EP0379420A1 - Einrichtung und Verfahren zur Versorgung mit flüssigem Metall für das Druckgiessen metallischer Produkte - Google Patents

Einrichtung und Verfahren zur Versorgung mit flüssigem Metall für das Druckgiessen metallischer Produkte Download PDF

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EP0379420A1
EP0379420A1 EP90400115A EP90400115A EP0379420A1 EP 0379420 A1 EP0379420 A1 EP 0379420A1 EP 90400115 A EP90400115 A EP 90400115A EP 90400115 A EP90400115 A EP 90400115A EP 0379420 A1 EP0379420 A1 EP 0379420A1
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Robert André Vatant
Michel Francois Courbier
André Weiss
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Creusot Loire SA
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B22—CASTING; POWDER METALLURGY
    • B22D—CASTING OF METALS; CASTING OF OTHER SUBSTANCES BY THE SAME PROCESSES OR DEVICES
    • B22D17/00—Pressure die casting or injection die casting, i.e. casting in which the metal is forced into a mould under high pressure
    • B22D17/20—Accessories: Details
    • B22D17/30—Accessories for supplying molten metal, e.g. in rations
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B22—CASTING; POWDER METALLURGY
    • B22D—CASTING OF METALS; CASTING OF OTHER SUBSTANCES BY THE SAME PROCESSES OR DEVICES
    • B22D18/00—Pressure casting; Vacuum casting
    • B22D18/04—Low pressure casting, i.e. making use of pressures up to a few bars to fill the mould
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B22—CASTING; POWDER METALLURGY
    • B22D—CASTING OF METALS; CASTING OF OTHER SUBSTANCES BY THE SAME PROCESSES OR DEVICES
    • B22D18/00—Pressure casting; Vacuum casting
    • B22D18/08—Controlling, supervising, e.g. for safety reasons
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B22—CASTING; POWDER METALLURGY
    • B22D—CASTING OF METALS; CASTING OF OTHER SUBSTANCES BY THE SAME PROCESSES OR DEVICES
    • B22D41/00—Casting melt-holding vessels, e.g. ladles, tundishes, cups or the like
    • B22D41/12—Travelling ladles or similar containers; Cars for ladles

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  • the present invention relates to an installation for the pressure casting of metal products, in particular steel slabs. It relates more precisely to the liquid metal supply device for the mold.
  • the well-known principle of pressure casting consists in supplying liquid metal to the mold at its lower part by means of a table of refractory material immersed in a pocket containing the molten metal, which is subjected to a pressure higher than that prevailing in the mold, the latter being generally atmospheric pressure.
  • the bag is enclosed in a sealed tank supplied with pressurized gas.
  • the tube passes through a removable cover of the pocket and its upper end is connected to the mold by means of a shutter itself fixed to the mold at its lower part. Under the effect of the gas pressure, the liquid metal of the bag is pushed into the tube, then into the mold which it gradually fills.
  • the shutter When the mold is filled, the shutter is closed, thus preventing the metal contained in the mold from flowing when, after the casting, the pressure of the tank is brought back to atmospheric pressure.
  • the tank can then be moved on a trolley to another mold or to a waiting area where the cover of the tank is removed to allow the bag to be removed in view of its subsequent filling with liquid metal.
  • a mobile carriage constitutes the carrying frame of the tank.
  • the bag is held in the tank on a frame resting on the bottom of the tank, load cells being placed between the frame and the tank, in order to permanently measure the weight of the pocket and therefore of the liquid metal it contains .
  • This measurement is used in particular to control during and at the end of casting the quantity of liquid metal remaining in the pocket. It is indeed necessary to know this quantity at the end of filling a mold, to ensure that it is sufficient to completely fill the next.
  • a known solution consists in providing in the bottom of the pocket a bowl with a section slightly larger than that of the tube, but much smaller than that of the pocket, and in extending the tube so that its lower end enters the bowl. Thus the quantity of metal which must remain at the bottom of the pocket is notably reduced.
  • the pocket rests on a pocket-carrying frame bearing on the bottom of the tank, the latter being fixed by its ferrule to the chassis of the carriage.
