Patents Assigned to Corcliff Corporation
  • Fluid-cooled metallurgical tuyere
    Patent number: 4572482
    Abstract: A novel tuyere assembly for a metallurgical furnace is disclosed having a tuyere pipe formed of extremely high thermal conductivity and heat diffusivity materials, wherein a heat sink and a water cooled chamber, positioned exteriorly of the metallurgical furnace, extract heat from the tuyere tip through efficient heat conductivity along the tuyere pipe, so as to overcome problems of knurdle size control and tuyere pipe burn-back.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1986
    Assignee: Corcliff Corporation
    Inventor: Edward L. Bedell