Voest-alpine Industrieanlagenbau Gmbh

Wolfgang Tscherne

Karl-Heinz Zimmerbauer

Helmut Schober

Franz Hoertnagl

In an arrangement for the controlled cooling of hot-briquetted direct-reduced sponge iron in the form of an apron conveyer consisting of individual plates and located in a tank, the individual plate is designed as conveyor trough (,), wherein at least one sliding plate each (,and,) is located on the two opposed longitudinal outsides and the conveyor troughs (,) are movable supported by means of sliding plates (,and,) on slideways (,) and connected by means of at least one chain (,). The invention allows to separate the drive and the bearing as the conveyor troughs (,) are supported by means of sliding plates (,and,) and the drive acts directly on the conveyor trough (,) by means of at least one chain (,). As the translation elements are designed as sliding plates (,) and slideways (,), the surface pressure is reduced to less than one hundredth compared to wheels running on rails and the wear of the translation elements is thus reduced.

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Marchtrenk, Austria

Wolfgang Tscherne