Abstract: Organic gases and the like containing poisonous dioxin and so on which are evaporated from articles when they are subjected to a heat treatment such as degreasing, are led from a muffle where they are heated into radiant heating tubes located outside the muffle and loaded with a negative pressure, and they are discharged into the air on account of the negative pressure working in the heating tubes after they have been substantially completely pyrolyzed in the heating tubes.

Abstract: So that the brazing of aluminum parts with the use of a flux can be made effectively without employment of a corrodible metallic muffle, furnace inner walls made of carbonaceous refractory sheets are utilized as a brazing space, and an inert atmosphere supplied into this space is protected from the air by furnace outer walls which are made of steel sheets to form a furnace shell and which are made hermetical against the air.

Abstract: In order to prevent air pollution, gases evaporated from articles preheated in a preheating chamber of a continuous furnace are automatically and compulsorily sucked into a high-temperature chamber annexed to the preheating chamber by creating a negative pressure working in the high-temperature chamber. After the gases have been completely oxidized and decomposed in the high-temperature chamber at a high temperature and under an excess of oxygen, they are exhausted outside of the furnace via an exhaust-pipe extending through the preheating chamber, so that they join to heat the preheating chamber.

Abstract: So that the brazing of aluminium parts with the use of a flux can be made effectively without employment of a corrodible metallic muffle, furnace inner walls made of carbonaceous refractory sheets are utilized as a brazing space, and an inert atmosphere supplied into this space is protected from the air by furnace outer walls which are made of steel sheets to form a furnace shell and which are made hermetical against the air.

Abstract: Combustibles such as oily substances adhered to or impregnated in metallic articles are removed, before the articles are subjected to a heat-treatment for carburizing or sintering them, by heating them in a heating chamber with a combustion tube, and discharging the combustibles outside of the chamber after having sucked under a negative air pressure the combustibles into the tube instantly they have been evaporated from the articles and after having burnt the combustibles in the tube.

Abstract: A method of brazing aluminium parts with a solder of a melting point of 500-630.degree. C. and a flux of a melting point of 550-500.degree. C., the brazing being made by successively heating them at a comparatively low temperature of 580-660.degree. C. under an inert gas atmosphere filled in an elongated muffle which is made of carbon, graphite or carbon fibre-reinforced carbon, wherein the muffle which contributes to keep the atmosphere at a high purity shall not be damaged by the flux liquidized with the heating of the parts, and wherein carbon of the muffle works to keep the atmosphere inert whereby the flux itself is also prevented from oxidation.

Abstract: Oily substances applied over metallic articles such as aluminum parts have to be removed before brazing them. Their removal is made by heating the parts in an inexplosive gas atmosphere in a heating chamber whereby the oily substances are evaporated into the gas atmosphere which is continuously circulated through a closed circuit consisted of said heating chamber and passage connecting a gas inlet and outlet of the heating chamber. The oily substances carried by the gas are removed from the gas in the passage.

Abstract: An exhaust gas of hydrocarbon is converted to an exothermic generated gas when it is burnt with air in a burner. The exothermic generated gas which has been dehydrated, is employed as a furnace atmosphere for decarburization or carburizing heat treatment, by the addition thereto of cracked methanol gas so that CO and H.sub.2 contents of the atmosphere gas may get near 1:1.

Abstract: In order to have metallic articles to be brazed preheated evenly as a whole before transferring them into a brazing chamber of a continuous furnace where a high brazing temperature is created, a difference of temperatures of parts of the articles during their preheating is remotely sensed by means of their infrared energies and is minimized as small as possible by changing a transfer speed of the articles during their preheating with reference to the information based upon the infrared energies then sensed. A brazing period of time in the brazing chamber is kept constant and short, irrespectively of the transfer speed of the articles.

Abstract: A novel fluoride flux with Li ions which is extermely insoluble to water and thus noncorrosive, and which is excellent especially for use with the brazing of articles made of aluminum alloys containing Mg. A novel method for preparing such fluoride flux by a dry process is also described.

Abstract: A ferric article is brazed by a copper solder at a temperature of or higher than 1,100.degree. C. in a heat-treatment furnace, parts of the article which are desired to be carburized, are carburized simultaneously with the brazing by covering with organic materials such as an old newspaper and the like.

