Abstract: The invention relates to a thermal insulation device (1) for thermal insulation of a metal product in a rolling mill, comprising a support element (2), on which a number of thermal insulation elements (3) is arranged. To extend the service life of such a device, the invention makes provision that at least one thermal insulation device (3) is formed by multiple side parts (4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9), which enclose within them an accommodating space for a thermal insulation material, wherein at least two of the side parts (4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) are connected with each other at their adjoining side areas by a hinge-like connection (10).

Abstract: This disclosure relates to equipment utilized to manufacture chemical agents, particularly biopharmaceuticals, using Disposable Containers (DCs).

Abstract: A heat treatment apparatus 10 for heat treating metals or metallic components includes a fluidized bed furnace 20 and a removable insert 30 which is accommodated within the fluidized bed 50 of the furnace 20. The removable insert 30 enables the geometry of the fluidized bed 50 to be optimized with respect to the size and shape of a component 70 which is to be heated.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device including a semiconductor substrate composed of silicon carbide, an upper surface electrode which contacts an upper surface of the substrate, and a lower surface electrode which contacts a lower surface of the substrate, the method including steps of: (a) forming an upper surface structure on the upper surface side of the substrate, and (b) forming a lower surface structure on the lower surface side of the substrate. The step (a) comprises steps of: (a1) depositing an upper surface electrode material layer on the upper surface of the substrate, the upper surface electrode material layer being a raw material layer of the upper surface electrode, and (a2) annealing the upper surface electrode material layer.

Abstract: A small hot-air circulation furnace performs continuous treatment using hot air at a fixed temperature. Hot air supplied from a heat source is blown out from an axial-flow fan toward a hearth to form a circulating flow passing through an annular heating-target mount on the rotating hearth. The heating-targets are taken out one by one after increasing the temperature of the heating-target on the mount to a predetermined point during one rotation of the hearth. Further, a partition whose outlet-side opening ?2 is narrower than the inlet-side opening ?1 is provided inside the annular partition to supply part of high-temperature gas blown.

Abstract: The invention describes a hood-type annealing furnace, especially for steel strip or wire bunches, with an annealing base (1) for receiving the material (7) to be annealed, a protective hood (8) which is placed on the furnace in a gas-tight manner, a radial blower (2) which is held in the annealing base (1) and comprises a blade wheel (3) and a guide apparatus (5) enclosing the blade wheel (3) for circulating a protective gas in the protective hood (8), a heat exchanger (11) for cooling the protective gas, which heat exchanger (11) is connected on the input side via a flow conduit (13) with the pressure side of the radial blower (2) and opens on the output side in an annular gap (12) between the guide apparatus (5) and the protective hood (8), and a deflection device which is axially displaceable into the pressure-side flow path of the radial blower (2) for the optional connection to the radial blower (2) of the flow conduit (13) which leads to the heat exchanger (11).

Abstract: A method and system of processing castings is provided in which one or more castings are deposited into a mobile furnace and moved from one station to another of a multi-station casting processing system. The interior of the mobile furnace is heated so as to maintain the temperature of the casting within a desired range of temperatures. The multi-station casting processing system may include a casting machine, a fluidized bed and a quench tank. The method may include transferring a casting into the mobile furnace and moving the furnace from one station to another.

Abstract: A container mixer typically comprises a mixer inside a container tank. The mixer comprises a shaft and blades mounted on the shaft, an actuator positioned outside the container tank, and a coupler with which the mixer is coupled to the actuator. The container tank has a quick coupling which enables the actuator to be detached temporarily from the container tank. The quick coupling comprises a separate shaft coupling piece, detachable when necessary, fitted between the actuator drive shaft and the mixer shaft in such a way that the motion of the actuator is transmitted by transmission of the shaft coupling piece to the mixer shaft. In addition the quick coupling has quick coupling and quick-release devices which lock the shaft coupling piece between the drive shaft and the mixer shaft.

Abstract: A process for heat treatment of a plastically moldable workpiece, by plastically molding the workpiece at a first temperature to form a shape, mechanically restraining the workpiece by means of form-fitting, bringing the workpiece to a second temperature and subjecting it at least partially to a heat treatment, and removing the workpiece, wherein mechanically restraining the workpiece by means of form-fitting is accomplished by embedding the workpiece in a densely packed pourable embedding material located in a container, wherein the embedding material is stressed. The invention also includes an apparatus for practicing the process.

