Abstract: A vehicle includes a truck bed. The truck bed includes a side member, cross-member, and an extruded member. The side member has an upward extending pillar that defines a central cavity. The cross-member forms a cradle and extends laterally toward the pillar. The extruded member is secured to the cross-member within the cradle, extends laterally outward from the cross-member into the central cavity, and is secured to the pillar within the central cavity.

Abstract: An apparatus for the removal and replacement of a lid on a metallurgical transport vessel such as a ladle or a torpedo car. The apparatus comprises a frame, means for supporting the frame such that the vessel may be moved into position thereunder, a linkage including at least one lifting member pivotally connected to the frame, and at least one actuator connected to the linkage. The actuator is operable to move the lifting member such that when the vessel is moved to a designated position below the apparatus, the lifting member can be moved by the actuator and linkage from a first position providing clearance above the vessel, through a curved path to an intermediate position where it engages the lid, providing a vertical lifting force and a horizontal hinge releasing force to the lid, and to a second position where the lid is raised to a sufficient height to clear the vessel.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of high efficient slag scooping-up from liquid iron and a device for implementing said method. The two wings of slag rake mounted to the front end of cantilever descend side by side until beneath the surface of the liquid iron at a certain depth. The two rakes make swing movement respectively along the surface of liquid iron. When gradually moving close to each other in the course of swing movement, they get put together and clamp the solid slag. Then, driven by the cantilever, the two slag rakes which clamp the sold slag are brought to ascend until above the surface at a certain height. Finally they leave the space over the ladle and discharge the slag. The deslagging rate can reach over 90%. It just takes less than 3 minutes for the whole process of slagging-off. Additionally, the iron carried away in the process of slagging-off could be greatly reduced. The iron loss rate can be strictly controlled within 0.1%.

Abstract: The present invention provides a carriage to transport a ladle and to transfer molten metal into equipment for pouring (hereafter, transfer carriage) whereby the investment cost can be reduced by having the equipment made compact, and the temperature of the molten metal can be maintained high, and the cycle time can be reduced, because the time to transport the molten metal can be less. Further, the present invention provides a transportation line for transporting the molten metal. This line requires a smaller space for its installation.

Abstract: An apparatus for the removal and replacement of a lid on a metallurgical transport vessel such as a ladle or a torpedo car. The apparatus comprises a frame, means for supporting the frame such that the vessel may be moved into position thereunder, a linkage including at least one lifting member pivotally connected to the frame, and at least one actuator connected to the linkage. The actuator is operable to move the lifting member such that when the vessel is moved to a designated position below the apparatus, the lifting member can be moved by the actuator and linkage from a first position providing clearance above the vessel, through a curved path to an intermediate position where it engages the lid, providing a vertical lifting force and a horizontal hinge releasing force to the lid, and to a second position where the lid is raised to a sufficient height to clear the vessel.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for mercury and precious metal recovery are provided. The apparatus includes a granulometric separator for separating a feed by particle size; a centrifugal concentrator in flow communication with the granulometric separator for isolating and concentrating an elemental mercury-containing fraction of the feed; and an accumulator tank for collecting elemental mercury from the elemental mercury-containing fraction. The accumulator tank has an inlet in flow communication with the centrifugal concentrator; an outlet; a plurality of baffles defining a serpentine flow path to slow the flow of the elemental mercury-containing fraction from the inlet to the outlet; and a mercury accumulation area for collecting elemental mercury settling from the elemental mercury-containing fraction.

Abstract: A laser forming system includes a motion system. A mounting fixture is affixed to the motion system for supporting a workpiece. A plenum is affixed to the fixture for surrounding the workpiece. A gas supply is joined in flow communication with the plenum for channeling thereto an inert gas under pressure to fill the plenum. A laser is aligned with the plenum for projecting a laser beam at the workpiece for laser forming thereof inside the plenum.

Abstract: A slag transport and dumping apparatus, for use with slag, includes a vehicle, a pallet, and a lifting mechanism. The vehicle includes a bed having a pallet interface. The pallet includes a support frame having ground support members, and a transporter interface selectively engaging the pallet interface. A dump container has a slag reservoir. Rear pivots on the container and pallet, together with the lifting mechanism, which is securely mounted to the bed of the vehicle and selectively engages the container, enable secure selective pivoting of the container between slag retaining and pouring configurations. In a loading configuration, the reservoir receives the slag, the container is in the retaining configuration, and the vehicle is removed from the pallet. In a transporting configuration, the container is in the retaining configuration, and the vehicle securely engages the pallet, in carrying relation, thus enabling transport of the pallet.

