US1013702A - Converter. - Google Patents

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A. TROPENAS.

CONVERTER.

APPLICATION FILED 11011. 28. 1910.

Patented Jan.2,1912.

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ALEXANDRE TROPENAS, F MON'IELIMAR, FRANCE, ASSIGNOR T0 TROPENAS CON- VERTER COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE.

CONVERTER.

r 1,013,702 Specification of Letters Patent. Patented J 2,1912.

Application filed November 28, 1910. Serial No. 594,620.

To all whom it may concern: by the ring 15, bear against the cross bar 21 Be it known that I, ALEXANDRE TROPENAS, cast on one of the doors and thus serve to a citizen of the Republic of France, and a lock the same in closed position, while at resident of Montelimar, in the Department the same time affording ready means whereof Drome, in the Republic of France, have by the latter may be freed and swung open invented a certain new and Improved Conwhen the bottom is to be knocked out at verter, of which the following is a specithe end of the days work. The ends of the fication. pivot bars may be squared, as at 18, to re- My invention relates to converters and ceive a handle whereby the doors may be the 10 particularly to side blown converters of the more easily swung up into locking position, Bessemer type, the object of my invention but this is not necessary since the converter being to improve the construction thereof may be turned bot-tom up when relining and in the features hereafter described, parin this position the doors may be readily ticularly for the purpose of expediting the closed by hand. 15 cooling of the apparatus after it is dis- The lining may be of any suitable form charged. of refractory material. For the sake of du- In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 rability however it is preferred to make the i is a vertical section of a converter; Fig. 2 portion below the twyers in brick form 19, is an inverted plan; and Fig. 3 is a side as illustrated. This is of particular utility 2 elevation at right angles to Fig. 1 and parat the manhole, which is otherwise shaped tially broken away. only with difliculty. To facilitate the dry- The converter illustrated is in its main ing out of the lining, the bottom of the ring features of the common side blown Bes- 15 and the doors 13 may be perforated as semer type comprising an outer steel shell at 20. 2 5 provided with adequate trunnions 6 The operation of this form of converter mounted on pedestals 7. The blast enters is clear. After a days blowing is over, the through wind box 8 and twyers 9, arranged bottom doors are swung open, and the botat a suitable height above the bottom of the tom 12 knocked out, (the manhole 10 being converter. A manhole 10 filled during opopened for this purpose, if desired). This 0 eration by a suitable closure 11, opens allows the air to circulate through the inthrough one wall of the converter to give terior and the converter is thus quickly ready access to the interior for repairs, etc. cooled. Next morning the doors are shut In these features the present structure reand a lining of suitable composition rammed sembles in the main the usual side blown up inside. After this lining has been dried 35 Bessemer converter. But the latter has a and suitably heated, the converter is ready serious defect in that it must remain idle to receive a charge. for 15 to 18 hours for cooling before it can Obviously the details illustrated may be be entered for repairs, and inasmuch as revariously modified without departing from pairs should be made after every days opmy invention, and I do not limit myself to 40 eration, the requisite incidental delay inthe precise structure shown, but claim as volves a considerable economic loss. A my invention": plant must have two converters in order to 1. A converter of the side blown Bessemer maintain one in continuous operation. type comprising a pivoted body having an The object of the present invention is to inclosing shell, an openable bottom closure 45 so construct the converter that it may be therefor hinged to the shell and a knockout cooled in a few hours, say over night, so bottom rammed up against said closure that it may be entered early the next morn-- from the interior of the converter, substaning and repaired in time to be heated and tially as described.

put in operation for the days work. This 2. A converter of the side blown Bessemer 50 object I accomplish by providing the contype comprising a pivoted body having an verter with a knockout bottom '12. In the openable bottom closure hinged to the shell form shown this bottom is supported by and a knockout refractory bottom lining steel doors 13, pivoted at 14 to the angle rammed up against said closure from the inring 15, riveted to the shell 5. Cotter pins terior of the converter. 55 16 passing through suitable eyes 17 carried 3. A converter of the side blown Bessemer latter, said bottom being perforated to eX- sure pivoted to said ring and a knockout refractory bottom l1n1ng rammed up against said closure, substantially as described.

4. A converter of the type described, comprising a pivoted body having an inclosing casing, an openable bottom closure therefor and a refractory lining supported on the pedite the drying of said lining, substant-ially as described.

5. A converter of the side blown Bessemer type comprising a pivoted body having an inclosing shell provided with a refractory lining, a perforated bottom closure pivoted to said shell and a refractory knockout bottom lining rammed against said bottom closure, substantially as described.

6. A converter of the side blown Bessemer type comprising a pivoted body having an inclosing shell, a bottom ring rigid with said shell, a body lining of refractory bricks supported on said ring, in combination with a perforated bottom closure pivoted to said ring and a refractory knockout bottom rammed against said bottom closure, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALEXANDRE TROPENAS.

WVitnesses ROGER BIARD, H. 0. Com.

Copies 01 this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. 0.

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