Foseco Trading A.g.

Frank Neat

Ronald W Ruddle

Refractory articles are described which are of use e.g. as hot top lining slabs or riser sleeves in the metallurgical industry. The slabs are both heat insulating and they have exothermic properties when contacted by molten metal. The articles comprise by weight 8 to 20% of a particulate oxidizable metal, 5 to 25% of fibrous refractory material and 5 to 20% of an expanded perlite having a bulk density (untamped) of less than 0.15 g/cc. The overall density of the article is less than 0.75 g/cc.

Refractory exothermic heating insulating articles

A feeding unit comprising a breaker core and a riser sleeve. In a first embodiment the breaker core has a thickness of 10% of the diameter of the riser sleeve and the opening in the breaker core is from 20% to 35% of the riser sleeve diameter. In another embodiment of the invention the breaker core opening is tapered inwardly and downwardly in a generally v-cross sectional shape and one embodiment of the invention will have a symmetrical v-cross sectional area.

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Elora, Canada

Frank Neat