Heat torch

Uses

Medical industry

Heat torches can be found in various medical instruments such as blood analyzers. In one application, a heat torch was installed inside a blood analyzer to make film cuvettes in real time, allowing blood to be stored and tested on board the instrument.

Jewelry making ([[lapidary]])

Commonly referred to as a soldering torch, heat torches used in jewelry making are often fueled by butane, propane, MAPP gas, or a mixture of propane and oxygen. Heat torches are more effective at working with certain metals, such as sterling, gold, and copper, because they are able to heat these metals to a higher degree than traditional soldering irons and soldering guns.

Manufacturing and industry

Heat torches have a wide range of use in manufacturing industries such as high-capacity staking, curing, drying, heat-shrinking, air heaters, sterilization, adhesive activation, air scrubbing and air knives.

Construction

Specialized plasma heat torches can be used in construction to heat up soil, a technique that has proven to be useful for providing more solid footing for buildings and structures. This is still a developing technology, but has proven to be successful in prototype testing.

References

References

1. Farnam Custom Products [http://www.farnam-custom.com/air_heaters/medical_blood_analyzer.html Medical Blood Analyzer animation]
2. About.com article on Jewelrymaking [https://web.archive.org/web/20050918020748/http://jewelrymaking.about.com/od/metaljewelrymaking/a/122304.htm What Type Of Soldering Torch?]
3. [https://web.archive.org/web/20060923010330/http://www.new-technologies.org/ECT/Civil/plasma1.htm Emerging Construction Technologies - Plasma Arc Torch Technology]