Patents Assigned to Affimet
  • Apparatus for heat treating fragmented materials
    Patent number: 4106894
    Abstract: Apparatus for heating elements broken up in small pieces wherein the pieces are loaded into baskets with solid vertical walls and perforated or porous bases, and are pushed in a continuous line into a tunnel to there introduce a hot gas which passes vertically through each basket and its contents. A principal application is the preheating of products feeding a smelting or resmelting furnace, and in this case the hot gases used are fumes from the furnace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 15, 1978
    Assignees: Bertin & Cie, Affimet
    Inventors: Andre Henri-Robert Bobleter, Jacques Louis-Paul Simonnet