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US 2007/0152385 A1Published application
Robotic system and method for the cleaning of casting ladles in electric arc furnaces
OwnerHugo Salamancainventor
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In the smelting process, the electric furnace is intended to treat the slag from other furnaces. The slag loading of the electric furnace is carried out using a ladle which cools down after unloading the slag which is adhered to the ladle making it difficult to reload the furnace. For this reason, the ladle must be cleaned on a regular basis. Due to the above, a robot system and method have been developed to clean the electric furnace ladle, which is capable of carrying out such activity automatically through the use of a robotic manipulator. The robotic system is composed mainly of an anthropomorphous robotic manipulator of at least 6 degrees of freedom (1), and one cleaning tool (2) which allows to clean the ladle (3) each time the furnace is loaded (4).
A robot system for cleaning the ladle in the electric furnace, comprising an anthropomorphous robotic arm of at least 5 degrees of freedom, one control, communication and programming unit, one gripper adapter, one pneumatic gripper mechanism, one pneumatic gripper driving system, one electric supply system, one fixed or mobile tool holder, one device or tool for cleaning the reception ladles wherein the anthropomorphous robotic arm of at least 5 degrees of freedom is provided with a gripping mechanism which allows in a sequential and programmed way to take the cleaning device or tool which are placed at the fixed and/or mobile tool holder located near the robotic manipulator and which will used for the cleaning of all the surface of the reception ladle after each discharge of the pot at the smelting furnace.
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