Ingot mould for continuous casting

US4883111A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Thyssen Stahl AG · DE

Inventors

• Hermann Lax · Düsseldorf, DE
• Waldemar Radtke · Oberhausen, DE
• Karl-Heinz Wyrwas · Moers, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 17, 1988
• Grant date: Nov 28, 1989
• Expiry date: Oct 17, 2008

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B22D11/04
• WIPO field: Materials, metallurgy
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The mould includes wide side plates 4, 5 and adjustable narrow side plates 2, 3 which can be clamped by the wide side plates 4, 5. Adjusting cylinders 11 operable by a hydraulic pressure medium are used to adjust and tension the wide side plate 5. To prevent the tensioning from becoming accidentally loosened if the pressure medium fails, the wide side plate 5 is additionally supported, more particularly on clamping elements 12 which can be clamped to the piston rods 13 of the adjusting cylinders 11. A control device 21 activates the clamping elements 12 when a limit pressure is reached at the adjusting cylinders 11.