  • This arrangement has the drawback that the entire weight of the bag, especially when it is full of liquid metal, is supported by the tank, the shell of which is then subjected to high stresses and which must therefore be strong enough to support this charge. It follows that the constituent elements of the tank must be largely dimensioned, which increases the weight of the tank and complicates its manufacture.
  • the purpose of the present invention is to solve the various problems mentioned above and in particular to limit as much as possible the quantity of liquid metal remaining in the pocket after the pouring (s).
  • Another object is to reduce wear on the pocket bottom and the tube.
  • the object of the present invention is a device for supplying liquid metal to a mold of a die-casting installation, comprising a tank provided with a cover carrying a pouring tube, said tank resting on a frame and comprising a support frame for a liquid metal pocket, and means for weighing said pocket.
  • the device is characterized in that it comprises means for lifting said frame relative to said tank. These lifting means are provided for lifting the bag when the quantity of metal it contains is reduced so as to bring the lower end of the pouring tube closer to the bottom of the bag.
  • the pocket support frame comprises arms, extending radially and bearing on the weighing and lifting means distributed around the periphery of the tank and supported by the chassis.
  • the weight of the pocket is directly supported by the chassis, and the stresses applied to the tank are therefore greatly reduced, the latter being no longer subject to its own weight, and to the stresses due to the pressure of the gas which is injected there for the casting.
  • Another advantage of the device according to the invention is that, when the pocket contains sufficient liquid metal, the end of the tube can be kept relatively far from the bottom of the pocket, thus limiting the problems of erosion and the risks of pollution of the metal mentioned above.
  • the metal level in the pocket arrives near the bottom of the pocket, it is raised by the lifting means, which allows maximum use of the metal remaining at the bottom of the pocket, and it is therefore only at the end of emptying of the pocket that the passage section between tube and pocket bottom is reduced.
  • Yet another advantage is to shield the weighing and lifting means from the risks of deterioration by an overflow of liquid metal, by placing them at a sufficient distance from the pocket.
  • said lifting and weighing means are three in number, which ensures the isostatism of the pocket support frame and they are placed in cavities formed in the wall of the tank, s' extending beyond the perimeter thereof and closed by removable caps.
  • said lifting and weighing means are protected from possible metal overflows, and are more easily accessible for maintenance from the outside of the tank.
  • Sealing means are provided, at the weighing and lifting means, between the tank and the chassis, to ensure the sealing of the tank.
  • the invention also relates to a method for supplying liquid metal to a die-casting mold, using in particular the device according to the invention, this method being characterized in that, when the quantity of metal contained in the pocket is greater at a predetermined amount, the bag is held in a low position, where the lower end of the pouring tube is far from the bottom of the bag, and when the amount of metal contained in the bag becomes less than said predetermined amount, it is raised said bag without modifying the position of the tube, the lifting height being determined as a function of the level of liquid metal in the bag, this level being determined from the weight of the bag measured by the weighing means, so as to maintain the lower end of the tube below said metal level.
  • the lifting speed is determined so that the residence time of the tube at the bottom of the bowl is reduced in order to avoid too rapid erosion of the end of the tube and of the refractories of the bowl.
  • FIG 1 we see the tank and the mold in the casting position.
  • the mold 1 of which only the lower front part, comprising the supply orifice 11 in liquid metal, is shown, has two large walls 12 arranged face to face. These walls 12 are separated by spacers 13, 14, 15 forming the small walls of width corresponding to the thickness of the cast product.
  • the substantially horizontal lower spacer 13 is supported by a chassis 16 which can tilt slightly around a horizontal axis, not shown, located substantially at half the total length of the mold, so as to bring the opening of the supply 11 to the tank 2.
  • the substantially vertical front spacer 15 closes the mold at its front part and the upper spacer 14 closes it at its upper part.
  • the assembly of walls 12 and the spacers thus forms a generally rectangular cavity of dimensions corresponding to the dimensions of the casting, here a steel slab.
  • the supply orifice 11 is provided in a conventional manner with a shutter shown diagrammatically at 17, the underside of which comes into leaktight support, during casting, on the upper end of the pouring tube 3.
  • the liquid metal supply device comprises a tank 2 carried by a chassis 4 of a carriage 5, making it possible to move the entire device to bring it into the pouring position or remove it from this position.
  • the tank 2 rests on the chassis 4 by means of support pieces 6 welded to the shell 21 of the tank.
