The ladle crane is the main equipment in the continuous steelmaking process. It is mainly used for mixing molten iron in the converter feeding span to the converter; hoisting the molten steel ladle to the refining furnace in the refining span or hoisting the molten steel to the continuous casting machine in the molten steel receiving span.
In terms of overall structure, ladle cranes can be divided into 5 categories: four-beam four-track with double-trolley, four-beam six-track with double-trolley, double-beam double-track single trolley, double-beam four-track double-trolley, and double-beam double-track main-deputy-trolley.
The composition of ladle cranes, according to the structure of the main hoisting reducer, it mainly can be the overall large reduction type, the independent large reduction type, the three reduction type, the double reducer double drum type, the double reducer single drum type , Planetary reducer type (this type can also be various forms).