Installation for cutting scrap iron by oxygen cutting

Installation for cutting scrap iron by oxygen cutting comprising:

• a cutting bench for placing thereon the scrap metal to be cut;
• a pit in the form of a channel filled with water disposed beneath the cutting bench, which cutting bench comprises holes in order to allow cutting slat to fall directly into the water in the pit;
• a torch-carrier slat to fall directly into the water in the plurality of torches situated above the scrap metal to be cut, the support being movable on rails disposed parallel to the cutting bench in order to move the torches as the cutting progresses, said torches being completely housed inside said large leaktight container internally provided with a suction hood for evacuating the vapors, brown smoke and dust emitted during the cutting operation, said leaktight container comprising at least two suction hoods, namely, on the one hand, a hood of conventional type disposed above the cutting zone and whose suction is exerted vertically upwards, on the other hand, a suction hood having a longitudinal opening disposed horizontally and parallel to the cutting bench and at the height of the later, and whose suction is exerted horizontally in a direction perpendicular to the cutting bench.