  • the tank has a cover 7 and locking means 8 for this cover on the tank.
  • a pocket holder frame 9 Inside the tank is deposited a pocket holder frame 9 on which the pocket 10 containing the liquid metal rests.
  • the pocket holder frame 9 is carried by arms 91 which are linked to it in a removable or eclipsable manner.
  • the arms 91 extend towards the outside of the tank, beyond the ferrule 21 forming the vertical wall of the tank and determining are perimeter, and are supported on the chassis 4 by means of weighing means 20 ′ and lifting 20.
  • the bottom of the tank is covered with a refractory lining 22, and the space 23, determined by this bottom and located below the pocket holder frame 9, is provided so as to have a sufficient volume to collect practically all of the liquid metal which the pocket 10 can contain, in case the latter accidentally leaks from the latter.
  • the carriage 25 also carries in 5 ′ and 5 ⁇ the equipment necessary for supplying the tank with compressed air and the equipment for the weighing and lifting systems of the bag.
  • the pouring tube 3 made of refractory material, dips into the pocket 10 up to a level close to the bottom thereof, but leaving, when the pocket 10 is in a low position (shown in solid lines in FIG. 1) a passage section largely dimensioned between the lower end 31 of the tube and said bottom 32, so that the liquid metal contained in the ladle can, during casting, penetrate into the casting tube 11 with a reduced speed at this level. passage.
  • the bottom of the bag 10 has a bowl 33 of section slightly larger than that of the pouring tube 3, so that in a high position of the bag (shown in phantom 32 ′) the lower end 31 of the tube enters the bowl 33, a short distance from the bottom of this bowl.
  • the purpose of this arrangement will be explained in more detail below, in conjunction with the description of the means for lifting the bag.
  • FIG. 2 a top view of the pocket holder frame 9.
  • This comprises three tabs 92 extending radially outward and on which are welded gussets 92 parallel vertical. Between the gussets 93 of the same leg 92, is inserted the vertical part of an arm 91 swan neck whose horizontal part 91 ′ extends radially outwards, beyond the shell 21 of the tank 2 , an opening 24 being provided for this purpose in the shell.
  • the arm 91 is held on the gussets 93 by means of two pins 94, 95 of horizontal axis arranged one above the other.
  • the arms are thus removable from the frame 9, by simple disassembly of the pins, which allows, if necessary, to extract upwards the frame 9 from the tank 2 without this extraction being hampered by the horizontal parts 91 ′ Protruding arms 91. If this operation proves necessary, it is even more advantageous to deposit only the upper pin 94, the arm 91 then being able to pivot inwards, as shown in phantom lines marked 91 ⁇ in FIG. 3, by rotation around the lower pin 95. The arms 91 can then slip away in a position inscribed inside the perimeter of the tank while remaining integral with the pocket-carrying frame 9, without interfering with the wall of the ferrule 21 during the extraction of said frame.
  • the horizontal part 91 ′ of the arms 91 extends towards the outside of the tank through the opening 24 made in the shell 21, beyond the perimeter of the latter.
  • the end of this horizontal part rests on the weighing means 20 ′ and lifting 20, which rest on one of the parts 6 for supporting the tank on the chassis 4 of the carriage.
  • Each of the lifting means 20 comprises a screw jack 25 placed in abutment on the support piece 6, and a force transmission device 50.
  • This force transmission device comprises a guide column 52 which can slide in a sheath 51 welded to a support 51 'rigidly held on the support piece 6.
  • a seal 53 is interposed between the column 52 and the sheath 51.
  • the column 52 has at its upper part a shoulder 54 capable of coming to bear on the upper end of the sheath 51.
  • the column 52 has a blind vertical lower bore 55 in which is placed, with play, a lower push rod 56.
  • An upper ball 56 ′ is interposed between the rod 56 and the bottom of the bore 55, and a lower ball 56 ⁇ likewise interposed between the link 56 and the movable rod 25 ′ of the jack 25.
  • An upper thrust link 57 is mounted in an equivalent manner in an upper blind bore 58 of the column 52.
  • This link 57 is held in the bore 58 by an elastic sleeve 59 allowing the respective free expansion of these two parts, as well as a certain horizontal displacement of one relative to the other.
