Tilting channel arrangement for guiding a molten material

US4678168A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Voest-Alpine · AT

Inventors

• Bernhard Enkner · Linz, AT
• Leopold Amon · Linz, AT
• Alfred Kubelbock · Linz, AT
• Wolfgang Trimmel · Leoben, AT
• Paul Nalepka · Niklasdorf, AT
• Leopold Schropp · Linz, AT
• Helmut Schwaighofer · Neumarkt am Wallersee, AT
• Reinhard Pum · Linz, AT
• Manfred Traxler · Bad Eisenkappel/Železna Kapla, AT
• Franz Tasch · Bad Mitterndorf, AT

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 13, 1985
• Grant date: Jul 7, 1987
• Expiry date: Sep 13, 2005

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F27D3/14
• WIPO field: Thermal processes and apparatus
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A tilting channel for guiding molten material includes a trough-shaped channel body provided with outlets at opposite ends thereof and a spot of impact for the jet of molten material between said outlets. The channel body is pivotable by means of a pivot drive about a tilting axle from a normal operation position into an emergency operation position, and vice versa. The channel body is formed by two channel parts enclosing an angle O<.phi.<180.degree., and the bottom of the first channel part is arranged at a lower level relative to the bottom of the second channel part. The spot of impact of the jet is located on the first channel part close to where the latter enters into the second channel part, and the vertical middle plane of the first channel part lies in the plane formed by the jet, when the first channel part is in its downwardly inclined normal operating position.