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Class Number: 432
Class Title: HEATING
Subclass Subclass
Number Title
1 PROCESSES OF HEATING OR HEATER OPERATION
2 .Including apparatus purging, cleaning or accretion preventing
3 .Including repairing, converting or assembling apparatus
4 .Including apparatus heat-up, cool-down or protection
5 .Including preparing or arranging work for heating
6 ..Stacking or aligning objects
7 ..Forming a permeable layer or sheet
8 .Continous strip, strand or web passed longitudinally through
heating zone
9 .Treating an article, container, batch or body as a unit
10 ..Localized treating or shielding of work area
11 ..Moving unit through or within treating zone during treating
12 ..Modulating, varying or augmenting heat supply during heat-up
period
13 .Including melting, vaporizing, sintering, expanding
comminuting, or classifying work material
14 .Including passing, treating or conveying gas into or through
particulate work
15 ..Including maintenance of fluidized bed
16 ..Including a dust control or particle separation step
17 ..Including modulation of flow rate of gas or treated material
18 .Subjecting work to diverse treatments or graduated
temperatures
19 .Controlling flame position or work atmosphere
20 ..Providing flame or high luminosity
21 ..Including recycling work atmosphere
22 ..Establishing strata, layer or curtain
23 ..Establishing or maintaining composition of atmosphere bathing
work
24 ..Modulating or stabilizing pressure or temperature
25 ..Providing pulsed or periodically reversed atmosphere
26 ..By mode of admission of treating or protecting fluid
27 .Including the flowing or circulating of particulate heat
carrier
28 .Of operating a furnace utilizing a heat storage mass
29 .Of heating a fluid
30 ..Utilizing a heat storage mass
31 .Heating of or by wall or radiant surface
32 WITH INDICATOR, ILLUMINATOR OR INSPECTION MEANS
33 ARTICLE OR TEMPLATE FOLLOWER POSITIONS HEATING ELEMENT RELATIVE
TO ARTICLE
34 HAVING OPERATING OR CONTROLLING DEVICE RESPONDING TO PRESENCE OF
DISCRETE WORK UNIT OR REMOVABLE UNIT HOLDER
35 FRANGIBLE OR FUSIBLE SAFETY RELIEF OR SHUTDOWN MEANS
36 HAVING CONDITION RESPONSIVE CONTROL
37 .Analyzer or composition sensor of work, work atmosphere or
exhaust gas
38 .Control of or response to apparatus protecting fluid or means
39 .Of selection or load balancing of furnace exhaust heated
regenerators
40 .Of hot blast stove (i.e., of Cowper stove)
41 .Of purger, purge period, scavenger or cleanerr
42 .Of protective work shield, cooler or atmosphere; or of heat
applicator position
43 .Of discharging, or stopping the heating of a unit or batch on
sensed completion of heating
44 ..With cool-down timer or means
45 .Of or by means sensing or controlling work movement, quantity
or position
46 .Condition responsive shutdown requiring reset
47 .Of or by pressure of fluid work or work chamber atmosphere
48 .Of cooling, dilution, withdrawal, bypass or circulation of work
chamber atmosphere
49 .Of or by heat generation or transmission
50 WITH PROTECTOR, CLEANER OR SUPPORT FOR CONDITION SENSOR
51 HAVING TIMING, PROGRAMMING OR CYCLING CONTROL MEANS
52 .Of handling or treatment of discrete work batch or unit
53 ..And of furnace closure or heating element operator
54 WITH INTERLOCKED, INTERCONNECTED OR MULTIWAY CONTROLLER
ALTERNATING FLOW OF HEATED AND HEATING FLUID
55 WITH CONCURRENT CONTROL OR INTER-CONTROL OF DIVERSE OPERABLE
ELEMENTS
56 .Door or baffle movement correlated with work movement or
placement
57 .Heating gas supply, removal or recirculation correlated with
work or door movement or placement
58 WITH HEATING GAS CONVEYING, AGITATING, SCATTERING OR
DISINTEGRATION OF WORK (E.G., FLUIDIZED BED, ETC.)
