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Compact Iron Pot Melting Furnace

Designed especially for melting and holding zinc, lead and other low melting metals. This compact unit features long pot life, quiet operation and high heat efficiency. For use where limited floor space demands maximum working perimeter.

Compactness
Furnace is designed with a "packaged" combustion system, flue and slag port all at the rear of the furnace for smallest possible overall floor dimensions.

Accessibility
Compact design results in practical working perimeter of approximately 230 degrees.

Quiet operation
Combustion package consists of special long-flame, nozzle-mix burner and self-contained low-pressure combustion air blower. Burner is sealed to develop a slight furnace back pressure and prevent the entry of free air. Together with the blower design, the system results in a relatively quiet operation. Burner will operate on either natural gas or propane gas.

Log pot life is assured by aiming the burner tangentially at the pot which provides even and symmetrical heating of the pot. Cast iron top ring with evenly spaced lugs prevents pot flange from resting directly on the furnace. A small amount of flue gas exhausts through openings below the lugs to heat the pot flange so that the entire pot is heated. The rear flue exhausts the majority of combustion products.

Spark ignited pilot with flame rod safety supervision is standard. Minor additional equipment for meeting specific insurance requirement is optional.

Quickly installed
Furnace, combustion equipment and prewired control panel are shipped as one complete unit. Furnace is ready for operation after connecting thermocouple, and making single fuel and power connections. Furnace comes with twist-lock plug-in power connector, operates on 155V, single-phase, 50/60 Hz. Fork lift channels in the in the furnace base make handling easy.

Automatic temperature control requires optional control pyrometer and lead wire. A motorized gas-valve, standard on all furnaces, is used for on-off automatic control.

Refractory material consists of high quality brick backed up with heavy insulating material.

Hoods for removing fumes when melting metals such as zinc are available for all sizes as options. Hoods feature roller mounted sliding doors and cutout panel in the top so that the pot can be removed or installed by chain hoist without removing hood.

MPH also builds special furnaces for pot sizes other than shown or for other metals.