US Patent Issued to Badische Stahl-Engineering on Oct. 20 for "Slag door arrangement and cleaning method" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,597, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Badische Stahl-Engineering GmbH (Kehl, Germany).

"Slag door arrangement and cleaning method" was invented by Ralf Schweikle (Gutach im Breisgau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A slag door arrangement (10) for a metallurgical furnace (1) includes a furnace vessel (2) with a slag tunnel (8) having a rectangular opening cross section extending laterally through the furnace vessel (2). A pivoting movement of the slag door about a horizontal pivoting axis and a lifting movement of the slag door in a direction perpendicular to the horizontal pivoting axis are independent of each other. A meth...