Heat treatment furnace

Seals, Roland D; Parrott, Jeffrey G; DeMint, Paul D; Finney, Kevin R; Blue, Charles T

Title: Heat treatment furnace

Patent · Tue Oct 21 00:00:00 EDT 2014

OSTI ID:1160268

Seals, Roland D; Parrott, Jeffrey G; DeMint, Paul D; Finney, Kevin R; Blue, Charles T

A furnace heats through both infrared radiation and convective air utilizing an infrared/purge gas design that enables improved temperature control to enable more uniform treatment of workpieces. The furnace utilizes lamps, the electrical end connections of which are located in an enclosure outside the furnace chamber, with the lamps extending into the furnace chamber through openings in the wall of the chamber. The enclosure is purged with gas, which gas flows from the enclosure into the furnace chamber via the openings in the wall of the chamber so that the gas flows above and around the lamps and is heated to form a convective mechanism in heating parts.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant (Y-12), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

DOE Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22800

Assignee:: Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (Reston, VA)

Patent Number(s):: 8,865,058

Application Number:: 13/086,840

OSTI ID:: 1160268

Resource Relation:: Patent File Date: 2011 Apr 14

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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