Distributing and poking machine for metallurgical furnaces
AssigneesDango & Dienenthal, KemaNobel AB
InventorsOtto Hummler, Bo Christer Welander
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Abstract
An improved device for distributing and stirring the contents of a furnace having a plurality of vertically disposed electrodes, said improved device including a circular track disposed adjacent the upper periphery of said furnace, a first transport carriage, motor means for moving said first transport carriage, an elongated non-circular trackway supported by said first transport carriage, a second transport carriage, a non-circular trackway, means to move said second transport carriage back and forth, a furnace contents working device connected to said second transport carriage, and means to vary the angular disposition of said furnace contents working device.
Claims8
In the known combination of
- (1) a furnace,
- (2) a plurality of vertical electrodes, and
- (3) a mechanism for distributing and stirring the contents of said furnace,
- the improvement consisting of a distributing and stirring mechanism that includes in combination,
- (a) a circular track disposed adjacent the upper perimeter of said furnace,
- (b) a first transport carriage that is supported by said circular track,
- (c) motor means for moving said first transport carriage from one position to another in said circular track
- (d) an elongated non-circular trackway supported by said first transport carriage, said non-circular trackway extending in a generally radial direction with respect to said circular track,
- (e) a second transport carriage supported by said elongated non-circular trackway,
- (f) means to move said second transport carriage back and forth within said elongated non-circular trackway,
- (g) a furnace contents working device connected to said second transport carriage, and
- (h) means to vary the angular disposition of said furnace contents working device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.