Abstract: A valve has removable internal components including a disc, an orifice plate, and guides for engaging and guiding the disc. The internal components are removably secured to a valve seat plate by tee bolts. The seat plate is drilled, bored, or machined to include a plurality of cavities. Each cavity has a cantilevered projection extending over avoid in the cavity, and a slot is formed in each projection to form a tee slot for receiving the tee bolt. Each tee bolt has a head which is slipped into the void in the cavity so that the head engages the cantilevered projection while a shank of the tee bolt extends outward through the slot. The orifice plate has bolt holes for receiving the tee bolts, and an opening in the orifice plate is aligned with a passageway through the valve. A nut is tightened onto the shank of each tee bolt. After extended service, the tee bolts are still easily removable and replaceable, and the tee bolts can be aligned with bolt holes in a replacement orifice plate.

Abstract: A mixing chamber for mixing hot blast exiting from a hot blast stove with cold blast from a supply thereof to provide a uniform blast mixture adapted to be introduced into a blast furnace. The chamber comprises an open ended tubular member defining openings at opposite ends thereof, one of these openings being an entry into the tubular member and the other being an exit therefrom. The entry is adapted to have introduced therethrough hot blast exiting from a hot blast stove while the exit is adapted to communicate with the blast furnace. The tubular member is provided with a pair of diametrically opposed passageways therethrough, each of which is oriented tangentially with respect to the inner surface of the tubular member.