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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6966173 | Heat transfer apparatus The annular recuperator for use with a microturbine includes an involuted shaped inner member with a portion thereof being corrugated and an involuted shaped outer member also with a portion thereof being corrugated and spaced therefrom to define a cell. The end por... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6264464 | Angled bed for regenerative heat exchanger The present invention relates to one or more heat exchangers in communication with a combustion zone, each heat exchanger containing a matrix of heat exchange media, the matrix having a plurality of defined parallel or substantially parallel flow passages... | 07/24/2001 |
| 5992504 | Honeycomb regenerator A honeycomb regenerator for recovering waste heat from exhaust gas, comprises a stacked assembly including at least one first honeycomb body and at least one second honeycomb body stacked thereon, the first honeycomb body being formed of an anti-corrosive... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5634313 | Cylindrical, refractory, hollow brick The invention relates to a cylindrical, refractory, hollow brick having tapered wall surfaces in the corner region.... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5547016 | Method for heating a gas in a regenerator A method is provided for heating a gas in a regenerator with a heat accumulation mass consisting of a loose bulk material arranged in a ring between two coaxial cylindrical grids, a hot collection chamber, surrounded by the inner hot grid, for the hot gas... | 08/20/1996 |
| 5358031 | Interlocking checker bricks and method and apparatus for making An interlocking checker brick used to form a checkerwork for use in recovering heat in thermal regenerators and recuperators. The checker brick is made of a refractory material and comprises a rectangular top, a rectangular base, two side walls and two en... | 10/25/1994 |
| 5299629 | Interlocking checker bricks An interlocking checker brick used to form a checkerwork for use in recovering heat in thermal regenerators and recuperators. The checker brick is made of a refractory material and comprises a rectangular top, a rectangular base, two side walls and two en... | 04/05/1994 |
| 4974666 | Refractory brick assembly for a heat regenerator In a refractory brick assembly for a heat regenerator, a plurality of brick units are assembled so as to form many long vertical gas flow passages. Each outer wall of the brick units has four corner portions each of which has a plurality of convex and con... | 12/04/1990 |
| 4874034 | Refractory unit for a heat regenerator In a heat regenerator, a unit body of a refractory unit has an upper end surface (1a), a lower end surface (1b), an outer wall (1c), an inner wall (1d) and a flow passage (7) which is formed by the inner wall (1c) and extends between both end surfaces (1a... | 10/17/1989 |
| 4768578 | Regenerative heat exchange systems and refractory bricks therefore A prismatic tubular brick of refractory material for constructing the checkerwork structure of regenerative furnaces, the brick having mirror image top and bottom surfaces and a central passage extending therebetween. Two pairs of opposed parallel side wa... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4671346 | Regenerative heating systems A regenerative heating system includes at least a pair of regenerators of the type which are operable so that while one is being heated by waste gas the other is heating air for the combustion of fuel. The system includes a pair of regenerators 1 and 2 wh... | 06/09/1987 |
| 4671345 | Regenerative heating systems A regenerative heating system comprises two heat regenerators 1 and 2 of the type which are operable so that while one is being heated by waste gas the other is heating air for the combustion of fuel. The regenerators 1 and 2 communicate with each other a... | 06/09/1987 |
| 4593751 | Chequer-brick for vertical cowpers and cowper chequerwork constructed from these chequer-bricks A chequer brick of cruciform shape is provided for the chequerwork of vertical cowpers along with methods of stacking the cruciform shaped chequer brick. The chequer bricks each comprise two cross beams or cross-members of the same length, but having diff... | 06/10/1986 |
| 4589474 | Checkerwork in horizontal chamber of a regeneratively fired furnace A checkerwork in a horizontal regenerator chamber of a regeneratively fired furnace, comprising an array of horizontally and vertically adjacent hollow prismatic bricks of refractory material, the bricks being arrayed in horizontal and vertical rows, and ... | 05/20/1986 |
| 4540039 | Prismatic refractory brick for glass melting furnace chambers A prismatic brick of refractory material for the checker work in chambers of a glass melting furnace, the brick having an octagonal bottom surface, an octagonal top surface, a longitudinal axis extending between the surfaces, a through passage of tetragon... | 09/10/1985 |
| 4527617 | Regenerator checker packing with enhanced transverse flow Regenerator packing members are constructed and arranged to form tapered passageways interconnecting regenerator flues to induce transverse flow of gas between flues for increased heat transfer. A preferred embodiment includes parallelepiped bricks arrang... | 07/09/1985 |
| 4519442 | Heat exchange structure A heat exchange structure is constructed from refractory blocks having three linearly aligned flue-forming openings extending from top to bottom of the block. The central opening is surrounded on four sides by refractory and the two end openings are surro... | 05/28/1985 |
| 4479777 | Header brick in regenerator lattice structure A freely diagonally staggered regenerator lattice structure includes successive courses of rows of rectangular runner bricks and courses of rows of rectangular header bricks. Each header brick has formed in opposite side surfaces thereof recesses extendin... | 10/30/1984 |
| 4346753 | Regenerator checkerwork brick Regenerator checkerbrick for a blast furnace stove system embody a hexagonal configuration. A central flow space for a heat exchange medium has six planar wall surfaces. An array of outer flow spaces each have six planar wall surfaces, one of which is par... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4308910 | Checkerwork supporting means Disclosed are checker tiles for regenerative heating stoves, each tile having the general shape of a parallelepiped, the preferred tile being square in plan, having apertures extending through the tiles and having complementary ribs and grooves extending ... | 01/05/1982 |
| 4298372 | Combustion air flow control for regenerators A method of and apparatus for directing and regulating the flow of combustion air to opposite ends of the regenerators of a regenerative tank-type glass melting furnace so as to minimize localized overheating and more uniformly heat the checkerworks of th... | 11/03/1981 |
| 4282923 | Regenerative heat exchange systems A regenerative heat exchange system comprises a multiplicity of refractory members laid in adjacent parallel rows to form one course in the system, each refractory member being so shaped such that the adjacent refractory members of one row co-operate to f... | 08/11/1981 |
| 4150717 | Interlocking checker tile Disclosed are checker tiles for regenerative heating stoves, each tile having the general shape of a parallelepiped, the preferred tile being square in plan, having apertures extending through the tiles and having complementary ribs and grooves extending ... | 04/24/1979 |
| 4143704 | Regenerative heater The regenerative heater comprises the brickwork of the walls and checker of refractory materials with different coefficients of linear expansion enclosed within a jacket also included are superimposed horizontal sections corresponding to the distribution ... | 03/13/1979 |
| 4004633 | Brick construction for horizontal regenerator An improvement in a horizontally disposed regenerator having a plurality of generally parallel courses of bricks separated by vertical spacers, each course of which runs generally horizontal, the improvement lying in that the bricks have a generally slab-... | 01/25/1977 |