Abstract: A furnace system has a furnace, particularly an arc furnace, for melting metal, and a cleaning device for removing and/or avoiding bulk goods from or in a furnace opening. The cleaning device has a movable thrust arm for carrying out a thrust movement, and a movement device for moving the thrust arm between a parking level and an operating level. The use of a furnace opening is further made more flexible in that a work platform forming a work level is present, from which the furnace opening is accessible and which carries the cleaning device. The work level has a recess through which the thrust arm can be guided during the movement thereof between the operating level positioning above the work level, and the parking level positioned below the working level.

Abstract: A furnace system has a furnace, particularly an arc furnace, for melting metal, and a cleaning device for removing and/or avoiding bulk goods from or in a furnace opening. The cleaning device has a movable thrust arm for carrying out a thrust movement, and a movement device for moving the thrust arm between a parking level and an operating level. The use of a furnace opening is further made more flexible in that a work platform forming a work level is present, from which the furnace opening is accessible and which carries the cleaning device. The work level has a recess through which the thrust arm can be guided during the movement thereof between the operating level positioning above the work level, and the parking level positioned below the working level.