# US 4,394,765 A · Electro-slag remelting furnace for consumable electrodes and having an electrode drive

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- Number: US 4,394,765 A
- Document ID: US4394765A
- Status: Granted
- Kind: A
- Application number: 06/324,995
- Filed: 1981-11-25
- Granted: 1983-07-19
- Earliest claimed: 1980-12-15
- Assignees: Leybold-Heraeus GmbH
- Inventors: Uwe Reimpell; Helmut Grof; Franz-Georg Knell; Anton Wamser
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US4394765A

## CPC

- B22D 23/10: Electroslag casting {(electroslag remelting C22B9/18)}
- B22D: CASTING OF METALS; CASTING OF OTHER SUBSTANCES BY THE SAME PROCESSES OR DEVICES (shaping of plastics or substances in a plastic state B29C; metallurgical processing, selection of substances to be added to metal C21, C22)

## Abstract

An electro-slag remelting furnace having consumable electrodes and a mold for receiving a melt formed from the electrode material; at least one drive motor and at least one spindle and an associated stationary spindle nut for vertical movement of the electrode; at least one guide column, which is provided for vertically guiding the consumable electrodes and which extends parallel with the spindle and relative to which the spindle is rotatable mounted at its two ends; and at least one clamping device for the consumable electrodes.

## Claims

### Claim 1

An electro-slag remelting furnace for consumable electrodes and comprising a mold for receiving a melt formed from the electrode material; at least one drive motor and at least one spindle and an associated spindle nut for vertical movement of the electrode; at least one guide column, which is provided for vertically guiding the consumable electrodes and which extends parallel with the spindle and relative to which the spindle is rotatably mounted at its two ends; and at least one clamping device for the consumable electrodes comprising the spindle nut which is of fixed location, the spindle which is mounted in the spindle nut and is vertically displaceable therein, the spindle being connected by its lower end to the clamping device; and a guide in which the guide column is displaceably mounted, together with the spindle.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

An electro-slag remelting furnace according to claim 1, wherein a drive motor is associated with the spindle.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

An electro-slag remelting furnace according to claim 1, wherein the spindle nut is rotatably mounted and a drive motor is associated with it.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

An electro-slag remelting furnace according to claim 1, wherein a separate drive motor is associated with the spindle as well as with the spindle nut.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

An electro-slag remelting furnace according to claim 1, wherein the guide is arranged in a fixed location on a furnace frame member.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

An electro-slag remelting furnace according to claim 1, wherein one or more guide columns are also designed as current-supply elements.

### Claim 7 (depends on 6)

An electro-slag remelting furnace according to claim 6, wherein a wiper of fixed location is associated with each of the guide columns.

### Claim 8 (depends on 1)

An electro-slag remelting furnace according to claim 1, wherein an additional lift drive is arranged between the spindle and the guide columns by means of which lift drive a limited movement relative to the spindle is superposed on the guide columns.

### Claim 9 (depends on 8)

An electro-slag remelting furnace according to claim 8, wherein the clamping device has two clamping elements which are movable relatively to each other and one of which is connected to the spindle and the other to the columns.

### Claim 10 (depends on 1)

An electro-slag remelting furnace according to claim 1, wherein the lower ends of the guide columns are located above the upper edge of the mold in the bottom position.