US3835231A - Tilting furnace - Google Patents

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US3835231A
US3835231A US00304894A US30489472A US3835231A US 3835231 A US3835231 A US 3835231A US 00304894 A US00304894 A US 00304894A US 30489472 A US30489472 A US 30489472A US 3835231 A US3835231 A US 3835231A
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F27—FURNACES; KILNS; OVENS; RETORTS
    • F27D—DETAILS OR ACCESSORIES OF FURNACES, KILNS, OVENS, OR RETORTS, IN SO FAR AS THEY ARE OF KINDS OCCURRING IN MORE THAN ONE KIND OF FURNACE
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  • the bottom portion of the furnace has sup- [30] Foreign Application Priority Data porting rolls arranged on both sides of a vertical line Nov. 9, 1971 Sweden 14265/71 through the Center Of gravity of the furnace When the furnace is in upright position, and cradle beams at the [52 US. Cl. 13/10 Sides 0 the pp g rolls- Fer deslagging without [51] Int. Cl. F27b 14/02 moving the electrodes, the furnace y be rotated [58] Field of Search 13/10 through Small angles around a Stationary fulcrum hear the roof with the supporting rolls rolling on a base.
  • Such furnaces are often constructed with a bottom having two or more arcuate cradle beams, the furnace with its teeming spout being moved laterally by rolling action to a teeming place when the furnace is tilted.
  • This system involves the disadvantage that the electrodes must be lifted out of the roof not only for teeming the melt from the furnace but also when the furnace is insignificantly tilted, for example, to a deslagging postion requiring only slight tilting movements, where the melt surface is at most level with a slag opening or the lower edge of the teeming opening. From a metallurgical point of view it is often necessary to have the heating effect on when the tilting angle of the furnace is small. Also, it is not practical to have to remove the electrodes in connection with suchsmall tilting movements, often below in relation to the center-ofgravity line when the furnace is in upright position.
  • tilting furnaces with a bottom portion containing rolls or several sets of rolls, and in this case the tilting can take place round a fulcrum close to the furnace roof, and when. the tilting angles are small the electrodes can be maintained in position.
  • a disadvantage of this type of tiltability is that the furnace teeming spout, when in tilting position, will come too close to the base of the furnace, because no lateral movement is involved by the rotation, and where there is often no place for ladles and the like.
  • the invention aims at a solution to the abovementioned problem and is characterized in that the bottom portion of the furnace partly comprises an arcuate series of supporting rolls rolling against a base and arranged along an arcuate track extending from both sides of a vertical line through the centre of gravity of the furnace when in upright position, and partly has arcuate cradle beams beside the track of the supporting rolls, connected at least on one side to said track, the furnace, when exposed to small movements on both sides of the center-of-gravity line when in upright position, being rotated round a stationary pivoting point located close to the furnace roof, after which outside these rotaryv motions the furnace rolls on the cradle beams against a preferably plane base.
  • FIG. 1 An arc furnace is shown in FIG. 1 with a furnace vessel 11 and a roof 12 with vertically adjustable consumable electrodes 13 through the roof.
  • the bottom portion of the vessel is provided with supporting rolls 14 close to and extending on both sides of a line 16 through the center of gravity when the furnace is in upright position, said supporting rolls being arranged in an arcuate track 15 on the vessel's bottom, either in the form of two transversely interspaced sets of separate rolls, one for each supported part of the furnace, or as one set of longer rolls extending transversely along the whole bottom of the vessel.
  • the rolls 14 are locked by means of a catch (not shown) when the arcuate cradles take over the rollingoff during the continuous tilting.
  • At least two arcuate cradle beams 21 are arranged on the bottom of the vessel 11 on one or both sides of the track 15 of the supporting rolls 14, and are connected to it, and on said cradle beams the furnace vessel rolls or is rolled when turned above the shown a-values 10).
  • the electrodes 13 must, however, first be lifted up from the roof because of the lateral movement taking place when the furnace vessel is rolled.
  • the vessel is turned round a center 17 close to the roof l2, and the electrodes can beheld stationary.
  • the arcuate series of rolls l4 and their arcuate track 15 are concentric with this center 17.
  • the center of turning lies here at the upper edge of the roof, but slight deviations from this can easily be made.
  • FIG. 2 shows one supporting roll 14 arranged in a U- formed arcuate track 15 in the bottom portion of the furnace vessel 11.
  • the roll 14 is supported against the base 19 along a horizontal rolling track 18 connected to and elevated above the horizontal base 19 onto which the rocker beam 21 rolls for further tilting of the vessel 11.
  • the base 19 can be supported by cars 20 (FIG. 1) so that the vessel 11 can be movable for casting operations (see arrows A in FIG. 1).
  • the rolls and the cradle beams can of course change places.
  • FIG. 3 is shown how the supporting rolls 14 are moved to the left in the track 15 during turning to the left, for left-hand rotation of the vessel about the center 17, the vessels bottom swinging in a right-hand direction to adjust the melting level in the furnace for deslagging through a rear slag opening (see at 22), or at the tapping opening 23.
  • the centerline 16 is here at position 16a.
  • the cradle beam is moved from position 21 to 21" ,when the vessel is turned 10 to the left (FIG. 3) with its centerline l6 rotated to position 16a.
  • a supporting roll has then moved in each instance the distance b, and the rolls are farthest to the left in the channel 15.
  • the beam 21 and the track 15 are arranged in such a way that a small change of level is obtained or a shoulder or nib (not shown) must be passed, and this means a little extra tilting resistance until the rolling is started.
  • the supporting rolls release their hold of the base 19 and are kept in position by means of a catch (not shown).
  • the rolling track 18 ends with a shoulder 18a and the cradle beam 21 ends to form a shoulder 21a, and that these shoulders abut when the furnace vertical centerline is rotated to the 16a position.
  • the furnace tilting mechanism 25 can only cause rotation of the furnace, swinging the line 16 from 16 to 16a position about the point 17.
  • the lower tip of the shoulder 21a due to the arcuate beam shape, contacts the base 19 only when .the two ends abut.
  • the furnace is forced to roll over on its cradle beams, lifting the rolls 14 from their rolling track 18 with the shoulder 21 moving arcuately upwardly.
  • the two shoulders return together while the rolls 14 return to their rolling track 18, the furnace thereafter rotating about the center 17 adjacent to the electrodeswith the shoulders separating again and the cradle beam 21 and the tip 210 of its shoulder, free from the base 19.
  • cradle beams 21 which the furnaces bottom partly has; in other words, these cradle beams provide stabilityand extend in the desired rolling direction of the furnace, and terminate near to the furnaces vertical centre line 16.
  • the cradle beams connect with the arcuate track 15, both being formed by or connected to the furnaces bottom.
  • the arcuate track 15 extends on both sides of this centerline 16 a distance giving the desired extent of rotation about the center 17.
  • the rolls may each transversely span the distance between the cradle beams or be two series of short rolls eachv beside one of the cradle beams. in either instance, the arcuate track or tracks 15 should be designed accordingly.
  • the tapping spout 24 is moved laterally and a suitable tapping position is obtained (larger turning then a 10). See at arrow B in FIG. 1.
  • the supporting rolls can be arranged also in other ways than according to FIG. 2 and can possibly be made so as to extend along the whole base.
  • the number of supporting rolls in this case is five, of which only three are represented in FIG. 3, but the number may vary between three and upwards, but not less than that.
  • the change from supporting by the rolls to rolling on the cradle takes place at the desired small angle a.
  • the tilting machinery 25 can be hydraulic, pneumatic or electrical.
  • the group of rolls 14 can be held together, as indicated at 14a, as in the manner of the rolls of roller bearings in general, and, further, may be suitably retained in the track 15.
  • a tilting furnace which can be tilted far enough for teeming and having a roof in which non-tiltable electrodes are positioned and tilting means; wherein the improvement comprises means for supporting said furnace for rotation about a center at least adjacent to said electrodes and within a limited range of rotative angularities less than permits teeming, and means for supporting said furnace for bodily rolling over when tilted beyond said range, for teeming.
  • said rotative supporting means comprise a series of rolls and a track therefor which is connected to the furnaces bottom and is arcuately concentric with said center and extends from both sides of the furnaces vertical centerline
  • said bodily rolling means comprise cradle beams connected to and extending partly around the furnaces said bottom in the direction the furnace is tilted for teeming, and bases on which said rolls and beams are respectively supported.

