Patent ID: 9366579
Filing Date: 2016-06-14
CPC Classification: A22C,A23B,A23L,A23V,B65G,G01K,G01N,G05B

Claim Text:
1. A method for measuring the internal temperature of discrete, thermally treated workpieces, comprising: (a) selecting workpieces for temperature measurement from an output stream of workpieces exiting from a thermal processing system; (b) removing selected workpieces from the output stream; (c) after removal of selected workpieces from the output stream, dimensionally characterizing the removed selected workpieces; and (d) after dimensionally characterizing the removed selected workpieces, measuring the temperature of the selected workpieces at one or more locations expected to give a representative temperature of the workpieces based on the results of the dimensionally characterizing the selected workpieces.