Patents by Inventor Carlton B. Mann

Carlton B. Mann has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and apparatus for circulating interior gases in an oven
    Patent number: 5857455
    Abstract: Heated oven inlet gases enter a receiving chamber within the oven and are disbursed into the oven interior through directionally oriented, venturi-like outlets. Interior oven gases are allowed to be drawn into the resulting low pressure zones so as to mix with the inlet gases and inducing a circulation pattern within the oven interior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1999
    Inventor: Carlton B. Mann
  • Top fired burn-off oven
    Patent number: 5351632
    Abstract: An oven for cleaning parts by a pyrolytic burn-off process is fired by a primary burner which heats the oven chamber from the top downwardly and the combustion gases, along with pyrolized volatile constituents, are withdrawn from the lowermost portion of the chamber and into an afterburner for final decomposition and discharge into the atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1994
    Inventor: Carlton B. Mann
  • Combustible atmosphere furnace control system
    Patent number: 5189963
    Abstract: The operation of a combustible atmosphere furnace is controlled by monitoring the temperature of the combustible atmosphere, and the rate-of-change thereof. The measured rate-of-change is compared to a previously determined safe rate-of-change so as to anticipate and discourage incipient internal ignition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1993
    Inventor: Carlton B. Mann