Abstract:
A food heating and cooling device including a tray, at least one main dish plate in the tray, at least one secondary dish plate in the tray, a cover associated with the tray for maintaining the food hot or cold, an inducer for heating, reheating or maintaining heat and powered by an electronic generator circuit which induces currents in an armature located on or under the plates, a thermoelectric exchanger for maintaining the food cold or cool by extracting residual heat from the plates and compensates for thermal insulation leaks from the tray and cover, and rechargeable batteries connected to the inducer and the thermoelectric exchanger.
Abstract:
This relates to the induction heating of metal shapes and coils of metal strip wherein the element to be heated functions as a shorted out armature of a D.C. generator. Either the metal shape to be heated or field forming magnets are moved relative to each other wherein the metal shape cuts the flux field to effect an induced generation of electricity within the shape. The frequency of the induced current is such wherein the electrical energy is induced into the metal shape on the order of one third of the thickness of that shape wherein a most efficient conduction of the heat from the electrical energy is effected with a minimum heat loss to the atmosphere. The voltage involved is low while there is a very high amperance. The frequency of the induced current will normally be on the order of one to ten hertz and less than sixty hertz. The relative movement between the field and the shape to be heated may be rotary or linear.
Abstract:
An inductively heated godet is mounted on a supporting frame which carries a rotatable drive shaft. A stationary primary winding is mounted about a magnetic core carried by a body which is fastened to the frame. A rotatable hollow shell which concentrically surrounds the primary winding is removably secured to the rotatable drive shaft.The magnetic core and rotatable hollow shell have in their longitudinal section essentially opposing L-shaped profiles with the flank portions thereof being concentric to the godet turning axis and the foot portion of each L-shaped profile extending substantially radially with respect to the godet turning axis toward the opposing flank portion of the other L-shaped profile such that the flank and foot portions of the shell and magnetic core form radially spaced annular gaps therebetween which are concentric to the godet turning axis. In addition, the axially directed gaps necessarily formed between the magnetic core and rotatable hollow shell are relatively large with respect to the annular gaps so that magnetic flux created by the primary winding will flow almost entirely over the smaller annular gaps. In one embodiment, the foot portion of the L-shaped profile of the shell has a recess formed therein which may be filled with an electrically conductive material which helps direct the magnetic flux and increase the heating effect in that zone of the shell. In another embodiment, the primary winding is formed of multiple electrically interconnected partial coils which are slidable on to the magnetic core.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a process and an apparatus for the continuous heat treatment of metallic wires and bands. In the process according to the invention, the wire or band to be treated is passed around the base of the groove of a pulley and is annealed by induction heating. The treated wire or band is then cooled and re-enters the groove of the pulley above the wire or band to be treated. The invention is intended for the continuous treatment of metallic wires or bands.
Abstract:
A method is described for growing epitaxial layers of material on monocrystalline substrates, chiefly silicon, which are substantially free of slip dislocations. The method involves placing an encircling ring of inert, heat resistant material around the rim of the substrate and over the peripheral surface of the substrate to suppress radiation from the peripheral portion of the wafer. The generation of slip dislocations is inhibited because heat is more uniformly distributed throughout the wafer.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for joining zirconium alloy appendages, such as spacers, to zirconium alloy members, such as sheaths for nuclear fuel elements. The appendage, coated with a material that will form a eutectic with a zirconium alloy, is heated to a temperature sufficient to form a eutectic with the coating material. The appendage is heated in proximity with the member such that the member is also heated but to a temperature that is below the alpha to beta transformation temperature. The heated appendage and member are brought together and heating is continued to complete the joining process, again with the temperature of the member remaining below the transformation temperature. The invention provides that there is substantially no alpha to beta transformation of the member or other adverse thermal effects such as residual stresses, geometrical distortions, compositional changes in fuel materials, etc.
Abstract:
Pasted storage battery plates are dried by subjecting them to an alternating magnetic field which induces heating of the plate grids, thereby drying the paste from the inside.
Abstract:
A plate-shaped susceptor for more uniformly heating monocrystalline wafers by high frequency induction wherein the susceptor is profiled on its lower side so that below the places destined for the wafers, the susceptor is thinner, resulting in less heat generation just below the central portion of the wafer to compensate for reduced heat radiation therefrom.
Abstract:
Two adjacent re-entrant surfaces of metal parts to be welded together, at least one of the parts having metal extending in a direction away from an edge of its surface, and the metal immediately adjacent to such surfaces are heated to forge welding temperature by an induction coil supplied with an electric current having a magnitude and frequency for a time which will cause such heating without significant melting of the metal or over-heating and consequent damage to the remainder of the parts and after the forge welding temperature is reached, pressure sufficient to forge weld the parts together at such surfaces is applied to the parts.
Abstract:
Apparatus is provided for inductively heating and hardening cartridge casings including a conveyor rotatable step-by-step past a casing input station, through an induction heating tunnel and to an output station from which the casings are discharged into a quenching bath. The conveyor is provided with a plurality of cartridge casing receiving openings, and the casings extend through the openings for the lower ends thereof to engage a support surface and slide therealong during movement of the conveyor from the input station through the heating tunnel. The supporting surface terminates prior to the output station. Reciprocating plungers having a common operator are axially aligned with corresponding openings at the input and output stations and are actuated during each dwell of the conveyor to positively displace a casing into a conveyor opening at the input station and to assist the displacement of a heated casing from the conveyor at the output station.