Owner Technological Resources Pty Limited

Inventors Ions, Philip James; Hayton, Mark

Agent Griffith Hack

Pub. Number AU-B-2005224287

PCT Pub. Number WO2005/090613

Priority 2004901688 29.03.04 AU; 2004901418 17.03.04 AU

Filing date 17 March 2005

Wipo publication date 29 September 2005

Acceptance publication date 26 August 2010

C21B 11/00 (2006.01) Making pig-iron other than in blast furnaces

C21B 13/00 (2006.01) Making spongy iron or liquid steel, by direct processes

C21C 5/56 (2006.01) Manufacture of carbon steel, e.g. plain mild steel, medium carbon steel, or cast-steel

F27B 1/10 (2006.01) Shaft or like vertical or substantially vertical furnaces

F27B 1/16 (2006.01) Shaft or like vertical or substantially vertical furnaces

F27B 1/21 (2006.01) Shaft or like vertical or substantially vertical furnaces

F27B 1/24 (2006.01) Shaft or like vertical or substantially vertical furnaces

F27B 3/10 (2006.01) Hearth-type furnaces, e.g. of reverberatory type - Details, accessories, or equipment, e.g. dust-collectors, peculiar to hearth-type furnaces

F27B 3/19 (2006.01) Hearth-type furnaces, e.g. of reverberatory type

F27B 3/20 (2006.01) Hearth-type furnaces, e.g. of reverberatory type - Arrangements of heating devices

F27B 3/24 (2006.01) Hearth-type furnaces, e.g. of reverberatory type

F27D 3/14 (2006.01) Charging - Charging or discharging liquid or molten material

F27D 3/15 (2006.01) Charging

F27D 99/00 (2010.01) Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass