| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 6585032 |
Strip casting plant |
July 1, 2003 |
| A strip casting plant with side limits arranged closely adjacent to a carrying belt. The side limits, and preferably the supply device for molten metal, are capable of vibrating and are connected to a device for producing vibrations. The adhesion of solidified material can thus be pr |
| 6156261 |
Method and device for positioning the mouth of a consumable lance |
December 5, 2000 |
| A method and device for positioning the mouth of a consumable lance that conveys gaseous and/or solid media into a metallurgical vessel containing liquid metal. The lance is guided tangentially to the furnace vessel in a plane which lies above the liquid level of the metal situated insid |
| 6123186 |
Supporting arrangement for thin strip casting |
September 26, 2000 |
| A supporting arrangement for the transport belt in thin strip casting plants. The liquid steel is cast onto the circulating transport belt. On its underside, the transport belt has devices for generating a negative pressure and for supporting the belt as well as for cooling. In the past, |
| 6070649 |
Method for pouring a metal melt into a mold |
June 6, 2000 |
| Disclosed is a method and apparatus for a metal melt, especially steel, into a vertically oscillating mold via a tundish or intermediate vessel provided with an immersion nozzle to generate endless strands, especially thin strands of steel wherein the intermediate vessel has an open firs |
| 5915459 |
Method and equipment for the integral casting of metal strip close to its final dimensions |
June 29, 1999 |
| Metal strip close to its final dimensions is cast using a strip-casting apparatus provided with a melt-holding vessel and a conveyor belt, in which a metal melt, in particular steel, flows out of a casting nozzle of a closable pouring chamber which can be put under vacuum and is connecte |
| 5887016 |
Charging device for arc furnaces |
March 23, 1999 |
| A charging device for closed arc furnaces having at least one electrode around which the charge material is concentrically fed into the furnace. Conveyor devices run in protected fashion in an annular chamber disposed above a furnace cover. A plurality of magnets are suspended from the |
| 5879617 |
Apparatus for treating waste materials |
March 9, 1999 |
| A method and apparatus for treating residual or waste materials that can be recycled energetically, especially light-weight refuse from shredders, which, reduced in size and classified, are stored in bunkers. The residual or waste material is fed by portions from the bunkers to a supply |
| 5835523 |
Bottom electrode for a metallurgical vessel |
November 10, 1998 |
| A bottom electrode for a metallurgical vessel operated with direct current, consisting of an outer part made of a first material arrangeable substantially outside a bottom of the vessel so as to face the vessel, and an inner part made of a second material and connected to the outer part |
| 5791399 |
Method for heating a metal melt |
August 11, 1998 |
| The invention concerns a method for heating a metal melt, in particular molten steel covered with a casting powder, introduced via a submerged outlet into an ingot mould of a continuous casting plant. In order to ensure uniform heat dissipation over the ingot mould and constant frict |
| 5740852 |
Conveyor belt for use in a continuous strip-casting device for the casting of metal strips |
April 21, 1998 |
| A conveyor belt of a continuous strip-casting device for casting strips of metal, particularly steel, which belt is guided by a driven drum and a drum horizontally adjacent to the driven drum and displaceable for tensioning the belt. The belt rests in this connection on a support arr |
| 5555259 |
Process and device for melting down of scrap |
September 10, 1996 |
| A process and device for melting scrap in a direct current-driven closed shaft furnace. The scrap is fed with an annular cross-section into one end of the furnace and hot gases which flow against the falling scrap are sucked below the scrap feeding area via an outer cylindrical wall of t |
| 5233625 |
Metallurgical vessel with metallic electrode having readily replaceable wear part |
August 3, 1993 |
| A metallurgical vessel (10) includes at least one metallic electrode (20) fastened thereto having a chamber within the vessel (10) for holding a melt (19) and having a bottom surface, a shell (14) abutting the bottom surface, and a flanged tube (31) arranged on the shell (14) with the |
| 5170839 |
Method for determining and regulating the level of a bath of molten metal |
December 15, 1992 |
| An inert gas flow is introduced into a molten metal bath at a location in a vessel. The absolute pressure of the gas flow through the molten metal other than zero flow is determined. The pressure acting on the surface of the bath is measured and the difference between the surface pressur |
| 5000250 |
Strip casting with an endless belt |
March 19, 1991 |
| In a casting device for the continuous production of metal strip using an endless cooling and transport belt; a distributor is constructed as twin chamber with an entrance and charge chamber, and an exit and discharge chamber communicating with the entrance chamber, a nozzle is provided |
| 4964114 |
Electrode positioning mechanism |
October 16, 1990 |
| This invention relates to an electrode positioning mechanism of an electric, electric arc or reduction furnace, in particular for smelting steel, with a guide column, having a mast arm to hold the electrode and guided in a guide frame by front and lateral guide rollers, which are loc |
| 4836271 |
Casting apparatus for casting metal strip, in particular, steel strip |
June 6, 1989 |
| In a process for casting metal strip, in particular steel strip, the liquid metal is discharged from a casting nozzle which has the same width as the strip onto a continuously moving, cooled conveyor belt, and the plane of the nozzle mouth is set for the thickness of the metal strip to b |
| 4703789 |
Controlling mold oscillations |
November 3, 1987 |
| Apparatus for controlling the oscillations of a mold for continuous casting of metal, the mold being mounted on a table which is connected, in turn, to three spaced apart drives and three load relief springs; three displacement path transducers track each of the drives; a source of r |
