Cooling plate for a metallurgical furnace and its method of manufacturing

Abstract

A cooling plate for a metallurgical furnace includes a body with a front face, an opposite rear face (16), four side edges and at least one coolant channel extending from the region of one side edge to the region of the opposite side edge, where a bent connection pipe connects at least one extremity of each coolant channel for coolant fluid feed or return, and the bent connection pipe is sealingly connected with the extremity of the associated coolant channel within a respective recess in the body that is opened toward the rear side, where the coolant channel opens in the recess in a connection surface beveled towards the rear side; and the bent connection pipe does not extend laterally beyond the corresponding side edge.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.