Abstract: Elongated structural components having a cross-section such as of a letter of H, U, or T and made of carbon fibre-reinforced carbon are manufactured without employing specific dies correspondent to the aforementioned cross-section. A plurality of square tubes prepared simply by winding carbon fibres over a square mandrel and impregnating with adhesives, are bundled to a single block, wound with aramid fibres, and subjected to heating for the carbonization of the adhesives and consequently of said block of tubes. The carbonized block is cut along its longitudinal axes into a number of elongated pieces having the desired cross-section.

Abstract: A gas agitator for reforming a furnace atmosphere in a continuous heat treatment furnace. Rotary vanes of the agitator induces the furnace atmosphere toward the center of rotation of the vanes, due to a negative pressure produced by the rotation of vanes. Additive gas for reforming the atmosphere in the furnace is also introduced to said center. The atmosphere and additive gases are mixed with each other at once when the additive gas is introduced into the furnace, and radially ejected to contact with an annular catalyst agent. The annular inner surface of catalyst agent is located closely to rotary locus of the vanes, so that the mixed atmosphere and additive gases can come into immediate contact with the catalyst. The catalyst agent has no bottom, so that the furnace atmosphere is freely induced to the center of rotation of vanes, on account of the aforementioned negative pressure generated at and about said center.

Abstract: In place of mechanical complicated pressure means which apply a pressure upon binder impregnated carbon fibers when they are heated to be a compounded compact of a desired shape, thermo-resistant fibers having a negative coefficient of linear expansion and wound up directly or indirectly over the carbon fibers, are employed so that they tightly fasten the carbon fibers under a pressure on account of their contraction by heat, whereby the shaping and heating of the carbon fibers can readily be achieved and controlled.

Abstract: Carbon or inorganic fibers are wound up cylindrically so as to have numerous intersections to each other. They are bound integrally to each other at points including their intersections to form cylindrical component parts which may be used within an extremely high-temperature furnace, such as when used as parts of belt conveyors and trays for carrying articles to be treated within the furnace. The cylinders thus made are comparatively thin and extremely light in weight, while they are afforded with a tensile strength sufficiently high enough to stand against loads exerted thereupon in the furnace.

Abstract: A superconductive substance is formed into fine wires readily without producing surface defects on the wires and correctly with a predetermined even diametric thickness. Highly refractory metallic core is heated to a predetermined temperature higher than the eutectic point of powders which constitute the superconductive substance, and passed through said powders whereby the powders which make contact with the core melt and adhere to the core with a predetermined uniform thickness, forming a fine wire made from the superconductive substance.

Abstract: A conveyor belt for circulating within a high temperature furnace, which is consisted of a desired number of flattened cylinders, each of the cylinders being composed of a number of carbon or ceramic fibers cylindrically wound up and flattened. The fibers extend substantially in parallel with a longitudinal or moving direction of the conveyor belt, so that they can exhibit well their tensile strength when the belt is circulated through the furnace. The flattened cylinders are hinged to each other by hinge pins made of carbon or ceramic materials, and are kept as flattened and stretched by means of planar stretchers located within an inner hollow space of each of the flattened cylinders and made also from carbon or ceramic materials.

Abstract: In a high-temperature heating furnace, its central longitudinal passage in which articles to be heated are placed, and its inner support which makes a space between its inner surface and the above-mentioned passage for accommodating heaters therein and which makes also another space between its outer surface and a furnace shell for filling insulators therein, are both installed in the furnace by assembling a plurality of thin plates made of carbon fiber reinforced graphite or carbon compounds to cuboids which are coaxial to each other and have rectangular cross sections.

Abstract: In a continuous heating furnace, particularly in a preheating chamber thereof, forced heat convections of an atmosphere gas are produced to heat articles rapidly. The convections which circulate transversely to a longitudinal axis of the furnace, retard an axial flow of the atmosphere gas. This retardation is lassened by having the convections flown portionally as branch streams toward an intake opening of the furnace by means of novel baffle plate or vane means which are provided in the preheating chamber so as to be outside a moving path of articles through the chamber and within circulating paths of convections.