Rotary tubular furnace
AssigneeKlockner-Humboldt-Deutz Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsHerbert Deussner, Joachim Fleischer
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Abstract
A rotary tubular furnace is provided at its outlet end with a satellite cooler comprising a plurality of cooling tubes uniformly spaced around the end portion of said tubular furnace and/or a tubular extension thereof, and each of said cooling tubes is provided with an influent member which during the rotation of the furnace intermittently dips into a cooling liquid bath to thereby supply cooling liquid to the respective cooling tube in regulatable quantities, said cooling liquid bath being connected with a supply of cooling liquid by a stationary supply conduit.
Claims7
A rotary tubular furnace with a satellite cooler, comprising:
- a plurality of cooling tubes spaced about the circumference of the furnace at the outlet end thereof;
- a liquid coolant bath contained in a channel member;
- means for supplying liquid to said liquid bath;
- at least one tubular influent means connected to each of said cooling tubes, with each of said tubular influent means being provided with a pocket shaped scoop member open in a rotary direction and adapted to intermittently dip into the liquid bath during operation of the furnace;
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- means for rotating said tubes about a common horizontal axis so that said scoop members are moved past said bath.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.