Abstract: A furnace for heating work material comprises an outer wall defining a space therein. A first upright cylindrical shell is disposed within the space and defines a work chamber for receiving work material to be heated. A second upright cylindrical shell surrounds and is spaced outwardly of the first shell to form a heater space therebetween. A heater assembly comprises support pins disposed across and supported atop the first and second shells. A generally vertically extending electrical heating element is supported from the support means, is disposed within the heating space, and extends around at least a portion of the periphery of the first shell. The heating element is unconstrained against free thermal expansion and contraction in vertical directions relative to the first and second shells.

Abstract: This invention relates to an improved electrically heated sprue bushing for injection molding. The sprue bushing has a central runner passage for conveying melt from the molding machine or manifold to the cavity. The runner passage extends through an elongated inner core portion having an undulating outer surface in the form of a helical ridge with a rounded cross section. A single element electrical heating element with a helical configuration is located over the core portion and an outer shell portion is cast over them to form the sprue bushing as an integral unit. The inner core portion is formed of a high strength material such as a beryllium nickel alloy and the outer shell portion is formed of a highly conductive material such as a beryllium copper alloy. The coils of the heating element are separated from each other and threaded in the opposite direction to the helical ridge on the outer surface of the core portion.

Abstract: An internally heatable nozzle provided with a divisible housing having a cylindrical bore narrowed at one end towards the mouth opening of the nozzle in which bore a cylindrical core is connected at one end in said housing, said core being divisible in transverse direction, its two parts being provided with directly adjacent flanges, which flanges have throughgoing axially channels lying in the extension of the annular channel of the housing and which flanges fit in between inner shoulders on the two parts of the housing, between which parts tensile elements are operative tightening the core parts together, the core being conical at one end and being provided with an internal heating element with connecting leads passed laterally through said housing, an annular channel being arranged between said core and said housing on the side remote from the mouth opening.

Abstract: A spigot for connecting the inlet of a low pressure casting mould to a pipeline connected to an electromagnetic pump for supplying the mould with liquid metal, the spigot being adapted to be clamped against the mould inlet, comprises a supply conduit surrounded by thermally insulating means within an external metal jacket, said conduit including a sleeve at that end to be connected to the mould inlet which is removable from the spigot in the event that metal solidifies in the sleeve, the sleeve being made of thermally insulating refractory material and being held in place, in use, by clamping the spigot to the mould inlet.

Abstract: Evaporation source for vacuum deposition, comprising a refractory crucible provided in its outer surface with conducting members traversed by an electric current and able to raise the crucible temperature by Joule effect, in which the said outer surface is coated, prior to fitting the conducting members, with a thin intermediate coating layer which does not react with the crucible but which is in intimate contact with the latter.A particular application is the vacuum heating to elevated temperature of crucibles.

Abstract: A glass or ceramic cooking vessel of the type commonly employed in slow cookers is provided with heating apparatus for heating the vessel in a substantially uniform manner. An electric heating element is supported in a position spaced from the vessel such that direct conduction of heat to the vessel is prevented, heat transfer means being provided to conduct heat from the heating element to the vessel over an extended portion of the vessel's outer surface.

Abstract: An electrically heated furnace assembly, suitable for a hot isostatic press, having windings of one or more resistance heating elements, helically wound about the longitudinal axis of the furnace assembly; rigid insulating sleeves, enclosing the heating elements and substantially covering their surfaces; the insulating sleeves abutting against the leading and trailing edges of one another and against the outer, upper and lower surfaces of one another; and a spiral shelf provided about the longitudinal axis of the furnace assembly, underlying the heating elements, and abutting against the outer lower surfaces of the insulating sleeves which enclose the lowermost winding of the resistance heating elements.

Abstract: A portable and/or stationary electric oven in which the heating element takes the form of a silicone rubber sheet wrapped around the walls of the oven, and which includes nickel alloy electric heater wires embedded in the silicone rubber sheet.

Abstract: An appliance for sterilizing and melting plastic items such as found in hospitals or the like, for example, which appliance includes a chamber containing a foil casing within which the items are placed, and means for heating the chamber for a temperature and time cycle sufficient to soften or melt the plastic items which when cooled will form a solid body of plastic material containing within it other non-melted disposable items such as might have been included with the plastic items.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for the application of a hot-melt resin adhesive wherein an enclosed chamber having a restricted discharge orifice is provided with a valve element for opening and closing said orifice; a non-oxidizing gas is introduced into the chamber at super-atmospheric pressure with a charge of resin adhesive, and heat is applied uniformly to the chamber to cause the adhesive to attain a viscous, flowable condition. The gas under super-atmospheric pressure forces a portion of the flowable resin through the orifice when the valve element is in open position.