Claims
- 1. In a hot rolling steel processing line including a hot reversing mill having coilers on either side thereof and a runout table having cooling means downstream of said mill and said coilers, the improvement comprising an in-line heat treatment furnace positioned downstream of the hot reversing mill and intermediate the cooling means to define first cooling means upstream of said heat treating furnace and second cooling means downstream of said heat treating furnace, said furnace including means for receiving and coiling slabs reduced to a coilable thickness and heat treating to achieve a controlled microstructure to impart preselected metallurgical properties prior to decoiling and cooling for further processing.
- 2. The hot rolling steel processing line of claim 1 for reducing large slabs into a plurality of plates, said processing line further including a shear positioned downstream of the heat treating furnace for cutting said slabs into desired plate lenghts.
Parent Case Info
This application is a division of application Ser. No. 397,789, filed July 13, 1982, U.S. Pat. No. 4,505,141.
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