Abstract:
The present invention relates to a device and a method for transversely moving tubular material inside a furnace, in which the tubes are able to roll in order to have a path per cycle that is 2.5 times as great as that obtained in the case of moving bars, and in which the tubes are pushed by a series of toothed bars that have an upward and downward movement plus a horizontal movement in vacuum. The device and a method for moving tubular material inside an furnace allows a greater rotation of the tubes over short cycle times, solves the problems of twisting of smaller-diameter tubes (tubing) in quench furnaces and meets the need to rotate the tubes when there is no forward movement, which may be necessary when cycle times are long or when unloading from the furnace is interrupted.
Abstract:
The continuous heat treatment furnace of the present invention is provided with at least one drying and binder-removing area where drying of the objects to be thermally treated and/or removal of binder are carried out and a firing area where the objects to be thermally treated is fired in succession from inlet side towards outlet side of the furnace, the objects to be thermally treated being subjected to drying and/or removal of binder while being transported through the drying and binder-removing area and thereafter being fired while being transported through the firing area, wherein the heat treatment furnace has at least two transporting mechanisms disposed along the transporting direction of the objects to be thermally treated as transporting mechanisms for transporting the objects to be thermally treated, the objects to be thermally treated are transported by different transporting mechanisms in the drying and binder-removing area and the firing area, respectively, and the transporting speed of each transporting mechanism is set so that the transporting speed in the drying and binder-removing area and the transporting speed in the firing area differ from each other.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a roller hearth furnace (1) for heating and/or temperature equilibration of continuous cast products (2), comprising a first series of rollers (13) running in the longitudinal direction (12) and a second parallel series of rollers (15) on the outlet side (14), wherein a buffer zone (16) with lifting elements (17) for the perpendicular transport of the continuous cast product (2) is arranged between the series of rollers (13, 15). Furthermore, alternative arrangements for a further process route (28) are provided.
Abstract:
A furnace for the heat treatment of individual parts, in particular metal sheeting, which has a transport apparatus for conveying the parts to be treated through the furnace. This transport apparatus has two groups of longitudinal beams for supporting the parts, the beams lying alternatively adjacent one another in spaced relationship and at least one beam group of which being movable forwardly into a higher position than the other beam group along a partial stretch of the transport route and subsequently being movable back into its initial position into a lower position than this other beam group. A support structure supporting the beam and movable therewith is provided beneath each longitudinal beam, the support structure having at least one side surface extending continuously over the entire length of the supporting structure and facing the support structure of the adjacent longitudinal beam. In accordance with the invention, a tube is provided between two neighbouring support structures which also extends over the entire length of the support structures, the tube being expandable in cross section by filling this with a pneumatic or hydraulic pressurized substance and thus being able to be brought into tight engagement with the said side surface.
Abstract:
Reciprocal furnace for heating metallic parts to a predetermined temperature has a horizontally reciprocal hearth. The hearth includes a multi-layer firebrick base on which is carried a ceramic fixture adapted to receive the metal parts to be heated in the furnace. The ceramic fixture has a plurality of parallel slots which are longitudinally spaced apart in a direction corresponding to the reciprocal movement of the hearth. The hearth is supported at its underside by a reciprocal drive mechanism and is moved incrementally by a drive motor to advance each slot of the fixture in sequence to a predetermined position at which a part is inserted therein by the reciprocal feed mechanism. After all the slots have been sequentially loaded, the hearth is retracted by the reciprocal drive mechanism to its initial position at which the part, first inserted, is removed and another part is inserted in the same slot. The loading and unloading cycle is repeated continuously. The total time for loading all the slots and retracting the fixture to its initial position, at which the first part is removed, is equal to the cycle time necessary to heat the parts to the predetermined temperature.
Abstract:
A walking beam type reheating furnace which is provided with a furnace housing, stationary beams fixedly mounted in the furnace housing, first movable beams arranged on the charge side in the furnace housing, second movable beams arranged separately from the first movable beams on the discharge side in the furnace housing and a steel workpiece transfer device capable of transferring a steel workpiece which is placed in a zone where the first movable beams are located to a predetermined position in the vicinity of a separating portion of the first and second movable beams by passing the steel workpiece over the stationary beams and the first movable beams, wherein the first and second movable beams can be independently driven from each other.
Abstract:
Device for temperature homogenization of passing metallic products (3), housed in the bed plate of the temperature equalization zone of a reheating furnace and constituted by elongated polyphase static sliding field inductors (14) located in the extension of elements (9) supporting the metallic products in the heating zone (7) of the furnace. The device achieves efficient and rapid heating by enabling precise localization of the heating zone in a predetermined part of the metallic product to be treated, and is particularly useful for treating large dimension products, such as large slabs, in order to attenuate or eliminate skid marks (20) which are usually present upon their emergence from prior art reheating furnaces.
Abstract:
Walking beam assemblies used to advance workpieces in a reheat furnace include upper and lower runs of coolant pipes spaced and joined together by web plates to extend along each of the opposite lateral sides of a body of refractory that contacts the workpieces. The web plates support clip members that have a bent midportion to wrap around the upper run of the coolant pipe. A leg section of each clip member extends along the side of the refractory material to an elevation spaced below the workpiece-engaging face of the refractory. Support members including gusset plates are carried by the refractory support member to engage the lower run of the coolant pipe and extend along the web plates for support.
Abstract:
A furnace workpiece-support system has at least one horizontal workpiece-support tube through which a fluid coolant is circulated and which is supported on at least one vertical tube that is connected at its upper end to this horizontal tube and that has a blind lower end. A flow-diversion pipe has an upper intake end opening in an upstream direction into the horizontal tube and a lower end opening downwardly into the vertical tube. This pipe is received with clearance in the vertical tube so that coolant diverted by the pipe from the horizontal tube is injected downwardly into the vertical pipe to cool it and then rises vertically in the vertical tube around the pipe to reenter the horizontal tube after cooling the vertical tube. A deflection plate is mounted in the horizontal tube and generally blocks at least the lower part of the flow cross section thereof at a location downstream of the intake end of the pipe, but upstream of the upper end of the vertical tube so that fluid rising in the vertical tube can rejoin the fluid stream in the horizontal tube without turbulence.