Abstract:
A combustible gas-fuel mixture is supplied to a blast furnace under a fixed volumetric ratio of the two components. Temperature and pressure of the primary gas, containing oxygen, and the secondary gas, containing hydrocarbons such as natural gas, methane, propane, or butane, are maintained to be equal before mixing in the mixing vlave ensuring a constant mass ratio in the case of fluctuations in temperature or pressure between the two fluid components.
Abstract:
This disclosure relates to a Tundish Level Control System for controlling the level of molten metal in a tundish used on a continuous casting machine. The level of molten metal in the tundish is monitored by a device consisting of a radioactive source and detector unit. Molten metal is supplied to the tundish from a holding furnace disposed above the tundish and which may be tilted to pour metal into the tundish automatically as a function of the level of the metal in the tundish. The holding furnace is preferably rotated or tilted by a screwjack powered by an air motor which is controlled by an operational amplifier and associated control circuitry activated by pulses received from the radioactive detector.
Abstract:
This disclosure relates to a combined wheel spreader and crack closer adapted to maintain the predetermined draft angle of the casting groove of an open casting wheel while simultaneously working the interior surface thereof to close cracks and smooth out flaws therein during a casting operation. The wheel spreader includes rollers adapted to bear in rolling contact against the interior side walls of the casting groove, and the crack closer includes a roller adapted to bear in rolling contact against the bottom surface of the casting groove.
Abstract:
Hot-formed rod is prepared in a rolling mill by removing oxide from the surface of a nascent cast bar while the bar is in a non-oxidizing environment. Oxide is removed from the surface of the bar by means such as wire brushing, for example, with the oxide removing means and the nascent bar being enclosed in a non-oxidizing or reducing environment to improve the removal of existing oxide and to inhibit formation of new oxide on the bar while the bar travels from the oxide-removing means to the rolling mill to be hot-formed. Removal of oxide while the bar is in a non-oxidizing environment enhances the removal of oxide and lessens the unwanted removal of metal underlying the surface oxide.
Abstract:
TITLE: MELTING FURNACE FOR GRANULATED METAL INVENTOR Milton Edward BERRY Disclosed is a multiplier chamber vertical shaft furnace for melting granulated metal. Granulated scrap metal, high-grade crystalline ore or a combination thereof is preheated and sintered into a coherent columnar mass by the present invention. It is then melted in an enlarged melting chamber by multiple burners located in the walls of the furnace which direct heat tangent to the coherent columnar mass in a tubular heating space between the outer surface of the coherent columnar mass and the inner surface of the furnace walls, and flows out of the present invention through a tapping outlet for further processing.
Abstract:
Hot-formed rod is prepared in a rolling mill by removing oxide from the surface of a nascent cast bar while the bar is in a non-oxidizing environment. Oxide is removed from the surface of the bar by means such as wire brushing, for example, with the oxide removing means and the nascent bar being enclosed in a non-oxidizing or reducing environment to improve the removal of existing oxide and to inhibit formation of new oxide on the bar while the bar travels from the oxide-removing means to the rolling mill to be hot-formed. Removal of oxide while the bar is in a non-oxidizing environment enhances the removal of oxide and lessens the unwanted removal of metal underlying the surface oxide.
Abstract:
This disclosure relates to improvements in the casting groove on the periphery of an open casting wheel. The groove is formed with a draft angle in the range of 11-1/2 DEG to 14-1/2 DEG which results in an average increase in casting wheel life of more than 50 percent over prior art casting wheels.
Abstract:
TITLE A METHOD AND BURNER APPARATUS FOR HEATING A NON-FERROUS MATERIAL CHARGE WITH LIQUID FUEL INVENTOR Milton Edward BERRY, Ronald Lee PARIANI A method and burner apparatus for heating and continuously melting a non-ferrous material charge, such as copper pieces in a furnace without contaminating the material charge in the furnace with non-vaporized liquid fueld thereby maintaining the metallurgical quality of the non-ferrous material charge.