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Number: 266
Name: Metallurgical apparatus >
Description: This class provides for apparatus for: a) enriching metal bearing ores, b) extracting metals from their source materials, c) refining, purifying or otherwise treating molten or liquefied metals where such treatment is not elsewhere provided for, d) melting metals and e) establishing desired physical or chemical properties in solid metal objects, and for subcombinations peculiar to such apparatus. This class also provides for methods of operating such apparatus where not elsewhere provided for.


Class Number Class Name No. of Patents
266/165

Ambulant vessel

49
266/904

Blowpipe cutting heads

7
266/902

Blowpipes specialized to transversely cut or notch blooms, billets or bars

6
266/160

Combined or convertible

87
266/142

Geographic or structural installation

74
266/143

Having refining vessel with travelling support

34
266/114

Having means for contacting a solid metalliferous material or metal object with a liquid

89
266/120

By immersing an article to be treated in bath of molten material, e.g., salt bath

36
266/134

By means contacting only selected areas of treated article with liquid

28
266/121

With heating means, e.g., flame contact

12
266/128

By electric heating means

9
266/129

Inductance type

127
266/123

By heating means adapted to be inserted into a hollow object

10
266/124

By means heating selected areas of an object

5
266/125

By means specialized to heat an article having an irregular contour (e.g., cams, gears)

