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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7083513 | Portable ventilator for work station A portable ventilator for removing deleterious gasses from a welding site provides a funnel-like collection head structurally carried by an electrically non-conductive rigid dispersement tube carrying a powering structure. The powering structure provides pressurized... | 08/01/2006 |
| 6997705 | Rotating chains or rings carry vertically hanging trays for heat processes in a furnace A furnace for energy saving and space reduction used in electronic industry assembly, medical sterilization, or food process application is provided. In the furnace there is a number of trays hinged on a pair of continuous chains which movement is in a circle or ova... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6805555 | Composite curtain assembly for continuous furnace entrance and exit An insulating curtain assembly for a continuous furnace, having an extremely durable woven metal-wire covering protecting a thermal insulating fabric which lacks durability. A plurality of horizontally oriented hinges enable the curtain to closely follow a top surfa... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6572370 | Heat regulating unit A forced air heating system has a heat regulating unit assembled therewith, the heating system comprising a furnace having fuel burner and a flue pipe for outlet gases. The heat regulating unit has a metal flue conduit with a flue gas inlet and a flue gas... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6492034 | Heat shield In a heat shield (1), in particular for combustion chambers and for thermal fluid flow machines, the heat shield consists of a feltlike material (3) composed of compressed and sintered intermetallic fibers. Advantageously, the intermetallic fibers consist... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6431859 | Combustion gas and air recovery apparatus An apparatus including a housing defining a heating process chamber. The housing has an opening communicating the process chamber to the ambient atmosphere. A burner is included that fires into a combustion chamber to heat gas. Also included is a collecto... | 08/13/2002 |
| 5634712 | Asphalt plant with gas containment system An asphalt plant is provided with a system for containing noxious and nuisance gases and fumes generated therein. The system includes a substantially air tight casing encircling an slat conveyor of the plant, a substantially air tight elevator chute havin... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5131134 | Apparatus to coil strip An apparatus for coiling strip, in particular, continuously cast thin slabs, which after leaving the continuous caster are wound into a coil in a furnace at a casting speed, and are payed out of this furnace at a rolling speed, whereby preferably two furn... | 07/21/1992 |
| 5033926 | Heat retaining means Screens for limiting heat losses from heated material, e.g. bars and slabs in rolling mills. Screens are provided in the form of strings of heat insulating bodies composed of metal shells containing insulating material. These screens may form curtains and... | 07/23/1991 |
| 4877012 | Apparatus for producing hot gas for the shrinkage of synthetic resin foils A rectangular cross-section housing is provided for an apparatus generating hot gas to shrink a plastic film. A burner is located close to the upper small end of this housing while an outlet nozzle is provided at the lower small end and the gas flows at a... | 10/31/1989 |
| 4736608 | Heat retaining means Screens for limiting heat losses from heated material, e.g. bars and slabs in rolling mills. Screens are provided in the form of strings of heat insulating bodies composed of metal shells containing insulating material. These screens may form curtains and... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4680010 | Re-radiating heat shield assembly A thermally insulating block array is partially covered by thermal conducting sheets so as to enhance re-radiation of heat losses from a heated product in order to facilitate effective temprature control. The thermal conducting sheets preferably cover the... | 07/14/1987 |
| 4608014 | Coiler-furnace unit A coiler-furnace unit comprises a coiler having a heatable coiler mandrel, which is disposed in a heat insulating housing, and strip guiding means comprising pressure applying rollers for engaging a strip to be coiled at least two cylindrical guide shoes,... | 08/26/1986 |
| 4595358 | Re-radiating heat shield A refractory block design for re-radiating a substantial amount of heat losses back to a heated product thereby substantially maintaining its required temperature. A relatively thin sheet of stainless steel, i.e. the ratio of the thickness of the sheet be... | 06/17/1986 |
| 4540362 | Furnace curtains A plurality of cords of heat resistant material are disposed adjacent to one another in a plurality of layers. A heat resistant tape material having an adhesive formed thereon in a pair of beads is wrapped around the center portions of the cord members so... | 09/10/1985 |
| 4529381 | Radiation shield and method for shielding a furnace convection section Apparatus and method for substantially blocking the "line-of-sight" between a radiant section of a furnace and a convection section positioned above the radiant section, while at the same time permitting flue gases from the radiant section to travel subst... | 07/16/1985 |
