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(11) EP 0 393 970 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
19.12.1990 Bulletin 1990/51

(43) Date of publication A2:
24.10.1990 Bulletin 1990/43

(21) Application number: 90304081.4

(22) Date of filing: 17.04.1990
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)5: F27D 9/00, F27D 1/18, F27D 1/12, F27B 14/12
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AT BE DE ES FR GB GR IT LU NL SE

(30) Priority: 20.04.1989 GB 8908997

(71) Applicant: DAVY MCKEE (STOCKTON) LIMITED
Stockton-on-Tees Cleveland TS18 3RE (GB)

(72) Inventors:
  • Featherstone, William Barry
    Guisborough, Cleveland TS14 8HZ (GB)
  • Macauley, Derek
    Nr. Darlington, Country Durham (GB)

(74) Representative: Kirk, Geoffrey Thomas et al
BATCHELLOR, KIRK & CO. 2 Pear Tree Court Farringdon Road
London EC1R 0DS
London EC1R 0DS (GB)


(56) References cited: : 
   
       


    (54) Cooling of hot bodies


    (57) A hot body (1), such as part of a vessel for molten metal, is cooled by having atomised liquid coolant directed on to it. The coolant is directed into a space between the surface to be cooled (2) and another surface (6) parallel to it in a direction parallel to the surfaces. The volume of liquid coolant which is supplied does not exceed the volume of liquid which is vaporised by the hot body (1).







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