24
266/126

By heating means configured to fit between adjacent gear teeth

7
266/122

By means treating metalliferous materials, e.g., ores

7
266/130

Having bath for contacting the work with liquid

26
266/133

Having means to move work through bath

30
266/132

Having work introducing elevator

14
266/131

With means to agitate or control temperature of bath

23
266/127

Unitized heating and fluid contact means

23
266/115

With means changing the shape of a treated object, e.g., roller means

27
266/116

Spring shaping means

5
266/117

With means to prevent warping of treated object

35
266/118

Of a gear wheel

8
266/119

With heating of object

8
266/101

Having means for leaching and subsequently precipitating a metal

73
266/280

Linings

183
266/283

Having particular lining element shape

67
266/284

Having specific grain size

14
266/281

With making or repairing means

167
266/285

With means allowing for expansion

35
266/282

With metallic means to prevent lining abrasion

19
266/286

With specific lining enclosing structure

109
266/48

Means for cutting solid metal with heat, e.g., blowpipes

194
266/70

Circle cutter

39
266/66

Hand held, work riding torch

26
266/74

Having adjuvant material feed

22
266/75

Solid material

17
266/71

Having torch solely supported by workpiece

12
266/76

Having torch spacing means

36
266/50

Means for cutting continuously cast workpieces

53
266/51

Means for removing surface material, e.g., scarfing

70
266/52

Having means to simultaneously scarf multiple sides of a workpiece

3
266/53

Having workpiece-contacting cutting means spacer

5
266/72

With cantilevered arm torch support

17
266/73

Having carriage-supported cantilevered arm

22
266/54

With means for cutting tubular workpiece

28
266/56

Having means to circumrotate torch about workpiece

30
266/55

Having torch mount secured within workpiece

16
266/57

With means to rotate workpiece

30
266/58

With pattern control means

39
266/62

Having articulated arm supporting torch

11
266/63

With pantograph arm means

4
266/64

Having spaced, superposed templet

13
266/60

With automatic line-follower means

19
266/61

With means to rotate workpiece

15
266/59

With tape-control means

6
266/77

With torch mounting means

74
266/49

With waste entrapping fluid

51
266/67

With wheeled carriage torch mount

43
266/68

Having work contacting torch spacing means

17
266/69

With work-spanning torch mount

34
266/65

With work supporting grate means

28
266/161

Means for extracting and refining metal

16
266/162

With separate refining zone

21
266/164

With heated vertical extracting means

7
266/163

With rotating heating vessel

8
266/274

Means for holding or supporting work

78
266/279

Grate

7
266/275

Receptacle

269
266/278

Having corrugated wall

1
266/276

With means movably supporting receptacle

53
266/277

By bed of rollers

8
266/265

Means for introducing fluent into vessel, e.g., tuyere

126
266/269

Having drain means or cleaner insertion means, e.g., punch hole

25
266/267

Having means for simultaneously feeding diverse materials

45
266/268

Having plural outlets

84
266/270

Having means preventing damage to introducing means, e.g., wear linings, cooling

166
266/266

With flow control means or internal flow guide

80
266/200

Means for melting or vaporizing metal or treating liquefied metal

98
266/243

Bessemer-type treating vessel

25
266/244

By mounting vessel to revolve about its longitudinal axis

9
266/245

With means pivotally mounting vessel

49
266/246

Means mounting vessel to trunnion ring

45
266/247

Means mounting vessel to u-shaped trunnion support means

8
266/216

By means introducing treating material

154
266/217

Gaseous treating material

157
266/218

Having fluid inlet formed in vessel wall, e.g., tuyere

93
266/221

By means to introduce diverse material

26
266/222

Concentric flow paths

36
266/223

Having control means

9
266/219

Having intersecting streams converging on central axis of vertical furnace

16
266/220

Having porous outlet

131
266/224

Having tuyere formed in plug bottom

18
266/225

Lance

241
266/226

With manipulating means

69
266/203

By means specialized to puddle metal

0
266/207

By providing, treating or protecting environment, e.g., vacuum

85
266/208

By application of vacuum

74
266/209

By upward flow of metal within treating zone

23
266/210

Recirculating material to its source

22
266/211

Enclosed within casing

17
266/227

By separating metal in a molten mass from undesired material, e.g., slag

208
266/229

By baffle means

60
266/230

At discharge outlet

71
266/231

In discharge trough, e.g., runner

36
266/228

By skimming a material

30
266/232

Settling receptacle, e.g., slag pot

9
266/233

By stirring or mixing molten metal

69
266/235

Having impeller means

115
266/234

Induction stirring

40
266/215

Continuous refining

41
266/242

Heated melting pot

93
266/248

Horizontal, rotatable, cylindrical type

18
266/204

Means applying centrifugal force

25
266/206

Means for melting-type material, e.g., linotype

6
266/205

Means to melt and separate metal from mass of diverse constituents

53
266/212

Refining means with separate metal-melting zone

24
266/214

Reverberatory refining vessel, e.g., open hearth

20
266/213

Revolving drum-type furnace

32
266/201

Slag refining means

45
266/202

Spray refining means

80
266/241

With means to cool treating means

77
266/236

With means to discharge molten material

320
266/239

By changing ambient pressure on material surface, e.g., suction

101
266/237

Including electromagnetic means

67
