Electro-metal smelting furnace with taphole arranged at the bottom

US4401296A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Mannesmann Demag Corporation · DE

Inventors

• Klaus V. Ploetz · Kaarst, DE
• Ludger Zangs · Essen, DE
• Ralf Schneider · Birkenfeld, DE
• Hannsgeorg Bauer · Witten, DE
• Josef Otto · Wetter, DE
• Manfred Walter · Nuremberg, DE
• Helmut Meyer · Hilden, DE
• Erich Heinrich · Witten, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 22, 1981
• Grant date: Aug 30, 1983
• Expiry date: May 22, 2001

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F27D3/145
• WIPO field: Thermal processes and apparatus
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The invention concerns an electro-metal smelting furnace with at least one taphole located at the bottom with which hole is associated a closure equipped with a drive.