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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6464927 | Method and apparatus for in-line heat treatment of hot rolled stock Apparatus for the rolling and heat treatment of elongated metal product of relatively small cross section, such as rods and bars, is described in which the elements required for the conduct of a variety of heat treatments are arranged in in-line dispositi... | 10/15/2002 |
| 5679307 | Facility for in-line heat treatment of hot-rolled products A facility for in-line heat treatment of hot-rolled products, for example, long rods (16) includes: a tank (11) suitable for containing a refrigerating liquid medium (12), a plate (13) with stationary rakes (14) and mobile rakes (15) suitable for receivin... | 10/21/1997 |
| 5478054 | Device tempering steel tubes A device for tempering steel tubes comprising an immersion tank (6) for cooling fluid, a chassi (2) for horizontally supporting the tube (5) to be tempered in the tank (6), means for displacing the chassi (2) from a suspended position over the tank to a s... | 12/26/1995 |
| 4583720 | Apparatus for the zone-annealing of a workpiece consisting of a high-temperature material An apparatus and a process for the zone-annealing of a workpiece (1) consisting of a high-temperature material, in which the workpiece (1) is hung on a suspension device (2) actuated via a roller (3) driven by a drive motor (4) and is provided with a plat... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4501073 | Apparatus and method for dehydrating metal pieces A method of dehydrating metal pieces including immersing the pieces in an oil heated to or above the boiling point of water for a time to boil off the water and then removing the pieces from the oil. An apparatus for the dehydration of metal pieces includ... | 02/26/1985 |
| 4353531 | Process and installation for the handling and heat treatment of cast iron or steel pipes and tubes Concave rails 17, upon which a pipe which is to be treated by at least partial immersion can be placed, are fixed in the bottom of a furnace 1 which contains a treatment bath M. In order to guarantee that the pipe is immersed over the whole of its cross s... | 10/12/1982 |
| 4326699 | Oil-tempering apparatus for pipes Hot pipes are tempered in an oil bath contained in a tapered, covered pan; a flap is temporarily opened for feeding, but closed when oil vapor develops, to be sucked off without contaminating the environment. Pan and cover structure are supplemented to pr... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4177088 | Process and installation for heat treating spheroidal or lamellar graphite cast iron pipes A process for effecting an annealing treatment of a spheroidal or lamellar graphite cast iron pipe. While the pipe is driven in rotation about the axis of the pipe, it is suspended substantially horizontally as it issues from the centrifugal casting machi... | 12/04/1979 |
| 4151922 | Slab cooling device A motorized carriage for depositing and removing heated metal articles such as cast or rolled slabs, into and from adjacent compartments of an enlongated cooling basin. The carriage consists of a movable carrier crossbeam which has several vertical downwa... | 05/01/1979 |
| 4088309 | Cooling device for slabs with slab-tilting devices for turning the rolled stock Cooling device for slabs comprising a cooling trough and a locating frame provided with compartments in the cooling trough for the vertical location of the slabs by means of a crane able to travel on a track above or along the cooling trough, which crane ... | 05/09/1978 |
| 4063719 | Heat treatment apparatus An apparatus for heat treating elongate articles including a furnace arranged above a quenching liquid reservoir and guide elements for guiding heated elongate articles from the furnace into the quenching liquid. In a preferred embodiment, the furnace uti... | 12/20/1977 |
| 4036243 | Apparatus for cooling hot slabs Rows of stakes rising from several parallel beams in a soaking pit form a multiplicity of compartments each designed to receive one or more slabs coming to rest on a pair of such beams. The slabs are carried hot to the pit and cold from the pit by a railb... | 07/19/1977 |
| 3968020 | Apparatus for surface treating metal members Surface treating apparatus comprising treating bath means; a carrier bar having devices for vertically suspending workpieces; lifting means provided at the sides of the bath means for vertically conveying the carrier bar and dipping said workpieces into a... | 07/06/1976 |
