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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7217123 | Cooled furnace wall A cooled furnace wall comprises a furnace shell with an inner and an outer side and cooling plates lining the inner side of the furnace shell. Each of the cooling plates has a plate body and protruding connection pieces for supplying the cooling plate with a coolant... | 05/15/2007 |
| 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 |
| 5636982 | Method and apparatus for acoustically enhancing cooling of clinker A method and apparatus for acoustically enhancing cooling of molten liquid. In one embodiment, a cement plant has a mill in which raw materials are mixed and ground into a powder, a kiln in which the powdered raw material undergoes a calcining process and... | 06/10/1997 |
| 5549471 | Cooler grate for a reciprocating grate cooler The invention relates to a cooler grate for a reciprocating grate cooler, with a plurality of grate plate supports extending transversely with respect to the cooler grate and constructed as hollow bodies, on which in each case grate plates are supported s... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5525057 | Forced cooling apparatus for heat treatment apparatus A forced cooling apparatus for a heat treatment apparatus comprising a heat treatment furnace having a process tube with one end open at an furnace opening and another end closed at an furnace top portion; and a heater portion which covers the process tub... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5507639 | Heat treatment apparatus and method thereof Nozzles that blow an air are disposed in a space between an outer wall of a process tube and a heat generating resistor. The openings of the nozzles are oriented to the process tube corresponding to an arrangement area of semiconductor wafers. An air blow... | 04/16/1996 |
| 5360336 | Forced cooling apparatus for heat treatment apparatus A forced cooling apparatus for a heat treatment apparatus comprising a heat treatment furnace having a process tube with one end open at an furnace opening and another end closed at an furnace top portion; and a heater portion which covers the process tub... | 11/01/1994 |
| 5351749 | Process for cooling fluid solid particles An arrangement of apparatus and process thereof for cooling hot fluid solid particles, especially hot regenerated catalytic particles are disclosed. The apparatus comprises a substantially vertical, cylindrical and close ended heat removal vessel through ... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5249960 | Forced cooling apparatus for heat treatment apparatus A forced cooling apparatus for a heat treatment apparatus comprising a heat treatment furnace having a process tube with one end open at an furnace opening and another end closed at an furnace top portion; and a heater, portion which covers the process tu... | 10/05/1993 |
| 5242012 | Apparatus and process for cooling fluid solid particles An arrangement of apparatus and process thereof for cooling hot fluid solid particles, especially hot regenerated catalytic particles are disclosed. The apparatus comprises a substantially vertical, cylindrical and close ended heat removal vessel through ... | 09/07/1993 |
| 5123480 | Integrated heat exchanger An integrated, vertical tube heat exchanger for use with a plurality of heat transfer mediums including fluidized solid particulates and hot gaseous products of combustion includes a plurality of vertically extending spaced apart, tubes for containing wat... | 06/23/1992 |
| 4846676 | Oscillating discharge chute The invention relates to a structure for controllably discharging articles that are being continuously transported by a primary conveying structure. A discharge assembly is provided having a chute with an inlet and an outlet. Articles are diverted away fr... | 07/11/1989 |
| 4830609 | Curing oven system for semiconductor devices An automated curing oven system for use in the manufacturing of semiconductors. This system may easily be incorporated with other automated machinery used for various semiconductor processing steps because it employs the same device holding magazine used ... | 05/16/1989 |
| 4762489 | Cooling apparatus The cooling apparatus which is preferably constructed in the form of a grate cooler contains in its material inlet portion a material transfer arrangement with at least two rows lying behind one another of transversely extending air boxes which can be sup... | 08/09/1988 |
| 4731937 | Process and apparatus for the dry sluicing of grit, slag or sediments from pressurized systems A process for the dry sluicing of sediment from pressurized systems, such as gasification processes, in which gravitationally conveyed sediments are cooled to below their release temperature before removal. The sediments are cooled via indirect heat excha... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4730667 | Liquid to solids heat exchanger The invention relates to a liquid to solids heat exchanger and to a process for retorting carbon-containing solids (e.g. oil shale) using such heat exchanger. The heat exchanger contains a liquid pool reservoir, heat source or heat sink for heating or coo... | 03/15/1988 |
| 4711297 | Rotary tube cooler construction In a rotary tube cooler for indirect cooling of pulverized to granular material with a revolving drum, the drum shell of the rotary tube cooler is formed of a tube system through which a liquid cooling medium is conducted. The tube system comprises either... | 12/08/1987 |
| 4702019 | Apparatus for cooling high-temperature particles An apparatus for cooling high-temperature particles in which various factors which adversely disturb the stability of the moving layer of high-temperature particles can be substantially eliminated and large-sized and medium-sized lumps contained in the hi... | 10/27/1987 |
| 4702696 | High temperature vacuum furnace A vacuum furnace for heating dental reconstructionproducts using sintered powder metal that includes a sealed vacuum tube made of a material having a relatively low thermal shock resistance characteristic. The vacuum tube is desirably relatively short. Th... | 10/27/1987 |
| 4664618 | Recuperative furnace wall The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for waste heat recovery and reduction in industrial furnaces and heating equipment. The method of heat recovery comprises directing the exhaust gases through a system of channels inside the refractor... | 05/12/1987 |
