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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 1990
Filed:
Mar. 23, 1989
Aristide Valassopoulos, Aix en Provence, FR;
Jean-Claude Thomas, St. Germain en Laye, FR;
Christian Dreyer, St. Jean de Maurienne, FR;
Aluminium Pechiney, Paris, FR;
Abstract
A process as disclosed for constructing a furnace for open chambers for baking carbonaceous blocks, comprising arranging a plurality of chambers in a series or in two parallel series, each chamber being defined by lateral partitions and transverse partitions, disposing the plurality of chambers within an independent concrete casing formed by a floor and lateral wall portions having disposed thereof a plurality of vertical buttresses and compressively prestressing the vertical buttresses in the vertical direction. A horizontal force may also be applied to the upper part of the transverse partitions.