A raw setter has a plate shape, is made of the same material as in a honeycomb formed body, and has a chamfered portion in which a circumferential portion of one end face is chamfered in an oblique direction and whose has a tapered cross-sectional shape by reducing a diameter of an end face portion to an outer diameter, a ratio of an area of a flat portion to an end face area is from 10 to 85%, an angle formed between the flat portion and the chambered portion is from 3 to 50, a flatness of each of the flat portion of the one end face and a flat portion of the other end face is 0.3 mm or less, and a thickness of cell partition walls is 0.1 mm or less.

An assembly for providing a saggar for use in high temperature applications, may include a first substantially rectangular base element and two sets of two substantially rectangular side elements, wherein the side elements of each set of side elements have at least one dimension corresponding to dimensions of first and second opposite edges of the base element. The assembly may also include four corner elements and fasteners, wherein the base element and the side elements are configured to be assembled into a box-shaped saggar and secured to one another using the corner elements and the fasteners, and wherein the first base element is made of a corrosion resistant material.

A saggar may include: a ceramic part of ceramic with a box shape, the ceramic part including an outer bottom surface and an outer side wall; and a metal part having a box shape, the metal part including an inner bottom surface and an inner side wall, the metal part being removably disposed inside the ceramic part, wherein when the metal part is inside the ceramic part at a room temperature, a clearance is defined between the outer and inner side walls, the outer side wall includes at least a pair of recesses, in a plan view of the metal part, the pair of recesses is at positions facing each other across a center of the metal part, the metal part includes at least a pair of flanges, and when the metal part is inside the ceramic part, the pair of flanges is located within the pair of recesses.

The present invention relates to a sagger for firing a precursor material, and more specifically, to a sagger having a space internally provided to load a precursor material. When used to fire a precursor material, the sagger is capable of not only suppressing the generation of by-products but also enhancing the durability of the main body.

A heat treatment system may include: a heat treatment furnace; a return line; and a processor. The return line may include: a first processing line; a second processing line; an entrance line connected to the first processing line and the second processing line and located upstream of the first processing line and the second processing line on the return line; and an exit line connected to the first processing line and the second processing line and located downstream of the first processing line and the second processing line on the return line. The processor may include: a configured to process the saggar on the first processing line; and a configured to process the saggar on the second processing line.

A method and apparatus for treating a workpiece such as a mold grid includes moving the workpiece laterally along a conveyor assembly into a furnace for heating in a carbon-rich atmosphere to form a heated workpiece. The heated workpiece is then received from the furnace onto the conveyor assembly in an enclosed vestibule whereupon it is clamped under pressure between an overhead mechanical press and the conveyor assembly to form a clamped assembly. The clamped assembly, including a portion of the conveyor, is then lowered into a quenching bath via an elevator assembly until the heated workpiece is quenched, whereupon the clamped assembly is raised out of the bath and the clamping force released. This clamping during quenching acts to maintain the workpiece in a planar orientation while reducing warpage during the quenching process.

A firing system may include: a plurality of furnaces each configured to fire a treatment object in a saggar, each of the plurality of furnaces having an entrance through which the saggar is conveyed into the furnace and an exit through which the saggar is conveyed out of the furnace; and a recovery unit configured to recover the treatment object fired by each of the plurality of furnaces. One recovery unit is arranged for the plurality of furnaces.

A sagger alignment structure includes: a first clip configured to connect at least one pair of saggers in a state in which sides of the at least one pair of saggers face each other, where the first clip includes: a first clip body; first clip sides bent from opposite sides of the first clip body; and a first insertion space between the first clip sides and configured to accommodate the sides of the at least one pair of saggers, and where the first clip body comprises a first opening that defines a through hole through the first clip body.

The present disclosure relates to a graphitization apparatus for manufacturing artificial graphite using lasers, including: a first chamber having doors located on both walls thereof in such a way as to be open when saggars go in and out and providing a workspace for graphitization of raw materials filled in the saggars; a laser heater consisting of a plurality of laser systems and irradiating laser beams onto the raw materials introduced into the first chamber to graphitize the raw materials; and a first transfer conveyor for sending the saggars filled with the raw materials to the first chamber and taking the saggars out of the first camber after the graphitization has been completed.

A setter for an investment casting core is provided. The setter may include: a base section; and a cover section configured to mechanically couple to the base section and having a profile for receiving the investment casting thereon. A setter array for a plurality of investment casting cores is further provided. A method for supporting an investment casting core during heat treatment using the setter is also provided.