Arrangement at a continuous casting plant

US4234036A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Voest-Alpine · AT

Inventor

• Ernst Bachner · Munich, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 19, 1979
• Grant date: Nov 18, 1980
• Expiry date: Jul 19, 1999

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B22D11/10
• WIPO field: Materials, metallurgy
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

In an arrangement at a continuous casting plant including at least two mold cavities, a common distributing vessel for supplying melt into each mold cavity through an outflow opening that is closeable by means of a stopper, via a casting pipe reaching from the distributing vessel to the mold cavity, a shearing means including a shearing head and a sealing plate following upon the shearing head is provided. The shearing means is movable by an adjustment drive from a waiting position beside the casting pipe into a closing position covering the outflow opening by the sealing plate, on simultaneous shearing off of the part of the casting pipe projecting at the outer side of the distributing vessel, by the shearing head.