Patent ID: 7850903

Claim:
A tapping channel ( 1 ) for a metallurgical furnace, which consists of at least one tap hole brick ( 10 , 11 , 12 ) that forms a length of the tapping channel, and a cooling device in the vicinity of the tapping channel ( 1 ), wherein the cooling device is designed as a jacket ( 14 ) that indirectly cools at least one tap hole brick ( 10 , 11 , 12 ) and at least partially surrounds the one or more tap hole bricks in the vicinity of the furnace wall ( 3 ), that the jacket ( 14 ) is constructed to extend partially into the lining ( 4 ) of the furnace, and that the jacket ( 14 ) is designed with a peripheral cooling channel ( 15 ) along at least a portion of its periphery only in its an end area that projects outward from the furnace wall ( 3 ), wherein a last tap hole brick ( 10 ) or a brick section facing an interior of the furnace is not surrounded by the jacket ( 14 ).