A transport trough, in particular for a continuous furnace for transporting and heating of chemical substances, includes a flat bottom, and a circumferential frame which, together with the bottom, forms a trough-shaped cavity for holding the chemical substances, wherein the frame is connected to the bottom in a non-destructively detachable manner.

An energy-saving charge transport system in a press-furnace line, for articles to be baked from the press to the furnace and for articles baked to a finished product storage area, having two levels of a heat tunnel, wherein articles to be baked are arranged on empty transport pallets in two trains of the press, two heat recovery tunnels, the right heat recovery tunnel and the left heat recovery tunnel are situated under the furnace and outside said furnace, the furnace comprises inside two on the contrary movable tracks for articles to be baked, each of the heat recovery tunnel having a down level for baked articles and an upper level for raw articles, said baked and raw articles moveably on the contrary directions, said levels arranged respectively with the right train of the press and the left train of the press, a first actuator cyclically pushes the pallets with the product to be baked arranged in the first train and delivers the pallets onto the upper level of the first heat recovery tunnel, the transport pallets with the raw charge are delivered, one after the other, to a first elevator, that delivers the pallets with the raw charge onto a level of left-hand furnace track.

An energy-saving charge transport system in a press-furnace line, for articles to be baked from the press to the furnace and for articles baked to a finished product storage area, having two levels of a heat tunnel, wherein articles to be baked are arranged on empty transport pallets in two trains of the press, two heat recovery tunnels, the right heat recovery tunnel and the left heat recovery tunnel are situated under the furnace and outside said furnace, the furnace comprises inside two on the contrary movable tracks for articles to be baked, each of the heat recovery tunnel having a down level for baked articles and an upper level for raw articles, said baked and raw articles moveably on the contrary directions, said levels arranged respectively with the right train of the press and the left train of the press, a first actuator cyclically pushes the pallets with the product to be baked arranged in the first train and delivers the pallets onto the upper level of the first heat recovery tunnel, the transport pallets with the raw charge are delivered, one after the other, to a first elevator, that delivers the pallets with the raw charge onto a level of left-hand furnace track.

A transporting apparatus for rolling ingots, having at least one travelling carriage, includes a tilting frame and a guide frame, wherein the tilting frame has at least one longitudinally displaceable transporting carriage with a rail section, which is intended for accommodating an ingot rest and, for the purpose of forming a rail extension, can be positioned collinearly in relation to a furnace rail, and the guide frame has at least one hook carriage, which can be moved essentially parallel to the transporting carriage and comprises at least one tiltable hook for engaging in the ingot rest.

A transporting apparatus for rolling ingots, having at least one travelling carriage, includes a tilting frame and a guide frame, wherein the tilting frame has at least one longitudinally displaceable transporting carriage with a rail section, which is intended for accommodating an ingot rest and, for the purpose of forming a rail extension, can be positioned collinearly in relation to a furnace rail, and the guide frame has at least one hook carriage, which can be moved essentially parallel to the transporting carriage and comprises at least one tiltable hook for engaging in the ingot rest.

The invention relates to a holding device (1) for a container stack (200) which is stored and removed from below and to a storage system (100) for container stacks (200) which are stored and removed from below. The holding device (1) for a container stack (200) which is stored and removed from below has a holding hook (2) which comprises a support arm (3) that can be pivoted about a pivot axis (5) between a holding position for holding a container stack (200) and a removal position for removing a container (201) of the container stack (200). The holding device also has a trigger arm (4) which is rotationally fixed relative to the support arm (3). An instability balancing position is provided between the holding position and the removal position. The holding device (1) further comprises a restoring element (7) which is designed to push the support arm (3) to the holding position or to push the support arm (3) to the removal position when the support arm (3) is being pivoted.

A method of thermal processing a work piece using another work piece which includes providing a chamber having a plurality of temperature zones, disposing a first work piece within a first temperature zone of the chamber, allowing a temperature of the first work piece to thermally equilibrate with the first temperature zone, moving the first work piece to a second temperature zone and disposing a second work piece within the second temperature zone of the chamber, in fluid communication with the first work piece, wherein a thermal exchange occurs between the first and second work pieces.

A method of thermal processing a work piece using another work piece which includes providing a chamber having a plurality of temperature zones, disposing a first work piece within a first temperature zone of the chamber, allowing a temperature of the first work piece to thermally equilibrate with the first temperature zone, moving the first work piece to a second temperature zone and disposing a second work piece within the second temperature zone of the chamber, in fluid communication with the first work piece, wherein a thermal exchange occurs between the first and second work pieces.

A method and a device for charging a plurality of reduced iron raw materials into a traveling hearth reduction-melting furnace and treating the raw materials, allowing sufficient input of heat to the reduced iron raw materials on a hearth covering material to improve treatment efficiency are provided. The reduced iron raw materials are released downward from the lower surface of a ceiling of the reduction-melting furnace to be set on a hearth covering material on a hearth and reduced on the hearth covering material. The falling reduced iron raw materials are given a horizontal velocity having a direction equal to the travel direction of the hearth and being greater than the travel speed of the hearth to enable the reduced iron raw materials to roll in the same direction as the travel direction of the hearth after landing on the hearth covering material.

A thermal processing furnace for workpieces has a blowing hood in which a nozzle is installed, the nozzle blowing a gas flow to thermally process a workpiece, including a driving mechanism that adjusts a distance between the nozzle and a portion of the workpiece facing the nozzle so that the gas flow blown from the nozzle impinges on workpieces of various dimensions at a desired flow velocity, wherein a plurality of nozzles are arranged as the nozzle along a conveying direction of the workpiece in a zone where the thermal processing is performed, and the driving mechanism adjusts a distance between each of the nozzles and a portion of the workpiece facing the nozzle individually in each of the plurality of nozzles.