Closure plate for hot blast slide valves

• US 4,292,993 A
• Filed: 11/09/1979
• Issued: 10/06/1981
• Est. Priority Date: 11/09/1978
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hoogovens Ijmuiden BV, Zimmermann & Jansen GmbH (IMI PLC)
• Original Assignee: Hoogovens Ijmuiden BV, Zimmermann & Jansen GmbH (IMI PLC)
• Inventors: Felthuis, Jacob, Rumphorst, Jacobus A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Chambers, A. Michael
• Application Number:
  US06/092,863
• Time in Patent Office: 697 Days
• Field of Search: 251/356, 251/368, 251/326, 137/340, 137/375
• US Class Current: 137/340
• CPC Class Codes: C21B 9/12 Hot-blast valves or slides for blast furnaces valves in general F16K
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/6579 Circulating fluid in heat exchange relationship
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/7036 Jacketed

Abstract

A closure plate for hot blast slide valves of the type having a hollow ring of box-like cross section cooled by running water to whose inner circumference a body is attached by welding, which is formed by parallel plates and is likewise cooled by running water. The thickness of the body in axial direction is smaller than the axial length of the hollow ring, and the outer surfaces are coated to about the height of the front faces of the ring with refractory concrete, the coating being tied to these outer surfaces by anchoring means. The closure plate is characterized by the following features:

(a) the anchoring means are attached to the outer surfaces of the plate body and are V-shaped and extend into the refractory coating with their free flanks for at least 2/3 and at the most 3/4 of the coating thickness;

(b) the anchoring means are arranged in regular distances in rows and columns extending normally to each other, the extending planes being alternately parallel and transverse to the direction of the rows and columns;

(c) the distance between the centers of the anchoring means corresponds to once or twice the thickness of the refractory coating layer.

Claims

1. In a closure plate for hot blast slide valves of the type having a hollow ring of box-like cross section cooled by running water, to whose inner circumference a body is attached by welding, which is formed by parallel plates and is likewise cooled by running water, the thickness of the body in axial direction being smaller than the axial length of the hollow ring, and the outer surfaces being coated to about the height of the front faces of the ring with refractory concrete, the coating being secured to these outer surfaces by anchoring means, the improvement comprising:

(a) said anchoring means being attached to the outer surfaces of the plate body, and being V-shaped and extending into the refractory coating with their free flanks for at least 2/3 and at the most 3/4 of the coating thickness;

(b) said anchoring means being arranged in regular distances in rows and columns extending normally to each other, the extending planes being alternately parallel and transverse to the direction of the respective row or column; and

(c) the distance between the centers of said anchoring means corresponding to at least the thickness of the refractory coating layer.

3. The closure plate according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the opening angle of the flanks of the V-shaped anchoring means is from 45°

to 65°

.

4. The closure plate according to claim 3, wherein the flanks of the anchoring means are corrugated.

5. The closure plate according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the body formed by the plates is reinforced by sheet metal guides which are welded to the plates and which form a helix with multiple windings extending from the exterior to the interior of the body.

6. The closure plate according to claim 5, wherein the sheet metal guides are welded over their entire length to the plates by means of welding seams each having a V-shaped cross section, which is larger toward the outside.

2. In a closure plate for hot blast slide valves of the type having a hollow ring of box-like cross section cooled by running water, to whose inner circumference a body is attached by welding, which is formed by parallel plates and is likewise cooled by running water, the thickness of the body in axial direction being smaller than the axial length of the hollow ring, and the outer surfaces being coated to about the height of the front faces of the ring with refractory concrete, the coating being secured to these outer surfaces by anchoring means, the improvement comprising:

(a) said anchoring means being attached to the outer surfaces of the plate body, and being V-shaped and extending into the refractory coating with their free flanks for at least 2/3 and at the most 3/4 of the coating thickness;

(b) said anchoring means being arranged in regular distances is rows and columns extending normally to each other, the extending planes being alternately parallel and transverse to the direction of the respective row or column;

(c) the distance between the centers of said anchoring means corresponding to at least the thickness of the refractory coating layer; and

(d) said refractory concrete having up to 1,200°

C. a heat expansion of less than 0.6%, at 20°

C. a heat conductivity of more than 1.6 kcal/m h °

C., and at 1000°

C. a heat conductivity of more than 1 kcal/m h °

C., and comprising 15 to 20% of cement as well as 80-85% additives of the following composition;

SiO₂ =33-38%

Al₂ O₃ +TiO₂ =60-65%

Fe₂ O₃ =1-2%

CaO+MgO=less than 0.1%

Al+K=less than 0.1%.