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Vacuum carburizing steel

  • US 4,386,973 A
  • Filed: 05/08/1981
  • Issued: 06/07/1983
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/08/1981
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A process for carburizing steel comprising carburizing said steel under vacuum in a vacuum furnace in the presence of a hydrocarbon carburizing agent while utilizing as a carrier gas an aliphatic alcohol having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, wherein fresh carburizing agent is supplied during said carburizing by cyclically reducing the pressure in the furnace followed by the addition of hydrocarbon carburizing agent to the furnace to replenish gas removed in the pressure reduction step.

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