Abstract: A machine for the surface treatment of a cylinder includes a first operative station for supporting the cylinder and for bringing it into rotation around its longitudinal axis, and at least a second operative station cooperating with the first station for generating and emitting, by means of an optical fiber apparatus, pulsed laser radiations randomly striking the surface of the cylinder and defining a desired roughness on the same surface; the second station being adjustably coupled with the first station in a first direction parallel with respect to the axis of the cylinder and carrying one or more pulsed laser radiation emitting heads, and slidingly assembled with respect to the cylinder in a second direction perpendicular to the axis of the cylinder.

Abstract: Industrial furnace (1) which can be used for example for treating semi-finished and siderurgical products, metal and inorganic materials, comprising a) a hot chamber (3) in which a combustion takes place and the hot gases generated by the combustion come in direct contact with the materials to be treated (p) in the furnace itself; B) a combustion stabilising system in turn comprising b1) an injection system in turn comprising at least a mixer (11) arranged to mix a fuel and a diluent before injecting them into the hot chamber (3). The diluent has the effect of reducing the amount of nitrogen oxides in the combustion products. It considerably reduces the consumption of required diluent and the Nox emissions in the fumes.

Abstract: Equipment for the measurement and control of load material and scrap metal feeding into an electrical arc furnace includes an automatic control device for feeding control of load material or scrap according to the energy supplied to the bath, and a measuring device for the added load material, in correlation with the automatic control device, and a weighing device for the furnace shell, its contents and any other components it may support.

Abstract: A method, control, and tracking system of a charge of material transported by a continuous supply conveyor of a metallurgical furnace, for example an electric furnace for production of steel. The continuous conveyor includes, in sequence starting from its inlet end towards its outlet end, a loading section of the charge of material to be supplied to the furnace, a preheating section of the charge of material loaded, and an introduction section into the furnace of the preheated charge of material, and along the loading section at least a first loading station of material.

Abstract: A calibration device for gauges for the measurement of the geometrical characteristics of cylinders, such as the diameter, profile, rotundity and eccentricity errors, wherein such gauges include a pair of movable opposing arms equipped with feelers or sensors at their free ends, includes a pair of abutments reciprocally approachable and/or withdrawable by means of motors until a sample measure is obtained, as desired, within the measuring range of the gauge, on which the calibration device is assembled, revealed by means of measuring means cooperating with the abutments, such that consequently the feelers or sensors are respectively abutted or approached to the abutments to reveal the sample measure.

Abstract: A plant and relative process for continuously feeding heated metallic material to a melting furnace, according to which, on at least one feeding line defined by a conveyor for continuously advancing the material to the furnace, there is one pair of operative modules defined by a first and a second operative feeding and heating module, the first and second operative modules being positioned in succession with respect to each other along the line, the first module being suitable for forming and directly heating a first layer of the material arranged on the line, and the second module being suitable for forming and directly heating a second layer of the material arranged superimposed with respect to the first layer.

Abstract: A method and apparatus closing a slag doorway and cleaning the slag doorway and channel of a metallurgical furnace including walls defining a slag doorway and a slag channel that crosses the slag doorway and has a bottom. The apparatus includes a support structure associable with the furnace, at least one slag-breaking body including a lower border that, under mounting conditions of the apparatus on the furnace, is directed towards the bottom and at a definable height, the slag-breaking body being associated with the support structure in a movable manner along the slag channel away and/or towards the slag doorway to wipe, with its lower border, the bottom or a parallel plane, and a vibrating or oscillating mechanism associated with the slag-breaking body to confer a vibrating or oscillating movement with non null component incident the bottom, during a travel performed during its movement away or towards the slag doorway.

Abstract: A lamination cylinder includes a surface structure, on which a plurality of craters is defined having a different geometry and a random distribution. Some of the craters are partially superimposed with respect to each other.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a filter press (10, 60), comprising a supporting frame, constituted of at least one longitudinal rail or guide (11, 61) supported at its opposite ends by a fixed headpiece (12, 62) on one side and by a foot (13, 63) on the other side, a movable headpiece (15, 65) supported by said at least one guide (11, 61), a plurality of filtering plates (14, 64) arranged side by side between said fixed headpiece (12, 62) and said movable headpiece (15, 65), pneumatic elements or cushions (20, 70) for pressing and a compression plate (21, 71), wherein said movable headpiece (15, 65) comprises threaded cylindrical holes, supported on relative endless screws (19, 69) the ends of which are rotationally mounted on supports integral with the relative guides (11, 61).

Abstract: A machine for the surface treatment of a cylinder includes a first operative station for supporting the cylinder and for bringing it into rotation around its longitudinal axis, and at least a second operative station cooperating with the first station for generating and emitting, by means of an optical fiber apparatus, pulsed laser radiations randomly striking the surface of the cylinder and defining a desired roughness on the same surface; the second station being adjustably coupled with the first station in a first direction parallel with respect to the axis of the cylinder and carrying one or more pulsed laser radiation emitting heads, and slidingly assembled with respect to the cylinder in a second direction perpendicular to the axis of the cylinder.

