Aluminum type deoxidizer weighted to submerge it in molten metal

Claim 1

A WEIGHTED ALUMINUM TYPE DEOXIDIZER TO SUBMERGE THE ALUMINUM IN THE MOLTEN FERROUS METAL TO BE DEOXIDIZED, COMPRISING A SOLID ALUMINUM INGOT FIRMLY SECURED TO A STEEL ROD, A SUBSTANTIAL PORTION OF THIS SAID ROD EXTENDING ABOVE THE SURFACE OF THE ALUMINUM INGOT AND PIERCED BY A SERIES OF HORIZONTAL HOLES AT SPACED VERTICAL DISTANCES, A STEEL BILLET EXTENDING ABOVE THE UPPER SURFACE OF THE ALUMINUM INGOT, WHICH BILLET HAS A VERTICAL OPENING CENTRALLY POSITIONED THROUGHOUT ITS LENGTH AND INTO WHICH THE SAID STEEL ROD PROJECTS, AND EXTENDING THROUGH THE THICKNESS OF THE SAID BILLET THERE ARE HORIZONTALLY POSITIONED HOLES VERTICALLY SPACED FROM ONE ANOTHER, AT LEAST THE LOWER SERIES OF HORIZONTAL HOLES IN SAID BILLET BEING CAPABLE OF BEING BROUGHT INTO ALIGNMENT WITH THE HOLES IN THE STEEL ROD, KEYS INSERTED THROUGH SEVERAL ALIGNED HOLES IN THE BILLET AND IN THE STEEL ROD FOR HOLDING THE ALUMINUM INGOT TO THE SAID STEEL BILLET, MEANS ON THE RESPECTIVE KEYS TO PREVENT THEIR DISENGAGEMENT, A STEEL INGOT LARGER IN TOTAL SURFACE AREA THAN THE SAID ALUMINUM INGOT AND BEING SEVERAL TIMES THE WEIGHT OF THE LATTER AND POSITIONED IN THE APPROXIMATE UPPER HALF OF THE ENTIRE DEOXIDIZER STRUCTURE, THE STEEL INGOT HAVING A VERTICAL PASSAGEWAY CENTRALLY POSITIONED AND EXTENDING THROUGHOUT ITS HEIGHT, THERE BEING A PLURALITY OF HORIZONTALLY POSITONED, VERTICALLY SPACED HOLES EXTENDING THE ENTIRE THICKNESS OF THE STEEL INGOT, THE BILLET EXTENDING UP INTO THE SAID VERTICAL PASSAGEWAY OF THE STEEL INGOT, METAL KEYS EXTENDING THROUGH A PLURALITY OF THE HORIZONTAL HOLES IN THE STEEL INGOT AND THE ALIGNED HORIZONTAL HOLES IN THE BILLET FOR SECURING THE BILLET TO THE STEEL INGOT, MEANS ON THESE RESPECTIVE KEYS TO PREVENT THEIR DISENGAGEMENT, MECHANICAL MEANS AT THE TOP OF AND AFFIXED TO THE STEEL INGOT FOR FASTENING IT TO A HOISTING MECHANISM, WHEREBY THE ENTIRE UNIT OF THE STRUCTURAL PARTS RECITED CAN BE LIFTED AND MOVED.