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OwnerGiulio Properziinventor
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An apparatus for melting and refining impure nonferrous metals, comprising a tiltable reverberatory furnace with a furnace body that has a base with a rectangular plan shape and is provided with two mutually opposite heads, which are mutually connected by a bottom wall, by an upper wall or ceiling and by two side walls, the furnace being provided with means for the tilting of the furnace body about an axis which is substantially horizontal and perpendicular to the heads; the furnace has, in a central region of the upper wall, a portion that protrudes upwardly from the remaining portion of the upper wall and is delimited in an upper region by a flying buttress-like wall and laterally by two mutually opposite side walls, the portion having, on the side that faces the flying buttress-like wall, a loading port, which is closed by a movable door.
An apparatus for melting and refining impure nonferrous metals originating from processing of minerals, comprising a tiltable reverberatory furnace with a furnace body that has a base with a rectangular plan shape and is provided with two mutually opposite heads, which are mutually connected by a bottom wall, by an upper wall or ceiling and by two side walls, the apparatus comprising a tilting device adapted to tilt said furnace body about an axis which is substantially horizontal and perpendicular to said heads, further comprising, in a central region of said upper wall, a portion that protrudes upwardly from the remaining portion of said upper wall and is delimited in an upper region by a flying buttress wall, laterally by two mutually opposite side walls, and having, on the side that faces said flying buttress wall, a loading port, which is closed by a door movable to open and close said loading port.
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