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US 4,715,812 AGranted
Kiln furniture
AssigneeElektroschmelzwerk Kempten GmbH
InventorsAlfred G. von Matuschka, Klaus Liethschmidt, Hubertus Webert, Emil K. Kohler
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Abstract
Kiln furniture for supporting ceramic products to be baked in a high-speed baking kiln includes an inorganic fibrous material needled blanket having a plurality of depressions therein, and a plurality of separate basic bodies of a ceramic material mounted in the depressions and forming an upper emplacement surface for supporting the ceramic products.
Claims8
Kiln furniture for supporting ceramic products to be baked in a high-speed baking kiln, comprising:
- a laminar support including a needled blanket impregnated with an inorganic binder or a binder-free needled blanket, said blanket having a lower stack-up surface in contact with a conveyor surface of said kiln and an upper surface with a plurality of depressions in the form of preformed slots and/or grooves therein;
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- a plurality of separate segment-like basic bodies made of a ceramic material and fitted in said depressions on said blanket, said basic bodies being relatively small, having simple shapes and having cross-sections resistant to thermoshock, said basic bodies together forming an emplacement surface for supprting said ceramic products to be baked in said high-speed baking kiln.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.