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Arrangement for introducing a flexible starter bar into a continuous casting plant

US4114679A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

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

Inventors

Lorenz Loibl · Baden, AT
Werner Scheurecker · Linz, AT

Key dates

Filing date	Feb 16, 1977
Grant date	Sep 19, 1978
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 16, 1997

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB22D11/085
WIPO fieldMaterials, metallurgy
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

An arrangement for introducing a flexible starter bar, having a starter bar head, into a continuous casting plant with a mould and a strand guide located below the mould, has a lifting device for gripping and lifting the starter bar, and a displacement device designed as a car, arranged above the casting platform. The starter bar is introduced into the mould or into the strand guide by the displacement device, and a stationary conveying path, on which the starter bar is guided by the displacement device, has an arcuate front end part and an arcuate rear end part. The arcuate front end part is pivotable into and out of an introduction position.

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