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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7458809 | Portable kiln A portable kiln has a set of wheels, a handle and a platform base. The wheels and the handle are attached on a first side of the kiln so that the kiln can be tilted and rolled on the wheels using the handle. The platform base provides a spaced distance between the w... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7387762 | Apparatus for sintering silver clay A sintering apparatus for silver clay wherein a silver clay composition can be readily and easily sintered by exposing a silver clay composition obtained by molding to a flame of a solid alcohol fuel. ... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7357632 | Automated wood-fired pottery kiln A kiln and method of firing a kiln are provided for use in connection with the firing of small-scale pottery firing. The kiln includes a kiln wall that defines a main kiln volume that is no larger than 60 cubic feet and is less than 10 cubic feet in one embodiment. ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7335019 | Firing container for silicon nitride ceramics A firing container for silicon nitride ceramics, which is a hermetically sealed container having a gas inlet and a gas outlet, characterized in that the interior of the hermetically sealed container is partitioned by a gas supply chamber partition plate into a gas s... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7175787 | Method for producing a fiber composite component, and apparatus for producing such a component The invention relates to a method for producing a fiber composite component having at least one intersection point. An apparatus for producing a component, comprising fiber composite material, including lower and upper dies of a pressing tool and optionally a heat s... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7037034 | Safety door system and method for a hopper body Accordingly there is disclosed a safety door system, comprising a hopper body containing a powered implement powered by a hydraulic control system, for dispensing liquid or granular materials or for agitating the liquid or granular materials; a safety door for cover... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7018485 | Apparatus for subjecting rare earth alloy to hydrogenation process and method for producing rare earth sintered magnet using the apparatus An apparatus for subjecting a rare earth alloy block to a hydrogenation process includes a casing, gas inlet and outlet ports, a member arranged to produce a gaseous flow, and a windbreak plate. The casing defines an inner space for receiving a container. The contai... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6966723 | Binder/aggregate/container systems A road repair kit and/or bridge joint repair kit is comprised of an outer container, a measured amount of binder material and a separate and distinct measured amount of aggregate material. In one preferred embodiment of this invention, the binder material is in a fi... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6953605 | Method for densifying porous substrates by chemical vapour infiltration with preheated gas A method for densification of porous by CVI in which substrates are loaded into a loading zone of an oven and heated to a temperature at which a desired matrix material is formed from a precursor gas(es). A reative gas containing the precursor gas(es) is admitted in... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6932862 | High temperature coating composition and method of applying A high temperature resistive coating composition includes a pigmenting component, a binder component, and a hardening agent. The pigmenting component includes a spinel of the formula AB2O4, in which A is selected from the group consisting of Mg... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6911234 | Chemical vapor deposition apparatus and method Chemical vapor deposition apparatus and method are provided with coating gas distribution and exhaust systems that provide more uniform coating gas temperature and coating gas flow distribution among a plurality of distinct coating zones disposed along the length of... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6881058 | Apparatus for processing substrate and method of processing the same A heating apparatus for a substrate to be processed with a coating film has a chamber with an inner space, a heating plate heating the substrate to be processed in the inner space, and a partition member. The heating plate has a support surface which supports the su... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6863732 | Heat treatment system and method The present invention relates generally to a heat treatment system and method for heat-treating an object to be treated. Particularly, the invention relates to a heat treatment system wherein an object to be treated is carried in a reaction vessel, which has been pr... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6809296 | Electrical energy conserving kiln method and apparatus This is an electrically heated ceramic kiln and a method for varying the size of the kiln chamber by moveable top and/or bottom walls which can be moved vertically within the kiln chamber, together with a new method of insulating the kiln and providing captive air c... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6788211 | Apparatus and method using smoke and/or gas sensing in cooking devices A control device and method provides control of at least one operating feature of a cooking device in response to measured smoke and/or gas produced by item(s) being cooked. The device and method may control the temperature and cooking time of the device, and may al... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6626663 | Processes for redistributing heat flux on process tubes within process heaters, and process heaters including the same Process tubes of a fired process heaters are provided with a more equal heat flux distribution about an exterior circumferential surface region thereof. More specifically, according to the present invention, there is provided on at least one circumferenti... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6619952 | Kiln with drop-down control panel A kiln has a control box pivotably coupled to an oven portion via a hinge at a lower end of the control box so that the control box can pivot about the hinge from a closed position adjacent the oven portion to an open position where an upper end of the co... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6600137 | Heating device and heating method The quantity of supply heat of heated gas is controlled so that a supply heat quantity of the heated gas when no heat treatment of solder or the like is needed is made smaller than a supply heat quantity of the heated gas when heat treatment of solder or ... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6396406 | Self-cleaning oven having smoke detector for controlling cleaning cycle time An improved self-cleaning oven (10) is provided having an assembly (12) to control the cleaning cycle time of the oven (10) depending upon the degree of oven contamination and soil present therein. The assembly (12) includes a measuring chamber (16) as we... