Metallurgical oven and a material basket for a metallurgical oven

Abstract

The invention relates to a metallurgical furnace with a vessel (10), a cover (20) for the vessel, a charging device (30) for charging material that will be melted in said vessel, which charging device has a rotatable retaining means (31) and a volume (C) for receiving charging material, and a projection (40) provided in the charging opening (42) and which is arranged on the cover (20) or on the vessel (10). The furnace has a maximum filling level (H2), the rotatable retaining means is pivoted for charging into the projection, the vessel, the cover, the charging device, the retaining element and the projection are dimensioned in such a way that the pivoting range of the retaining means is higher than the maximum filling level (H2). The invention is characterised in that the charging device comprises at least two self-supporting material baskets (32) that can be positioned in a removable manner above the projection (40), which comprise respectively an inner chamber that can be closed on the lower side of the material basket (32) by the retaining means (31) and also a volume (C) for receiving the charging materials and a change device (33) provided for interchanging and positioning the material basket (32).

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