Abstract: A bell type annealing furnace structure that includes a base which has a base plate member and an annular channel therearound. A plurality of circumferentially spaced enclosure members are provided, each having a coil support section with support legs depending therefrom supporting the enclosure member on the base plate member and defining a space between the base plate member and the coil support section. The enclosure members are configured to form a central annular opening, and joints interconnect each of the enclosure members. Each joint includes a web member extending between the adjacent enclosure members and is curved toward the base plate member. Reinforcing segments are disposed in the spaces between and engaging both the base plate member and the coil support section. A cap member is disposed in the annular opening defined by the enclosure members, and includes an upper section and an annular leg depending therefrom engaging the base plate member.

Abstract: An apparatus for heat-treating metallic workpieces, which includes two successive furnaces, a feeding device for feeding workpieces to the first furnace, and conveyor means from transporting workpieces from the first to the second furnace. Both furnaces are equipped with gas-tight inlet and out doors. The conveyor means are also gas-tight. The furnaces are each equipped with means for controlling temperature, dwell time and atmosphere.

Abstract: A zone controlled furnace for heat-treating of metallic and non-metallic stocks positions one or more modular metallic combustion burners in the furnace chamber and along the path of the stock to selectively control the heat supplied to any zone of the furnace chamber. The burners receive and ignite a high pressure premix of combustible gas and are illustrated by a porous fiber metallic sheet and a jet burner arrangement which discharge flames direct, and a jet nozzle which discharges heated combusted products. The high pressure/velocity flame and products of combustion ejecting from the burners will impinge on the workpieces and generate a very high convective heat transfer rate in a turbulent flow, as well as radiant heat, thereby resulting in uniform heating of non-uniform shaped pieces and maximizing overall heat transfer in the furnace. The apparatus can be controlled to act in a heating mode, or in only a cooling mode, or a combination of modes in any zone for precise temperature control.

Abstract: A high temperature, low NO.sub.x industrial furnace uses coal-fired burners placed in an arcuate heat track conduit which heats an arcuately configured wall member extending through an opening in the heat track conduit. The heated portion of the wall member rotates out of the heat track conduit to indirectly heat a bundle or bank of heat exchange tubes while an unheated wall portion moves into the opening vacated by the heated wall portion. The regenerative heated wall member thus permits the heat exchange tube bundle to be heated to high temperature without exposure to the burner products of combustion. The coal-fired burners are operated substoichiometrically to produce combustibles and a free-standing, jet entrainment arrangement is utilized to achieve staged combustion to avoid NO.sub.x formation.

Abstract: The loading car (25) transfers the batch and deposits it on the plug (10) of the furnace (1).The batch is introduced into the furnace (1) and the latter is closed by means of the lift (12) which is lowered after the treatment to an intermediate position, from which moment the furnace (1 ) can be displaced horizontally, the lower belt (4) pushing the grid at the bottom of the batch over the cover (17) and the platform (22) of the lift (18) being in the upper position. The cover (17) ensures the imperviousness of the furnace opening to the gases protecting the batch.This lift allows the batch to be introduced into the hardening vat then brought back into a drain position and deposited on the unloading car (38) which moves along the track (36, 37).

Abstract: A high temperature, low NO.sub.x industrial furnace coal-fired burners placed in an arcuate heat track conduit which heats an arcuately configured wall member extending through an opening in the heat track conduit. The heated portion of the wall member rotates out of the heat track conduit to indirectly heat a bundle or bank of heat exchange tubes while an unheated wall portion moves into the opening vacated by the heated wall portion. The regenerative heated wall member thus permits the heat exchange tube bundle to be heated to high temperature without exposure to the burner products of combustion. The coal-fired burners are operated substoichiometrically to produce combustibles and a free-standing, jet entrainment arrangement is utilized to achieve staged combustion to avoid NO.sub.x formation.

Abstract: A machine for the thermo-mechanical treatment of parts made of memory alloys contains: a thermally insulated chamber connected to a source of gaseous fluid and a support, capable of being introduced into a chamber, for carrying a plurality of crowns superimposed on one another. The parts made of memory alloy are placed between the crowns where the gaseous fluid passes through. Tension is applied to the crown in a controlled operating cycle.

Abstract: A rotary oil seal gas purge system for a rotary carburizing furnace, having a rotatable hearth in a furnace chamber containing a high carbon-potential furnace atmosphere comprising an endothermic carrier gas enriched with a hydrocarbon gas, features gas purge ports located adjacent to the oil seal(s) of the hearth for injecting non-carbon-enriched endothermic gas to purge the high carbon-potential furnace atmosphere from the area adjacent the seal(s) and prevent carbon precipitation into the seal(s). Also disclosed is an oil seal management system for a rotary carburizing furnace including a settling tank for accepting seal oil from the furnace oil seal(s), a pump supply tank for receiving oil from the settling tank, a pump for pumping oil from the pump supply tank through a heat exchanger and to the furnace oil seal(s), and a centrifuge for cleaning seal oil coming from the heat exchanger before returning it to the pump supply tank.

