Tiltable converter arrangement

US4281823A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Voest-Alpine · AT

Inventors

• Bernhard Enkner · Linz, AT
• Rupert Berger · Linz, AT
• Manfred Eysn · Linz, AT
• Hermann Haslehner · Eferding, AT
• Helmut Smejkal · Linz, AT
• Michael Sattler · Ansfelden, AT

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 5, 1979
• Grant date: Aug 4, 1981
• Expiry date: Nov 5, 1999

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C21C5/4633
• WIPO field: Materials, metallurgy
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

In a tiltable converter arrangement with a carrying ring surrounding the converter vessel at a distance and having two carrying trunnions, the converter vessel is movably connected with the carrying ring by articulately connected brackets. The converter vessel is mounted in the carrying ring by means of three of these brackets that are inclined towards the longitudinal axis of the converter vessel and whose joints are each mounted to the converter vessel and to the carrying ring. The three brackets are pivotable in the plane laid through their longitudinal or central axes and the longitudinal axis of the converter vessel, which plane is at a right angle to the axis of the carrying trunnions.