Abstract: Disclosed is an induction shield configured to substantially reduce emissions emitted from an induction heat source (e.g., coil) during use. The shield is positioned adjacent to a vessel (e.g., in an injection system) having a melting portion configured to receive meltable material to be melted therein and an induction heat source positioned adjacent the vessel configured to melt the meltable material received in the melting portion of the vessel. The shield may include a tube configuration configured to flow liquid therein to absorb heat emitted from the heat source. The tube configuration can comprise a single tube or multiple tubes. The shield can be positioned adjacent the induction source in a helical manner, for example, or at ends of the vessel. The shield can be used during melting of amorphous alloy and for forming a part.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electric channel inductor assembly. A nonremovable, hollow and nonmagnetic channel mold is used to form the one or more flow channels of the electric channel inductor assembly for electromagnetic circulation of a molten metal composition. A heated fluid medium is circulated in the hollow interior of the channel mold after the mold is situated in the inductor assembly to heat treat the refractory surrounding the exterior walls of the mold. After heat treatment a liquid is supplied to the hollow interior of the mold to chemically dissolve the channel mold prior to circulation of the molten metal composition.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electric channel inductor assembly and method of forming an electric channel inductor assembly. A nonremovable, hollow, nonmagnetic channel mold is used to form the one or more flow channels of the assembly. A heated fluid medium is circulated in the hollow interior of the mold after the mold is situated in the assembly to heat treat the refractory surrounding the exterior walls of the mold. After heat treatment a liquid is supplied to the hollow interior of the mold to chemically dissolve the mold.

Abstract: The present invention is based on a novel electric induction furnace design that enables the removal of zinc-containing filter dust (FD) originating from the production of steel (alloy or non-alloy) and the production of cast iron with galvanized steel scrap, using a novel process based on the carbothermal reduction of the metal oxides present in the FD, performed at the temperature at which the materials are melted inside the electric induction furnace. The electric induction furnace of the invention incorporates an electric arc or plasma beam generator to melt all the inorganic non-metallic material. The incorporation of this generator also enables the use of large volumes of molten slag.

Abstract: An AC melt to bushing current detector (FIG. 4) for a channel induction furnace (FIG. 1) which can detect when molten metal from the loop (122) in a saturated inductor (FIG. 5) has come in contact with the metal bushing (236) whereupon the power to the induction coil (234) is turned off, preventing a catastrophic molten metal run out through the bushing (236).

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for melting or refining glass or glass ceramics. According to the invention, a device of this type is provided with the following characteristics: a plurality of tubes which are U-shaped and arrange side by side so that they form a cage like skull channel that is open on top, and a high frequency oscillation circuit which comprises an induction coil. The tubes can be connected to a cooling medium. The induction coil wraps around the channel in such a manner that winding sections extend along the lateral walls of the channel.

Abstract: An induction-heated furnace is disclosed. The furnace comprises a shell lined with refractory material and has walls and a floor. At least one induction heater is located in the floor of the furnace, the induction heater communicating with the interior of the furnace through a throat. The throat length is a substantial part of the service length of the induction heater. The invention also discloses structures in the induction heater throat that aids the distribution of molten metal in the furnace.

Abstract: Apparatus for a metal reduction and melting process, in which a metal and carbon-containing burden is heated in an induction furnace including a heating vessel in which the burden can float in at least one heap on a liquid metal bath in the vessel, is characterized in that the apparatus includes at least one induction heater or inductor located at the bottom center line of the vessel, with the longitudinal access oriented perpendicular to the access of the vessel.

Abstract: Fine metallic particles are melted in a furnace having an upper region surrounded by a crucible coil and a lower region forming a channel holding a core of a channel inductor. The particles are filled from above into the vessel while simultaneously electrically energizing the inductor with alternating current to inductively heat and fuse the particles and thereby form a melt in the vessel and electrically energizing the coil with alternating current to mix the melt in the vessel while energizing the inductor.

Abstract: The present invention provides a metal containing compound reduction and melting process which entails feeding a burden made of a mixture of the metal containing compound and a suitable reductant in particulate form into an electrically heatable vessel which contains a bath of the metal in liquid form so that a reaction zone is formed in the burden in which the metal containing compound is reduced and a melting zone is formed below the reaction zone in which the reduced metal is melted; and controlling the process in such a manner that substantially all of the reduction of the metal containing compound takes place in the solid phase.

Abstract: A channel furnace for the inductive heating of metal includes a molten metal holding hearth and a core and coil assembly surrounded by a channel of the furnace for inducing heating current in the metal in the channel. The channel is separated from the core and coil assembly by a refractory insulator and a bushing interposed between the refractory insulator and the core and coil assembly. The bushing is comprised of a wall portion having a plurality of slits or gaps disposed in the wall for minimizing eddy current formation therein and correspondingly reducing power loss therefrom. The bushing can be configured as either a coil type comprised of a plurality of slits disposed to extend circumferentially or a cage type, wherein the slits are disposed to extend longitudinally for segregating the wall into a plurality of wall sections. Both types can be made of water cooled flat metal tubes instead of plates with slits.

