US3357692A - Device for feeding additional materials into a stream of molten metals - Google Patents

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US3357692A
US3357692A US401612A US40161264A US3357692A US 3357692 A US3357692 A US 3357692A US 401612 A US401612 A US 401612A US 40161264 A US40161264 A US 40161264A US 3357692 A US3357692 A US 3357692A
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    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C21—METALLURGY OF IRON
    • C21C—PROCESSING OF PIG-IRON, e.g. REFINING, MANUFACTURE OF WROUGHT-IRON OR STEEL; TREATMENT IN MOLTEN STATE OF FERROUS ALLOYS
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    • C21—METALLURGY OF IRON
    • C21C—PROCESSING OF PIG-IRON, e.g. REFINING, MANUFACTURE OF WROUGHT-IRON OR STEEL; TREATMENT IN MOLTEN STATE OF FERROUS ALLOYS
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  • ABSTRACT F THE DSCLOSURE A device for feeding additives into a stream of molten metals in which there is a mouthpiece in the bottom of the storage chamber for the melt.
  • the mouthpiece includes an outlet channel having a transverse cross section which gradually decreases toward the outlet, and a cylindrical feeding chute is mounted concentrically within the outlet.
  • This invention relates to a device for feeding additive materials into a stream of molten metals, which additive materials have lower boiling points and/ or specific weights than the molten metals. More particularly, the invention is concerned with such a device for feeding magnesium or preliminary alloys thereof into a stream of molten iron for the preparation of nodular cast iron.
  • magnesium and its allied metals present many problems, particularly so, because magnesium, for instance, will melt at 650 C. and will boil at 1120" C.
  • the additive material(s) may be placed on the bottom of a -ladle and the liquid metal may be poured on to it (them).
  • the additional material may be introduced by means of an immersion body, it may be thrown vigorously on to the bath by means of a rapidly revolving paddle wheel or it may be strewn on the bath surface and stirred in very intensively.
  • the feeding in may be effected, while filling a ladle by dropping the additional material from a great height on to a stream of molten metals, or by adding it gradually on or in the stream.
  • a ⁇ device for adding aluminium to pigiron which is formed by a chamber which is closed at the top and is to be heated by a burner.
  • This chamber is provided at its side with a supply pipe with a syphon for maintaining a constant and calm level on the bottom of the chamber.
  • a central drainage channel In the bottom, there is an overflow provided about a central drainage channel, the inlet portion of which has a gradually narrowing transverse cross-section and the bottom of which shows a widened orifice.
  • a collector vessel having a discharge pipe at its side. This collector vessel is also closed on all sides and can be heated by a burner.
  • a feeding chute for the additional material is provided through the cover of the chamber, which chute is coaxial to the drainage channel and reaches up to the overflow.
  • the molten mass is supplied through the syphon in order to ensure that there will always issue a hollow, free-falling tubed stream from the drainage channel.
  • the additional material is supplied from the feeding chute as a free falling, independent core stream, which is not united to the tubed stream until far below the orifice of the drainage channel, substantially at the height of the bath level in the collector Vessel.
  • a device for adding lead to iron alloys is mounted on a steel ladle having a bottom provided with a drainage channel which can be closed by a stop rod.
  • the device is formed by a storage container for the additional material(s), which is connected with a bore of the stop rod, which passes into a cylindrical chute extending into the drainage channel.
  • the stop rod can seal on a conical seat in the drainage channel, or in a lifted position it can let a ring-like tubular stream of liquid metal flow into the further cylindrical part of the drainage channel, whereby a core stream of additional material can be fed through the chute.
  • the feeding chute By making the feeding chute of heat-resistant and insulating material and providing the stop rod at the upper side with a closing device, or by maintaining a high pressure in the bore of the feeding chute with the aid of gas or air, penetration by the molten mass of metal from the tubular stream intothe feeding chute, there to form a lump of frozen fast sintered metal which obstructs the further supply of additional material, may be avoided.
  • the object of this invention is to provide a device which is of course free from the drawbacks referred to and which is perfectly reliable and will remain so for a long time.
  • a mouth piece comprising an outlet channel having transverse cross-sections gradually decreasing towards the oritice and which has substantially no cylindrical part, and mounted concentrically within this outlet channel a cylindrical feeding chute for the additional material, the prefrably bevelled lower rim of the said chute-projecting from under the orifice of the outlet channel.
  • the lower rim projects by more than a quarter of the diameter of the orifice of the outlet channel and the diameter of this lower rim is about one half of the diameter of the orifice.
  • the feeding chute is preferably suspended so as to be readjustable, so that its lower rim can always be brought back to or be maintained at the right height to keep up with progressive wear.
  • a mouth piece 2 of graphite is provided in the bottom 1 of a storage chamber to which the mass of molten metal is Iadded.
  • the mouth piece block 2 is provided with an outlet or drainage channel 3, the transverse cross-section of which gradually and progressively narrows toward and up to its lower end, so that it is substantially without a cylindrical part.
  • a feeding chute 4 of graphite is mounted concentrically in the outlet channel 3 with the aid of a carrier 5 of graphite, which is centered in upstanding projections 6 of the block 2. Between the projections 6 and the carrier 5 there are formed gates 7, through which the melt from the storage chamber can enter the drainage channel 3.
  • the feeding chute 4 extends through the orifice 8 of the drainage channel 3 and the lower rim 9 of the feeding chute extends beyond the orifice 8 over a length, which is about equal to one third of the diameter of t-he said orifice, that is into the free-falling and freely contracting stream 10 of liquid metal of the melt. Towards its lower end, the feeding chute 4 narrows from the outside and widens from the inside, and the diameter of the lower rim 9 then is about half the diameter of the orifice 8.
  • the additional material falls into the feeding chute, 4 which can be kept at the right height with the aid of a heavy clamping holder 12 provided about the feeding chute 4 and which is thereby at the same time safeguarded against rising. Moreover, with the aid of this clamp it is possible to control the length of the projecting piece of the chute, by adjusting it to a higher or lower position.
  • a conical cavity 13 is created under the lower rim 9 in the freely contracting tubular stream 10, in which cavity the falling particles of additional material 14 are caught before they are taken up into the stream 10 which has then become one massive whole. Up to the cavity 13, the additional material is free from t-he direct radiation of the melt and remains cool.
  • a device for feeding additive materials into a stream of the molten metals, which additive materials have lower boiling points or lower specic weights or both than the molten metals said device comprising, in combination:

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