Continuous steel plate manufacturing facilities
US5601137A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 21, 1995 |
| Grant date | Feb 11, 1997 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 21, 2015 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10T29/5184
- WIPO fieldMaterials, metallurgy
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
The invention provides a continuous steel plate manufacturing facility including continuous casting equipment (12) having a plurality of strands, a plurality of rows of slab conveyers (14) disposed downstream of each of the strands, and a single slab transporting apparatus (16) disposed downstream of the slab conveyers for horizontally transporting slabs from the rows of slab conveyers to a single rolling line disposed downstream of the rows of slab conveyers. A continuous slab casting line defined by the strand and the slab conveyers diagonally intersects, at an intersection point, on the slab transporting apparatus with a slab feeding line (18) which is in communication with the rolling line. The slab transporting apparatus is horizontally swingable about the intersection point (19) between a receiving position A wherein the slab transporting apparatus is disposed on an extension of one of the continuous slab casting lines, and a feed-out position B wherein the slab transporting apparatus is disposed in alignment with the slab feeding line. The present invention provides advantages that slabs can be transported in a short period of time to the single rolling line through a plural…
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