Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Kawasaki Steel Corporation

Akira Murata

Eiji Inoue

Hideo Kaneko

Shoichi Hiwasa

Norio Misaki

Satoshi Tatsuta

Manabu Sakamoto

Satoshi Satoh

Yoshinori Kawasaki

Shigeki Tamada

Natsuki Namura

Shinji Shiraishi

An apparatus for mounting a siphon tapping tube onto a tap hole mounting part of a converter vessel has a lower car and an upper car, which are placed on a ladle car which travels beneath a converter vessel, the lower car and the upper car being capable of travelling in the direction of the travel of the ladle car and in the direction perpendicular to that of the travel of the ladle car, respectively, a loading table mounted on the upper car, which is guided by an upright support frame and being capable of moving upward and downward with a siphon tapping tube loaded on the table, and bolt tightening and untightening units which are provided on the loading table in positions corresponding to the respective bolt hole set positions in the flange of the siphon tapping tube and are capable of receiving mounting bolts. TV camera is provided on the upper car, allowing the operator to monitor the tap hole mounting part.

Apparatus for mounting a siphon tapping tube onto a converter vessel

Continuous casting facilities generally including a pair of moulds with a rail on each side thereof. Self-propelled tundish cars each carrying a tundish with a detachable immersion nozzle ride on the rails. The apparatus includes a truck running on the rail opposite the operator's side of the moulds connectable with one of the tundish cars and carrying an immersion nozzle exchanger. A connecting piece feeder, a powder feeder, and an immersion nozzle preheater are also mountable on the truck. Equipment interferences are eliminated by the specific structures and the operator's view of the moulds is not obstructed.

Labor saving apparatus for continuous casting facility

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Kakogawa, Japan

Akira Murata