Nippon Steel Corporation

Kawasaki Steel Corporation

Chugai Ro Co., Ltd.

Chugai Ro. Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Saburo Harada

Tetsuya Tokitsu

Akihiro Nakama

Masakazu Sengan

Jiro Yamasaki

Rikio Takeshima

Takao Yoshino

Kyoichi Kissei

A workpiece charging unit for a walking beam furnace has an entry table and a charging conveyor positioned exteriorly and interiorly of the entry end opening of the furnace. The charging conveyor can undergo a movement along a generally rectangular path for the receipt of the workpiece from the entry table and for the subsequent transfer of the workpiece onto the fixed beams or rails within the heating chamber where it can be picked up by the walking beam conveyor unit for the passage through the heating chamber. The charging conveyor includes charging beams, a plurality of support posts for the support of the charging beams and frame structure coupled with the horizontal and vertical drive mechanisms.

Workpiece charger for heating furnace

An improved ceiling beam construction for a heating furnace in which ceiling beams having closed cross sections are adopted for utilizing the interior of the beams as ducts for passing gases through them so as to reduce spaces required for installing separate gas ducts, with a consequent decrease in the number of duct supporting fittings or fixtures.

Ceiling beam construction for heating furnace

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Ikoma, Japan

Saburo Harada