Abstract: A bushing cap used to close a gap in a liquid cooled bushing which surrounds a coil contained in a channel induction furnace. The coil, bushing and bushing cap is further surrounded by a thin refractory layer which is further surrounded by a molten metal loop. The bushing cap and bushing are liquid cooled to maintain a substantial uniform thermal gradient about the thin refractory layer surrounding the bushing and bushing cap. Preferably, this is accomplished by way of a bushing cap having a cooling member attached to a cover and mounted within the bushing gap. A cooling fluid is passed through both the cooling member of the bushing cap and cooling channels within the bushing to maintain a substantial uniform thermal gradient about the thin refractory layer.

Abstract: A high frequency core and coil electric metal melting furnace is shown. This furnace has a lined channel in its inductor for carrying the molten metal. The invention provides an improved inductor for a core and coil furnace that is not subject to leakage of the molten metal from the channel into the rammed refractory support bed for the channel which leakage otherwise shortens the lift of the furnace. Also a method of lining the channel in the inductor for carrying the molten metal which forms the core is disclosed.

Abstract: The invention relates to channel induction furnaces employed for melting metals.A channel is arranged to extend downwardly from a bath and to form a loop whereby molten metal in the bath can pass into the looped channel to form a closed electrically conducting loop. A laminated iron core passes through a coil and forms a closed magnetic circuit linked with the coil and channel. Consequently, alternating current applied to the coil induces currents to flow in the molten metal in the channel, which metal is therefore heated. The molten metal is contained in the channel within a refractory lined vessel. With application of the alternating current to the coil electromagnetic forces are produced which are directed away from the walls of a channel. Thus a squeezing action is applied to the metal which produces an increase in static pressure towards the center of the channel relative to that at the wall. This pressure fluctuates from zero to a maximum value at twice the frequency of the induced current.

Abstract: A furnace for melting and melt-heat retaining of metals has two horizontal interspaced furnace vessels which form a melt chamber and each having a side wall facing the side wall of the other furnace vessel, each side wall having an opening horizontally aligned with the opening of the side wall of the other furnace vessel. A single inductor is positioned between these side walls and is formed by an integral block of ceramic having opposite ends abutting the outside of the side walls. The block has a transverse through-hole and two longitudinal through-holes straddling the transverse through-hole and open to the two furnace vessels so that they intercommunicate. The inductor has a core with an energizing coil and having a leg extending through the transverse hole. When the energizing coil is powered a melt in the two longitudinal through-holes is heated by an induced circuit which extends into and through melts in the two furnace vessels.

Abstract: Solid scrap metal particles are ingested into molten metal by use of a linear induction motor which establishes a strong upstream in the molten metal adjacent one boundary wall to establish a standing wave at the surface and a corresponding downstream adjacent the opposite boundary, which is preferably in the form of a baffle having a metal outlet passage beneath it.The linear induction motor is conveniently positioned at a sidewell of a melting furnace and a continuous flow of molten metal through the sidewell is established in any convenient way.

Abstract: A channel-type induction furnace of the teapot type comprising a crucible having a bottom, a channel-type inductor in the bottom and having a partially semi-circular channel opening into said bottom, and straight inlet and outlet melt conduits respectively extending to and from the bottom and positioned substantially tangentially with respect to said channel so as to extend straight into and from the channel.

Abstract: An induction coil, preferably for an induction heater, comprises a working coil, an outer casing and an inner lead-through channel for the workpieces, such as rods or tubes, which are to be treated in the induction coil. The region of the outer casing closest to the working coil consists of a layer of a rubber-elastic compound outside which is arranged a concrete casing. Using a two-part outer casing of this kind avoids the use of asbestos which is increasingly suspect because of its health hazard.

Abstract: A body of molten metal is simultaneously heated and rotated by the use of electromagnetic forces. In one embodiment, the melting of metals by induction heating is improved by using a circular spirally-wound electro-magnetic core located between a central flow channel and six peripherally-located flow channels. Three-phase electrical current is applied to the core windings to form a rotating magnetic field which intercepts the metal in the peripherally-located flow channels. The magnetic field causes heating of the metal in the peripheral channels with negligible heating in the central channel, thereby causing flow of heated metal through the peripheral channels to the bath. The magnetic field also causes rotational motion of the body of molten metal, thereby improving mixing and minimizing surface turbulence. In another embodiment, the electro-magnetic core is immersed in a body of molten metal to be surrounded thereby.

Abstract: The invention relates to a channel type induction furnace having at least one inductor and closed channels, including side channels, interconnected at the bottom, possibly via a bottom channel joining said channels, and possibly also a central channel extending between the hearth and the bottom channel, especially designed for aluminum, copper or other non-ferrous metals or non-ferrous alloys. The channel type induction furnace according to the invention is characterized in that the height of the channel in a plane through the longitudinal axis of the primary coil is at least 4.times..delta., where .delta. is the depth of penetration into the melt of the current induced in the channel, and the width of the channel is at least 6.times..delta..

Abstract: A horizontally elongated furnace to contain a molten metal flow having one end provided with an inlet and the other with an outlet for the flow. An AC powered channel-type inductor is connected to the furnace side wall at an opening below the level of the metal flow. The inductor may be removably mounted to the furnace.

Abstract: A channel induction furnace, particularly for melting aluminum has a pair of U-shaped channels extending downwardly from the bath. The channels have a radial width, measured outwardly from the axis of the core, which is several times the penetration depth in the molten metal for a current of the energizing frequency and the channel section is tapered so that the channel is wider near the core and narrower away from the core. The planes containing the axes of the channels are skewed about an axis of skewing normal to the axis of the core.