| 摘要 |
A method and apparatus for de-stacking and preheating metal ingots to be melted. The apparatus places cold ingots onto a transfer device. The transfer device transfers the ingots through a pre-heating chamber and discharges the pre-heated ingots individually onto a set of rolls or a rotating arm to charge a melting furnace filled with liquid metal. The melting furnace then adds sufficient energy to melt the heated ingots. Liquid metal can be removed from the melting furnace and used for casting, for example. When additional metal is needed in the melting furnace, the transfer device transfers an additional ingot from the pre-heating chamber to the melting furnace. When a top row of the metal ingots are removed from the stack, a platform rises to align a new row of metal ingots with the transfer device. |
