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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6209355 | Method for melting of glass batch materials An apparatus for melting materials is provided comprising a melter body having a batch injection portion including a batch inlet port, a batch melting portion including a batch melting chamber adapted to receive materials from said batch injection portion... | 04/03/2001 |
| 5979191 | Method and apparatus for melting of glass batch materials An apparatus for melting materials is provided comprising a melter body having a batch injection portion including a batch inlet port, a batch melting portion including a batch melting chamber adapted to receive materials from said batch injection portion... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5738511 | Vertical shaft kiln This invention relates to a a vertical shaft kiln (VSK) useful for manufacturing cement and other allied products, which comprises a rotary nodule feeder for feeding the raw materials, fitted above the kiln bed for uniform distribution of nodules of the r... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5607297 | Moving bed process for carbothermally synthesizing nonoxide ceramic powders Carbothermally reduce a metal oxide to its corresponding metal nitride or metal carbide powder in a vertical gravity flow reactor by adding precursor pellets containing the metal oxide, a thermally decomposed binder material and carbon or a source of carb... | 03/04/1997 |
| 5580241 | Multistage circulating fluidized bed A circulating fluidized bed thermal reactor such as a boiler or gasifier, having the riser divided into a sequence of stages by a plurality of restrictions which create multiple beds dynamically suspended. Circulation occurs below transport velocity, soli... | 12/03/1996 |
| 5125943 | Combined batch and cullet preheater with separation and remixing An improved method preheating cullet and glass batch together for use as feedstock for a glass furnace. The method uses a preheater including a separator and a heat exchanger. The heat exchanger is a direct contact raining bed in which large particles in ... | 06/30/1992 |
| 5044942 | Cement shaft suspension furnace and process Process and furnace for producing clinkered cement pellets from pellets of cement-forming batch materials without melting, fusion and agglomeration of said pellets. The furnace comprises an elongate vertical suspension shaft having top, intermediate and b... | 09/03/1991 |
| 5013237 | Oven for dehydrating pulverulents, sand or granules Oven for dehydrating pulverulents, sand or granules, comprising an energy-saving dehydration device, adapted to gypsum burning. The device consists of an outer casing, an inner casing and flow cones disposed on said casings. A burner and a lock complete t... | 05/07/1991 |
| 5007825 | Heat reclamation apparatus The apparatus herein comprises a kettle for calcining particulate material and a surrounding furnace having a porous wall to pass heat of combustion into the kettle at one side and to permit evacuation of the products of combustion from an opposite side, ... | 04/16/1991 |
| 4975046 | Cement shaft suspension furnace and process Process and furnace for producing clinkered cement pellets from pellets of cement-forming batch materials without melting, fusion and agglomeration of said pellets. The furnace comprises an elongate vertical suspension shaft having top, intermediate and b... | 12/04/1990 |
| 4948468 | Oil shale retort apparatus A retorting apparatus including a vertical kiln and a plurality of tubes for delivering rock to the top of the kiln and removal of processed rock from the bottom of the kiln so that the rock descends through the kiln as a moving bed. Distributors are prov... | 08/14/1990 |
| 4875853 | Method and apparatus for charring material Oven for charring plant matter, downdraft intermittent operation type, without external energy source. The invention relates essentially to the arrangement of the hearth located at the bottom of the oven, which provides the mechanical stability of the who... | 10/24/1989 |
| 4818221 | Processes and devices for melting materials capable of forming fibers An improved charging process for an enclosure for melting materials such as blast furnace slags or basaltic glasses. The supply of combustive gas is carried out nonuniformly in order to create a gas circulation velocity gradient in the section of the cupo... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4629421 | Gas and solid particulate material heat exchanger A gas-solids heat/exchanger apparatus particularly designed for cooling the particulate material such as calcined limestone or cement clinker, but may also be used as a dryer and/or material heater. The apparatus includes a casing having an upper particul... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4382779 | Regenerative shaft furnace for burning carbonate-containing raw materials A regenerative shaft furnace for burning carbonate-containing raw materials is disclosed having two or more shafts which are interconnected by ducts which operate in an alternate manner and wherein the burned raw material is cooled in the cooling zone of ... | 05/10/1983 |
| 4193760 | Apparatus and method for heating a plurality of solids In a device for raising the temperature of a plurality of solids which utilizes a heating chamber having at least one hot flue gas inlet and one or more solids inlet apertures to supply concurrent flows of solids and hot flue gas to a heating chamber, and... | 03/18/1980 |
| 4191529 | Furnace for heating solids The furnace is circular in plan and comprises an annular charge space charged through chutes in its top wall. Effluent gas offtakes are provided in the furnace outer wall and the level of the charge bed is maintained above the chute bottoms but below thos... | 03/04/1980 |
| 4172328 | Reactor dryer apparatus Apparatus for contacting a packed bed of particulate material with a treating gas includes a downwardly converging bin, hot gas distributors and a cooling gas distributor. The method whereby the apparatus is used as a reactor dryer to treat particulate sp... | 10/30/1979 |
