APPARATUS FOR HEAT-TREATING (IN PARTICULAR ANNEALING) A CONTINUOUSLY MOVING METAL WIRE

摘要

In a device for heat-treating, in particular annealing, a continuously advanced metal wire, a heating chamber (1) which is substantially closed on all sides and whose wall has entry and exit openings (9) for the wire (8), which is wound in a multiplicity of adjacent windings around the two deflection drums (5), is arranged between two wire deflection drums (5) which are rotatably mounted at a distance from one another and axially parallel and have discrete wire guiding grooves (6) on their shell surfaces, at least one of the two deflection drums (5) being driven by a motor and heating elements (10) being arranged in the heating chamber (1) along the two groups (8a, 8b) of wire lengths passing back and forth through it (FIG. 2).