Sms Demag Ag

Sms Siemag Aktiengesellschaft

Sms Group Gmbh

Christian Imiela

Christoph Sundermann

Stephan Schulze

Lutz Rose

Rolf Best

Andreas Runge

Wolfgang Igelhorst

Malte Braam

Jörg Hertel

Reiner Stammberger

Benjamin Wallmeroth

Uwe Thiedemann

Stephan Six

Joerg Hertel

Tim Kleier

Daniel Beckers

Jürgen Unterloh

A torque support for a converter tilting drive mounted on a shaft journal. The supports are provided on the gear housing that accommodates the shaft journal to be driven. The supports support the gear housing on the structure carrying the converter. To this end, the supports are embodied in each case as dual action hydraulic piston-cylinder units that are independently anchored on the structure in an articulated manner.

Torque support for a converter tilting drive

In a method for operating a converter (), in which the converter () is mounted in a carrying ring () by means of carrying journals (), a gear mechanism () is mounted in a floating manner on the carrying journals (), the converter () is configured, as a result, such that it can tilt about its horizontal axis and the gear mechanism () is connected rigidly to a pedestal () by a torque support (), the torque support () connects the gear mechanism () to the pedestal () during the tilting operation of the converter (), and the torque support () is released from the pedestal () or from the gear mechanism () or from both during operation of the converter ().

Method for operating a converter

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Duesseldorf, Germany

Christian Imiela