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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 1983
Filed:
Apr. 10, 1981
Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a hot briquetting apparatus for producing reduced iron briquettes comprising a container for receiving high temperature reduced iron; a storage tank connected to and located underneath the container for storing reduced iron and a hot briquetting machine located at a bottom opening of the storage tank. The improvement involves a means for charging residual reduced iron powder, carbon or mixtures thereof as well as an inert gas into the storage tank, said charge means connected to the storage tank and penetrating into the storage tank so that it is attached in a fluid-tight manner; said powder, carbon, inert gas, etc., being funneled into the storage tank in specific proportions in response to control means which are activated by a temperature sensor in contact with the reduced iron within the storage tank.