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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 1977
Filed:
Dec. 04, 1975
Applicant:
Inventors:
Vernon F Manz, North Palm Beach, FL (US);
Robert A Metcalfe, West Palm Beach, FL (US);
Assignee:
United Technologies Corporation, Hartford, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C21B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
266173 ; 266145 ;
Abstract
A conveyor tube construction for transporting particulate material as it passes through a furnace, the heating elements being a plurality of parallel radiant heating rods parallel to the conveyor tube and surrounding the tube in spaced relation to the tube and to each other. The tube has baffles on its inner surface to insure adequate tumbling so that the particulate material will be fully heated as it passes through the furnace.