Continuous casting apparatus

US4217950A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• SACK GmbH · DE

Inventor

• Gunter K. Pinkow · Düsseldorf, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 11, 1978
• Grant date: Aug 19, 1980
• Expiry date: Dec 11, 1998

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B22D11/083
• WIPO field: Materials, metallurgy
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Continuous casting apparatus includes opposing sets of rollers defining a guide path for a cast section emanating from a mould outlet. A key-piece is keyed to the leading end of the cast section at the mould outlet in a conventional manner. A detachment member is mounted at the end of the guide path for entrainment by the key-piece. The entrained detachment member is constrained to move in a path which has a component directed transversely of the feed direction of the cast section. In this way a releasing force is applied to the key-piece by the feed movement of the cast section.