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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8167611 | Drying furnace for coated film In drying of a glass substrate to which a coated film is applied, the heating and drying is conducted while feeding means 10, 18, which always moves on a lower surface of the glass substrate 6 to which the coated film is applied, abuts against the subs... | 05/01/2012 |
| 7507087 | Method and apparatus to provide continuous movement through a furnace A pusher furnace includes a pusher assembly having first and second coordinated pushers for pushing load supports with loads to be heated thereon to provide continuous downstream movement of the load supports through a furnace section. A removal assembly includes a ... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7150627 | Transported material heating with controlled atmosphere A tunnel oven for heating transported carbonaceous materials includes an enclosure having a passage and a transport device for moving solid carbonaceous materials through and along a length of the passage. A direct convection heater is operably connected to the encl... | 12/19/2006 |
| 6776612 | Oven conveyor and method thereof A oven conveyor system is disclosed herein. In use, items to be heated are placed in contact with a hearth, and then moved across the hearth by the conveyor. The conveyor system allows the items to maintain contact with the hearth while being conveyed. A large volum... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6530780 | Continuous sintering furnace and use thereof A continuous sintering furnace has an entrance-side deaerating chamber through which trays each with an material to be sintered being mounted thereon may pass, preheating, heating and cooling zones into which the trays are sequentially fed from the deaera... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6457971 | Continuous furnace having traveling gas barrier A continuous pusher furnace includes a product carrier assembly incorporating a traveling gas barrier. The product carrier assembly comprises a plate disposed to receive product thereon and a gas barrier extending upwardly from the plate. The perimeter of... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6431860 | Material feeding mechanism in association with continuous sintering apparatus In a material feeding mechanism in association with a continuous sintering apparatus, a material (S) carried by a transporting conveyer (1) into an atmosphere-displacement chamber (2) is fed into a furnace casing (4) of the continuous sintering apparatus ... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6294763 | Apparatus for annealing welded parts and method therefor To prevent the temperature from rising locally in a closed space so as to make the temperature in an annealing furnace uniform, an apparatus and method for annealing welded parts includes an annealing furnace 2 which is substantially closed; a doorway 5 t... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6283748 | Continuous pusher furnace having traveling gas barrier A continuous pusher furnace includes a product carrier assembly forming a traveling gas barrier. The product carrier assembly comprises a pusher plate disposed to receive product thereon and a gas barrier extending upwardly from the pusher plate. The peri... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6257879 | Paired straight hearth (PSH) furnaces for metal oxide reduction Equipment for the reduction of metal oxides with carbonaceous reductants includes a pair of straight moving hearth furnaces each having a charging end and a discharging end. Each furnace has a train of detachable hearth sections to enable each hearth sect... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6210156 | Heat treatment material handling unit A method and apparatus for sequentially heat treating small parts processes the parts individually through a heat treatment process at a predetermined rate, so that each part is heat treated for a predetermined time and all parts are heat treated equally.... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6074204 | Device for transferring products in plants for metallurgical treating of said products An assembly for treating metal products is presented. The assembly includes a preheat furnace aligned with a reheat furnace. Cold products are initially heated in the preheat furnace and hot products bypass the preheat furnace. A material handling device ... | 06/13/2000 |
| 5890890 | Kiln assembly A kiln assembly (10) with a tunnel kiln (12) having an entrance (14) and exit (16). Two parallel guideways (18) are provided extending through the kiln (12), each adjacent a side wall of the kiln (12). A plurality of car members (20) are movable respectiv... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5858048 | Energy efficient, electric rotary furnace for glass molding (repressing) precision optical blanks A furnace for molding glass blanks includes a housing having a series of electrical heating stations and a rotary door adapted to receive glass blanks for processing. The furnace also includes a rotary turntable for receiving the glass blanks and a steeri... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5820364 | Reheat furnace apparatus and method of use A reheat furnace for reheating elongated metal workpieces includes an entrance end portion and an exit end portion opposite to the entrance end portion, and two side walls spaced apart from each other and extending between the entrance and exit end portio... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5631919 | Apparatus for lengthwise graphitization (LWG) of carbon electrode bodies A furnace apparatus and method for the lengthwise graphitization (LWG) of carbon bodies are provided which utilize U-shaped metal furnace sections mounted on stationary rib supports to contain carbon electrode bodies and surrounding thermally insulating p... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5529486 | Heating furnace system and method for producing hot rolled workpieces A heating furnace system is provided for receiving finite lengths of workpieces from one or more continuous casters and form a supply of heated workpieces at a temperature suitable for rolling in a hot rolling mill. The system includes, in one aspect, a h... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5489204 | Apparatus for sintering abrasive grain An apparatus useful for sintering unsintered abrasive grain precursor to provide sintered abrasive grain. The sintered abrasive grain can be incorporated into abrasive articles such as bonded abrasives (e.g., grinding wheels), coated abrasives, and nonwov... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5472343 | Kiln for the production of ceramic products and process for the operation of the kiln A kiln or oven for producing ceramic products is described having a combustion chamber through which the ceramic products continuously pass, as well as a process for the operation and control of the kiln and the ceramic products perform a rotation about t... | 12/05/1995 |