Abstract: Even a very small amount of air plasma can reduce the dross during melting. A method and device is shown, whereby substantial saving in the cost of melting aluminum and the energy to melt aluminum is possible by the technique of introducing a small amount of air plasma in the melting environment. In this manner even though the air contains oxygen, and the common practice is presently directed at air being eliminated from the melting environment, an air plasma is able to very effectively be utilized.

Abstract: A method of heating molten aluminum in a container utilizing gas stirring means.

Abstract: Improvements to an insulating cover for covering an opening in a torpedo car are disclosed. The insulating cover includes upper and lower wire mesh layers and an insulating layer positioned between the wire mesh layers. A support rod may be provided which extends beyond the ends of the upper and lower wire mesh layers. A pair of support rods in an “X” configuration may be provided which extend beyond the side edges of the upper and lower wire mesh layers. Tie devices secure the wire mesh layers together and hold the insulating layer in position. At least one ferromagnetic plate is provided, whereby each ferromagnetic plate provides a lift point for lifting the insulating cover, such as with an electromagnet or the like. Methods for constructing the embodiments of the insulating cover are also disclosed.

Abstract: A furnace discharge system for removing material from a hearth (18) of a rotary hearth furnace (10) and method of operation. The system includes at least two material discharge augers (28, 30) positioned above the hearth (18) of the rotary hearth furnace (10). Each discharge auger (28, 30) is operatively mounted to allow for height adjustment of the discharge auger (28, 30) in alternating sequence from a material removal position to an elevated material by-pass position.

Abstract: A graphite-containing monolithic refractory material comprises at least one component selected from alumina and alumina-magnesia spinel, which are divided into selected particle size regions, artificial graphite having a selected average particle size, and pitch powder. The refractory material may optionally comprise a selected amount of silicon carbide having a selected average particle size. The graphite-containing monolithic refractory material exhibits excellent casting workability at a low moisture content, and both excellent corrosion resistance and spalling resistance. The refractory material is suitable as a casting monolithic refractory material for lining a topedo ladle car.

Abstract: A portable dross processing system has a support frame with a base and an upper support. A pair of wheels are mounted to the base, and a steering wheel can be pivotably mounted to the base. A dross receiving crucible is mounted in a crucible frame which is pivotably mounted to the upper support. The crucible has a sidewall and a bottom having a port. The crucible may be formed from a mounting rim of steel plate to which a metal mesh reservoir form is attached. The mesh is then covered with moldable refractory cloth, over which a ceramic wash is applied. A finishing wash is applied to the crucible interior. Preheated dross is loaded into the crucible while in a dross loading position. The dross is preferably mixed with an exothermic compound and stirred to promote coalescence of the entrapped metal. After the molten metal forms a pool in the bottom of the crucible, the port is opened to drain the metal. The port can be opened by a closure plate slidably engaging a pair of channels and supporting a port plug.

Abstract: A method of and apparatus for degassing molten metal in a vacuum treatment chamber defined by a open topped ladle containing the molten metal and a generally cylindrical refractory lined cover having a closed top and an open bottom positioned on the ladle, with a temporary joint formed therebetween, and a vacuum seal sealing the vacuum treatment chamber from the atmosphere. A vacuum offtake is connected to the cover chamber to apply vacuum to the vacuum treatment chamber, and the molten metal is stirred to produce sufficient turbulence and splashing to produce an increased surface area of molten metal exposed to vacuum to accelerate the degassing rate. The offtake outlet is located at a height above the cover chamber open bottom to substantially prevent splashed metal and slag from being carried into the offtake while permitting aggressive stirring to increase treatment rate.

Abstract: An insulating cover for covering an opening in a torpedo car is disclosed. The insulating cover includes an upper and lower wire mesh layer and an insulating layer positioned between the wire mesh layers. Tie devices secure the wire mesh layers together and hold the insulating layer in position. At least one ferromagnetic plate is provided, whereby each ferromagnetic plate provides a lift point for lifting the insulating cover, such as with an electromagnet or the like.

Abstract: A pre-formed rigid ceramic thermal insulating heat conservation cover is placed over and fitted into the opening of a hot liquid metal transfer car. The cover reduces thermal loss from the liquid metal by a non-metallic middle sheet encapsulated by an upper metallic sheet and a lower metallic sheet. The middle sheet is formed of fused ceramic and silica sand.

