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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8100690 | Method and cooler for cooling hot particulate material Described is a method as well as a cooler (1) for cooling hot particulate material which has been the subject of heat treatment in an industrial furnace, such as a rotary kiln (3) for manufacturing cement clinker, by which method the hot material from ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 7950921 | Method and apparatus for cooling the underside of kiln cars An improved method and apparatus for cooling the under-car channel of a tunnel kiln while minimizing migration of air between the above-car and under-car channels involves controlling or equalizing the mass flow of cooling air directed through the under-car channel ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7862333 | Regulator for the cooling air inflow of a cooling grate In order to provide, for a grate cooler for cooling hot bulk material, such as, for example, cement clinker, an, in particular, automatically operating cooling air regulator which has a simple construction and can be used without difficulty both for unmoved and, in ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7798809 | Method for controlling the operation of a bulk good grate cooler A method of controlling the operation of a bulk good grate cooler for cooling hot cement clinker, for example, in a process-controlled manner is provided in order to ensure that the volume flows of cooling air in all areas of the cooling grate and/or the residence t... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7708556 | Bulk-material cooler for cooling hot material to be cooled The aim of the invention is to design a bulk-material cooler, particularly one for cooling cement clinker, which operates according to the walking floor principle, so that its cooling grate can be composed of a multitude of ventilated cooling grate modules, which ca... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7632092 | Regulating device for the cooling air flows of a bulk material grate cooler In order to provide an automatically operating cooling air regulating device for a grate cooler for cooling hot bulk material such as cement clinker, for example, which can be constructed easily and can be used without problems both for non-moving and also in partic... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7625204 | Gas cooling type vacuum heat treating furnace and cooling gas direction switching device therefor A gas cooling type vacuum heat-treating furnace according to the present invention, includes a gas cooling furnace comprising a cooling chamber in which an article to be heat-treated is stationarily set, and defining therein a gas passage in a vertical direction, a ... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7484957 | Bulk material cooler for cooling hot materials to be cooled The invention aims at providing a bulk material cooler particularly for hot cement clinker, wherein the conveyance performance and the efficiency of the cooler are enhanced and problems due to wear are reduced. According to the invention, the cooling grates of sever... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7426892 | Water-cooled grate The present invention relates to a water-cooled grate, which can be cooled while avoiding high and low temperature corrosions. The water-cooled grate comprises: at least one cooling pipe for guiding flow of cooling water; a grate body for placing waste matters to be... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7427375 | Diffuser for an annealing furnace A diffuser (24) for an annealing furnace has a plurality of radially extending generally and vertically oriented vanes (40) for radially directing furnace gases. The vanes have top edges (42) defining a generally planar support and the top edges... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7377774 | Change-over apparatus for cooling gas passages in vacuum heat treating furnace A change-over apparatus for cooling a gas passage is provided with a cooling chamber and a gas cooling and circulating system. The apparatus is further provided with a stationary partition plate and a slidable shield plate. The stationary partition plate has a sucti... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7367799 | Cooler for cooling clinker The invention relates to a cooler for cooling clinker with a device for removal of a sample of the clinker, wherein the cooler has a first cooler section, a second cooler section and a crusher disposed between them, and the device for removal of a sample of the clin... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7293986 | Vestibule assembly for a heat treatment furnace The present invention provides a heat treating process chamber having a housing with a flow passage in communication with a vestibule assembly. The vestibule assembly includes an outer ring with a first groove and an inner ring with a second groove. The first groove... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7255829 | Method and apparatus for treatment of metallic workpieces A method and an apparatus for the thermal treatment of metallic workpieces with which gas quenching can be obtained that is low in distortion, even for workpieces with an undulating shape or workpieces that are projectingly stackable are provided. In accordance with... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7219610 | Grate plate arrangement for step plates A grate plate arrangement for step grates includes box-like grate plates (4) positioned on a grate carrier (2) with a front plate (24) placed on its end wall (18) and fastened to the end wall (18) using one or more studs (26... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7207763 | Semiconductor manufacturing system and wafer holder for semiconductor manufacturing system A semiconductor manufacturing system and wafer holder for a semiconductor manufacturing system which prevents a semiconductor wafer from being exposed to a process reaction and which includes a reaction tube for providing a sealed process space and a dual boat and w... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7182574 | Draft inducer blower with fastener retention A draft inducer blower for high efficiency furnaces, including a blower housing having a housing body and housing cover. The housing body includes a plurality of mounting lugs spaced around its outer periphery, through which fasteners are inserted to secure the blow... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7146915 | Extractor/cooler of loose materials through the use of conveyor belt equipped with bored and winged plates The cooling of the material is mainly achieved through the convective thermal exchange between the loose hot material and the cooling air flow blown in from the outside, and through the conductive thermal exchange between the same material (3) and the conveyo... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7100656 | System and method for curing composite material According to one embodiment of the invention, a system for curing a composite material includes an oven having an inner wall defining an inner chamber, an outer wall defining an outer chamber between the inner wall and the outer wall, a hot air distribution manifold... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7063759 | System and method for curing composite material According to one embodiment of the invention, a system for curing a composite material includes an oven having an inner wall defining an inner chamber, an outer wall defining an outer chamber between the inner wall and the outer wall, a hot air distribution manifold... