Patent ID: 6244859
Filing Date: 2001-06-12
Classification: F27B

Abstract:
Rotary kiln with a horizontal kiln drum arranged rotatable and drivable in a furnace body, which is closed at a charging and a delivery side by end plates forming central charging and delivery openings, respectively, and which can be heated from outside via a heating chamber enclosing a drum shell and admitted with heating medium, characterised by the fact that the kiln drum (3) consists of U-sections (18) arranged side by side along a drum circumference between the end plates (4, 5), which point radially inward with their open section side, and which are interconnected longitudinally at touching end zones (19) of section limbs (20), and at the circumference via reinforcing elements (23) having an axial distance to each other, and bridging remaining longitudinal gaps (21) between section webs (22).