Supporting arrangement for thin strip casting

US6123186A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Mannesmann AG · DE

Inventors

• Klaus Schwerdtfeger · Feldkirch, AT
• Karl-Heinz Spitzer · Clausthal-Zellerfeld, DE
• Wolfgang Reichelt · Moers, DE
• Ulrich Urlau · Moers, DE
• Ewald Feuerstacke · Dorsten, DE
• Joachim Kroos · Meine, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 17, 1999
• Grant date: Sep 26, 2000
• Expiry date: Feb 17, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B22D11/0677
• WIPO field: Materials, metallurgy
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A supporting arrangement for the transport belt in thin strip casting plants. The liquid steel is cast onto the circulating transport belt. On its underside, the transport belt has devices for generating a negative pressure and for supporting the belt as well as for cooling. In the past, rollers were used for supporting the belt. Between the supporting points of the belt on the rollers, upward curvatures of the belt may occur. This is avoided by the use of supports of which the spacings measured transversely to the transporting direction are greater than the lengths of the supports in this direction.