Work-facilitating apparatus for lining converters, metallurgical furnaces, holding vessels and like equipment

An apparatus for facilitating the conveyance of material and the erection of walls of closed circumference from bricks, such as refractory bricks, and particularly for lining converters, metallurgical furnaces, such as blast-furnaces, holding vessels and like equipment, said apparatus comprising:

• a vertical frame supporting a working platform;
• conveyer means including a vertical conveyance path for conveying material to a discharging position at a level above said working platform and a supply path for conveying the material to said vertical conveyance path, said vertical conveyance path and said supply path being formed by two conveyer runs, one of said runs being extendable by shortening of the other of said runs and vice versa;
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• substantially horizontal conveying means, supported by and surrounding said frame, for receiving material delivered to said discharging position by the said conveyer run forming said vertical conveyance path and for transferring the thus received material in a substantially circular path and then to a selected construction position.