Interlake, Inc.

Anthony Cook

Robert P Winters

Apparatus for controlling emissions from the cast house of a blast furnace system includes hood means covering the iron trough from the blast furnace, the hood means having a hatchway formed therein adjacent to the blast furnace discharge notch and closed by a vertically-removable hatch cover which is raised and lowered by cables which extend upwardly over sheaves carried by a yoke assembly mounted on the bustle pipe immediately above the iron trough and then to a remote winch. Means are provided on the yoke assembly for latching the latch cover in its raised position.

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Homewood, IL, United States of America

Anthony Cook