Abstract: An apparatus and a process are provided for transferring molten metal. The disclosed apparatus includes a vessel having a cylindrical wall, a closed end, and an open end. An opening is provided in the cylindrical wall for pouring molten metal into the vessel. A spout is formed over the open end of the cylindrical wall and provides an orifice from which the molten metal can be discharged from the vessel. The cylindrical wall, the closed end, and the spout define an enclosure for holding the molten metal.The disclosed process employs a vessel as described above for holding molten metal. The vessel is positioned adjacent to a first processing station containing molten metal from which the molten metal is cast into the vessel. The molten metal is then transported directly to a second processing station in the vessel and discharged from the vessel directly into the second processing station for further processing.

Abstract: Pipe lines for conducting natural gas become contaminated, over a period of time, by an accumulation of mercury, which occurs in minute amounts in natural gas. If used pipe is scrapped, for example by melting, mercury vapor escaping to the atmosphere poses a health hazard. To remove mercury, sections of pipe are closed at both ends by plugs having nipples for connection to a closed circuit and inert gas line connected with a pump for evacuating the line and with a source of inert gas, for example nitrogen. The closed circuit inert gas line contains a blower for circulating the inert gas repeatedly through the pipe sections and a condenser for condensing mercury vapor. The closed circuit further includes a heat exchanger for removing heat upstream of the condenser, a coordinated heat exchanger for restoring heat removed and an additional heater. The pipe sections are heated externally by an oven or internally by heated inert gas.

Abstract: In a method for melting and treating metals and metal alloys, especially steels, solid charge material is melted in a ladle. Then while passing a gas through the melt at least part of the time, at least one of the treatments of decarburization, dephosphorization, deoxidation, desulfurization, alloying and removing nonmetallic inclusions is performed in the same ladle. An apparatus for the practice of the method has two tracks (W1, W2) for the ladle (5), which are aligned in an approximate T-shape to one another, a preheating station (9) and a slag removal station (14) being arranged in the top part of the T and, at the intersection between the top part and the stem between the preheating station (9) and the slag removal station (14), the first treatment station (10) with a heating system is disposed, and at the free end of the stem of the T a second treatment station (16) for the vacuum treatment is disposed.

Abstract: An apparatus for removing a cover from a transport car is mounted to the car and has a swing member connected to the cover of the car. The swing member is pulled away, with the cover, by rolling down a pair of guide members to a termination point. A winch is used to pull the swing member back into position to block the opening of the transport car with the cover. The apparatus allows manual removal or placement of the cover on the transport car in environments where the space over the car is restricted.

Abstract: A unit for the metallurgical treatment of molten steel, located in steel teeming ladles, by heating and vacuum treatment. The ladle-metallurgical treatment unit serves for the mutual treatment of steel meltings by heating and vacuum treatment. It consists of two treatment stations, each of which is provided with a stationary tank 1, 2 for incorporating the steel teeming ladle 3, 4, and each is provided with a laterally movable vacuum lid mechanism 13. A heating device with a swiveling heating lid 9, which is arranged centrally between the two treatment stations, is brought into the working position over one of the two steel teeming ladles 3, 4.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling drive or operation of a quenching car and/or a bucket car for a coke oven and a method therefor, capable of effectively accomplishing the automatic control of the operation of the quenching car/bucket car. A quenching car/bucket car is adapted to travel on a track due to traction by a wire rope through a winch structure, to thereby reduce the load of the quenching car/bucket car applied to the track surface to prevent positional variations on the track surface. This results in the relative positional relationship of the track surface to a quenching tower, a coke wharf/CDQ and the like being ensured.

Abstract: A plant for the production of molten metals, includes a melting vessel and a metallurgical vessel receiving the melt from the melting vessel for aftertreating the melt and closed by a lid. The melting vessel has a tap opening for the melt provided on the bottom level of the melting vessel and located on the periphery of the melting vessel. The tap opening is positioned above a pour-in opening of the metallurgical vessel. In order to ensure a continuous melting procedure, the pour-in opening of the metallurgical vessel following the melting vessel is provided above a melt guiding chute arranged within the metallurgical vessel.

