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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7070733 | Cooling system for a trunnion ring and metallurgical furnace vessel A cooling system for a basic oxygen furnace or an Argon Oxygen Decarburization converter having a metallurgical converter vessel supported in a trunnion ring. The cooling system comprises a number of cooling panels. The cooling panels are mounted or attached to the ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 6676888 | Swivel base tilting rotary furnace A method of, and apparatus for, recycling a metal by melting it to remove it from metal-containing scrap through the use of a tiltable, swivel rotary furnace, which is swiveled to a first station for receiving metal-containing scrap, tilted back and rotat... | 01/13/2004 |
| 5688470 | Apparatus for recovery of non-ferrous metals from scrap and dross A process and apparatus are disclosed for recovering a non-ferrous metal, preferably aluminum and aluminum alloys, in molten coherent form from a charge of material to be processed containing the metal. The charge is introduced into a sealable furnace whi... | 11/18/1997 |
| 4275871 | Metallurgical vessel and supporting means A metallurgical vessel has upper and lower brackets which engage a trunnion ring for support along inclined surfaces whose total vertical angle has a tangent equal to the growth of the vessel radially in the region of its said brackets to the elongation o... | 06/30/1981 |
| 4266758 | Support for a metallurgical vessel A support is provided for a metallurgical vessel, in which paired tie rods are provided superimposed upon each other to absorb the stress resulting from thermal expansion and contraction in the support. By superimposing pairs of the tie rods upon each oth... | 05/12/1981 |
| 4255126 | Furnace tilting device A method and apparatus for tilting a furnace supported by rolling rockers is disclosed. The apparatus includes at least one hydraulic cylinder connected to a spout side of the furnace, and at least one hydraulic cylinder connected to a back side of the fu... | 03/10/1981 |
| 4175732 | Melting of fine particulate material in a high-speed rotary furnace Finely divided particulate material is discharged against the incandescent wall of a rotary furnace through a pipe extending into the open end of the furnace in a position where the material is out of the path of the flame projected into the furnace throu... | 11/27/1979 |
| 3971547 | Apparatus and method for refining metal A metal-refining converter comprises an elongated vessel for containing a melt to be refined and which tilts so that it can be positioned upright or horizontal. This vessel has an upper end having a charging opening provided with a removable gas-tight cov... | 07/27/1976 |
| 3951390 | Thrust bearing device for metal treating vessel A converter 10 having horizontally exiting trunnion pins which are subject to side loading. A pair of bearings support the trunnion pins for rotation and a thrust bearing assembly is connected to the terminal end of one of the trunnion pins and is mounted... | 04/20/1976 |
