Patent ID: 6349833
Filing Date: 2002-02-26
Classification: C22B,F27B,F27D

Abstract:
A method of the magnetic loading of a sintering material wherein a starting sintering material is cut out of an ore supplying hopper by means of a drum feeder and is then charged onto a pallet mounted on a sintering apparatus of a Dwight-Lloyd type to thereby bring the starting sintering material into layered form on the pallet, the method comprising: applying a magnetic force to a path of dropping of said starting sintering material having been cut through the drum feeder and being continuously flowed as said starting sintering material is slidably dropped out of a discharge end of a sloping chute of a plate type onto the pallet, the magnetic force being generated by a cylindrical magnetic drum located at the discharge end of the sloping chute; causing magnetically susceptible sinterable substances present in said starting sintering material to be magnetically attracted toward the magnetic drum; and deviating the path of dropping of said starting sintering material and lowering a drop speed thereby the drop area on the pallet is enlarged so that said starting sintering material is softly loaded on the pallet, while in the process of slidably dropping on the sloping chute segregating particulate substances of low drop speed present in said starting sintering material in a lower portion, whereby both said magnetically susceptible sinterable substances and said particulate substances of low drop speed are segregated in large amounts in an upper portion of the sintering material layer on the pallet by inverting said starting sintering material when it is finally loaded on the pallet with use of the magnetic drum.