| 4452587 | Heat shield; and insulation panels therefor A composite thermal insulation panel for a metal processing installation has a thin-walled casing providing a cover plate or membrane that will be heated quickly to near the temperature of an adjacent hot metal slab or strip being processed. To allow subs... | 06/05/1984 |
| 4411619 | Flange and coupling cooling means and method Reaction vessels, furnace tubes, heating and cooling enclosures frequently have parts such as access ports, inlet tubes, inspection windows, etc. made of thermally transparent materials such as plastic, glass, quartz, oxides, nitrides and sulfides. When t... | 10/25/1983 |
| 4399805 | Panel insulation apparatus Protective panels are disclosed for insulating walls and other combustible surfaces from a nearby stove or other heating device. Simple, economical shallow U-shaped pieces, one positioned upon the other, create two distinct conduits through which air flow... | 08/23/1983 |
| 4388066 | Radiation shield and method of use A coiled arrangement of pipes convey a heated medium, such as a slurry, into, through, and out of a heater or fire box provided with an arrangement of high velocity burners. The heater is fired to a preselected elevated temperature. A plurality of radiati... | 06/14/1983 |
| 4331858 | Open hearth oven An open hearth oven having an opening at the front thereof is provided with a shield arrangement for shielding against escape through the oven opening of infrared radiation emitted by radiating elements within the oven chamber. The shielding structure per... | 05/25/1982 |
| 4295460 | Combination heat transfer panel and wall shield for use with stoves and other radiant heaters A combination heat transfer panel and wall shield for use with stoves and other radiant heaters. The device comprises a case housing two parallel, spaced curtains defining first and second convection chambers. The case is adapted for location either again... | 10/20/1981 |
| 4256052 | Temperature gradient means in reactor tube of vapor deposition apparatus A diffusion furnace having particular utility in the processing of SOS devices wherein a temperature gradient, per unit length of furnace tube, is provided at a section of a reaction tube extending between the furnace and the scavenger and load-unload cha... | 03/17/1981 |
| 4226587 | Heating system for vacuum coating apparatus Pass-through heating device for vacuum coating apparatus having a heating chamber with at least one heating device, a thermal barrier positioned between the walls of the heating chamber and the heating device parallel to the longitudinal axis of the coati... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4217094 | Combination safety and heat conservation panel A combination safety and heat conservation panel is disclosed for use with coal or wood heaters or the like. Where the stove flue passes through a wall, the panel is placed between the wall and stove. The panel is hollow, permitting heat radiating from th... | 08/12/1980 |
| 4165964 | Vertical direct fired strip heating furnaces A vertical strip heating furnace includes at least two vertical direct fired heating chambers which are arranged in parallel which are communicated with each other. A separation chamber for housing inside furnace rolls at adjacent pairs of the chambers is... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4159359 | Insulating material with low thermal conductivity, formed of a compacted granular structure Insulating material, of compacted structure and of low thermal conductivity, is formed of silica-based primary particles; it is obtained by heat treatment of a compound of silane, of which the mean diameter is at most equal to 100 A; the apparent density ... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4113439 | Cooking apparatus employing a purging device A cooking apparatus employing a purging device. In the apparatus, an exhaust gas which is produced from food being cooked in a cooking chamber is passed through the purging device and is exhausted to the exterior of the chamber at a temperature of 130° C or a... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4101266 | Fire prevention device for the fixing stage of an electrophotographic machine A fire prevention device for a fixing stage of an electrophotographic copying machine includes a heat shield plate movable to close the fixing stage. The heat shield plate may be controlled by a control mechanism having first and second solenoids so that ... | 07/18/1978 |
| 4049372 | Apparatus for supporting and removing a work supporting roll A furnace work supporting roll and a spare work roll are mounted on a frame in diametrically opposed positions with the spare roll normally out of the furnace. The frame is mounted on an axis parallel to the roll axis and equal distance therefrom. A water... | 09/20/1977 |
| 4037329 | Shutter and system employing same A shutter, adapted for use in a system for the radiation curing of a line of articles, includes a number of adjacent baffle units, the blades of which are configured and spaced to substantially prevent the passage of radiation, while permitting the flow o... | 07/26/1977 |
| 3985498 | Process and device for drying chemical products An apparatus for drying a chemical product containing a burnable liquid by igniting and burning the liquid from the product, consisting of means for contacting the product with a burnable liquid, means for feeding the product and means for cooling the pro... | 10/12/1976 |