Abstract: Two tundish cars, each detachably carrying a tundish, are supported on continuous circular rails for movement between a pouring position and a standby position spaced along the rails from a pouring position and provided with guide rails mounted above the circular rails and extending radially outwardly therefrom to a slag discharge position and to tundish reconditioning apparatus, both spaced radially outwardly of the circular rails. A shuttle truck moveable along the guide rails and provided with a hoist, lifts a tundish from its car in the standby position, transports the lifted tundish to the slag discharge position, to the reconditioning apparatus, and returns the emptied, reconditioned tundish to its car.

Abstract: A movable car bottom furnace in which premature failure of the metallic components of the movable car bottom are avoided by moving a hinged lower portion of the side wall into engagement with the refractory portion of the car bottom whereby only a refractory to refractory contact is made between the walls and car bottom, with all said contact occurring at a level above the uppermost level of the metallic components of the car bottom.

Abstract: A hot metal transfer car has a pouring mouth and integral apparatus for removably covering the pouring mouth.A track has a first section which is supported by the transfer car at one end and extends upwardly toward its second end. A second section of the track extends downwardly away from the second end toward the pouring mouth. A carriage driven by means of a motor and a chain drive moves on the track. A pouring mouth cover having a handling arm slideably connected with the carriage is moved over the track by the carriage.

Abstract: In a process for continuously melting scrap (6) and/or pig iron within a converter (1), the converter (1) is heated in proximity of the bottom (3) with sub-stoichiometric burners (4), having their flames (5) essentially radially directed into the interior of the converter (1). In this case, secondary air or O.sub.2 is supplied at a distance above the burner plane for the purpose of completing the combustion. The melt is, optionally together with slag, discharged via a tapping means (9) laterally connected to the converter (1) into a mobile ladle (19). For the purpose of interchanging ladles (19), the converter (1) is swivelled into a position in which the level of the melt is located below the taphole (11).

Abstract: A vehicular body for hauling materials, comprising an external skeletal frame of metal members forming the primary load-bearing structure of the body; a metal lining supported by the skeletal frame and forming the interior surfaces of the body for containing loads of material, the exterior surface of the lining being exposed to the ambient atmosphere through the openings in the skeletal frame; and coupling means securing the lining to the skeletal frame while permitting relative movement between the lining and the frame so that the lining and the frame can expand and contract differentially without stressing each other. The lining of the vehicular body is preferably detachably coupled to the skeletal frame to facilitate removal of the lining for maintenance of replacement purposes.

Abstract: In the operation of mills for the production of steel from molten pig iron and solid ferrous carriers, it is sought for economic reasons to increase the portion of solid ferrous carriers. To supply thermal carriers, such as fossile fuels, as is known, involves the disadvantages of extended charging times and of undesired accompanying elements introduced into the process.To avoid these disadvantages, the invention provides for a combination of at least one steel converter with a direct reduction plant, a meltdown gasifier and a cupola. Therein, sponge iron discharged from the direct reduction plant is melted to pig iron in the meltdown gasifier, on the one hand, and is used as solid charge for the converter. Scrap, together with coke, is melted in the cupola to blown metal, the latter, together with the pig iron produced in the meltdown gasifier, being supplied to the converter as liquid charge.

Abstract: A powered vehicle for operating ladles and the like, in particular ladles utilized for tapping molten aluminium, which vehicle comprises an arcuate load-bearing structure substantially of the rigid bridge girder type resting securely on two opposedly located trucks associated with the bottoms and exteriors of the bridge girder end uprights, one of said trucks carrying a motor means and respective drive to at least one of the trucks, and the other carrying a fitted driver cab for an operator, associated with said bridge girder there being an additional bridge girder structure mounted for a vertical sliding movement along guides formed on the uprights of said bridge girder by hydraulic cylinders or the like, with whose opposite uprights there are associated, at opposite locations, projecting elements of cradle- or fork-like configuration, or the like, adapted to receive, support, and hold studs or pins standing proud of a ladle surface, at diametrically opposed locations thereon, whereby the ladle can be hooked

Abstract: A mobile holding furnace having a metering pump is adapted to hold a relatively small quantity of molten metal in a contamination-free condition for dispensing to individual molds. The furnace is provided with insulation and electric heating elements for maintaining the molten metal in a liquid state. The furnace is sealed such that an atmosphere of inert gas can be maintained above the level of molten metal. The furnace is mounted upon wheels for easy transportation from place to place. The furnace is used in conjunction with tracks disposed adjacent individual molds, the tracks permitting the furnace to be locked in place while molten metal is dispensed into the molds.

