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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 22, 1997
Yasuo Higashi, Kobe, JP;
Katsuya Akiyama, Kobe, JP;
Tsuyoshi Noura, Osaka, JP;
Akiyoshi Yamane, Osaka, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho, Kobe, JP;
Abstract
A melt treatment apparatus is provided which obviates an increase in floorspace and in cost and has freedom from a danger of steam explosion and further can control melt discharging with reliability. The welt treatment apparatus 1 is constructed with a furnace body 8 for entry of a material 17 to be heated, a plasma torch 2 that generates a plasma arc 13 so as to melt the material, a melt discharge passage 3 arranged in the furnace body for discharging a hot melt 14 derived by melting the material with the use of the plasma torch, and cooling gas jet means 7 disposed in the melt discharge passage and jetting a cooling gas to cool the hot melt to thereby form a dam 12.