Toshiba Ceramics Co., Ltd.

Masatoshi Yamazaki

Toshiyuki Hirao

Hajime Yamashita

A walking beam type heating furnace for steels has a conventional skid pipe through which a coolant flows, a skid button made of a ceramic material, a base fixed to an upper portion of the skid pipe, an attachment frame attached to the base for holding the skid button in its supporting position, and a thermal insulating material placed at a bottom portion of the skid button for supporting the skid button. The thermal insulating material has a high strength, high density, low thermal conductivity and high coefficient of thermal expansion such as quartz glass, vycol glass, hard glass and soda lime glass.

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Kariya, Japan

Masatoshi Yamazaki