Abstract:
A coupling position switching mechanism capable of improving efficiency of a coupling position switching operation, while realizing structural simplification, and reductions in size and cost. A first coupling portion consisting of one of a slide metal frame-side coupling portion and a drive unit-side coupling portion is formed with a groove-shaped recess and a through-hole in this order from the side of a distal end of the first coupling portion, and a second coupling portion consisting of the remaining one of the slide metal frame-side coupling portion and the drive unit-side coupling portion is formed with the through-hole. The first and second coupling portions are configured such that, during a casting operation, they are coupled together by a coupling pin inserted into the through-hole of the first coupling portion and the through-hole of the second coupling portion, and during surface pressure-applying/releasing operation, they are coupled together by a second coupling pin inserted into the groove-shaped recess of the first coupling portion and the through-hole of the second coupling portion.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a technique for suppressing a firing property and a dust generating property while improving bondability, in a thermal spray material for use in a thermite spraying process. The thermal spray material comprises a refractory material powder and a metal Si powder and capable of being sprayed onto a target surface using oxygen or oxygen-containing gas as a carrier gas and melt-adhered to the target surface based on heat generated by combustion of the metal Si powder, wherein the metal Si powder is contained in an amount of 10 to 25 mass % with respect to the entire thermal spray material, and wherein the metal Si powder has a median size of 10 μm or less, and contains a fraction having a particle size of 2 μm or less in an amount of 8 mass % or less with respect to the entire metal Si powder.
Abstract:
In the present invention, the attempt was made to increase the denseness (to lower the porosity) of a magnesia carbon brick furthermore thereby providing the magnesia carbon brick having a high durability never found in the past. The magnesia carbon brick of the present invention comprises a magnesia raw material and a graphite, wherein the magnesia carbon brick contains the graphite with the amount thereof in the range of 8% or more by mass and 25% or less by mass and the magnesia raw material with the amount thereof in the range of 75% or more by mass and 92% or less by mass, the both amounts being relative to the total amount of the magnesia raw material and the graphite; as a grain size distribution of the magnesia raw material, the magnesia raw material having particle diameter of in the range of 0.075 mm or more and 1 mm or less is blended with the amount thereof being 35% or more by mass relative to the total amount of the magnesia raw material and the graphite, and a mass ratio of the magnesia raw material having the particle diameter of in the range of 0.075 mm or more and 1 mm or less to the magnesia raw material having the particle diameter of less than 0.075 mm is 4.2 or more; and an apparent porosity thereof after firing in reducing atmosphere for 3 hours at 1400° C. is 7.8% or less.
Abstract:
In order to suppress destruction of a refractory which contains a metal aluminum, the refractory is a refractory for steel casting which includes a refractory material containing a free carbon in the range of 1 to 10% by mass, both inclusive, a metal aluminum in the range of 1 to 15% by mass, both inclusive, and a metal oxide in a balance. The refractory for steel casting satisfies the following Equation 1: 0.31×Al≦(P−4)/D (Equation 1), with a metal aluminum content in the refractory designated by Al % by mass, an apparent porosity thereof designated by P %, and a bulk density thereof designated by D.
Abstract:
A sliding nozzle device that can reduce any damage such as surface roughness and chipping in a nozzle hole surroundings of a used plate. The sliding nozzle device includes a fixed metal frame, a sliding metal frame, and an opening and closing metal frame that holds the sliding metal frame in a slidable manner, and in the sliding nozzle device in which sliding contact surfaces of the sliding members provided on the sliding metal frame and the opening and closing metal frame come in slidable contact with each other, the sliding contact surfaces of the sliding member of the sliding metal frame are provided away from each other by a predetermined length front and rear in the sliding direction and a part between the front and rear sliding contact surfaces serves as a depressed part, and the sliding contact surfaces of the sliding member of the opening and closing metal frame are provided away from each other by a predetermined length front and rear in the sliding direction and a part between the front and rear sliding contact surfaces serves as a depressed part.
Abstract:
A magnesia carbon brick with increased denseness (lowering the porosity) and high durability relative to conventional magnesia carbon bricks. The magnesia carbon brick includes a magnesia raw material and a graphite, with the magnesia carbon brick containing the graphite with amount of in the range of 3% or more by mass and 25% or less by mass and the magnesia raw material with amount of in the range of 75% or more by mass and 97% or less by mass, the both amounts being relative to total amount of the magnesia raw material and the graphite; and an apparent porosity thereof after reductive firing for 3 hours at 1400° C. is 7.8% or less.
Abstract:
The present invention addresses a technical problem of realizing a sprayable refractory material capable of, even when used in a dry-spraying installation process, ensuring mixability between a silica sol and a refractory composition to promote a hardening reaction, thereby achieving excellent durability. Provided is a dry-sprayable unshaped refractory material which comprises a refractory composition, and a silica sol containing a silica solid component in a concentration of 20 mass % to 50 mass %. The silica sol is added in such a manner that the silica solid component contained in an entirety of the silica sol reaches an amount of 3 mass % to 30 mass % with respect to and in addition to an entirety of the refractory composition assumed as 100 mass %, and the refractory composition contains a Mg- or Ca-containing compound having a particle size of 10 μm or less, wherein a ratio of a content of the Mg- or Ca-containing compound having a particle size of 10 μm or less in the refractory composition to a content of the silica solid component in the entirety of the silica sol is 0.02 or more.
Abstract:
A sliding nozzle device capable of allowing a maintenance robot to reliably and accurately recognize the position thereof. The sliding nozzle device includes: a fixed metal frame; and a sliding metal frame slidably provided to the fixed metal frame. The fixed metal frame is provided with a mark block for allowing a maintenance robot to recognize the position thereof. More specifically, the mark block is provided to protrude from a side surface or bottom surface of the fixed metal frame toward the sliding metal frame, at a position free from interference with the sliding metal frame during sliding.
Abstract:
Provided is a refractory product which is not impregnated with pitch or the like, wherein it has higher corrosion-erosion resistance and thermal shock resistance as compared to a refractory product subjected to pitch or the like-impregnation treatment. The refractory product which is not impregnated with tar or pitch is characterized in that, in terms of values of physical properties of a sample of the refractory product as measured after heat-treating the sample in a non-oxidizing atmosphere at 1200° C.: an apparent porosity is 7% or less; a total void volume of pores having a pore diameter of 1 μm or less is 80% or more of an integrated void volume of pores of the entire sample of the refractory product; and a gas permeability is 50×10−17 m2 or less.