Voest-alpine Industries, Inc.

Siemens Vai Metals Technologies Gmbh

Guenther Staudinger

Bernhard Enkner

Rudolf Gruber

Thomas Daum

Rashed Nagati

Martin Hiebler

A converter is provided having a converter vessel carried on a trunnion ring by a mounting system. The mounting system has six mounting elements including a plurality of mounting elements incorporating pendulum rods and one mounting element incorporating a stabilizer device. Each pendulum rod is connected at one end to the trunnion ring and at the other end to the converter vessel. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the mounting system includes three longitudinal mounting devices each having a longitudinal pendulum rod; two transverse mounting devices each having a transverse pendulum rod; and a stabilizer device having a pair of spaced stabilizer blocks connected to the trunnion ring and a pair of stabilizer elements connected to the converter vessel. The longitudinal mounting devices and the stabilizer device are located below the trunnion ring and the transverse mounting devices are located above the trunnion ring when the converter vessel is in an upright position. A statically determinate mounting of the converter vessel in the trunnion ring is thus accomplished with six mounting elements including five pendulum rods and one stabilizer device.

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Gmunden, Austria

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