Mannesmann Aktiengesellschaft

Mannesmann Demag A.g.

Wolfgang Heidemann

Gerhard Eichbaum

A metallurgical vessel having a closed bottom such as a steel converter is brick-lined by using a work area and platform being suspended for lifting and lowering into the vessel and carrying structure for distributing lining bricks along the periphery of that platform; delivery equipment is separately and removably affixed to the upper and lower sides of said work area and platform, so that in various, combinations the bottom, the wall and the transition between bottom and wall can be lined.

Brick-lining a metallurgical vessel

The invention refers to a brick lining apparatus for metallurgical vessels, particularly for steel mill converters and/or blast furnaces, with an annular working platform which is automatically adjustable in height, and with a coordinated brick conveyor line consisting of one or several chains leading around sprocket wheel pairs with attached brick supports, whereby working platform and brick conveyor line are retractable to approximately the distance between mill floor and vessel opening.

Growing community of inventors

Duisburg, Germany

Wolfgang Heidemann