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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7429174 | Clean atmosphere heat treat for coated turbine components A method for heat treating at least one workpiece, such as a coated turbine engine component, is provided. The method comprises the steps of cleaning a furnace to be used during the heat treating method, which cleaning method comprising injecting a gas at a workpiec... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7261701 | Skin antiseptic composition dispenser and methods of use Skin antiseptic composition dispensers and methods of use are disclosed. The skin antiseptic composition dispenser may include a container with one or more walls that are substantially impermeable to ethylene oxide gas during normal ethylene oxide sterilization proc... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7241140 | Burning oven A burning oven is provided, and has a housing that surrounds a combustion chamber in which material that is to be burned can be introduced after the housing is opened and can be placed upon a combustion chamber base. A deposit element is disposed externally of the c... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7184850 | System and method for allocating multi-function resources for a wetdeck process in semiconductor wafer fabrication A system and method is disclosed for allocating multi-function resources among a plurality of tasks within a wetdeck process in semiconductor wafer fabrication. A resource allocator allocates multi-function resources among tasks within a process system that executes... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7168949 | Stagnation point reverse flow combustor for a combustion system A combustor assembly includes a combustor vessel having a wall, a proximate end defining an opening and a closed distal end opposite said proximate end. A manifold is carried by the proximate end. The manifold defines a combustion products exit. The combustion produ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 6959225 | Graphical user interface for allocating multi-function resources in semiconductor wafer fabrication and method of operation A system and method is disclosed for allocating multi-function resources among a plurality of tasks within a process system in semiconductor wafer fabrication. A resource allocator allocates multi-function resources among tasks within a process system that executes ... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6862899 | Method and apparatus for heating glass melting furnaces with fossil fuels During the heating of glass melting furnaces having a combustion chamber with regenerators for preheating oxidation gases, with port necks that open into the combustion chamber, with primary burners and with secondary burners that are installed in a cascade arrangem... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6519973 | Glass melting process and furnace therefor with oxy-fuel combustion over melting zone and air-fuel combustion over fining zone A process and furnace for melting glass is set forth wherein the majority of the combustion energy over the melting zone of the furnace is provided by oxy-fuel combustion while a majority of the combustion energy over the fining zone of the furnace is pro... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6454562 | Oxy-boost control in furnaces A process controls oxy-boost firing and air-fuel burner firing in furnaces, including large glass furnaces such as float furnaces. The large side-fired regenerative float furnaces use oxy-boost firing for a variety of reasons, including production increas... | 09/24/2002 |
| 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 |
| 6279349 | Method for making glass sheet heating furnace A method for making a furnace for heating a glass sheet by lower electric resistance elements (50) supported by a furnace housing (12) below a roll conveyor (40) and by supplying a gas burner heated hot gas flow from a forced convection heater (56) that p... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6220852 | Variable exit high velocity burner A method and apparatus for adjusting the flame exit velocity of a high velocity burner. The burner includes burner combustor chamber having a fluid accelerating nozzle and a burner combustor exhaust port. Fuel is delivered to the burner combustor through ... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6155822 | Forced convection furnace and method for heating glass sheets A forced convection furnace (20) and method for heating glass sheets includes a forced convection heater (42) having lower hot gas distributors (44) located below alternate conveyor rolls (38) to provide upward gas flow both upstream and downstream thereo... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6131411 | Method and furnace for heating glass sheets A method and furnace for heating a glass sheet by lower electric resistance elements (50) supported by a furnace housing (12) below a roll conveyor (40) and by supplying a gas burner heated hot gas flow from a forced convection heater (56) that provides a... | 10/17/2000 |
| 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 |
| 6050814 | Forced convection furnace for heating glass sheets A forced convection furnace (20) and method for heating glass sheets includes a forced convection heater (42) having lower hot gas distributors (44) located below alternate conveyor rolls (38) to provide upward gas flow both upstream and downstream thereo... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6047565 | Method and device for reducing the NOx emission in a glass furnace A method and apparatus involving combustion for melting glass. The fuel and oxidizer of the combustion are both supplied in such a way as to spread out the fuel/oxidant contact over time and to increase the volume of the contact. This limits the temperatu... | 04/11/2000 |
