Patents by Inventor Paolo Burin

Paolo Burin 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).

  • Apparatus and method for feeding and preheating a metal charge in a melting furnace
    Patent number: 11867462
    Abstract: An apparatus for feeding and preheating a metal charge toward a melting furnace of a melting plant, comprising at least one conveyor channel for said metal charge, at least one hood disposed above said conveyor channel and scrap detection means able to identify the profile of the metal charge entering said conveyor channel. The present invention also concerns a plant for melting metal comprising said apparatus, and a method to feed and preheat a metal charge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: DANIELI & C. OFFICINE MECCANICHE S.P.A.
    Inventors: Stefano Scubla, Nicola Rondini, Paolo Burin
  • Slag door for a melting furnace
    Patent number: 11614283
    Abstract: A slag door for a melting furnace for the production of steel is suitable to be associated with an aperture provided in a lateral wall of the melting furnace and to cooperate with a slag channel provided inside the melting furnace itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: DANIELI & C. OFFICINE MECCANICHE S.P.A.
    Inventors: Paulo Da Costa, Franco Scotti, Paolo Burin
  • METHOD OF STIRRING LIQUID METAL IN AN ELECTRIC ARC FURNACE
    Publication number: 20220333219
    Abstract: A method for electromagnetic stirring of liquid metal in a continuous charge electric arc furnace, in which there are positioned a first electromagnetic field along a first axis of electromagnetic stirring and a second electromagnetic field along a second axis of electromagnetic stirring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Damiano PATRIZIO, Andrea CODUTTI, Paolo BURIN, Romano SELLAN, Nicola GAGLIARDI
  • APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FEEDING AND PREHEATING A METAL CHARGE IN A MELTING FURNACE
    Publication number: 20220099373
    Abstract: An apparatus for feeding and preheating a metal charge toward a melting furnace of a melting plant, comprising at least one conveyor channel for said metal charge, at least one hood disposed above said conveyor channel and scrap detection means able to identify the profile of the metal charge entering said conveyor channel. The present invention also concerns a plant for melting metal comprising said apparatus, and a method to feed and preheat a metal charge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Stefano SCUBLA, Nicola RONDINI, Paolo BURIN
  • SLAG DOOR FOR A MELTING FURNACE
    Publication number: 20200309456
    Abstract: A slag door for a melting furnace for the production of steel is suitable to be associated with an aperture provided in a lateral wall of the melting furnace and to cooperate with a slag channel provided inside the melting furnace itself.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: DANIELI & C. OFFICINE MECCANICHE S.P.A.
    Inventors: Paulo Da Costa, Franco Scotti, Paolo Burin