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Dual recycling/transfer furnace flow management valve for low melting temperature metals

  • US 7,543,605 B1
  • Filed: 06/03/2008
  • Issued: 06/09/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/03/2008
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A furnace flow control valve, immersible in a flowing bath of molten metal, comprising:

  • a stator having an vertical cylindrical inner wall which defines an elongated cavity, wherein a lower end of said inner wall includes aligned recirculation inlet and outlet openings and an upper end of said inner wall includes a transfer opening; and

    a rotor which is rotatably received within said cavity, said rotor including a recirculation passage running horizontally therethrough, and means for transferring said flowing bath by redirecting at least some of said flowing bath into said cavity and out of said transfer opening.

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