Abstract: A process for baking electrically conductive wires clad in insulating plastics resin, comprising a first, evaporation stage for evaporation of solvents and a second resin polymerization and cross-linking stage, which are performed respectively in a first and in a second region of a tunnel chamber in a continuous oven between the inlet regions and outlet regions of which the wires advance, a third stage comprising aspiration from the oven of a mixture of air and solvents formed during the first evaporation stage, and a fourth stage comprising heating this mixture to a predetermined temperature such as to cause combustion of the solvents, and including a fifth stage of introducing heat energy to these regions of the oven from at least part of the stream of air and combustion products coming from the fourth stage, through heat exchangers disposed on the outer surface of this tunnel chamber, in such a way as significantly to reduce the introduction of heat energy provided to the chamber by heating means supplied

Abstract: A furnace for firing an enamel-insulated wire comprising a principal cham, an auxiliary unit for withdrawing a first stream of air and solvent vapors from this principal chamber for effecting combustion of the vapors themselves. A part of a second stream leaving the auxiliary unit is mixed with a volume of air at ambient temperature and passed to the principal chamber; another part is sent to a heat exchanger in which it gives up part of its thermal energy to a second volume of air at ambient temperature which is heated and introduced into the principal chamber.

Abstract: A furnace for firing electrically conductive wires clad with an insulating lastics resin, comprising a principal chamber defining a first portion in which evaporation of solvents from the resin takes place and a second portion in which this resin is polymerized and cross linked, and a diffuser element provided with separator means operable to divide the gas stream into a plurality of partial streams and means for distribution and introduction of these partial streams into a peripheral zone of the first portion in a direction substantially parallel to the lateral surface of the first portion itself.