Super Series™
Vacuum Furnaces

They’re super-precise and super-fast.
T-M Vacuum Super Series vacuum furnaces are the high vacuum - high-temperature, technically advanced vacuum furnaces to satisfy all of your heat-treating needs. There is a two cubic work zone within the all- stainless steel chamber of these vacuum furnaces that are capable of holding up to 200 pounds of material. This capability makes these vacuum furnaces perfect for brazing, sintering, tempering, austenitizing, hardening, stress relieving, bonding, annealing, and many other custom vacuum processes.

A precision heating environment is created with the standard three-zone heat control package and electro-pneumatically operated Heat Pack door shield assembly allowing for perfect temperature uniformity of heat treating materials.

The vacuum furnaces have a specially designed Hot Zone-to-chamber ratio which enables the high-speed pumping system to reach high vacuum quicker, maximizing productivity and providing quality with a cleaner work zone. The vacuum furnaces have an inert gas on board Quick Cool System, where the metallurgical gas quench increases your cycle times by rapidly cooling the chamber and increasing your product output.

The Super Series HMI software system can be configured with our controlled cooling, which allows the user to precisely control the cooling environment of the vacuum furnaces. The Super Series vacuum furnaces can also be configured to accept multiple process gases. Once you have determined your specific heat treating process parameters, the computerized control system takes over to completely automate the process and archive all system data. An operator needs only to load and unload the chamber and press the start button of the vacuum furnaces to proceed with the heat treating process.

The Super Series systems are completely contained vacuum furnaces that contain no exposed wires, cables or pumps. This feature makes these vacuum furnaces very easy to maintain, as well as provides you with clean units and saves valuable factory floor space. Installation of these vacuum furnaces is as simple as connecting the unit to electric service and attaching gas, water and air lines. The Hot Zone is fully removable for service.

If the Super Series work zone is not large enough for your heat treating application, please ask about our PACER Series Vacuum Furnaces. Among the various sizes and styles of vacuum furnaces we carry, we are sure to have the right brazing, tempering, sintering high vacuum furnaces to suit your heat treating applications.

Temperature Capabilities and Controllability
10 series 1000°C (1832°F)
13 series 1315°C (2400°F)
14.5 series 1415°C (2650°F)
16.5 series 1650°C (3000°F)
20 series 2000°C (3632°F)

• +/- 1 degree controllability
• < +/- 2°C temperature uniformity*
• SCR Power Supply regulation
• 3-zone heat control with independent PID loop control

Vacuum Pumping System

• Standard pump down time*
  To 0.1 Torr 7 minutes
  10-5 Torr Scale 15 minutes
• High-Vacuum Valve: T-M 6" Right Angle Poppet Valve
• 6" diffusion pump – net pumping speed:
  2,400 l/s
• 42.2 cfm mechanical roughing & backing pump
• 3.8 cfm mechanical hold pump

Available Options on Vacuum Furnaces:

• Upgraded pumping systems – Mechanical, dry, diffusion, cryogenic, and turbo-molecular
• Molecular Sieve or Mechanically refrigerated, optically-dense, cold trap in roughing line or liquid nitrogen cryo-trap in high-vacuum line (for prevention of hydrocarbon contamination)
  

Inert Gas and Quick Cool System

• 10 HP blower – 4,200 cfm free air displacement
• Gas/water heat exchanger
• 18 vents directing Quick Cool gas onto workload
• Integral with furnace chamber, no externally mounted components

Available Options on Vacuum Furnaces:

• Multiple-process gas capability
• Controlled Cooling

System Controls

• The “E” control system: full PC, PLC, and HMI software control package will provide superior control, system analysis, recipe management, and data acquisition. With more than 14 user-friendly screens displayed on its 17" LCD flat panel touch screen, this state-of-the-art system eliminates the need for separate programmers, controllers and message displays.
• Over-temperature control
• Digital vacuum display
• Center of load thermocouple standard
• Emergency Stop
  

Available Options on Vacuum Furnaces:

• Multiple-survey thermocouples
• Uninterrupted power supplies (UPS)
• Multiple-channel color strip chart recorder

Operating Pressure Range

• High-vacuum to 2-bar (higher pressures available)
• Working pressure at maximum temperature: high-vacuum to 1 torr (higher pressures available)
• Capable of pressures between atmosphere and 2-bar (for Quick Cool use)
• 6-bar available
  

Hot Zone Construction

• Usable work zone 12" W x 12" H x 24" D
• Usable work zone volume of 2 cubic feet
• Work load capacity 200 lbs
• Round, horizontally-mounted Hot Zone comprised of six (6) high temp/low
  resistance molybdenum 2" band heater elements
• Heat shielding is composed of molybdenum layers backed by stainless steel layers
  in stainless steel containment and an electro-pneumatically operated Heat Pack door shield assembly
• Complete Hot Zone is easily removable as a unit for fast maintenance and less down time
• Molybdenum hearth assembly is 12" W x 24"D

Available Options on Vacuum Furnaces:

• Graphite and tungsten heating elements
• Graphite insulation in stainless steel containment

Chamber

• All-stainless steel construction including head-end closure and water jacketing
• Dual-wall chamber configuration designed to allow complete water-to-surface contact
• Stainless steel dual-wall, water-cooled door
• Water cooling for power feed-thru is external to vacuum chamber, eliminating the
  possibility of water leaking into the chamber
  
• Six clamp over center pneumatic clamp/locking door
• Working pressure: Full vacuum to 2-bar (6-bar available)
  

Safety Features
All T-M Vacuum Products, Inc. products, including all vacuum furnaces and other heat treating equipment, are equipped with standard safety features to
ensure safe operation.

Please consult T-M Vacuum Products, Inc. at (856) 829-2000 for availability and pricing of these or any other option requirements.

*All times and pressures are for clean, dry, empty, out-gassed furnace, starting from ambient pressure and temperature, and may vary. Times and pressures subject to pump size and maximum temperature.