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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6814573 | Vacuum heat-treatment apparatus A vacuum heat-treatment apparatus for heat-treating a workpiece in a treating cell includes a hermetic chamber disposed at the center. A plurality of treating cells are disposed along the periphery of the hermetic chamber, and a workpiece transfer mechanism is dispo... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6623269 | Thermal treatment apparatus A thermal treatment apparatus has a plurality of thermal treatment chambers in which an object to be treated is thermally treated while being transported, and at least one pair of two adjacent thermal treatment chambers of which inside temperatures are di... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6113388 | Device for removing carbon deposits on solid objects A device for removing carbon deposits on solid objects, includes an inlet (102) for the objects to be treated, a zone (101a) for heating the objects having a feed (104) and an outlet for the heating gas, a zone (101b) for treating the objects by oxidation... | 09/05/2000 |
| 5513983 | Apparatus for vitrifying soot preform for optical fiber An apparatus for vitrifying a soot preform from which an optical fiber is produced by drawing, is composed of a main vacuum chamber 20 in which a muffle tube 70 for vitrifying the soot preform PF is located, and an auxiliary vacuum chamber 30 mounted on t... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5098286 | Regenerative thermal incinerator apparatus The present invention is a regenerative gas incineration apparatus having three heat regenerators containing refractory heat exchange material. Gas is cycled through the regenerators first in one direction, then in another. The regenerators are each conne... | 03/24/1992 |
| 4846717 | Continuous method and apparatus for the thermal treatment of metallic workpieces Continuous thermal treatment for the strengthening of metallic workpieces is carried out by placing a batch of at least two workpieces on a basket hinged on a continuously advancing conveyor chain; introducing said workpieces in said basket through a firs... | 07/11/1989 |
| 4579524 | Charge forming preheating apparatus and method A method for distributing, drying and heating a selected mix and weight of metals prior to melting in a furnace, including the steps of placing weights of selected metals in a feeder car according to a predetermined distribution, locating the feeder car b... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4510363 | Kiln for hot-pressing compacts in a continuous manner The present invention is directed to a hot pressing furnace or kiln which is capable of preheating, hot pressing, and cooling a plurality of articles in a sequential and continuous manner. The hot pressing furnace of the present invention comprises an elo... | 04/09/1985 |
| 4430116 | Method and apparatus for heating or heating and reduction raw materials for a metallurgical furnace utilizing waste gases from the same furnace An apparatus for heating or heating and reduction raw material of a metallurgical furnace, utilizing high temperature waste gases which are released from the same furnace, has one or plural numbers of reactor(s) capable of holding the raw materials in the... | 02/07/1984 |
| 4362505 | Treatment of articles, for example, concrete articles, and an apparatus for accomplishing same Apparatus for treatment of concrete articles having a pre-drying chamber where the articles are pre-treated by being blown with air having a temperature of from 40° C. to 100° C. The apparatus is provided with a treatment channel where the pre-dried art... | 12/07/1982 |
| 4317290 | Heat treatment apparatus An apparatus for the heat treatment of a material passing through a plurality of treatment zones using a heated gaseous treatment medium conducted in a substantially closed circuit through these zones. A heat exchanger is associated with each treatment zo... | 03/02/1982 |
| 4309171 | Billet heating furnace with pressurized entrance seal A furnace (10) has a preheater zone (12) into which exhaust gases of a combustion chamber (14) are recycled for preheating of articles passing through the furnace. The exhaust gases are supplied to the preheater zone (12) through jet pipes (18) which crea... | 01/05/1982 |
| 4289483 | Apparatus for the mutli-step calcination of cement-clinker Apparatus for the production of cement from raw material to the clinker stage is disclosed. The raw material is first heated in a heat exchanger with the heat energy being supplied by the waste heat from subsequent stages of this process. The heated raw m... | 09/15/1981 |
| 4040203 | Rotating core rods A plurality of core rods with parisons thereon are mounted to an indexing head with the core rods disposed in a temperature conditioning chamber and wherein the core rods are simultaneously rotated to effect temperature distribution throughout the parison... | 08/09/1977 |
