ALUMINIUM INGOT MELTING APPARATUS USING EXHAUST HEAT

• Main Authors: SHIMANO ICHIRO, TAKEDA NORIO, GOTO TAMOTSU
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 19.07.2012
• Subjects: BLASTING; CASTING; CASTING OF METALS; CASTING OF OTHER SUBSTANCES BY THE SAME PROCESSES OR DEVICES; DETAILS OR ACCESSORIES OF FURNACES, KILNS, OVENS, OR RETORTS,IN SO FAR AS THEY ARE OF KINDS OCCURRING IN MORE THAN ONE KINDOF FURNACE; FURNACES; FURNACES, KILNS, OVENS, OR RETORTS IN GENERAL; HEATING; KILNS; LIGHTING; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; OPEN SINTERING OR LIKE APPARATUS; OVENS; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; POWDER METALLURGY; RETORTS; TRANSPORTING; WEAPONS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an ingot melting apparatus using exhaust heat, which is constituted of a built-in automated supply unit supplying intermittently a preheated ingot, by reusing exhaust heat energy, to preheat air for auxiliary combustion, and also to preheat the ingot to be supplied.SOLUTION: The ingot melting apparatus using exhaust heat includes: a melting furnace heating mechanism A heating the melting furnace of the ingot 12; an ingot feeding mechanism B making a chain conveyor 9 provided with a preheating chamber 13 preheating the ingot 12, and the end of the chain conveyer 9, positioned above a melting furnace opening, and pushing out the ingot one by one by a piston cylinder mechanism 18 to drop the ingot from a ramp 17; and an exhaust heat exchanging mechanism C provided with a first heat exchanger 8 heating an air supply passage, and a second heat exchanger 21 communicating with the preheating chamber 13 provided in the ingot feeding mechanism B.