Abstract: A tundish car in a continuous casting assembly which includes wheel supporting frames for supporting a pair of front wheels and a pair of rear wheels, and lift mechanisms respectively mounted above the wheel supporting frames, two pairs of the wheel supporting frames being connected respectively through interwheel frames, each right and left pair of the lift mechanisms being connected through a lift frame which supports a tundish.

Abstract: The invention provides dross treatment apparatus comprising a drum rotatable about a horizontal axis with means to feed dross to the inside of the drum where it is cooled and broken by tumbling and then removed from the other end of the drum for separation and treatment. The invention also provides efficient delivery apparatus for introducing the dross to the apparatus.

Abstract: The invention provides a casting car for use in removing super-heated molten materials from an electric arc melting furnace. The cooling car has a metal frame which includes a shallow container adapted to receive the molten materials. A relatively permanent refractory lining protects the interior surface of the container, and a replenishable, granular refractory material is deposited over the permanent refractory lining. Heat deflectors extend upwardly from the metal frame about the top of the container in order to channel heat radiated from the interior upwardly whereby melting plant equipment and personnel located near the cooling car are not subjected to very intense radiant heat. Wheels are secured to the bottom of the metal frame to permit the cooling car to be rolled along the track leading to the melting furnace to receive the super-heated molten materials.

Abstract: An arrangement for the installation or removal of a mouth ring comprised of mouth-ring segments and provided on the mouth of a tiltable metallurgical vessel. In order to simply and quickly install and remove a mouth ring, even if the converter is within a closed chamber and difficult to accede, a car is provided which is displaceable below the metallurgical vessel when tilted in the upside-down position. The car is provided with a platform that can be lifted and lowered by a lifting device and includes at least one support for a mouth-ring segment, which is displaceable and pivotable in the plane of the platform.

Abstract: Scrap metal for steelmaking in a converter is preheated by a heating installation and subsequently charged into a charging trough. The preheating takes place in a separate furnace which is aligned parallel to the charging trough. The furnace can be brought to an emptying position in such a way that the preheated scrap can fall from the preheating furnace and still retain its orientation.

Abstract: A hot metal car is used for the transport of molten pig iron from a blast furnace to a steel making plant, the car having an opening through which it is filled and emptied. To restrict heat loss from the car, the opening is closed during at least one of (a) the journey from the blast furnace station to the steel making plant and (b) the journey from the steel making plant back to the blast furnace by a disposable cover which is at least partly lost into the molten iron during the course of the emptying or filling of the car at the end of the journey concerned.

Abstract: A vehicle for transporting heavy loads on parallel tracks is disclosed. Two of the wheels of the vehicle are fixedly mounted to the vehicle frame, while the remaining wheels are mounted so that they can vertically adjust to deviations in the height of the rail track. In this manner, heavy loads can be transported on the rail tracks without any particular wheel becoming overloaded.In the preferred embodiment, the adjustable wheels are supported by bell crank levers which are themselves connected to one another by a parallelogram linkage arrangement.

Abstract: A vehicular body for hauling materials, comprising an external skeletal frame of metal members forming the primary load-bearing structure of the body; a metal lining supported by the skeletal frame and forming the interior surfaces of the body for containing loads of material, the exterior surface of the lining being exposed to the ambient atmosphere through the openings in the skeletal frame; and coupling devices securing the lining to the skeletal frame while permitting relative movement between the lining and the frame so that the lining and the frame can expand and contract differentially without stressing each other. The lining of the vehicular body is preferably detachably coupled to the skeletal frame to facilitate removal of the lining for maintenance or replacement purposes.

Abstract: An apparatus for separating metallic zinc from zinc-containing residues includes a tank which is coolable by the flow of air through a helicoidal conduit that is open radically to the outside via upper and lower orifices and formed within a chamber surrounding the tanks internal refractory coating. A radial flow of molten material against the tank walls is produced by the driven blades of a paddle wheel. Air is supplied to the tank via an air intake in the closure cover. An upper annulr chamber around the cover's seating communicates with the tank's interior via the cover and has an external orifice for connection of a suction conduit.

