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Vacuum annealing process of steel ring

Textile equipment traveler is an easy-wearing part used in conjunction with steel rings on textile machinery. The main failure mode of steel ring and traveler is friction and wear, and the wear of machine parts mainly starts from the surface. Therefore, when the structural form and material are determined, the impact of the surface performance of the part on its working state and service life is particularly important. important. In order to improve the performance of steel rings and travellers, manufacturers all start from the selection of materials, shape design, manufacturing equipment, process upgrades, vacuum heat treatment and improvement of surface treatment technology, and strive to make steel rings and travellers reach the optimum working condition and longer service life.

To ensure the quality of the steel wire and improve its life, the vacuum annealing process of the flat wire for making the traveler is a key process in its production process. Because the size of the flat wire for making various specifications of the traveler is extremely small, the maximum thickness of the flat wire is 0.5mm. Therefore, to ensure the final quality requirements of the product, the flat wire must be spheroidized and annealed to achieve: the surface is completely free from oxidation, no decarburization, uniform and dispersed spherical carbides.

However, most manufacturers place the flat wire in a cast iron tank, fill it with iron filings and charcoal, and anneal it in a pit furnace or a box furnace. This traditional annealing method not only has unstable process parameters and poor spheroidizing effect, but also makes it difficult to ensure that the flat wire will not be oxidized or decarburized. In addition, the equipment consumes a lot of energy, the working environment is poor, and the labor intensity of the workers is high.

Vacuum heat treatment has the advantages of high quality, low energy consumption, no pollution (or less pollution), etc. It can effectively prevent flat wire from defects, improve the surface and reduce friction. The vacuum heating is carried out in the form of radiation, the heating is slow, the furnace temperature is uniform, the product deformation is small, and it also has dehydrogenation effect, which is beneficial to improve the life of the flat wire. The whole process of vacuum furnace is controlled by PLC to realize fully automatic production, with low labor intensity and high production efficiency.

Spheroidizing annealing is an annealing to spheroidize carbides in steel to obtain a structure of spherical or granular carbides uniformly distributed on the ferrite matrix. Spheroidizing annealing is mainly used for eutectoid steel and hypereutectoid steel to obtain a spheroidized structure similar to granular pearlite (because it is not necessarily a eutectoid component, so it is called a spheroidized structure), thereby reducing hardness and improving processing performance , and prepare the tissue for vacuum quenching. The spheroidized structure not only has better plasticity and toughness than the lamellar structure, but also has a slightly lower hardness. The process curve of vacuum spheroidizing annealing is as follows:

The best process parameters for vacuum spheroidizing annealing of 70 steel flat wire: vacuum degree 1Pa, cooling rate 10-25℃/h, furnace temperature 320℃. The flat wire treated by vacuum heat treatment process has the best quality of spheroidizing annealing, and saves raw materials, saves energy consumption, and has no pollution to the environment.

Vacuum annealing equipment selection: RVA series vacuum annealing furnace produced by SIMUWU company is a high-quality product for flat wire vacuum spheroidizing annealing process. Good temperature control accuracy and temperature control uniformity ensure the effective vacuum heat treatment process. SIMUWU company focuses on the manufacture of vacuum furnaces, has more than ten years of relevant experience, and has a good reputation in the field of vacuum furnace manufacturing. The product line includes vacuum air quenching furnace, vacuum oil quenching furnace, vacuum brazing furnace, etc., which are widely sold in developed and developing countries.