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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7736583 | Gas curtain assemby for muffled continuous furnaces This invention is directed to a gas curtain assembly which comprises at least one structure of substantially vertical tubes on both sides of and supporting a vertical tube, forming an interconnected frame comprising at least one row of apertures for gas or fluid to ... | 06/15/2010 |
| 6439883 | Threading and scale removal device A threading and scale removing device is disclosed which includes a heating apparatus having an inlet and an outlet. A work-piece is fed through the inlet and exits through the outlet. A plurality of rollers are operatively associated with the heating app... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6425756 | Tower furnace for heat treatment of metal strips A tower furnace for heat treatment of metal strips having a pre-heating section (3) and a high-temperature section (5) connected thereto at the top forming a housing (4) separate from the pre-heating section (3) is described, whereby the pre-heating secti... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6031206 | Tower furnace for the heat treatment of metal strips A tower furnace for the heat treatment of metal strips comprises a muffle (3) extending over the entire furnace height, through which muffle passes the strip (6). At the top of the muffle (3) an insulated stopper (1) with an electric heater (2) has been i... | 02/29/2000 |
| 6015526 | Vertical annealing furnace for a strip treatment device The vertical annealing furnace for the continuous bright annealing of a metal strip guided through the furnace comprises: a vertically disposed muffle having a strip entry side and a strip exit side, the muffle having the freedom to expand in a longitudin... | 01/18/2000 |
| 5700424 | System for preparing aluminum alloy strip having improved formability and bake hardenability A system for heat treating a rolled strip of Al--Mg--Si alloy includes a primary heating zone for solution treating the strip at 480° C. or higher, a first cooling zone for cooling the strip at a rate of at least 100° C./min. to 100° C. or lower, a sec... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5009396 | Method and apparatus for the manufacture of formable steel strip In the manufacture of formable steel strip having a thickness between 0.5 and 1.5 mm, the following process steps are performed sequentially in a continuous process: (a) in a continuous casting machine forming liquid steel into a hot slab having a thickne... | 04/23/1991 |
| 4804128 | Vacuum brazing of aluminum alloy workpieces An improved practice for the vacuum brazing of aluminum alloy workpieces in a multi-chamber braze furnace is disclosed. When magnesium-containing aluminum alloys are brazed in a furnace having a braze chamber and adjacent exit chamber, there may be advant... | 02/14/1989 |
| 4767104 | Non-precious metal furnace with inert gas firing A furnace for firing a non-precious metal paste including organic material, comprising a furnace enclosure, tube-like in shape, having a definable length. First and second ends of the furnace enclosure is open forming an entrance and exit, respectively. A... | 08/30/1988 |
| 4693863 | Process and apparatus to simultaneously consolidate and reduce metal powders A powder metallurgy consolidation process and apparatus for carrying out said process produces integral metal bodies by heating metal powder of a predetermined composition to a temperature sufficient to cause solid state interparticle bonding, while simul... | 09/15/1987 |
| 4497474 | Apparatus for sequentially annealing and then hardening long metal components made of fine or special steel A method of sequentially annealing and then hardening long metal components (1,2,3,4) made of fine or special steel with an austenitic structure, said method including at least one annealing operation by supplying heat from the outside in a reducing or ne... | 02/05/1985 |
| 4441699 | Apparatus for annealing of end rim A method of annealing the flanges of double seamed end panels to obtain an effective seal and apparatus therefor.... | 04/10/1984 |
| 3950192 | Continuous carburizing method An improved method for continuously carburizing low carbon cold rolled coil stock is disclosed. The carburized product is characterized by the absence of proeutectoid ferrite. The method comprises heating low carbon steel stock in the austenitizing range ... | 04/13/1976 |