Assertion: blast furnace | /r/HasAspect | following ancillary facilities
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text: Blast furnaces may have the following ancillary facilities: a stock house where the furnace burden is prepared prior to being elevated to the furnace top by skip cars or a belt conveyor system; a top-charging system consisting of a vertical set of double bells (cones) or rotating chutes to prevent the release of furnace gas during charging; stoves that utilize the furnace off-gases to preheat the air delivered to the tuyeres; and a cast house, consisting of troughs that distribute liquid iron and slag to appropriate ladles for transfer to steelmaking furnaces and slag-reclamation areas.