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6357264 | Apparatus for melting molten material This apparatus is a furnace for heating molten material which employs oxygen-fuel burner assemblies. Preferably, the assemblies are submerged in the molten material. They are water cooled top down units with burner nozzles being off-set from the supply co... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6286338 | Block assembly for a gas-type lehr A block assembly for a lehr includes a plurality of blocks extending longitudinally, each of the blocks having a seal surface for mating and overlapping with an adjacent one of the blocks.... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6285290 | Self-cleaning oven having smoke detector for controlling cleaning cycle time An improved self-cleaning oven (10) is provided having an assembly (12) to control the cleaning cycle time of the oven (10) depending upon the degree of oven contamination and soil present therein. The assembly (12) includes a measuring chamber (16) as we... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6261090 | Gas combustor and combustor system for combustion of smoke, off gases and other emissions A combustor system provides high temperature, high-dwell combustion of emission products, as from charcoal kilns, with inner and outer combustion chambers. Multiple inlets receive emission products from multiple heat exchangers omnidirectionally extending... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6142772 | Movable tunnel kiln for making clay products and a system with the tunnel kiln The invention relates to a movable tunnel kiln for clay product manufacture and a production process system employing a tunnel kiln. Provided a kiln bottom of the tunnel kiln is fixed and takes a circular shape, the kiln body is circular and movable, road... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6116895 | Dual mode convection oven A method and apparatus for selectively providing convective heat to an object with a dual mode convection oven that is alternatively operable in either a running mode or a bypass mode. Convective heat is channelled into a supply hood through a supply duct... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6111227 | Furnace exhaust method and apparatus An electrically heated furnace wherein electrical heating elements are mounted and supported so that they face the inner furnace walls and are isolated from direct communication with articles being treated within the furnace such that clean air flows over... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6109062 | Apparatus for melting molten material This apparatus is a furnace for heating molten material which employs oxygen-fuel burner assemblies. Preferably, the assemblies are submerged in the molten material. They are water cooled top down units with burner nozzles being off-set from the supply co... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6091055 | Method of heat treating object and apparatus for the same In the heat treating method and the heat treatment apparatus of the object, the object is heat treated while it is being floated by gas expelled toward the object from a position below the object in the heating chamber.... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6046439 | System and method for thermal processing of a semiconductor substrate A semiconductor substrate processing system and method using a stable heating source with a large thermal mass relative to conventional lamp heated systems. The system dimensions and processing parameters are selected to provide a substantial heat flux to... | 04/04/2000 |
| 6033214 | Heating apparatus having multiple heating chambers movable between a first position with opposed open sides and a second position with opposed open sides Described is a heating apparatus which in case of need guarantees nonproblematic access to the objects to be heated, without incurring heat losses. Used in conjunction with lip rolling apparatuses, the heating apparatus features at least two movably arran... | 03/07/2000 |
| 5974833 | Heat transfer method in glass sheet bending oven and a bending oven A heat transfer method in a glass bending furnace, which has a top array of of successive heating sections (2) and under it a bottom array of successive cooling sections (3), and in which method glass sheets are conveyed on bending molds in mold carrying ... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5851941 | Si/SiC-based sintered material having excellent corrosion resistance and kiln furniture A Si/SiC-based sintered material containing Si and SiC as constituents, which has a SiO2 content of 0.5% by weight or less and an oxygen content of 0.25% by weight or less and which is corrosion-resistant in a high-temperature atmosphere contai... | 12/22/1998 |
| 5772429 | Portable oven for heating of tiles A portable oven for simultaneous preparation of multiple floor tiles, providing an efficient means to heat the tiles so they are soft and can be cut to fit the area to be tiled, and preferably providing means to measure and cut the heated tiles.... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5690485 | Combustion system for a steckel mill A combustion system for use in the steckel mill provides for the controlled mixing of combustible fluids to each furnace incorporated in the steckel mill while also harnessing at least a portion of the heat developed during the operation of the mill to in... | 11/25/1997 |
| 5616024 | Apparatuses for heating semiconductor wafers, ceramic heaters and a process for manufacturing the same, a process for manufacturing ceramic articles A ceramic heater composed of a ceramic substrate and a resistant heating element embedded within the ceramic substrate along a predetermined planar pattern is obtained by holding a convolution of a spiral-coiled high melting metallic filament in the above... | 04/01/1997 |
| 5603615 | Smoke pollution device for tunnel kiln The present invention relates to a smoke and heat source recycling device for a tunnel kiln in order to prevent smoke pollution. It has an exhaust fan in the preheating zone, the exhaust fan absorbing heat from the preheating zone and delivering such heat... | 02/18/1997 |
| 5593608 | Temperature control method and apparatus for use in thermal processing equipment A method for controlling temperature in thermal processing equipment having a processing chamber containing members to be processed. The method comprises the steps of heating a plurality of zones of the processing chamber by heaters provided in the zones,... | 01/14/1997 |
| 5577908 | Apparatus for process for continuous curing An apparatus and method suitable for the continuous curing of pasted battery plates. The apparatus includes a hydroset oven having an atmospherically controlled hydroset chamber in which a continuous transport conveyor is mounted. Pasted plates are automa... | 11/26/1996 |
| 5556273 | Combustion system for a steckle mill A combustion system for use in the steckel mill provides for the controlled mixing of combustible fluids to each furnace incorporated in the steckel mill while also harnessing at least a portion of the heat developed during the operation of the mill to in... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5551870 | Rotating kiln seal A rotating seal device for a rotary drum kiln. A rotating seal member is welded about the drum near each of its ends, each sealing against a rotationally stationary seal member joined with the associated kiln end hood through a flexible gas tight bellows.... | 09/03/1996 |
