Abstract: A tiltable metallurgical vessel arrangement, in particular a converter for a steel making plant, has carrying trunnions, a fixed bearing, an expansion bearing, bearing housings for the bearings, and force measuring means resting on a supporting construction with bearing housings resting on the force measuring means. Vertical sliding faces provided on each bearing housing and on the supporting construction at both sides of the carrying trunnion axes form guides and counter-guides that engage each other so as to prevent horizontal motion of the bearing housings in the direction of the axes of the carrying trunnions.

Abstract: A tiltable metallurgical vessel arrangement, in particular a steel making plant converter, has carrying trunnions arranged in bearings, one of the bearings being a fixed bearing and one being an expansion bearing, and bearing housings for the bearings; the bearing housings have supporting faces which rest on counter-supporting faces of a base-supported supporting construction; at least one of the bearing housings has two supporting faces arranged at a distance from each other and a strain measuring means connected to the bearing housing between the supporting faces thereof to indicate a sagging of said bearing housing under load.

Abstract: A tiltable metallurgical converter arrangement, with a fixed bearing and an expansion bearing for the carrying trunnions, has bearing housings arranged on load cells that rest on a supporting construction designed as a sole plate. The bearing housings are secured relative to the supporting construction by adapted to accommodate tensile forces and connecting means arranged in a horizontal plane opposite each other. Thus a strictly vertical force impact on the load cells is guaranteed.

Abstract: This invention relates to an improvement in the process for shirring cylindrical tubular casings, especially artificial sausage casings of synthetic material, in which an inflated casing is conveyed in the direction of its longitudinal axis and shirred, with pleating, against a counter-force by shirring forces acting upon the circumference of the casing, the improvement comprising that the forces acting upon the surface of the casing do so continuously and simultaneously, at equal intervals, at a plurality of points on at least two straight lines extending parallel to and symmetrically about the longitudinal axis of the casing, the action being at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the casing, and, simultaneously, in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the casing, against the counter-force. The invention also relates to an apparatus for performing the process.

Abstract: An apparatus for preventing the transmission of converter oscillations in the blowing phase onto the converter carrying bearings and the converter drive, wherein at least one of the carrying trunnions of the converter is driven by a spur gear with a plurality of slip-on gears arranged around the periphery of the spur gear wheel and at least one of the drive pinions of the slip-on gears can be braced relative to the spur gear wheel and the torsion flank play is compensated.

Abstract: This invention relates to an improvement in the process for shirring cylindrical tubular casings, especially artificial sausage casings of synthetic material, in which an inflated casing is conveyed in the direction of its longitudinal axis and shirred, with pleating, against a counter-force by shirring forces acting upon the circumference of the casing, the improvement comprising that the forces acting upon the surface of the casing do so continuously and simultaneously, at equal intervals, at a plurality of points on at least two straight lines extending parallel to and symmetrically about the longitudinal axis of the casing, the action being at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the sausage casing, and circumferentially thereof, and, simultaneously, in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the casing, against said counter-force. The invention also relates to an apparatus for performing the process.

Abstract: An expansion bearing assembly for a converter carrying trunnion, has an inner race secured in place on the carrying trunnion and an axially displaceable outer race. The outer race possesses flattened faces distributed over its periphery opposite recesses in the bearing housing. Rollers in the recesses roll against the flattened faces. A plurality of rollers are preferably united in roller cages in the recesses in the bearing housing.

Abstract: An expansion bearing assembly for a converter carrying trunnion comprises a bearing secured to the carrying trunnion and accommodating its angular and wobbling movements, and arranged in a housing. In the assembly the carrying trunnion is united with the spur gear wheel in a common bearing and drive housing. The bearing is axially shiftable on rollers.

Abstract: A large converter construction that is trunnion-supported in a driven expansion bearing and a driven fixed bearing with a trunnion-receiving bushing and a trunnion-connected driving toothed wheel on either side, has torque-transmitting crowned rollers inserted between the bushing and the trunnion, at least on the expansion side. A force-locking connection between the trunnion and bushing is provided on the fixed bearing side. The fixed bearing assembly also comprising a bearing containing inner rings and outer rings with spherical running faces having a common center.

Abstract: A bearing assembly for accommodating angular displacements in torque-transmitting trunnions, has a spherical-face-shaped hub on the trunnion and a trunnion receiving bushing, both with toothings meshing with one another. A bearing comprised of inner rings and outer rings is inserted between the bushing and the trunnion. The bearing assembly is particularly suited for a tiltable converter with a carrying ring, in which the bushing is inserted into the carrying ring and the trunnion of the driving toothed wheel protrudes into the bushing.

Abstract: A drive and bearing assembly for a converter construction has a fixed bearing and an expansion bearing. The expansion bearing comprises a bushing with recesses of semi-circular cross-section, into which bushing an axially movable trunnion with corresponding recesses of semi-circular cross-section protrudes. The trunnion is connected to or forms part of a driving toothed wheel. Crown rollers are inserted in the mutually supplementing recesses of the bushing and the trunnion.

Abstract: A fixed bearing assembly for a tiltable-converter carrying trunnion comprises a bearing accommodating its angular and wobbling movements, respectively, arranged in a housing, in which assembly the carrying trunnion is united with the spur gear wheel in a common bearing and drive housing.