Oh boy, you're talking something I remember all too well. Look up "RF Sealing Machines". If it's anything like what we had it was a high power RF energy going through a coil. The coil and RF going through it heated up whatever was inside the coil. In our case it was making glass to metal seals for photomultiplier tubes for the nightvision goggles.
These things had huge vacuum tubes with large glowing electron beams in them. Nasty stuff. One guy was working on one and got crossways in something and people said blue flames shot out of his chest. He lived. But then they told me to work on it. One of those times I really didn't want to work on electronics. lol
Michael