Voest-alpine Aktiengesellschaft

Helmut Smejkal

Bernhard Enkner

Manfred Eysn

Rupert Berger

Hermann Haslehner

Michael Sattler

In a tiltable converter arrangement with a carrying ring surrounding the converter vessel at a distance and having two carrying trunnions, the converter vessel is movably connected with the carrying ring by articulately connected brackets. The converter vessel is mounted in the carrying ring by means of three of these brackets that are inclined towards the longitudinal axis of the converter vessel and whose joints are each mounted to the converter vessel and to the carrying ring. The three brackets are pivotable in the plane laid through their longitudinal or central axes and the longitudinal axis of the converter vessel, which plane is at a right angle to the axis of the carrying trunnions.

Tiltable converter arrangement

A tiltable converter vessel is supported on a carrying body arranged about its shell by means of lug pairs accommodating bearing forces, the lugs of each lug pair being arranged opposite each other on both sides of the carrying body. At least one lug of each lug pair is supported on the carrying body by at least one piston-cylinder unit whose piston is hydraulically adjustable in the longitudinal direction of the converter vessel. At least one further piston-cylinder unit is arranged parallel to the extension of the carrying ring.

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Helmut Smejkal