59 ADVANCING STRUCTURE FLEXING, LOOPING OR COILING SHEET, WEB OR
STRAND
60 .Internally heated roll
61 WITH LUMP BREAKER OR CLASSIFIER FOR PARTICULATE WORK MATERIAL
62 GEOGRAPHIC OR STRUCTURAL INSTALLATION
63 .Installed on internal combustion engine element
64 HAVING FLUID CURTAIN AT CHAMBER PORT OR WORK PATH
65 WITH HEAT SHIELD, OR ESCAPING GAS COLLECTOR AT FURNACE CHAMBER
ACCESS AREA
66 WITH CONDENSER OR ABSORBER FOR WORK CHAMBER VAPOR
67 WITH MEANS SEPARATING SOLID PARTICLES OR SLAG FROM WORK CHAMBER
GAS
68 .Separator discharges gas to work zone
69 .With means passing separated solid to heating zone
70 .At regenerator or recuperator (e.g., slag pocket, etc.)
71 ..With separated solid discharge structure
72 WITH MEANS DILUTING, PURIFYING OR BURNING EXHAUST GASES
73 COMBUSTION PRODUCTS, FLUE OR GENERATOR AND WORK CHAMBER MOUNTED
FOR RELATIVE MOVEMENT FOR ACCESS
74 WITH DRIP, LEAKAGE, BREAKAGE OR SOIL COLLECTING STRUCTURE
75 WITH CLEANING MEANS FOR APPARATUS
76 WITH APPARATUS REPAIR OR ASSEMBLY MEANS
77 WITH WORK COOLING STRUCTURE
78 .Combustion feed air cools exiting work by contact
79 ..Contact at discharge end section of shaft furnace
80 ..Work manipulated in cooling zone
81 .Work holder having selectively usable heating and cooling
structure
82 .Entering and leaving work exchange heat
83 .Work heat removed through heat transmitting wall
84 ..Combustion feed material cools wall
85 .Cooling liquid contacts workk
86 WITH MEANS RECEIVING WORK FROM WORK HEATING ZONE DISCHARGE
MEANS
87 WITH MEANS SUPPLYING WORK TO WORK FEEDER
88 WITH WHEEL, HANDLE, OR SKID-TYPE SUPPORT FOR HEATER ASSEMBLY
89 CONVERTIBLE
90 BOILER AND WORK HEATING FURNACE, POT OR OVEN
91 .Having means utilizing generated steam in heating work
92 COMBINED
93 HAVING WORK HEATING CHAMBER AND OPEN ACCESS WORK SUPPORTING AND
HEATING AND HEATING STRUCTURE OUTSIDE OF CHAMBER
94 DISPARATE HEAT SOURCES OR FUELS
95 SHAFT TYPE
96 .Having combustion products generated in or fed to shaft
97 ..Having flow controller restraining solid and passing melt
98 ..Having agitator or movably mounted baffle for shaft or shaft
outlet
99 ..Having vertically spaced gas supply ports
100 ..Having distinct fume outlet and work inlet
101 ..Having distinct combustion products generator chamber
102 .Having heat emitting tube or flue within or traversing shaft
chamber
103 TUMBLER-TYPE ROTARY - DRUM FURNACE
104 .Having support for engaging heated surface of domestic stove
105 .Having combustion products generated in or fed to drum
106 ..Including plural, distinct serially connected work chambers
107 ..And having externally heated drum surface or indirect heating
flue
108 ..Work advancing type (e.g., steady flow of work)
109 ...Axially spaced feed to drum of combustion or reaction
material
110 ...Structure providing different rates of heating or work
movement along axis
111 ...Counterflow of work and combustion products
112 .Externally heated drum or associated heating element heats work
by conduction or radiation
113 ..And having distinct atmosphere supply or removal structure
114 ..Heat emitter is tube within the drum chamber or the drum wall
115 .Having flexible, cooled, or air curtain seal between rotary and
stationary parts
116 .Having protective cooling structure
117 .Having work or work atmosphere feed or discharge structure
118 .Having structure agitating or controlling the motion of the
charge
119 .Having brick-type lining
120 WORK CHAMBER HAVING HEATING MEANS
121 .Having means by which work is progressed or moved mechanically
122 ..Having manipulating means arranging, orienting, segregating or
topically heating individual unit
123 ...Handler outside of chamber supports unit partially within and
partially outside of furnace chamber
124 ...Having structure rotating, reorienting, or inverting unit
during heating
125 ...Vertical stack or mutually supporting units having thrust
means
126 ...Thrust means advances row or stack of units
127 ....Having structure for removing skid marks
128 ..Plural distinct chambers
129 ...Work moved to drop between shelf or trough-type chamberss
130 ....Combustion products generated in or fed to chamber
131 .....Annular shelves and rotary pusher on central vertical axis
132 ....Heated shelf or trough
133 ...Having combustion products generated in or fed to work
chamber
134 ..Vibrating or jarring-type work advancer
135 ..Traveling heat emitter carries or stirs work
136 ..Combustion products generated in or fed to chamber
137 ...Movable chamber floor section carried by external guide or
axle
138 ....Rotary section
139 ...Plough, rake, screw, or stirrer means
140 ....Moved by endless carrier
141 ...Rotatably mounted work carrier (e.g., Ferris wheel type,
etc.)
