ISOTHERMAL

G.K.

QUENCHING

OF

CRUSHER

HAMMERS
UDC 621.785.4:669.15' 74-194

Savinovskii

C r u s h e r h a m m e r s of steel 65G are quenched and t e m p e r e d to HRC 48-54 (GOST 8772-58) to increase
the s e r v i c e life.
Both in the l a b o r a t o r y bench tests and tests in the DKU-1.0A feed mill the h a m m e r s subjected to uninterrupted quenching with subsequent tempering in an e l e c t r i c furnace have repeatedly been found u n s a t i s f a c t o r y in their wear r e s i s t a n c e . The impact type of working conditions at a c i r c u l a r velocity of 56 m / s e e
often leads to cracking and spalling of the working f a c e s .
The investigation of the m e c h a n i c a l p r o p e r t i e s on samples of steel 65G subjected to uninterrupted off
quenching f r o m 820-830~ with subsequent tempering to HttC 48-54 and i s o t h e r m a l quenching in a bath at
270-290~ with holding 45 min showed that ~bend = 220-280 k g / m m 2 (samples 8 x 8 x 90 ram) and HRC = 4854 for both heat t r e a t m e n t s . The impact toughness (U type samples, GOST 9454-60) after i s o t h e r m a l quenching was 150% higher for unnotched samples and 30-40% higher for notched s a m p l e s (Fig. 1).
On the basis of the p r e l i m i n a r y experiments to determine the p o s sibility of increasing the durability of the h a m m e r s , an i s o t h e r m a l quenching line was set up (Fig. 2). Through a r e d u c e r 13, the e l e c t r i c m o t o r 1
drives the chain 12 and s p r o c k e t 10 on the shaft 11, the other end of which
has teeth. The toothed end of the shaft runs against the g e a r 3 on the
s a m e shaft with the s p r o c k e t 9, by the rotation of which the s p r o c k e t chain
4 with b r a c k e t s for,~he
h a m m e r s moves in pulses. In p a s s i n g through the
/
inductor 8, the working face of the h a m m e r s is heated to quenching t e m p e r a t u r e ; On leaving the inductor the h a m m e r s slide down the chute 6 into
the i s o t h e r m a l quenching bath 7, which has a basket to hold the p a r t s . The
inductor is powered by the L P Z - 6 7 high-frequency t r a n s f o r m e r 5. The
bath t e m p e r a t u r e is maintained automatically at 270-290~ the holding
time for the h a m m e r s is 45 rain.

an, kg-ra/cm~
Unnotched samples

1o,o?.

I
a

3'O~tched samples
1,008

51
b

54HRC

This automatic quenching line has an output of 330 p a r t s / h . The

p a r t s are not t e m p e r e d after i s o t h e r m a l quenching, since the t e m p e r a t u r e
and holding time are sufficient to reduce the internal s t r e s s e s and no i m p r o v e m e n t of the mechanical c h a r a c t e r i s t i c s is noted after temperIng.

Fig. i. Variation of impact

toughness with the hardness
of steel 65G: a) unnotched
s a m p l e s ; b) notched s a m pies.
,, ) I s o t h e r m a l l y
quenched; . . . .
) quenched
and t e m p e r e d .

This automatic quenching line has i n c r e a s e d the durability of the

h a m m e r s by 20-30% and the h a m m e r s operate without failure under impact loads and even under continuous production conditions.

4, 5_ F'--6

13 12 1110

Fig. 2. Line for i s o t h e r m a l quenching of h a m m e r s .

T r a n s l a t e d f r o m Metallovedenie t T e r m l c h e s k a y a Obrabotka Metallov, No. 2, p. 62, F e b r u a r y , 1969.

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