Apparatus for connecting a dummy strip to the leading end of a casting in the start-up of continuous casting of strip metal

US4719960A · kind A · utility

Assignees

• SMS Schloemann-Siemag Aktiengesellschaft · DE
• Thyssen Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Horst Grothe · Kaarst, DE
• Peter Boese · Moers, DE
• Manfred Kolakowski · Erkrath, DE
• Hermann Lax · Düsseldorf, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 2, 1987
• Grant date: Jan 19, 1988
• Expiry date: Feb 2, 2007

Classification

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

Abstract

Means are provided for connecting the proximal end of a dummy strip to the distal (i.e. leading) end of a strip casting, in which a throw-away element serving both as a connector and a heat sink for chilling the metal adjacent to the connector is removably mounted on the proximal end of the dummy strip, with a slightly resilient sealing element holding both the dummy strip and the connector-heat sink element centrally of the mold cavity, and with the connector-heat sink spaced from the walls of the mold by a narrow gap and also having means for both chilling and positively interlocking with the metal of the distal end of the cast strip when it congeals.