Described herein are thin metal strips having hot rolled exterior side surfaces characterized as being primarily or substantially free of all prior austenite grain boundaries, or at least primarily or substantially free of all prior austenite grain boundaries, and including elongated surface structure. As a result, because the prior austenite grain boundaries are not primarily or substantially present, all such prior austenite grain boundaries are not susceptible to grain boundary etching due to acid etching or pickling. In particular examples, the thin metal strips undergo hot rolling performed with a coefficient of friction equal to or greater than 0.20 with or without use of lubrication.

Machine for continuous casting of a lead alloy for forming grids for plates of electric storage batteries, which comprises a rotary drum having an external peripheral surface with a plurality of grooves obtained according to the grid design to be made and a sliding block coupled in sliding relation with the external surface of the rotary drum and with a distribution duct obtained in order to insert the molten lead in the plurality of grooves. The plurality of grooves comprises circumferential notches and transverse notches that meet in respective vertices. At the vertices and within the circumferential notches, a plurality of studs are placed that are intended to shape corresponding corners of smoothed form of the grids.

A single roll type apparatus manufactures a metal thin strip by injecting a molten metal onto a cooling roll outer peripheral face solidifying it to manufacture the strip. An airflow blocking device for blocking the airflow along the cooling roll surface is at a molten metal injection nozzle upstream side for injecting the molten metal in the cooling roll rotation direction, and a carbon dioxide gas injection nozzle for forming a carbon dioxide flow on the cooling roll outer peripheral surface between the airflow blocking device and molten metal injection nozzle or forming a carbon dioxide atmosphere on the cooling roll surface between the airflow blocking device and the molten metal injection nozzle is disposed, and a foreign material removal device for removing foreign material attached to the cooling roll surface is disposed at an upstream side of the airflow blocking device in the rotation direction of the cooling roll.

A rapidly quenched Fe-based soft-magnetic alloy ribbon having wave-like undulations on a free surface, the wave-like undulations having transverse troughs arranged at substantially constant intervals in a longitudinal direction, and the troughs having an average amplitude D of 20 mm or less, is produced by a method comprising (a) keeping a transverse temperature distribution in a melt nozzle within 15 C. to have as small a temperature distribution as possible in a melt paddle of the alloy, and (b) forming numerous fine linear scratches on a cooling roll surface by a wire brush, thereby providing a ground surface of the cooling roll with an arithmetical mean (average) roughness Ra of 0.1-1 m and a maximum roughness depth Rmax of 0.5-10 m.

A hermetically sealed container is equipped inside thereof with: a melting furnace; a cooling roll for subjecting the molten metal tapped from the melting furnace to primary cooling to form a casting; and a rotatable cooling drum which receives the casting formed by the cooling roll and which subjects the casting to secondary cooling. The cooling drum has: a tubular member elongated in one longitudinal direction and having a receiving opening which is formed to open on one side of the tubular member to receive therein the casting, and a discharge opening which is formed to open on an opposite side of the tubular member to discharge the casting that has been subjected to the secondary cooling; and a transfer means for transferring the casting received from the receiving opening toward the discharge opening in response to the rotation of the tubular member.

The present invention aims to provide a metal ribbon manufacturing system that can provide a uniform flow of molten metal throughout the ribbon manufacturing process by actively controlling the flow speed of molten metal using other means without relying on the self-weight of the molten metal. According to the above purpose, the present invention provides a metal ribbon manufacturing system in which a melting unit into which molten metal enters is configured in a vacuum chamber, a nozzle unit at the bottom of the melting unit is closed together with the melting unit and evacuated to vacuum-melt a substance and the nozzle unit is open, then gas is injected into the vacuum chamber where the melting unit is configured to pressurize the molten metal so that the molten metal flows to the nozzle unit, and the flow speed of the molten metal can be precisely controlled by the gas injection.

A belt caster wheel assembly for a battery component continuous casting machine. The battery component can be a continuous strip of metal grids or a continuous strip of bipolar metal foils. The belt caster wheel assembly, per an implementation, includes a rotatable caster wheel and a moveable belt. One or more gas vents are established in the rotatable caster wheel. The gas vent(s) fluidly communicates with a mold cavity of the rotatable caster wheel. Gas bubbles, voids, and/or other unwanted imperfections in the ultimately-produced battery components can be partly or entirely resolved with the employment of the gas vent(s).