Claims
- 1. An inlet construction for a rotary drum rotatable about an axis and having at one end an inlet opening and a stationary support adjacent said opening, said inlet construction comprising a plurality of individual, hollow, arcuate body segments; and means mounting said segments side-by-side on said support in spaced relation to said drum so that said segments together form a trough protruding through the inlet opening of said drum, each of said segments having top, bottom, and side walls and a front wall facing in the direction of said drum, each of said segments being open at its rear end thereby providing an opening into said segment through which a cooling medium may be introduced, each of said segments having a lip projecting beyond said front wall in prolongation of said bottom wall.
- 2. The construction according to claim 1 wherein each of said segments has an upwardly concave upper surface.
- 3. The construction according to claim 1 including means for circulating a cooling fluid through each of said segments.
- 4. The construction according to claim 3 wherein said cooling medium is gas.
- 5. The construction according to claim 3 wherein said cooling medium is liquid.
- 6. The construction according to claim 1 wherein said mounting means comprises a lug substantially perpendicular to its associated segment.
- 7. The construction according to claim 1 wherein said mounting means comprises a lug extending substantially in prolongation of the associated segment.
- 8. The construction according to claim 1 wherein said lip provides means for supporting refractory material.
- 9. The construction according to claim 1 wherein one of the end walls of each of said segments has a concave recess therein and the other of which has a convex protrusion complementary to said recess, the protrusion of each segment being accommodatable in the recess of an adjacent segment.
- 10. The construction according to claim 9 wherein each of said protrusions is rockable when accommodated in the recess of an adjacent segment.
- 11. The construction according to claim 1 wherein the bottom wall of each of said segments has an offset portion displaced toward one side of said segment by such an amount that the offset portion of each segment may overlap a portion of an adjacent segment.
- 12. The construction according to claim 11 including an end plate underlying a portion of the bottom wall of one endmost segment.
- 13. The construction according to claim 1 wherein each of said segments has on its top wall an upwardly extending projection.
- 14. The construction according to claim 1 wherein each of said segments comprises a casting.
- 15. The construction according to claim 1 wherein each of said segments is formed from parts welded to one another.
Priority Claims (1)
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Parent Case Info
This is a continuation of copending application Ser. No. 08/177,237 filed on Jan. 4, 1994.
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Continuations (1)
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