Patents by Inventor Giancarlo Cavallini

Giancarlo Cavallini has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10036594
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: TENOVA S.p.A.
    Inventors: Silvio Maria Reali, Mauro Grioni, Giancarlo Cavallini
  • Publication number: 20150055673
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Applicant: TENOVA S. P. A.
    Inventors: Silvio Maria Reali, Mauro Grioni, Giancarlo Cavallini
  • Patent number: 8790569
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignees: Tenova S.p.A., Piccardi S.R.L.
    Inventors: Silvio Reali, Giancarlo Cavallini, Gianlucio Piccardi
  • Patent number: 8790570
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Tenova S.p.A.
    Inventors: Sivio Maria Reali, Giancarlo Cavallini, Mauro Grioni
  • Publication number: 20120074622
    Abstract: A movable device for injecting oxygen and other technical materials into an electric arc furnace comprising a housing (16) situated above a portion of a step (13) of a crucible (11) and equipped with a cooling coil (15), an injection lance (20) of oxygen and other technical materials, supporting (23, 26) and moving means (21, 22, 24) of the lance between minimum and maximum range points of the liquid bath level contained therein, positioned in the housing (16), an opening (27) situated in the housing and facing the inside of the crucible in which the lance is transferably guided, scraping means (28) being envisaged between the opening (27) and the lance (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: TENOVA S.P.A.
    Inventors: Sivio Maria Reali, Giancarlo Cavallini, Mauro Grioni
  • Publication number: 20110089617
    Abstract: A device for adjusting a locking point of an electrode of a smelting furnace including: a vice for supporting the electrode and supplying the electrode with power, and a structure coupled with the vice and including a support mechanism of the electrode and a mechanism moving the electrode vertically.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2009
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Applicants: TENOVA S.P.A., PICCARDI S.R.L.
    Inventors: Silvio Reali, Giancarlo Cavallini, Gianlucio Piccardi