Patent ID: 7530479

Claim:
A device for actuating a sliding closure applied to a vessel containing molten metal once the vessel has been positioned on a ladle rotating tower, with a piston/cylinder unit that can be introduced into a holding element of the sliding closure, comprising a drive shaft that can be coupled to a slide rod of the sliding closure, wherein the piston/cylinder unit can be introduced into the holding element and withdrawn from the same by means of a controllable manipulator, wherein the piston/cylinder unit is arranged on a lifting frame of the manipulator affixed to the ladle rotating tower and can be introduced into a guide groove of the holding element transversely in a vertical direction in relation to the displacement direction of the sliding closure by adjusting the same with a guide element, wherein the device further comprises means for positioning the lifting frame in relation to the holding element during the adjusting of the same and nor to introducing the guide element into the guide groove, and wherein the piston/cylinder unit is affixed to a vertically adjustable lifting frame of the manipulator and can be introduced into a holding element open at the bottom and equipped with the guide groove with its guide element.