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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 1983
Filed:
Feb. 18, 1981
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kazuo Tachimoto, Tokyo, JP;
Toyosuke Tanoue, Toyonaka, JP;
Assignees:
Ishikawajima-Harima Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B29B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
425-8 ;
Abstract
An apparatus for manufacturing granules from slags produced in metallurgical furnaces such as blast furnaces, converter furnaces, electric furnaces, reverberatory furnaces comprising means for accelerating a stream of molten slag from a container to a velocity of at least two meters per second, and directing the stream onto a target surface from which it rebounds in the form of an inverted cone of droplets which are projected through the air to cool and to solidify them into granules.