Standard designs are available and Consarc also welcome the opportunity to design a specific furnace to meet individual customer requirements and applications.

The design utilizes a water-cooled vacuum chamber, providing optimum access for cold charging and servicing in a batch mode of operation. The chamber also houses auxiliary equipment with standard and optional features provided by Consarc to ensure maximum flexibility and ease of operation.

These features can include:
• top loader
• Bulk charging and fine alloy additions
• Sample taking
• Immersion thermocouple
• Mold turntable/trolley for pouring multiple molds in a single cycle
• Centrifugal casting
• Sight glass viewing port(s)
• High vacuum pumping system
• Optical pyrometer
• Bridge breaker