Abstract: The invention provides a method and a set-up for production of castings containing cast-in steel tubes, preferably to provide cooling elements for metallurgical furnaces. The castings are from cast steel and the steel tubes are cast-in with a superheated cast steel melt. Before the casting the tubes are filled with a granular, highly thermal conductive, refractory material. In order to assure that the cast-in steel or respectively cooling tubes remain free from leaks, the invention provides to employ as a filling material one or more of the materials: burned magnesite (sintered magnesite), corundum, sintered aluminum oxide, chromite, silicon carbide, silicon nitride.

Abstract: A gate arrangement, especially for counterpressure blast furnaces, including a seal lid having an annular soft seal-insert and a steel seal-ring arranged at the lower end of the gate, which corresponds to the soft seal-insert. The arrangement also includes heating means operatively connectible to the steel seal-ring about its periphery.