Patent ID: 6290899
Filing Date: 2001-09-18
Classification: C21C

Abstract:
A converter plant, comprising: a smoke gas flue; a tiltable converter having a hood; a sealing ring provided between the hood of the tiltable converter and a mouth of the smoke gas flue; drives for moving the sealing ring between a closed position and an open position so far away from the converter hood that the converter can be tilted without obstruction, the sealing ring being designed as a sleeve which externally surrounds the smoke gas flue so that in the closed position the mouth of the sleeve leans against the converter hood, the sleeve having vertical severing cuts which divide the sleeve into at least two segments; and closing arrangements operatively attached to respectively adjacent segments so as to move the segments toward and away from one another, in each case two adjacent segments are connected at a head end by joints so that the segments swing open and shut when the closing arrangements are actuated.