| 4615677 | Arrangement for recovering the sensible heat of dumpable hot stock An arrangement for recovering the sensible heat of dumpable hot stock includes a continuous conveying belt guided about at least two deflection pulleys and formed by articulately connected plates. The carrying run of the conveying belt with the hot stock ... | 10/07/1986 |
| 4604136 | Method and an apparatus for subdivision of and heat recovery from a liquid slag The method in accordance with the invention comprises a rolling of the liquid slag between at least two cooling rolls of metal, preferably steel, the temperature of and the distance between the rolls being controlled such that a cohesive slag slab is obta... | 08/05/1986 |
| 4572281 | Method and arrangement for recovering the sensible heat of slag To recover the sensible heat of slag the slag is allowed to solidify on the surface of a hollow cooling body provided with a liquid internal cooling and is indirectly cooled by the liquid internal cooling. The liquid cooling medium of the liquid internal ... | 02/25/1986 |
| 4518700 | Method and apparatus for regulating the temperature of an analytical instrument reactor A temperature control apparatus for a high temperature reactor in an analytical instrument of the type in which a development reagent is added to a flowing stream as part of the detection process. The temperature control apparatus utilizes solid state hea... | 05/21/1985 |
| 4500286 | Primary air supply unit of rotary kiln In a primary air supply unit of a rotary kiln, an improved method for reducing a primary air rate by providing a high-pressure blower for primary air to inject the primary air from a burner together with fuel. In addition, in order to preheat the primary ... | 02/19/1985 |
| 4462797 | Cooling zone for a kiln, more specially a roller kiln The cooling zone (24) for a kiln, more specially a roller kiln, made up of a preheating zone (21), a firing zone (22) and a cooling zone (24), through which the goods to be kilned (10), more specially ceramic tiles or plates are transported without any bu... | 07/31/1984 |
| 4439141 | Recuperative double chamber rotary furnace An apparatus that is designed to heat a flowable granular material up to an elevated temperature and cool the material back down to a temperature that is as close as possible to the temperature of the incoming material before exiting, where a substantial ... | 03/27/1984 |
| 4439142 | Cooling zone for a firing kiln with transport rollers A cooling zone for a kiln having a preheating and firing zone and with a train of rollers for moving tiles through the kiln in a single layer has an indirect cooling system using a fluid and more specially liquid cooling medium moving through coils over a... | 03/27/1984 |
| 4439275 | Coke calcining apparatus A coke calcining apparatus comprises a rotary kiln (1), an intermediate cooler (3) installed outside of but rotating unitarily with the kiln at an intermediate part thereof and having inlets (32) and outlets (33) respectively communicating with the upstre... | 03/27/1984 |
| 4420304 | Apparatus for manufacturing rapidly cooled solidified slag An apparatus for manufacturing a rapidly cooled solidified slag, which comprises: a pair of cooling drums, the peripheral surfaces of said pair of cooling drums being in contact with each other and rotating in directions opposite to each other at the same... | 12/13/1983 |
| 4373907 | Apparatus for manufacturing rapidly cooled solidified slag An improved apparatus for manufacturing a rapidly cooled solidified slag, the improvement relating to the use of pairs of weirs having an annular shape and a hollow portion therein; each of said pair of weirs being fixed to each edge of the peripheral sur... | 02/15/1983 |
| 4362504 | Apparatus for manufacturing a rapidly cooled solidified gas having rotating cooling drum An apparatus for manufacturing a rapidly cooled solidified slag, which comprises: at least one rotating cooling drum rotating around a horizontal center axis thereof, said cooling drum being cooled by a cooling medium, and having an outer peripheral surfa... | 12/07/1982 |
| 4337927 | Furnace installation particularly for the melting of ore concentrate A furnace assembly of the type used for melting of ore concentrate, wherein at least one separating wall is provided within the confines of the furnace to dip into the melt and divides the furnace space into separate melting, settling, and exhaust spaces.... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4330264 | Apparatus for manufacturing vitreous slag An apparatus for manufacturing a vitreous slag, which comprises: a pair of cooling drums, the peripheral surfaces of said pair of cooling drums being in contact with each other, and said pair of cooling drums rotating in directions opposite to each other ... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4287940 | Cooling apparatus for diffusers A diffuser adapted for transmitting thermal energy by conduction across metallic members and by convection of a heat-treating gas in an annealing furnace is comprised of a base, a diffuser member having a plurality of radial gas passages, and an in-line c... | 09/08/1981 |
| 4264300 | Glassmaking tank furnace A glassmaking tank furnace which comprises a basin, a heating system, a housing which includes a roof and a gas flue, a cooling system, a feed port and a discharging port. The bottom and walls of the basin and at least a part of the housing formed with th... | 04/28/1981 |
| 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 |
| 4253823 | Procedure and apparatus for baking carbon bodies In the baking of carbon anodes (for aluminum reduction cells) or the like, in so-called ring-type furnaces where green carbon bodies are deposited in pits, each of which is circumstanced successively for preheating stages, one or more baking stages, and c... | 03/03/1981 |
| 4212630 | Apparatus for removing heat from cylinders of the rotary kiln recuperator cooler The invention has to do with an apparatus for removing heat from cylinders of the rotary kiln recuperator cooler. The apparatus comprises heat-exchange tubes which are fixed on the lateral surfaces of bow-shaped support members so that they go around the ... | 07/15/1980 |
| 4137038 | Clinker roasting plant A clinker roasting plant comprising a rotary kiln having a housing and a hot head. A cooler for cooling clinker is mounted downstream of the rotary kiln. There are also provided heat-exchange tubes arranged in the zone of flow of roasted clinker from the ... | 01/30/1979 |
