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Device for holding billets

US5871689A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateNov 22, 1996
Grant dateFeb 16, 1999
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Expiry dateNov 22, 2016

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF27D3/12
  • WIPO fieldMaterials, metallurgy
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

Holding device for inductive heating of billets of metal alloys having thixotropic properties, and for holding and transporting the billets until casting. The holding device is a dish and the dish exhibits a body in the shape of a tub and a wall at each end, at least the body being out of a high melting point metal, for example steel.

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