Patents Assigned to Hoton Ceramics Kabushiki Kaisha
  • Shrinking apparatus
    Patent number: 4894517
    Abstract: Shrinking apparatus for heating and shrinking articles such as disused molded articles of thermoplastic expanded resin by a plurality of far-infrared heaters, thereby to reduce the articles in bulk. In the shrinking apparatus, the distances between article conveying device and the far-infrared heaters opposite thereto are gradually reduced in a direction from the furnace inlet to the furnace outlet such that the far infrared rays are efficiently irradiated onto the articles of which entire height is gradually lowered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1990
    Assignees: Sekisui Kaseihin Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Hoton Ceramics Kabushiki Kaisha, Nichido Sangyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masanori Oguri