266/238

Means for removing residual material

8
266/240

With means to tilt heating means

47
266/168

Means for treating ores or for extracting metals

53
266/169

Amalgam-type extraction means

9
266/171

By means applying heat to work, e.g., furnace

44
266/172

Fluidized zone

128
266/173

Rotary drum-type furnace

70
266/197

Shaft-type furnace, e.g., blast furnace

103
266/198

Having external support

6
266/199

Having specific top structure

27
266/190

With cooling of heating means

28
266/192

By direct fluid contact

7
266/191

By means cooling material discharge means

15
266/193

By means embedded in heating means

89
266/194

Having means to facilitate removal of cooling means

26
266/195

With discharge means

49
266/196

With trough-shaped outlet, e.g., runner

54
266/186

With means for feeding fluids

48
266/188

With common outlet means to feed diverse fluids

11
266/187

With flow regulating means

10
266/189

With means to cool fluid feeding means

10
266/176

With means for moving solid material to or through heating zone

67
266/184

Bell and hopper type

21
266/182

By fluid current

68
266/177

By means for moving charge through zone

45
266/181

Means forming cascading array

3
266/178

Traveling grate

39
266/180

Train of grate elements

6
266/179

With seal means

20
266/183

By power-driven means conveying solid charge into zone

24
266/174

With safety device

0
266/175

With separate preheat chamber

26
266/185

With work supporting grate

6
266/170

By means precipitating metal from solution

90
266/271

Means sealing or opening aperture in vessel

153
266/272

By means plugging aperture

89
266/273

By means injecting plugging compound, e.g., mud gun

29
266/102

Means treating a continuum of work

45
266/103

With heating means

114
266/104

By joule effect

43
266/105

Discrete article continuum

14
266/107

In a molten material bath

22
266/108

In a muffle furnace

12
266/110

In specific environment, e.g., vacuum

29
266/106

Overlapped planar coil

45
266/109

With cooling by contact with solid heat sink

13
266/111

With fluid contact means

65
266/112

In liquid bath

58
266/113

In liquid spray

86
266/249

Means treating solid metal

100
266/251

By contact with gas

77
266/258

By contacting only selected areas of object

23
266/252

With heating means

208
266/253

Bottom feeding furnace

15
266/257

Having atmosphere generating means within treating zone

39
266/255

Having work contained in separate, noncommunicating chamber, e.g., muffle

27
266/256

Bell furnace

30
266/254

With indirect heat-exchange means for gas

28
266/259

By cooling of the solid

134
266/260

By contact with solid heat sink

11
266/261

By flame contact heating

22
266/262

Fluid tight heat transferring box shield or hood (e.g., annealing box)

23
266/263

Bell-type hood, or support for such hood

26
266/264

Having packing at hood lip

9
266/250

Having evacuated chamber

68
266/900

Metal melting furnaces, e.g., cupola type

103
266/287

Miscellaneous

124
266/44

Process

337
266/46

Cooling

56
266/45

Plugging or tapping

174
266/47

Tuyere operation

90
266/905

Refractory metal-extracting means

29
266/DIG.1

Repair or restoration of apparatus

27
266/903

Safety shields

12
266/901

Scrap metal preheating or melting

172
266/167

Thermit™ reaction vessel

12
266/166

Treating vessel with distinct molten material holding means, e.g., forehearth

20
266/135

With cleaning or lubricating means

42
266/136

Fluid injector cleaner

8
266/78

With control means responsive to sensed condition

96
266/79

By treated material sampling means

43
266/80

With analyzer or computation means

153
266/90

With means responsive to condition of treated material

92
266/92

By means sensing position of work

42
266/94

By means sensing level of molten liquid

47
266/95

By float means

8
266/93

By means sensing presence or absence of work

7
266/91

By means sensing weight or density of work

38
266/81

With means supplying a treating agent

67
266/86

By means positioning dispenser

7
266/82

Correlated flow of diverse fluents

22
266/83

With flow rate sensor

20
266/84

With means sensing moisture content

3
266/85

Individual control of diverse inputs

6
266/89

With pressure sensor

69
266/87

With temperature sensor

166
266/88

In a fluid

52
266/137

With means to comminute or disintegrate solids

30
266/138

With means to preheat gas

18
266/140

By heat generating means

16
266/141

By remote heat exchanger

19
266/139

Having heat storage means, e.g., checkers, stroves

15
266/144

With means treating or handling gases exhausted by treating means

107
266/148

By condensing and collecting a volatile constituent

42
266/151

By cascading material evolving the gas

0
266/152

By indirect liquid heat exchange means

5
266/150

Having molten metal splashing means

3
266/153

Having retort condenser

7
266/154

Vertical shaft furnace

13
266/149

Within evacuated chamber

39
266/146

By contacting gas with nonmetallic liquid

10
266/147

By liquid spraying

37
266/156

By means recycling exhaust gas

156
266/157

By separating particles from evolved gas

98
266/145

Having means to treat or handle gases evolving from rotary furnace

34
266/158

Hood

136
266/159

Offtake

63
266/155

With heat exchanger, e.g., waste heat boiler

71
266/96

With programmed, cyclic, or time responsive control means

28
266/97

By timer

3
266/98

Having driven disk or drum

1
266/99

With recording, indicating, inspection or measuring means

159
266/100

Having observation means

40
 
 
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