Arrangement for separating the starter bar from the hot strand in the strand guideway of a continuous casting plant

US4222432A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Voest-Alpine · AT

Inventor

• Werner Scheurecker · Linz, AT

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 19, 1979
• Grant date: Sep 16, 1980
• Expiry date: Jul 19, 1999

Classification

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

Abstract

An arrangement for separating a starter bar from a hot strand in a continuous casting plant employs a starter bar head that that is tong-shaped and includes a latch movable between between a position in which the cheeks of the tong are locked and a released position. A switch member is movable into and out of a recess of the starter bar head for driving the latch from its locked position to its released position. The latch includes a projection which cooperates with a counter stop on the strand guideway to reclose the latch once the separation has occurred. the separation has occurred.