Converter arrangement

US4256289A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Voest-Alpine · AT

Inventors

• Ludwig Neuner · Leonding, AT
• Friedrich Laimer · Ansfelden, AT

Key dates

• Filing date: May 17, 1979
• Grant date: Mar 17, 1981
• Expiry date: May 17, 1999

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C21C5/40
• WIPO field: Materials, metallurgy
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A converter arrangement includes a tiltable converter vessel surrounded by a casing on whose ceiling a principal discharge conduit for conducting away refining gases, and a secondary discharge conduit for conducting away the smoke forming during charging and pouring, are connected. One side wall of the casing has an opening closeable by a door. The casing is widened in the tilting direction of the converter and a car carrying a charging container is movable into the widened space through the opening in the side wall. The opening can be completely closed when the car is in the moved-in position during charging and pouring off.