Abstract: Direct softening heat treatment of rolled wire rods comprises the steps:providing wire rods by hot- or warm-rolling, andimmediately following rolling, coiling the rolled wire rods in an annealing furnace. Apparatus therefor comprises an annealing furnace provided with an externally or internally built coiler for rolled wire rods disposed adjacent to a rolling line of said wire rods, the coiler being disposed so as to directly receive the rolled wire rods.

Abstract: A base for a heat treating furnace for annealing coils of steel strip. The base supports the coils in a sealed compartment through which an inert gas is circulated, and defines the bottom of the sealed compartment. The base comprises a top plate assembly, a floor, and side walls that define therein a sealed enclosure. The top plate assembly is supported on a plurality of upright, annular, concentric bearing partitions located in the enclosure that slidingly engage the bottom surfaces of the top plate assembly in a manner to accommodate radial thermal expansion and contraction. The spaces between the upright partitions are filled with a lightweight thermal insulating material. The top plate assembly comprises at least two coplanar plate sections located one-within-the-other and joined by an annular expansion joint. The joint has a "U" shape when viewed in cross section and accommodates radial thermal expansion and contraction of the top plate sections relative to one another.

Abstract: Apparatus for setting and resetting a portion of a shape-memory alloy part, the apparatus including an enclosing chamber having openings for the portion, a body of solid particles in the chamber, a pressure member connected to the chamber to immobilize the particles and the portion and a mechanism for heating the portion to a resetting temperature while immobilized, is disclosed.

Abstract: Disclosed is a coil-annealing spacer which comprises a pair of upper and lower discs, each having a round hole in the central portion thereof, and longitudinal ribs disposed between the discs and secured thereto and extended radially or spirally radially from the round hole of each disc toward the periphery, wherein heat transfer fins are arranged on the inner wall of a gas passage defined by said upper and lower discs and said longitudinal rib along the flow of an atmosphere gas.If this coil-annealing spacer is used, the heating/cooling time is shortened at the annealing step to enhance the manufacturing capacity, and the deviation of the quality in the product coil is reduced.

Abstract: In a process for producing a grain-oriented electromagnetic steel strip or sheet by annealing, for primary recrystallization, a cold rolled electromagnetic steel strip or sheet having a final thickness, and subjecting said strip or sheet to secondary recrystallization annealing by heating it so that any portion of said strip or sheet along its width or length may pass through the boundary between the temperature ranges for primary recrystallization and secondary recrystallization with a predetermined temperature gradient, the improvement wherein said secondary recrystallization annealing is achieved by applying a principal supply of heat to at least one end of a coil of said strip or a stack or a plurality of said sheets.

Abstract: This invention provides a spacer for vertically separating coils in an annealing furnace. The spacer includes a lower segmental plate and an upper segmental plate, and ribs between the segmental plates and affixed thereto. A porous medium is disposed between the segmental plates, so that the porous medium can be heated by hot gas passing through it, and can then radiate heat to the inside surfaces of the segmental plates.

Abstract: Apparatus for treating a metal charge comprises a box furnace and a container containing material for treating the charge. The box furnace is mounted on props whose length is sufficient to permit the container to be positioned under the furnace. The furnace has a shroud within which the charge is heated. Means are provided for introducing the charge into the furnace. The shroud and the container are provided with alignable openings through which the heated charge can be transferred, by charge-transfer means, from the furnace to the container. Pressurized gas is supplied to the interiors of the shroud and the container. The charge-transfer means comprises a carrier supported within the container by a support positioned outside the container. Vertical movement of the support relative to the container causes vertical movement of the carrier.

Abstract: A protective sleeve, for a cover used to enclose metal coils in an annealing furnace having a plurality of fuel burners whereby the coils are protected from the direct flame of the burners, comprising a circumscribing band mounted on the cover and held in spaced relationship from the cover, the band being interposed between the cover and the burners.

Abstract: Coils of strip to be annealed are placed in a furnace with their eye vertical and are heated to the annealing temperature by heating elements on the furnace side wall at the same elevation as the coils. An insulation shield is provided between the heating elements and the coil. This may be a cover surrounding the coil in spaced relationship therewith and extending the full height of the coil.