[TheForge] burners and other addictions

[Jerry Frost]

I said MY ideas for a recuperative wall furnace. I've been kicking it around 
since the internet went public and I found the old IBM patent server.

They not only had a propane forge burner that was exactly the same as the 
Aussie burner. The patent was from 1933 and it was for an improvement to the 
forge itself, not the burner. There were at least three (that I recall) 
entirely different recuperative wall furnace designs. One was specifically 
to produce a highly reducing atmosphere for forging specialty metals.

The recuperative wall I decided on was pretty simple and eliminated the need 
or even desirability for preheating intake air.

I don't recall anything about buoyancy though. The fluidized bed furnaces 
were way different. Of course there were so many furnace patents I'd still 
be reading if I wanted to just skim the legal on each.

Frosty
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If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
The FrostWorks

Meadow Lakes, AK.

http://www.artmetalradio.com/



From: "Mike Porter" <michael.a.porter at comcast.net>


> Too late for that Frosty,
> Where do you think the ceramic refinements for ceramic chip forges have 
> been coming from? A recuperative wall furnace has been worming its merry 
> way around my brain for almost five years now; not that it isn't perfectly 
> addicting, but my mind is already pretty well ravaged with that one :) I 
> was a little surprised that the guys didn't jump all over the idea of a 
> recuperative fire box, driven by the power of buoyancy. Of course, they 
> haven't any idea how difficult buoyancy is to overcome in a passive 
> furnace system that draws air down two feet, so they can't know what a 
> privilege it is to use buoyancy for heat savaging, instead of fighting it!
> Mikey