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7044996 | Method for reducing build-up on a roasting furnace grate The present invention relates to method, which helps to reduce and remove the build-up forming on the grate of a fluidized-bed furnace in the roasting of fine-grained material such as concentrate. The concentrate is fed into the roaster from the wall of the furnace,... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7021928 | Plate for a sliding cooler grate Grate plate for the push-type grate of a clinker cooler, which has a topside bearing surface exposed to the hot material to be cooled. The grate plate including a rear region having devices for connection to a grate-plate carrier, such that the grate plate front pro... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6952889 | Forced convection assisted rapid thermal furnace An apparatus and corresponding method for heating a wafer during processing. The apparatus includes a process chamber enclosing a processing tube defining a processing area. The processing tube includes a first wall and a second wall which define a hollow cavity or ... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6926752 | Method for the stabilization of a fluidized bed in a roasting furnace This invention relates to a method for stabilizing a fluidized bed used in roasting by adjusting the oxygen content of the roasting gas in the bed. The fine-grained material for roasting is fed into the furnace above the fluidized bed and the roasting gas, which cau... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6926521 | Method and device for treating bulk products Method and apparatus for treating, in particular cooling, bulk material which is lying on a conveying grate (10) in the form of a layer (20). The gas is passed through the grate (10) and the layer (20) from the bottom upward. The grate is... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6920702 | Cooling grid for bulk material A cooling grate for bulk material, having a carrying plate for accommodating a layer of the material for cooling, and having conveying elements by means of which the material for cooling is conveyed in a conveying direction on the resting carrying plate and which co... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6840763 | Wafer processing apparatus A wafer processing system which requires no isolation between the operational areas within the processing system. The system of the present invention includes operational areas, such as a loading area, a transport area, and a reactor or thermal processing area. Adva... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6821114 | Gas-cooled single chamber heat treating furnace, and method for gas cooling in the furnace A gas-cooled single-chamber type heat-treating furnace T in which cooling gas vents 9A and 9B opened and closed by doors 11A and 11B are provided on each of mutually opposed walls of an inner chamber 5 forming a processing room and... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6814571 | Arrangement and method for reducing build-up on a roasting furnace grate The present invention relates to an arrangement and method that help to reduce the build-up formed on the grate of a fluidized-bed furnace in the roasting of fine-grained material such as concentrate. The concentrate is fed into the roaster furnace from the wall of ... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6769908 | Wafer heat-treatment system and wafer heat-treatment method A wafer heat-treatment system for processing a wafer by a high-temperature heat-treatment process and cooling the heat-treated wafer, comprises walls surrounding a closed space placing the wafer and having a hollow sealing a gas therein, and a pressure-regulating un... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6769425 | Fuel-fired furnace with combustion air-cooled draft inducer fan motor A fuel-fired, forced draft air heating furnace has a draft inducer fan disposed in a vestibule chamber having an exterior wall with an air intake opening therein. During operation of the draft inducer fan its motor is cooled by combustion air drawn inwardly through ... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6744023 | Method and apparatus for cooling a CVI/CVD furnace A method and apparatus for cooling a furnace configured for processing refractory composites comprising a cooling gas flowed in a closed circuit through the furnace and over a cooling element disposed within the furnace. The cooling gas can flow either by natural co... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6655955 | Coolable arched roof A coolable arched roof for a high-temperature melting furnace having a furnace interior. At least the following layers are present on that side of a layer of refractory bricks, which is remote from the furnace interior: a sealing layer, which is used to s... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6450803 | Heat treatment apparatus A heat treatment table is divided into two or more regions, a heater is disposed for each region. On a predetermined portion of the heat treatment table, a plurality of sensors are disposed separately each other. A relation between temperatures of the res... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6444163 | Heat shielding apparatus for vertical continuous annealing furnace A shielding apparatus for intercepting heat from a heating source disposed in a vertical continuous annealing furnace includes a double-walled tube having an outside atmosphere suction port projected horizontally or downward to be exposed to an outside at... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6427470 | Cooling system for reducing particles pollution The present invention relates to a cooling system of a furnace, more particularly, to a multi-cycle cooling system, located by the furnace door. The probability of pollution by particles can be decreased and the lifetime of the furnace devices can be exte... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6419481 | Cooler for rotary kilns The present invention relates to a cooler (2) for a rotary drum kiln (1). The cooler comprises two cylindrical housings disposed one inside the other (6, 7), surrounding the kiln and rotating with it, which housings are mounted at the discharge end of the... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6407367 | Heat treatment apparatus, heat treatment process employing the same, and process for producing semiconductor article A novel heat treatment apparatus is provided which comprises a first tube, a second tube placed therein, and a heater. A semiconductor article is heat treated in the second tube in an atmospheric gas. At least an internal face of the second tube is constr... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6382963 | Grate cooler A grate cooler of simple construction whose cooling grate is substantly protected against wear and which can be operated in simple fashion and with a high cooling efficiency. A plurality of rotatably supported tubular oscillating shafts, spaced apart from... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6352431 | Furnace inducer motor cooling system A furnace includes a main blower housed in an inlet plenum that circulates temperature controlled air through the furnace and an inducer fan that circulates combustion gases through the furnace. The inducer fan is driven by an inducer fan motor with a hou... | 03/05/2002 |
