The method for heating a metal component to a target temperature, in which the component has a preliminary coating and is passed through a furnace that has at least four zones, which can be respectively adjusted to an individual zone temperature, wherein the component is passed successively through at least an initial heating zone, a plateau zone, a peak heating zone and an end zone and wherein the initial heating zone is adjusted to an initial heating temperature, the plateau zone is adjusted to a plateau temperature, the peak heating zone is adjusted to a peak temperature and the end zone is adjusted to the target temperature, the plateau temperature being chosen such that the temperature of the component in the plateau zone lies in a band around a melting temperature of the preliminary coating which is characterized in that the peak temperature lies by at least 100 K above the target temperature.

Sleeve for mounting a ceramic roller in a roller hearth furnace, the sleeve has a receptacle for one end of the ceramic roller, the receptacle being surrounded by a lateral wall. The lateral wall has, in the axial direction, a waist portion and a clamping portion, wherein a wall thickness (d) of the lateral wall in the waist portion is smaller than in the vicinity of the waist portion, and a cross-sectional area of the receptacle in the clamping portion is smaller than in the vicinity of the clamping portion.

A ceramic roller can be mounted in a roller hearth furnace by the sleeve, even at high temperature. During production, the sleeve is provided with a reduced cross-sectional area in the clamping portion. When the sleeve is pressed axially onto the end of a ceramic roller, the reduced cross-sectional area produces an elastic force, with the sleeve being held on the ceramic roller.

A furnace roller for a roller hearth furnace has a hollow cylindrical ceramic roller body having an outer oxidic coating. The roller body has outer longitudinal fins and longitudinal grooves that run in linear longitudinal direction of the roller body. The configuration reduces the contact area between the roller body and the blanks to be transported. The furnace rollers are suitable for use in roller furnaces in hot forming lines for the press hardening of AlSi-coated steel blanks.

The transport roller disclosed herein includes: an outer tubular member which is tubular and is made of a metal material; an inner tubular member which is provided inside the outer tubular member, is tubular, and is made of a ceramic material; multiple ring-shaped projections which each have a ring shape along an outer peripheral surface of the outer tubular member, are made of a metal material, and are supporting the heating target; and protection members which are formed in respective portions of the ring-shaped projections in contact with the heating target, and each include a ceramic coating containing a ceramic component.

An apparatus for calcining a secondary battery cathode material includes: a calcination furnace including an inner space that includes a temperature rising space, a temperature maintaining space, and a cooling space, which sequentially communicate; a plurality of rollers for transferring a sagger, in which a cathode material is accommodated, from the temperature rising space to the cooling space via the temperature maintaining space; a plurality of heaters arranged along the inner space; a plurality of gas feeding parts for feeding gas to the inner space; and a plurality of exhaust parts for exhausting gas from the inner space, wherein the cross-sectional area of the temperature maintaining space is smaller than the cross-sectional area of the temperature rising space and the cross-sectional area of the cooling space.

An arrangement for heat treating component parts. The arrangement has a first temperature control station for heat treating component parts and a second temperature control station for heat treating component parts, wherein the first temperature control station and the second temperature control station each have a temperature control device, on each of which a functional device is placeable. The functional device is a charging device for carrying component parts to be temperature-controlled or a device of the temperature control device. The arrangement further has a charging station, on which the functional device is placeable, and a handling system for handling the functional device, wherein the handling system is configured to convey the functional device between the charging station, the first temperature control station and the second temperature control station.

A heat treatment system includes heating chambers configured to perform heat treatment on objects to be treated, and a conveyance device configured to load each of the objects to be treated into the heating chambers, unload the object to be treated from the heating chambers, and convey the object to be treated under an oxygen-free atmosphere, wherein the conveyance device includes a cooling device configured to perform cooling treatment on the object to be treated.

The present invention relates to an oven system 7 for heating laminated glass panes 1, having at least one oven module 8, wherein the laminated glass panes are able to be transported in a horizontal orientation on transport rollers 10 through the oven system 7, and the oven system 7 has an outer box-shaped housing 9, wherein radiation heat sources and convection heat sources are disposed in the housing 9, characterized in that the convection heat sources are configured as elongate tubular nozzles having punctiform outflow openings which are disposed so as to be oriented transversely to the transport direction, wherein in a heat radiator 11 is disposed between two adjacently disposed tubular nozzles 12, and in that a central blower box which supplies the tubular nozzles 12 with heated air is disposed on an end face.

A heat treatment furnace disclosed herein may include: a heat treatment unit configured to heat-treat an object; a cooling unit configured to cool the object heat-treated by the heat treatment unit; and a conveyor configured to convey the object in the heat treatment unit and the cooling unit. The cooling unit may include a housing, wherein the housing is disposed below a conveyance path on which the object is conveyed by the conveyor and configured to cool the object being conveyed by the conveyor by liquid flowing inside the housing. The housing may include an upper plate facing the object being conveyed by the conveyor. The upper plate may be tilted so that gas stays at a predetermined portion of the housing while the liquid is flowing in the housing.

A heat treatment device for a thermal treatment of a workpiece is provided with a housing that houses a chamber for accommodating the workpiece for the thermal treatment. A first roller supports the workpiece and moves the workpiece in a moving direction. A first brush seal is provided, wherein the first roller and the first brush seal are arranged relative to each other such that a first side of the workpiece contacts the first roller and a second side of the workpiece that is opposed to the first side contacts the first brush seal such that the first roller and the first brush seal then seal at least a first section of the chamber from a second section of the chamber.