142 ....Horizontal shelf on vertical axis
143 ...Having means forming work path from inlet to outlet
144 ....Having structure circulating work atmosphere along or across
path
145 .....Distinct blowers or blower discharge ports along path
146 ....Plural burners longitudinal spaced in path
147 .....Radiant type
148 ....Baffle, heat radiator, or heating flue in chamber along
path
149 ....Combustion material supply ports spaced along path
150 ....Spaced combustion products exhaust ports
151 ..Stirrer in externally heated tank
152 ..Having distinct atmosphere supply, removal or recirculation
structure
153 ..Work or work carrier slides on heated chamber wall or floor
154 ...Screw-type pusher
155 ..Chamber heated by multiple combustion products flues
156 .Crucible or pot heating furnace
157 ..Having tilting arrangement
158 ..Pot stand forms annular combustion material admission zone
159 .Combustion products heat work by contact
160 ..Furnace or work holder of furnace mounted for tilting
discharge
161 ..Having separator of flow director for melted work
162 ..Having shelf, rack, tray or chamber on guide or pivot
163 ..Plural structurally related work chambers
164 ...Connected for serial flow of combustion products
165 ....Having serially connected regenerator
166 ....Chambers spatially separated
167 ....Having temporary partition
168 ....Through perforated floor
169 ....Through perforated partition
170 ....Having branch connection to common flue
171 ...Diverse atmospheres (e.g., directly and indirectly heated,
etc.)
172 ...Fed with combustion products from a common generator
173 ..Having protective cooling means for combustion material feed
structure
174 ..Including noncommunicating combustion products flue
175 ..Radiant-type burner in or on wall (e.g., surface combustion,
etc.)
176 ..Having exhaust return passage or recirculating fan or jet
177 ..Chamber exhaust transfers heat with chamber walll
178 ..Work chamber or its wall heats chamber feed
179 ..Work chamber exhaust heats chamber feed
180 ...By regenerative-type heat exchanger
181 ....Spaced alternating or successive chamber exhausts feed
plural regenerators
182 .....Regenerators heat fuel
183 ..For annular article (e.g., wheel rim, etc.)
