Abstract: An electrode holder of a multielectrode furnace comprises at least two parts of a support plate, which are insulated electrically from each other. On each part of the support plate some holes are used for fastening the consumable electrodes, while other holes are used for passing the consumable electrodes. The number of holes in each part of the support plate is equal to the number of the consumable electrodes. At least two of said holes are used for fastening the consumable electrodes and have the shape necessary for fastening the inventory heads of the consumable electrodes. The other holes of the support plate are used for passing the consumable electrodes. The parts of the support plate are installed above each other in such a way that the holes for fastening the consumable electrodes of one part of the support plate should be located coaxially above the holes for passing the consumable electrodes of the other part of the support plate.

Abstract: In a plant a carrier for withdrawing an ingot is a drum, rotatably mounted about the horizontal axis thereof, adjacent to the side of a mould near its wall shaping the internal surface of the ingot and coaxial with the wall, with a base plate having a dummy bar and an electrode holder being fastened to the drum shell; the electrode holder being electrically insulated from the drum and carrying at least one electrode curvilinear in shape and encompassing a part of the drum and having a clearance therewith to preclude electrical contact between the drum and the electrode; the drum, while turning, serving also as a mechanism for feeding the electrode into the mould melting space.

Abstract: An apparatus for melting hollow metal ingots during electroslag remelting of consumable electrodes has a hollow chilled mould and a mandrel for moulding the cavity of an ingot which are mounted on a bottom plate at the beginning of the ingot melting cycle. The bottom plate has at least two projections on the working surface thereof. Each projection is shaped as a tooth of a thickness equal to the amount of space between the surface of the inner wall of the chilled mould and the outer surface of the mandrel which moulds the ingot, and the height and the width of each projection are commensurable with the thickness thereof. The projections may be replaceable and may have a trapezoidal cross section. The provision of the projections on the bottom plate prevents the mandrel from being jammed with the ingot being moulded at the beginning of the melting process.

Abstract: An electroslag remelting plant according to the invention, comprises a double-mast single-phase furnace connected to a three-mast three-phase furnace through water-cooling and gas suction systems, with at least one mast of the three-mast three-phase furnace, on which an electrode holder is fixed, being spaced at such a distance from the double-mast single-phase furnace which ensures the melting of an ingot into a common mold.Such plant allows melting large-size slab ingots and features high versatility ensuring simultaneous melting of different ingots with each electrode holder serving its mold.

Abstract: A mould for casting at least one component of a complex-shaped metal article, the mould having in the fusion area at least one hole hole fitted from the mould interior with a slot whose geometric dimensions ensure the formation of a slag blanket in the volume which is required for a uniform heat removal in the fusion area. The number of the holes correspond to the number of the article components to be joined by fusion and the geometric dimensions and contour of the holes matching those of the article components to be bonded by the application of a fusion process.