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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.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 2004

Filed:

Jun. 10, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:

Hans K. Rothfuss, Taunusstein, DE;

Vincent Boisdequin, Naast, BE;

Assignee:

Vesuvius Crucible Company, Wilmington, DE (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B22D 4/108 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B22D 4/108 ;
Abstract

The invention relates to a refractory plate ( ) for a slide gate valve, having a pouring hole ( ), circumscribed by a circle C of center ( ), at least a portion of the edges ( ) of the plate ( ) are angularly oriented so as to focus the clamping forces optimally in the throttling area and around the pouring hole.


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