Abstract: An apparatus for revealing the geometry of operative cylinders, in particular during the grinding operation of the same, includes a pair of movable clamps which can be moved away from and towards each other with respect to a fixed intermediate structure, the clamps having tilted surfaces in opposite directions to each other according to a swallowtail arrangement with respect to a cylinder being measured, positioned between them and between a surface of the fixed intermediate structure, the surfaces of the movable clamps and the surface of the fixed intermediate structure always being kept in contact with the cylinder, whether still or rotating, wherein the fixed structure also has, in its interior, parts of a group which interact with each other to correlate the movement of the clamps.

Abstract: A device (10) for adjusting the locking point of the electrode of a smelting furnace includes a vice (120) for supporting said electrode and supplying it with power. A structure (13) is coupled with the vice (120), supports the electrode and moves the electrode vertically.

Abstract: A movable device for injecting oxygen and other technical materials into an electric arc furnace includes a housing situated above a portion of a step of a crucible and equipped with a cooling coil, an injection lance of oxygen and other technical materials, a supporting and moving system of the lance between minimum and maximum range points of the liquid bath level contained therein, positioned in the housing, an opening situated in the housing and facing the inside of the crucible in which the lance is transferably guided, and a scraping member disposed between the opening and the lance.

Abstract: A method for positioning operative cylinders, for example of rolling-mills or paper-mills on a grinding machine, includes at least the following steps: A—positioning the transversal, longitudinal center-line plane of the cylinder in correspondence with a reference point situated between a movable piece-holder head and tailstock center of the machine; B—moving the piece-holder head and the tailstock center in the direction of the cylinder until there is a reciprocal coupling. The present invention relates also to a machine for implementing the above method.

Abstract: A grinding machine for operative cylinders, of the type comprising a piece-holder head and a tailstock center between which an operative cylinder is positioned for being ground, includes a moving system associated with both the piece-holder head and the tailstock center to allow them to be moved along a common movement direction. A further object of the present invention relates to a grinding method.

Abstract: A method, control, and tracking system of a charge of material transported by a continuous supply conveyor of a metallurgical furnace, for example an electric furnace for production of steel. The continuous conveyor includes, in sequence starting from its inlet end towards its outlet end, a loading section of the charge of material to be supplied to the furnace, a preheating section of the charge of material loaded, and an introduction section into the furnace of the preheated charge of material, and along the loading section at least a first loading station of material.

Abstract: A panel cooled with a fluid, for metallurgic furnaces, includes a first chamber having a face which, in assembly conditions, is configured to face an interior of a metallurgic furnace and an opposite face in thermal contact with a face of a second chamber whose opposed face is configured to face, in assembly conditions, an external part of the metallurgic furnace. The first and second chambers are mutually independent. The first and second chambers each include an inlet and outlet of a cooling fluid. The panel has a first working configuration in which the first chamber is passed by a first cooling fluid and the second chamber is passed by a second cooling fluid different from the first cooling fluid, and a second working configuration in which the first chamber is passed by the second cooling fluid and the second chamber is passed by the first cooling fluid.

Abstract: A heat exchanger rapid cooling flue gas of ironwork plants, including: a support structure of at least one module including an inlet manifold and an outlet manifold of the flue gas, mutually opposed and aligned; plural panels that extend between the inlet manifold and the outlet manifold mutually superimposed at a defined distance, pairs of adjacent panels defining flow channels of the flue gas closed laterally by shoulders and including at opposite ends respectively an inlet aperture communicating with the inlet manifold and an outlet aperture communicating with the outlet manifold; circulation ducts of a cooling fluid associated with the panels; and a first selective closing mechanism of the inlet apertures and a second selective closing mechanism of the outlet apertures of one or more of the channels; each of the channels laterally closed by a respective pair of shoulders of which at least one is of removable type.

Abstract: The invention relates to a flat-flame vault burner (10) suitable for being installed in a vault (21) which delimits the combustion chamber (20) of a steel heating furnace, the burner (10) comprising a main metallic hollow cylindrical body (12), a single duct (13) for the conveyance of fuel gas concentric to the main body (12), and a central internal nozzle (14) for the injection of a fuel gas. Said burner also comprises at least two nozzles (17) outside said main body (12) for the injection of fuel into the combustion chamber (20).

Abstract: A protection device for a grinding wheel includes a containment structure having an operating opening for a grinding wheel, wherein the containment structure includes a fixed portion and a movable portion which can be moved with respect to the fixed portion by means of a motor and which can be blocked with respect to the first fixed portion by means of a magnetic blocking unit. The device further includes a sensor adapted to automatically detect the position of the movable portion, and a control means of the entire device.