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US3973076A (en) * 1973-06-07 1976-08-03 Lukens Steel Company Furnace for melting highly corrosive slag
US4263469A (en) * 1978-09-28 1981-04-21 Bbc Brown, Boveri & Company Limited Roller cradle of an inherently stable furnace
DE3840486A1 (de) * 1988-12-01 1990-06-07 Mannesmann Ag Ofenanlage zum einschmelzen von schrott
US5153894A (en) * 1989-03-02 1992-10-06 Fuchs Technology Ag Smelting plant with removable shaft-like charging material preheater
US5850413A (en) * 1996-10-21 1998-12-15 Dianeli & Co. Officine Meccaniche Device to support and swing the hearth in an electric furnace
US20020110175A1 (en) * 2000-12-16 2002-08-15 Stercho Michael J. Method and apparatus for deslagging and tapping an integrated electric steel making furnace
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US3973076A (en) * 1973-06-07 1976-08-03 Lukens Steel Company Furnace for melting highly corrosive slag
US4263469A (en) * 1978-09-28 1981-04-21 Bbc Brown, Boveri & Company Limited Roller cradle of an inherently stable furnace
DE3840486A1 (de) * 1988-12-01 1990-06-07 Mannesmann Ag Ofenanlage zum einschmelzen von schrott
US5153894A (en) * 1989-03-02 1992-10-06 Fuchs Technology Ag Smelting plant with removable shaft-like charging material preheater
US5850413A (en) * 1996-10-21 1998-12-15 Dianeli & Co. Officine Meccaniche Device to support and swing the hearth in an electric furnace
AU719295B2 (en) * 1996-10-21 2000-05-04 Danieli & C. Officine Meccaniche S.P.A. Device to support and swing the hearth in an electric furnace
US20020110175A1 (en) * 2000-12-16 2002-08-15 Stercho Michael J. Method and apparatus for deslagging and tapping an integrated electric steel making furnace
US6719944B2 (en) * 2000-12-16 2004-04-13 Sms Demag, Inc. Method and apparatus for deslagging and tapping an integrated electric steel making furnace
CN112665385A (zh) * 2020-12-29 2021-04-16 湖北新金洋资源股份公司 一种便于投料的加料平台
CN112665385B (zh) * 2020-12-29 2024-05-31 湖北新金洋资源股份公司 一种便于投料的加料平台

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