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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6945776 | Method and a skid member for reducing temperature difference in a heating subject and a skid apparatus using them An improved method and a skid member for minimizing the temperature difference between a skid-contacting region and other regions in a hot material to be heated such as a slab or billet within a reheating furnace and a skid apparatus using the same. The skid member ... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6685879 | Process and apparatus for regenerating carbon monoxide and heating steel A steel reheat furnace and method of use thereof are disclosed. The furnace includes a housing defining an interior furnace space that is substantially sealed from the environment. A carbon monoxide atmosphere is placed in the interior furnace space for e... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6095804 | Walking-beam furnace A walking beam furnace has in its interior fixed beams and walking beams for holding and transporting material to be annealed. These beams are provided with different support members for the material to be annealed, of which support members one serves for... | 08/01/2000 |
| 5897310 | Furnace rider bar assembly Rider bar assembly for a product support beam of a reheat furnace of the type suitable for reheating steel product such as slabs, blooms, bar stock and semi-finished products. The assembly has a rider bar which defines an upper contact surface on which a ... | 04/27/1999 |
| 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 |
| 5695330 | Method and apparatus for curing paint on a surface A means for curing heat-curable paint on vehicle panels includes an elongate pipe defining an internal combustion chamber with a fuel burner at one end of the pipe and means for removing combustion products from the other end of the pipe. The pipe is clam... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5533893 | Walking-beam furnace for the accelerated heating of billets or the like Walking-beam furnace for the accelerated heating of billets or the like, in which the upper surfaces of the mobile beams (1) and of the fixed beams (1') are made up of billet-tipping ridges (5, 4) having profiles which interact during operation so as to c... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5376622 | Method of manufacturing an ingot of a high critical temperature superconductive oxide A melting-and-solidification manufacturing method for manufacturing an ingot of a high critical temperature superconductive oxide belonging, in particular, to the YBaCuO, BiSrCaCuO, or TlBaCaCuO families, wherein: an ingot of oxide having the appropriate stoic... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5284440 | Water-cooled, workpiece-supporting members for a heating furnace Tall work-supporting elements, riders or buttons, for reheat furnaces increase the unshadowed area of radiation exposure for the under surface of steel workpieces and thereby significantly reduce the "skid mark" phenomena of workpieces. The tall supportin... | 02/08/1994 |
| 5248255 | Continuous kiln The present invention enables a tile or other ceramic wares to have a deep reduced color. A roller hurse kiln 210 includes rollers 214, and a burner mounted in a firing zone adjacent to the outlet so as to provide a reducing gas. The burner has gas inject... | 09/28/1993 |
| 5232359 | Device for increasing the thermal radiation heat transfer on an object in a furnace The invention relates to a method for increasing the thermal radiation heat transfer between a metallurgical reheat furnace and the object being heated within the furnace by increasing the distance between the water cooled skid pipes and the object itself... | 08/03/1993 |
| 5184953 | Water cooling pipe correction to vertically unsymmetrical heating of blooms in walking-beam reheat furnace Apparatus is provided for decreasing temperature differentials within rectangular metal blooms being heated in a furnace. The apparatus includes elongated internally cooled members located above the blooms adjacent an exit end of the furnace. The longitud... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5007824 | Skid mark erasure system The invention is directed to an arrangement of high thrust burners with control systems for a heating furnace which heat metal or similar product, in order to erase developing cold skid marks. The location of these burners is specified, transversely and l... | 04/16/1991 |
| 4936771 | Skid mark erasure system The invention is directed to an arrangement of high thrust burners with control systems for a heating furnace which heat metal or similar product, in order to erase developing cold skid marks. The location of these burners is specified, transversely and l... | 06/26/1990 |
| 4884967 | Steel reheating furnace A steel reheating furnace is characterized by a plurality of elongated, longitudinally extending, heating elements and associated skid rails, the skid rails having primary portions laterally offset with the portions supporting respective of laterally offs... | 12/05/1989 |
| 4648837 | Walking beam furnace A walking beam furnace comprises a hearth formed by fixed and walking beams disposed with their axes in the feed direction. Both the walking beams and the fixed beams are divided at positions spaced apart in the feed direction into sections, and each sect... | 03/10/1987 |
| 4582483 | Mobile side member furnace for heating iron and steel products First and second arrays of alternately fixed and mobile, transversely spaced, elongated fire dogs are arranged in a furnace for heating iron and steel products, the fire dogs lying parallel to the longitudinal axis thereof, the second array being transver... | 04/15/1986 |
| 4492565 | Method for eliminating the skid marks from workpieces heated in walking beam furnaces and walking beam furnace for performing the said method This invention relates to the walking beam furnaces--particularly of the bilateral-heating type, with fixed and/or walking beams (1, 2) cooled by means of water or other fluid--for the heating of metallurgical products (B), such as billets, blooms or the ... | 01/08/1985 |
| 4427371 | Pusher furnace with soak zone lifter A pusher-type furnace for heating slabs is disclosed having lift rails in its soak zone for periodically raising slabs out of contact with skid rails along which the slabs travel through the furnace. The controlled raising and lowering of the lift rails i... | 01/24/1984 |
