Control method for melting a metal charge and weighing device used in said method
AssigneeDanieli & C. Officine Meccaniche SpA
InventorsStefano Terlicher, Franco Scotti, Romano Sellan
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Abstract
A control method for melting a metal charge in a furnace comprising at least a hearth containing the metal charge and a roof. The method provides that the hearth is weighed by means of a plurality of weighing elements distributed along the perimeter of the base of the hearth, and that the values detected by the plurality of weighing elements are sent to a control unit in order to obtain information relating to the distribution of the metal charge inside the hearth.
Claims4
A control method for melting a metal charge in a furnace comprising at least a hearth containing the metal charge and a roof, the control method comprising:
- weighing the hearth with a plurality of weighing elements distributed along the perimeter of the base of the hearth, and
- obtaining with a control unit information relating to the weight distribution of the metal charge inside the hearth based on values sent to the control unit as detected by said plurality of weighing elements, and
- adjusting a leveling element associated with each of said weighing elements to level the position of the hearth according to the value of weight detected by the relative weighing element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.