Tiltable metallurgical vessel arrangement
AssigneeVereinigte Osterreichische Eisen- und Stahlwerke-Alpine Montan Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsErnst Riegler, Manfred Schmidt
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Abstract
A tiltable metallurgical vessel arrangement, in particular a steel making plant converter, has carrying trunnions arranged in bearings, one of the bearings being a fixed bearing and one being an expansion bearing, and bearing housings for the bearings; the bearing housings have supporting faces which rest on counter-supporting faces of a base-supported supporting construction; at least one of the bearing housings has two supporting faces arranged at a distance from each other and a strain measuring means connected to the bearing housing between the supporting faces thereof to indicate a sagging of said bearing housing under load.
Claims4
In a tiltable metallurgical vessel arrangement, in particular a converter to be used in a steel making plant, of the type including carrying trunnions for carrying the vessel and bearings accommodating the carrying trunnions, one of the bearings being a fixed bearing and one of the bearings being an expansion bearing, the bearings being arranged in bearing housings having supporting faces, and a base-supported supporting construction having counter supporting faces, the supporting faces resting on the counter supporting faces, the improvement which is characterized in that the bearing housing of at least one of the bearings has two supporting faces provided at a distance from each other, and that a strain measuring means is provided and connected to said bearing housing between the two supporting faces to indicate a sagging of said bearing housing between its two supporting faces under load.
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