Tray for heat treatment furnace

• US 5,752,821 A
• Filed: 07/02/1996
• Issued: 05/19/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 07/02/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kia Motors Corporation (Kia Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Kia Motors Corporation (Kia Corp.)
• Inventors: Jo, In-ho
• Primary Examiner(s): Bennett, Henry A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lu, Jiping
• Application Number:
  US08/674,388
• Time in Patent Office: 686 Days
• Field of Search: 482/258, 482/259, 482/261, 264/57, 264/58, 264/59, 269/43, 269/47, 269/52, 269/54.5, 269/309
• US Class Current: 432/261
• CPC Class Codes: C21D 9/0025 Supports; Baskets; Containers; Covers
• CPC Class Codes: F27D 5/00 Supports, screens, or the like for the charge within the furnace travelling or movable supports F27D3/12

Abstract

A tray for heat treatment furnace including a tray base which comprises a plate and a lattice part being fixed on the plate, said lattice part having a plurality of cylindrical reinforcements formed at cross portions thereof; a fixing device having a plurality of paired barrels being connected to each other by a plurality of connecting members, each of said paired barrels being provided with a plurality of cutting grooves on an upper surface thereof, one of the connecting members having a pair of coupling jaws for engagement with a portion of the lattice part; a plurality of spacers each being engageable with one of a respective said plurality of cutting grooves.

Claims

1. A tray for a heat treatment furnace, comprising:

a tray base which comprises a plate and a lattice part being fixed on the plate, said lattice part having a plurality of cylindrical reinforcements formed at cross portions thereof;

a fixing device having a plurality of paired barrels being connected to each other by a plurality of connecting members, each of said paired barrels being provided with a plurality of cutting grooves on an upper surface thereof, one of the connecting members having a pair of coupling jaws extending from a bottom surface thereof for engagement with a portion of the lattice part;

a plurality of spacers each being engageable with one of a respective said plurality of cutting grooves.

2. A tray for a heat treatment furnace according to claim 1, wherein each spacer includes a disk-shaped base plate having a recess therein, a plurality of L-shaped supporting frames perpendicularly and radially fixed to the upper surface of the disk-shaped base plate, a male connector being supported by the supporting frames at a center portion thereof, and a female connector being positioned under the male connector and being supported by the supporting frames.

3. A tray for a heat treatment furnace according to claim 2, wherein the supporting frame is provided with a protrusion at a lower portion thereof, the protrusion being inserted into the cutting groove of the fixing device, and

a projecting jaw being located at an angle part above the base plate.