At all times the surface temperature remains within tolerance limits.,下面是Method and apparatus for heat treating welded joints专利的具体信息内容。

1. Apparatus for heat treating a welded joint by impinging hot flames on the surface while traveling along the path of a girth joint in a metal pipeline or like workpiece to relieve an undesirable physical or metallurgical condition in said joint which comprises, in combination, a flexible band adapted to be mounted around the workpiece in an accurately predeterminable position spaced from but parallel to the joint to be treated, said band thereby serving as a precision guide track, a selfpropelled carriage mountable on said band for travel thereon at an accurately predeterminable travel rate, a manifold housing supported by the carriage in position laterally offset from the band for passage of said housing directly over and essentially in the plane of the joint to be treated while the carriage travels on the band, said manifold housing including means for supplying heating gas to burner nozzles and also including means for cooling parts within and associated with the said housing, a series of burner nozzles mounted in said manifold housing and connected to said gas supply means, means for accurately adjusting and prepositioning each of said nozzles in its spacing from the surface of the work to be treated, thereby to control heat spread and intensity of each nozzle onto and into the work, and a baffle means supported by the carriage and located between the carriage and band on one side and the manifold housing on the other side, said baffle means being float mounted to ride freely on the surface of the workpiece during carriage travel, thereby to protect the carriage and band from the direct torch flames.
2. Apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the transporting means is a demountable self-propelled carriage for the torch, and a separate band type guide track for said carriage attachable to the workpiece metal contiguously to the path to be treated.
3. Apparatus according to claim 1 which includes an air jet means on the carriage for directing a stream of air towards the flames to assist the baffle means in protecting the carriage and the band from said flames.
4. Apparatus according to claim 1 which includes four torches spaced progressively farther and farther from the work as they advance over its surface.
5. Apparatus according to claim 4 in which the cooling means for the manifold housing is a water cooling jacket around said housing.
6. Apparatus according to claim 1 in which each of the torch means is provided with a group of precision jet openings for carefully controlling flow of combustible gas and oxygen, thereby to maintain close control over the heating rate of each torch.
7. Apparatus according to claim 1 in which the torch means contains a mixing chamber for fuel and oxygen and an extruded tip with a single outlet opening for placing flame in a narrow-walled deep groove, such as an incompletely filled weld gap.
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