Patent ID: 6199277
Filing Date: 2001-03-13
Classification: F27D,Y10T

Abstract:
A bake carbon flue straightener for straightening a flue wall of an anode baking surface from a deformed or bowed position to a straight or normal position, said flue straightener comprising:a plurality of horizontally disposed remotely controlled and independently actuated hydraulic cylinders mounted on a plurality of elevations vertically spaced apart at equal distances from each other and operable as a unit,said cylinders being mounted with horizontal spacings and elevations with vertical spacings for positioning the cylinders to those locations on the wall determined to be deformed,a hydraulic control unit for actuating said hydraulic cylinders,a steel frame for supporting said hydraulic cylinders,each of said elevations of said hydraulic cylinders in a substantially horizontal direction coupled to a continuous length of one of a plurality of extendable solid push plates for extending said push plates to said deformed or bowed flue wall so as to push or straighten with equally distributed forces said deformed or bowed flue wall back to said straight or normal position.