Abstract: This invention presents a rotary support for continuous casting ladles, which comprises a vertical column, a drive mechanism for pivoting this column about its vertical axis, a cross arm structure carried by this column and having at least one of its ends in the form of a horizontal fork, each of the two branches of which comprises means for carrying between them a casting ladle, means for raising and lowering the ladle independently of the cross arm, means for weighing the ladle, and means for stabilizing the ladle without influencing the measurement of the weight, the means for carrying the ladle and the means for raising and lowering it being composed, in each of the branches of the fork, of a ladle carrier carriage sliding vertically between a pair of rails under the action of at least one hydraulic jack.

Abstract: Apparatus for treating a metal charge comprises a box furnace and a container containing material for treating the charge. The box furnace is mounted on props whose length is sufficient to permit the container to be positioned under the furnace. The furnace has a shroud within which the charge is heated. Means are provided for introducing the charge into the furnace. The shroud and the container are provided with alignable openings through which the heated charge can be transferred, by charge-transfer means, from the furnace to the container. Pressurized gas is supplied to the interiors of the shroud and the container. The charge-transfer means comprises a carrier supported within the container by a support positioned outside the container. Vertical movement of the support relative to the container causes vertical movement of the carrier.

Abstract: A ladle car opening is closed during the period between pouring and subsequent refilling of the car with molten metal by a closure plug comprised of an open wire mesh support and a lining of fibrous insulating material attached thereto. The plug has a tapered configuration providing for the outer end thereof to be larger than the opening into the ladle car, and the wire mesh support and lining provides for the plug to be flexible so as to conform to the peripheral contour of the opening and to engage a peripheral outer edge of the opening to close the opening and retain the plug therein.

Abstract: A vacuum degassing apparatus has first and second degassing vessels each separately mounted for independent horizontal movement from a first operative position to a second repair position. In addition, each vessel is independently mounted for vertical movement in each position so that a pair of nozzles extending from its lower end to be immersed into a ladle of hot metal when the vessel is at its operative position whereby a degassing operation may be performed. Also, when the vessel is in its repair position, it may be lowered to permit repair or replacement of the nozzles or the vessel bottom as may be required. A vacuum conduit is pivotally connected to each vessel and to a fixed vacuum conduit to maintain the vacuum connection while the vessel is being moved into and out of its various positions.

Abstract: A shaft furnace for recycling non-ferrous metals is provided with a crane runway extending horizontally above the furnace opening, on which a movable carrier transports sorting containers to the furnace. The carrier is provided with a lifting and gripping mechanism for moving and transporting the sorting containers.The shaft furnace is provided with a plurality of individually sealable lock chambers which are locked and sealed from the furnace and the outside atmosphere by selectively opening or closing flaps. In addition, a good seal is provided between the sorting container and the shaft furnace by a sealing surface formed by a metal strip which is located opposite the sealing edge of the sorting container.

Abstract: A method and installation is disclosed for the replacement of a bottom closure of a track-mounted pugh-type transfer ladle having a transfer container supported by two longitudinally spaced-apart bogies which are pivotally attached to the transfer container for swinging movement about a vertical axis, the transfer container having a removable bottom closure located between said bogies. The ladle is moved longitudinally of itself and the two bogies are directed on to different tracks which are spaced from each other to thereby swing the bogies relative to the transfer container and increase the longitudinal space between the bogies; and thereafter the closure is replaced from below through the resulting increased space.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for emptying bottle cars 22 of hot metal and slag. A rotatable bottle 24 is mounted to a railroad car for movement of molten iron between a blast furnace and a steel making facility such as a basic oxygen furnace or the like. To facilitate emptying the bottle, a section 32 of railroad track, shorter than the length between the wheels of the car, is moved transversely from beneath the bottle to one side of the car and the bottle rotated as much as 180.degree. to pour contents of the bottle from a central opening into a receiving ladle 14 below the track. The path of the contents passes through the area from which the track section was removed. Stops 50 prevent movement of the bottle car after the section has been moved.

Abstract: Mobile apparatus for containing molten metal, known as a torpedo car, comprises an elongate vessel rotatably supported at its ends on a pair of bogie assemblies, flange members on the vessel extending around at least part of the opening and one or more lid assemblies arranged to fit over the opening and be removably secured to the flange members, the lid assembly or assemblies, when fitted, closing off less than the entire opening.

Abstract: The invention relates to a mounting for a casting ladle for use in a steel strand casting plant where one or more ladles are cantilevered from a revolving turret atop a central support column. Each cantilevered ladle is set in the mounting of the invention which permits the monitoring of the ladle weight before and during casting.