Movable heat chamber insulating structure
AssigneeEltech Systems Corporation
InventorThomas M. Miller
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Abstract
An insulation structure for a heat chamber, e.g., a wall or ceiling for a furnace, is now supported and linked to a frame in a manner providing for ease of repair plus simplicity of maintenance. In one embodiment a series of side-by-side ceramic fiber blankets can be maintained in snug relationship, in part by adjustable compression means. Heat loss, which can otherwise be caused by heat induced ceramic fiber shrinkage, is now substantially reduced to eliminated by the manner of supporting the insulation structure coupled with the compression exerted against such structure.
Claims55
An insulation assembly for retaining heat in a heat zone, said assembly having an inner ceramic fiber hot face, which assembly comprises:
- ceramic fiber insulation in folded, form-stable condition;
- support means in interengagement with said insulation;
- frame means adjacent said insulation;
- linking means engaging said support means with said frame means in movable engagement;
- and
- adjustable compression means broadly abutting against said insulation.
An insulation assembly adapted for shrinkage-compensating condition while having a supported insulation face, said assembly comprising:
- a facing of ceramic fiber insulation in folded, form-stable condition;
- frame means adjacent the insulation having guide means;
- and
- linking means connecting in movable engagement insulation support means with said guide means.
A corner insulation assembly for a heat zone, which corner assembly comprises:
- ceramic fiber insulation in folded, form-stable condition;
- and
- adjustable compression means broadly abutting against said insulation.
An insulation cover assembly for retaining heat in a heat zone, said cover assembly having a ceramic fiber hot face, which cover assembly comprises:
- ceramic fiber insulation in depending position and folded, form-stable condition as insulation means;
- support means in interengagement with said depending insulation;
- frame means adjacent to, and at least in part positioned above, said insulation means;
- linking means connecting said support means with said frame means in movable engagement;
- and
- adjustable compression means broadly abutting against said depending insulation.
A ceramic fiber insulation assembly adapted for repairing a shrinkage-compensating insulation structure having a support frame adjacent a matrix of discrete, folded ceramic fiber insulation units in form-stable condition, with said insulation being under externally applied compression while being linked, by means of insulation support means, in movable engagement with said support frame, said insulation assembly comprising:
- at least one unit of folded ceramic fiber insulation in form-stable condition;
- at least one support element means in interengagement with said insulation within at least one fold thereof;
- and
- a plurality of individual linking members directly engaging said support element, said linking members protruding directly from said support element, beyond the ceramic fiber and from said fold thereof, and terminating in a head configured for sliding engagement with said support frame.
The method of constructing a supported, adjustable insulating assembly for a heat zone, said assembly facilitating ease of repair while being adapted for reducing heat loss from said zone, which method comprises:
- establishing a heat insulating structure of ceramic fiber insulation in folded, form-stable condition;
- supporting said insulation;
- establishing frame means adjacent said insulation;
- linking said support means with said frame means in movable engagement;
- and
- adjustably compressing said ceramic fiber insulation by means broadly abutting against said insulation.
The method of constructing a shrinkage-compensating insulation assembly having frame means adjacent a matrix of ceramic fiber insulation in folded, form-stable condition, said method comprising:
- linking in movable engagement insulation support means with said frame means;
- and
- adjustably compressing said insulation in the direction permitted by said movable engagement by means broadly abutting against said insulation.
The method of retaining heat in a heat chamber with shrinkage prone insulation structure using an assembly having frame means adjacent a matrix of ceramic fiber insulation in folded, form-stable condition, with said frame means being spaced apart from insulation support means, said method comprising:
- permitting linking of said insulation support means with said frame means in movable engagement;
- and
- adjustably compressing said insulation in the direction permitted by said movable engagement by means broadly abutting against said insulation.
The method of repairing an insulation assembly having a support frame adjacent a matrix of ceramic fiber insulation units in folded, form-stable condition, with said insulation being under compression exerted externally against same by means broadly abuatting against said insulation, while said insulation is linked, by means of insulation support means, in movable engagement with said support frame, said method comprising:
- releasing said external pressure from said matrix of folded ceramic fiber insulation units;
- inserting at least one fresh folded fiber insulation unit between pressure exerting means and said matrix of folded ceramic fiber insulation while said matrix is under pressure release;
- linking insulation support means for said fresh folded fiber insulation unit in movable engagement with said support frame;
- and thereafter
- exerting said external pressure against said fresh fiber insulation unit for pressure transmission through the fiber of said fresh unit to said matrix of folded ceramic fiber insulation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.