184 ..Article inserted type
185 ..Dividing baffle or screen in cabinet forms upper work and
lower burner chambers
186 ..Distinct combustion chamber feeds work chamber
187 ...Having additional feed means diluting combustion products
188 ...Work chamber indirectly heating by common wall or connecting
flue
189 ...Having pump or jet means forcing air into combustion chamber
190 ...Distinct vertically spaced combustion products feed openings
to work chamber
191 ...Plural distinct combustion chambers feed single work chamber
192 ...Multiple perforate wall, floor or roof for combustion feed or
exit
193 ..Spaced exhaust ports from work chamber
194 ..Baffle, shield, heat absorber, work support or flow directing
means in work chamber
195 ..Hearth-type or tank-type furnace
196 ..Spaced fuel or air feeds to work chamber
197 .Having particulate or liquid heat transfer medium in work
chamber
198 .Means supplying a protective or treating agent other than or
additional to air
199 .Having work atmosphere recirculating means
200 .Work chamber having gaseous material supply or removal
structure
201 ..Air flow-through type
202 ...Having means heating work by radiation or conduction
203 ...Pump for atmosphere
204 ...Having a movable drawer or separable tray
205 ..Having pump, jet or valve means establishing chamber pressure
distinct from ambient
206 .Interior bell forms muffle
207 .Plural structurally related work heating chambers
208 ..Chambers are movably or removably mounted retorts
209 .Heating tube, element, or flue traverses work space
210 .Externally heated, liquid holding type of work container
211 ..Mounted for pouring discharge
212 .Tortuous, branched or baffled heating flue means within or
along chamber wall
213 ..Having distinct burner units
214 HEAT GENERATING MEANS HEATS HEAT STORAGE MASS OF SOLID MATERIAL
215 .Mass is solid fluent heat carrier (e.g., pebbles, etc.)
216 .Interconnected separately encased masses
217 .Dividing wall in casing forms combustion and heat storage
chambers
218 ..Annular divider forms concentric chambers
219 HEAT GENERATOR HEATS GAS OR LIQUID MATERIAL IN A FLOW STRUCTURE
220 .With pump for the material driven by energy from the heat
generator
221 .With means utilizing the heated material for heating work
222 .Material heated by mixing with combustion products off
generator
223 ..Having means for indirectly exchanging heat between combustion
products and material
224 INSERTED EMITTER TYPE OF HOLLOW ARTICLE INTERIOR HEATER
225 HEAT APPLICATOR HAVING STRUCTURE FOR MOUNTING IT ON OR AROUND
OBJECT TO BE HEATED
226 HAVING MASK, BAFFLE OR CONDUCTOR CONCENTRATING HEAT ON OR
PROTECTING SECTION OF ARTICLE
227 HEAT GENERATOR WITH AN ASSOCIATED WORK SUPPORT OR HEAT DELIVERY
STRUCTURE
228 .Internally heated roll
229 .Movably mounted heat emitter traverses work during heating
230 .Means moving or guiding work relative to heat emitter during
heating
231 .Article engaging and retaining support fixes position of
article relative to heat emitter
232 .Horizontal, planar, openwork, work support above burner
233 HEATING APPARATUS ELEMENT HAVING PROTECTIVE COOLING STRUCTURE
234 .Work skid or rail structure
235 .Conveyor, chute or work agitator element
236 ..Roll
237 .Door, cover, door frame or rim of cover
238 .Wall, floor or roof element
239 WORK FEEDING, AGITATING, DISCHARGING OR CONVEYING
SUBCOMBINATION
240 .Having support for engaging surface of domestic stove
241 .Removable furnace bottom section or kiln cart
242 .Having closure or seal for work feeder's entrance passage
243 .Outside conveyor track paralleled by chamber wall slot for
conveyor arm
244 .Seal at chamber wall for conveyor arm or shaft
245 .Having distinct heat shield, conductor, director or expansion
relief structure
246 .Roll-type conveyor element
247 HEATING OR HEAT RETAINING WORK CHAMBER STRUCTURE
248 .Protected, lined or reinforced melt holding section
249 .Including baffle wall, work shield, or work support element
250 .Door, cover or port
251 .Having expansion relieving or absorbing means
252 .Masonry with metallic casing or support
253 ACCESSORY MEANS FOR HOLDING, SHIELDING OR SUPPORTING WORK WITHIN
FURNACE
254.1 .Fluid tight metallic heat transferring box, shield or
hood
254.2 ..Bell-type hood or support for such hood
258 .Support structure for heat treating ceramics (e.g., saggars,
etc.)
259 ..Point or line contact support
260 .For annular work (e.g., coil separator, etc.)
261 .Openwork tray, basket, or grid structure for heat treating
metal
262 .Crucible
263 ..Having dispensing opening or spout
264 ..Lined, layered or coated
265 ..Of particular material
266 MISCELLANEOUS
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