| 5647741 | Heat exchanger for combustion apparatus A heat exchanger for a combustion apparatus capable of providing satisfactory sealing between an open end of an oxidizing agent duct and a regenerative structure. A regenerator includes a high-temperature section constituted by a regenerative unit made of... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5647288 | Scrap conveyor having improved scrap pre-heating construction In a scrap conveyor for feeding a scrap to a processing furnace such as an arc furnace, etc, while pre-heating the scrap by an exhaust gas from the processing furnace, the periphery of the scrap conveyor is covered with a gas seal cover, a flue is dispose... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5588831 | Furnace system equipped with protected combustion nozzle used in fabrication of semiconductor device A furnace system is used for oxidizing a semiconductor wafer and diffusing a dopant impurity into the semiconductor wafer, and has a first quartz outlet gas nozzle for injecting oxygen gas, a second quartz outlet gas nozzle for injecting hydrogen so as to... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5577907 | Hot gas heating device Hot gas heating devices are disclosed for heating an end of a tubular body before it is heat sealed, including a nozzle casing having a nozzle cavity, a heating nozzle disposed within the nozzle cavity, whereby the heating nozzle can be mounted at a prede... | 11/26/1996 |
| 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 |
| 5556274 | Drying apparatus and method for pumpable materials A particulate material drying apparatus and method including a pulse combustor and an associated combustion chamber. Fuel and combustion air are introduced to the combustion chamber whereby the combination of the pulse combustor and combustion chamber gen... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5211555 | Melting apparatus and method A gas fired melting apparatus for particulate material. The melting apparatus has four successively connected vertically disposed sidewall members, a floor member and a roof member. These members define a cubic melting chamber for containing a freestandin... | 05/18/1993 |
| 5139362 | Heat passage tunnel for screed burner A heating device for heating a substantially planar screed plate for a paving machine comprising a plate being spaced from the screed plate, and a space being defined therebetween. A heated gas inlet feeds into a tunnel connecting to the space. At least s... | 08/18/1992 |
| 5110338 | Method and apparatus for heating a glass sheet An apparatus (10) is disclosed for treating a glass sheet (22) including a substantially enclosed chamber (14) containing a chamber atmosphere (24) in which the glass sheet (22) may be treated. Apparatus (10) also includes gas turbine engine (12) which ge... | 05/05/1992 |
| 4875854 | Miniature forge A miniaturized forge consisting of a metal body with slots and openings to admit the metal to be heated, along with a bracket for holding a separate fuel tank containing a torch which extends vertically downward through a hole in the metal body. The torch... | 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 |
| 4802654 | Thermopulse apparatus for deburring parts A thermopulse apparatus for deburring parts has a hollow body (1) housing a working chamber (2) in such a manner as to define a space (7) between the outer walls (6) thereof and inner walls (4) of the body (1) for liquid (8) partly filling the space. The ... | 02/07/1989 |
| 4796868 | Apparatus for thermal deburring of parts An apparatus has a cylindrical working chamber (2) with a bottom member (7) provided with admission and discharge valves (3,5) and a spark plug (4). The bottom member (7) is made as a hollow cylinder having end plates and openings (8), the height and outs... | 01/10/1989 |
| 4796867 | Apparatus for thermal deburring of parts An apparatus for thermal deburring of parts has a working chamber (6) with a bottom member (3), an inlet valve (8), a spark plug (9) and an outlet valve. The latter is made in the form of a rod (10) having a through passage (11), one end of the passage co... | 01/10/1989 |
| 4781581 | Melting and holding furnace Melting and holding furnace in which melting (1) and holding (2) chambers are separated from one another, and are connected via openings (6). The holding chamber is designed to be deeper in order to receive the melt which flows out of the melting chamber ... | 11/01/1988 |
| 4773851 | Tunnel kiln adapted for firing frost-resistant bricks in a reducing atmosphere Cermic materials (i.e. architectural face-bricks) are fired in a tunnel kiln of the type having a firing zone and a downstream cooling zone. The cooling zone is segregated into indirect and direct cooling zones via a sealed gate structure therebetween. Th... | 09/27/1988 |
| 4712998 | Mixing arrangement for a combustible gas mixture A mixing arrangement for mixing a combustible gas mixture consisting of at least two gas components for treatment of materials by means of temperature and pressure shocks, comprises for each gas component a feeding line discharging into a mixing chamber. ... | 12/15/1987 |
| 4697358 | Pulse combustion apparatus Various improvements in pulsating combustors for use in dehydration are disclosed. In one aspect of the invention, gas is introduced into the combustion chamber through a fuel distributor providing a bluff body within the combustion chamber so that a stri... | 10/06/1987 |
| 4131072 | Apparatus for individual controlled distribution of powdered solid fuel to plural burning units Apparatus is disclosed for individually and independently controlling the distribution of powdered solid fuel to each of a plurality of individual burners. A plurality of fuel outlet ports respectively and individually corresponding to individual ones of ... | 12/26/1978 |
| 3975228 | Drying method and plant which utilize flame jet A drying plant utilizing a flame jet comprises a jet burner supporting device which is provided over a treatment tank, and a sound arresting device which is formed at a burner inserting port in the upper surface of the treatment tank. A jet burner drawn o... | 08/17/1976 |
