Self-supporting fabric reinforced refractory fiber composite curtain
AssigneeJ T Thorpe Company
InventorMack A. Hounsel
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Abstract
Refractory fiber blankets are made suitable for use as baffles, curtains or partitions in furnaces and other high temperature equipment by reinforcement fabric woven from high temperature refractory fiber yarn. The curtains so formed are easily installed and replaced. The curtains exhibit insulation characteristics suitable for use at elevated (2200.degree. F. and above) temperatures and capabilities of resisting damage from impact by the furnace load or manipulators of such a load.
Claims17
A curtain panel forming a portion of a wall partitioning adjacent internal zones of a furnace or other high temperature equipment, comprising:
- (a) a refractory ceramic fiber blanket insulating adjacent internal zones of the high temperature equipment from each other;
- (b) said fiber blanket comprising plural sheet members hanging downwardly into the high temperature equipment between the internal zones to be partitioned;
- (c) reinforcing fabric means mounted between and attached to said sheet members of said blanket for supporting portions of said blanket so that said blanket functions as a panel;
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- (d) means for attaching said reinforcing fabric means to a roof or other surface of the high temperature equipment.
A curtain wall partitioning internal zones of a furnace or other high temperature equipment, said curtain wall being formed of a plurality of adjacent curtain panels, each of said panels comprising:
- (a) a refractory ceramic fiber blanket insulating adjacent internal zones of the furnace from each other;
- (b) means for attaching said blanket to a roof or other surface of the high temperature equipment;
- (c) said fiber blanket comprising plural sheet members suspended from said means for attaching and handing downwardly into the high temperature equipment between internal zones to be partitioned;
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- (d) reinforcing fabric means mounted between and attached to said sheet members of said blanket for supporting portions of said blanket so that said blanket functions as a panel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.