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Apparatus and method for oscillating slide closure of casting vessel to prevent solidification of molten metal in closed outlet

US4759479A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMay 24, 1982
Grant dateJul 26, 1988
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Expiry dateMay 24, 2002

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB22D41/38
  • WIPO fieldMaterials, metallurgy
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

For a slide closure 10 attached to a pouring vessel 2 which has a movable slide part 14 disposed between a bottom plate 12 and a discharge part 16, there is, in addition to a cylinder piston unit 24 acting on the slide part, which unit is dominant by way of a servocontrol block 26 by regulating arrangement 32, a vibrator 36 which is controlled by an oscillator 34. The vibrator 36 is switched into the connection between the cylinder-piston unit 24 and the movable slide part 14, and is in a position to oscillatingly drive the latter both in its closing position as well as in other positions and, indeed, in the same direction as the cylinder piston unit. A position generator 44 starts the oscillator 34 forcibly in the closed position.

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