CROSS MEMBER FOR HEAT TREATMENT OF STACK OF PLATES Russian patent published in 1994 - IPC

FIELD: heat treatment technologies. SUBSTANCE: cross member for heat treatment of plates has carrying beam 1 with suspension racks 3 carrying freely mounted sleeves 4 with hooks 5 and fixedly mounted cargo gripping devices. Suspension racks 3 rest on bar 2. The novel feature is that the load-gripping devices fixed on suspension racks 3 are in the form of C-shaped boxes carrying pivotally mounted bars 7 provided with fork-shaped ends with holes and pins 11 and 12. One of the branches of each box carries sleeves provided with annular groove and flexible clusters with set of barrel-shaped liners provided with annular groove and locked pin. The sleeves are wrapped in thermal resistant shell fixed by clamps. EFFECT: uniform distribution of loads on cargo gripping devices and lower warping of articles. 1 cl, 7 dwg