| 5382159 | Heating furnace system and method for producing hot rolled workpieces A heating furnace system is provided for receiving finite lengths of workpieces from one or more continuous casters and form a supply of heated workpieces at a temperature suitable for rolling in a hot rolling mill. The system includes, in one aspect, a h... | 01/17/1995 |
| 5350295 | Method for producing different kinds of heat-treated products A method for producing a plurality of kinds of heat-treated products economically and efficiently and with minimum sorting errors, using fewer number of heating devices than pre-treatment and post-treatment devices. Pre-treatment devices (e.g., compacting... | 09/27/1994 |
| 5283804 | Process and apparatus for graphitizing carbon bodies Carbon bodies to be graphitized are clamped together in a horizontal train, n which adjacent end faces of said bodies adjoin each other, and are heated by a flow of electric current in a graphitizing zone and subsequently cooled in a cooling zone. Individu... | 02/01/1994 |
| 5158224 | Soldering machine having a vertical transfer oven A machine for soldering printed circuit boards and the like includes a housing enclosing an outer process chamber having a soldering station and fluxing station enclosed therein and an inner heating chamber, in combination with input and output transport ... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5139418 | Device for discharging and transferring steelworks products Independent installation for discharging, storing and transferring products, such as steelworks products, which comprises fixed beams on which rest the products to be handled, and moveable beams placed between the fixed beams and driven in a rectangular c... | 08/18/1992 |
| 4941819 | Air circulation and exhaust control system for commercial ovens An oven (20) includes an oven enclosure (24) having a conveyor (40) mounted therein for transporting food products through the oven. A plurality of ribbon burners (100) are mounted within the oven interior (32) adjacent the path of the conveyor to heat th... | 07/17/1990 |
| 4820150 | Walking beam type reheating furnace A walking beam type reheating furnace which is provided with a furnace housing, stationary beams fixedly mounted in the furnace housing, first movable beams arranged on the charge side in the furnace housing, second movable beams arranged separately from ... | 04/11/1989 |
| 4802844 | High capacity, retractable furnace hearth A retractable, roller hearth for use in an industrial heat treat furnace is disclosed whereby the alloy rollers are retracted from their load bearing position when the furnace heat treat processes are underway thus maintaining the rated load capacity of t... | 02/07/1989 |
| 4795341 | Method and tunnel furnace for sintering blanks Method for sintering blanks into fuel pellets, in which the blanks are moved through the muffle of a tunnel furnace by pushing the blanks through the muffle on a guiding device which goes through the muffle and protrudes therefrom at least on the input si... | 01/03/1989 |
| 4741695 | Walking beam type reheating furnace A walking beam type reheating furnace which is provided with a furnace housing, stationary beams fixedly mounted in the furnace housing, first movable beams arranged on the charge side in the furnace housing, second movable beams arranged separately from ... | 05/03/1988 |
| 4726766 | Air circulation and exhaust control system for commerical ovens An oven (20) includes an oven enclosure (24) having a conveyor (40) mounted therein for transporting food products through the oven. A plurality of ribbon burners (100) are mounted within the oven interior (32) adjacent the path of the conveyor to heat th... | 02/23/1988 |
| 4720261 | Explosion relief panel A high-temperature, rapid-cycle pin oven for the curing of coatings on hollow container components, includes an oven unit (2) whose housing (14) is divided into three compartments interconnected by internal explosion relief panels (136,142,144). One of th... | 01/19/1988 |
| 4655978 | Method and tunnel furnace for sintering blanks Method for sintering blanks into fuel pellets, in which the blanks are moved through the muffle of a tunnel furnace by pushing the blanks through the muffle on a guiding device which goes through the muffle and protrudes therefrom at least on the input si... | 04/07/1987 |
| 4654003 | Process apparatus A high-temperature, rapid-cycle pin oven for the curing of coatings on hollow container components, includes an oven unit (2) whose housing (14) is divided into three compartments interconnected by internal explosion relief panels (136,142,144). One of th... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4585412 | Ingot pusher furnace An ingot pusher furnace includes a horizontal baffle assembly suspended from a frame member located above a furnace top wall. The baffle assembly includes of a center portion and a pair of first and second upwardly sloping end portions connected to the ce... | 04/29/1986 |
| 4421481 | Furnace for heating slabs, billets, rough castings and the like A furnace for heating all sides of products such as metal slabs, billets, rough castings and the like includes a furnace chamber having a charging end and a discharging end. A plurality of carriages are positioned throughout the length of the furnace cham... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4403953 | Apparatus and process of transferring the vessels in a tunnel furnace A transfer apparatus of vessels in a tunnel furnace with a built-in heating apparatus is disclosed, comprising a horizontally reciprocative apparatus for carrier apparatus and vertically reciprocative apparatus for vessels. The vessels forward one stroke ... | 09/13/1983 |
| 4383378 | Secondary dryer for free water detector pads A secondary dryer device comprising a drying oven, for subjecting open containers of water detector pads to a secondary drying operation. The oven has a pair of elongate channels disposed side by side with open, outer-most ends and blind inner-most ends. ... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4317978 | Induction heater arrangement for forging bar stock An induction heating system for heating an end length of a forging bar following the cut-off therefrom of a previously heated and forged end length is arranged to bring the end length to be heated to a uniform temperature despite the existence of a residu... | 03/02/1982 |
| 4205935 | Continuous heating furnace for the heat treatment of small parts A continuous heating or pusher-type furnace for the heat treatment of small arts, by which in a closed furnace chamber glide tracks are provided for the intermittent feeding of basket cars in a row between a loading station and a discharge station which is... | 06/03/1980 |
| 4147432 | Apparatus for thermal diffusion by high frequency induction heating of semiconductor substrates This invention relates to an apparatus for thermal diffusion by means of high frequency induction heating suitable for mass production of semiconductor substrates of uniform quality; wherein a plurality of heating bases, each made of a material having goo... | 04/03/1979 |
