Lining apparatus for metallurgical vessels, particularly for steel mill converters and/or blast furnaces

US4354670A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Mannesmann DeMag A.G. · DE

Inventors

• Gerhard Eichbaum · Duisburg, DE
• Wolfgang Heidemann · Duisburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 28, 1980
• Grant date: Oct 19, 1982
• Expiry date: May 28, 2000

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C21B7/06
• WIPO field: Materials, metallurgy
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The invention refers to a brick lining apparatus for metallurgical vessels, particularly for steel mill converters and/or blast furnaces, with an annular working platform which is automatically adjustable in height, and with a coordinated brick conveyor line consisting of one or several chains leading around sprocket wheel pairs with attached brick supports, whereby working platform and brick conveyor line are retractable to approximately the distance between mill floor and vessel opening.