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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2011
Osamu Tsuge, Shinagawa-ku, JP;
Tomoki Uemura, Kobe, JP;
Osamu Tsuge, Shinagawa-ku, JP;
Tomoki Uemura, Kobe, JP;
Kobe Steel, Ltd., Kobe-shi, JP;
Abstract
Not only the cracking of granular reduced iron materials is reduced, but also reduced iron materials are fed uniformly onto a furnace floor regardless of a width of the furnace floor. A feeding system for reduced iron material includes a plurality of material feeding equipmentsprovided in a furnace width direction of a mobile furnace floor type reduction melting furnace, wherein each of the material feeding equipmentsis constructed by a hopperconfigured to receive reduced iron materials and discharge the materials from a discharge port, a troughconfigured to connect the discharge portand a material charging portion of the mobile furnace floor type reduction melting furnace configured to receive the reduced iron materials discharged from the discharge port, an exit portion provided on an exit side of the trough, and a vibration applying unit configured to cause the trough to vibrate along a furnace floor moving direction.