FIELD: heating.
SUBSTANCE: invention relates to roller-hearth furnace for heating continuous casting workpieces. Roller-hearth furnace (1) includes furnace chamber with rollers (13a) for moving workpieces along them through furnace chamber from loading side to unloading side at the dimensions of workpiece, which correspond to overall dimensions of furnace; at that, on loading side (11) there located is the first row (13) of rollers, which passes in longitudinal direction (12) of furnace (1), from rollers (13a) the length of which corresponds to width of workpiece (2) of continuous casting; at that, on unloading side (14) there provided is the second row (15) of rollers, which is parallel to the first row (13); at that, between the first and the second rows (13, 15) of rollers there formed is buffer zone (16) with lifting elements (17) for transverse movement of continuous casting workpieces. Besides there provided are alternative versions of location relative to further line of production process.
EFFECT: improving the design owing to reducing the length of all devices, increasing efficiency coefficient and improving the workpiece quality.
9 cl, 5 dwg
