Strand guide, specially for a slab continuous casting installation

US6234301A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Mannesmann AG · DE

Inventors

• Horst von Wyl · Duisburg, DE
• Ingo Schubert · Burgau, DE
• Christoph Bunsen · Hilden, DE
• Ulrich Horbach · Craydon Court, US
• Hans Siemer · Essen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 27, 1999
• Grant date: May 22, 2001
• Expiry date: Aug 27, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B22D11/128
• WIPO field: Materials, metallurgy
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A strand guide, in particular for a continuous slab-casting plant for steel, with supporting segments in which frames are arranged that have rows of guide rollers and driving rollers arranged opposite one another, wherein the frames are held opposite one another by tie rods. Two guide members are provided at one end of a frame at equal distance from the center axis. The guide members are fastened to at least one fixed point via holding elements and are arranged conically at an opening angle relative to one another.