Continuous casting plant for slabs

US3989093A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Vereinigte Osterreichische Eisen- und Stahlwerke - Alpine Montan Aktiengesellschaft · AT

Inventors

• Josef Peitl · Bogen, DE
• Fritz Granitz · Linz, AT
• Gerhard Reithner · Linz, AT
• Wilhelm Dutzler · Linz, AT
• Heinz Muller · Erlangen, DE
• Ernst Bachner · Munich, DE
• Walter Fortner · Linz, AT

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 14, 1975
• Grant date: Nov 2, 1976
• Expiry date: Mar 14, 1995

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B22D11/1246
• WIPO field: Materials, metallurgy
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A continuous casting plant for slabs, comprising a water-cooled mould from which the strand is continuously extracted, a supporting and guiding means having rollers for guiding the strand between them, and a cooling device having nozzles for spraying a coolant, in particular water, onto the strand and the rollers, has a part of the cooling device formed by flat jet nozzles arranged parallel to the surface of the strand. The longitudinal axes of the nozzles are parallel to the axes of the rollers, and two flat jet nozzles are arranged between neighboring rollers. Advantageously, the flat jet nozzles are arranged within the area defined by the slab edges of the slab sizes to be cast in the plant, and advantageously they are arranged opposite and toward each other. Furthermore, the flat jet nozzles can have nozzle openings in opposite directions, each opening pointing toward the slab edges. Advantageously, the flat jet nozzles are displaceable in the direction of the roller axes and are thus adjustable to various slab widths.