Patents Assigned to Consarc Engineering Limited
  • De-oiling method
    Patent number: 5925194
    Abstract: An apparatus for use in de-oiling components comprises a furnace (10) for receiving components to be de-oiled and pumps (12, 14, 16) for creating a vacuum in the furnace. At least one of the pumps is a liquid ring pump. Oil is utilised to form the liquid ring and the oil is selected to be compatable with or the same as the oil to be removed from the contaminated components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1999
    Assignee: Consarc Engineering Limited
    Inventors: John Glencross Wilson, John Corstorphine
  • Induction melting and casting apparatus
    Patent number: 5329989
    Abstract: The apparatus includes casting stations disposed around a melt chamber of a furnace. Each casting station has a tundish for selectively transporting melt to the desired casting station. The apparatus is provided with apertures in the walls of the melting chamber to allow the tundishes to enter the melt chamber through fixed vacuum seals to receive molten metal from a tiltable melting unit and to convey the melt through the vacuum gate valve to the desired casting station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 19, 1994
    Assignee: Consarc Engineering Limited
    Inventor: John G. Wilson