  • a ball 57 ′ is interposed between the link 57 and the bottom of the bore 58.
  • Another ball 57 ⁇ is interposed between the upper end of the link 57 and a support rod 60 of a load cell 61 placed in a recess 96 at the end of the horizontal part 91 ′ of the arm 91.
  • the load cell is also held in abutment by its upper end opposite the support rod 60, in the bottom of the recess 96 in the arm 91.
  • the support rod 60 of the load cell is held fixed horizontally relative to the arm 91, by means of a double stabilization membrane system 62, which leaves the support rod 60 free to move slightly vertically under the effect of the load, while holding it horizontally and guiding it vertically.
  • a sheet metal casing 26 is welded to the shell 21 of the tank around the orifice 24.
  • This casing is provided with an inspection cover 27 allowing a easy access to the weighing means 20 ′, after pivoting of the arm 91.
  • the casing 26 has at its lower part an opening 28 through which the guide sleeve 51 passes freely, a clearance being made between these two parts.
  • the tightness of the tank is ensured by a bellows seal 63 interposed between the casing 26, at the periphery of the opening 28, and the support 51 ′ of the sheath 51.
  • the various advantages resulting from the arrangement which has just been described are listed below: -
  • the installation of the lifting mechanism 20 outside the tank avoids all possible problems of protection of the latter against heat, steel projections and possible pocket breakthroughs.
  • - The support of the pocket in three points is perfectly isostatic, this results in a stable and reliable support of the pocket.
  • the pocket support frame 9 consists of a simple circular box without complicated mechanisms. The only somewhat mechanical elements are the removable gooseneck arms 91 which allow the frame to be placed inside the tank as well as to be disassembled.
  • the three support points are provided with load cells 61 with stabilization membranes 62 and floating rods 57 intended to compensate for the horizontal displacements due either to the mechanical bending under load of the frame, or to the inevitable thermal dilations due to the prevailing temperature at the inside of the tank.
  • the lifting screw jacks 25 are both external to the tank and integral with the latter without however resting the weight of the pocket on the tank shell itself. This arrangement makes it possible to avoid stressing the shell by the loads due to the pocket and to the steel which it contains while retaining the relative positions of the lifting points and of the shell, even after thermal expansion.
  • the casings 26 of the tank in which the weighing mechanisms are housed are provided with removable covers which facilitate inspection and maintenance.
  • the ball joints of the push rods and of the support for the pocket holder frame make it possible to avoid creating in the lifting columns harmful horizontal forces because they are uncontrollable, thus the life of the elements is clearly improved.
  • the upper push rods 57 are centered by the elastic sleeves 59 which allow free thermal deformations or mechanical flexions while keeping the pocket holder assembly centered.
  • the bellows seals 63 between the tank casings and the supports of the guide sleeves avoid delicate machining of the tank and allow precise positioning of the columns relative to the pocket support without imposing difficult manufacturing tolerances to obtain. In addition, these bellows absorb the differential expansions between the shell 21 of the tank and the supports 6 of the lifting cylinders.
  • the cover is provided in its central upper part with a reinforcement 71 comprising a central bore 72 for the passage of a collar 73 which encloses the pouring tube 3, a refractory joint 74 cast between the collar 73 and the tube 3 ensuring their tight connection.
  • a frustoconical machining is carried out in the cover reinforcement 71, constituting a frustoconical seat 75, 75 ′ for a spherical bearing 76, 76 ′ of an annular part or ring 77, 77 ′ supporting the collar 73.
  • This arrangement constitutes a system with ball joint which allows a certain clearance in the positioning of the ring on its seat, while maintaining the tightness of the connection.
  • a first embodiment is shown in the right part of FIG. 4 and in FIG. 5, in which the right part represents the fixing of the ring 77, and the left part the fixing of the upper flange 83.
  • the ring 77 ′ is held in abutment on the frustoconical seat 75 ′ by fixing members 78 called toads.
  • These toads are bolted to a support wedge 79 welded to the reinforcement 71 and comprising a groove 80 receiving the head of the bolt 81.
  • Shims of adjustable thickness 82 are interposed between the toads 78 and the support wedges 79.
  • the annular part or ring 77 comprises at least three circumferentially distributed legs 86, under which springs 87 are placed which hold the tube 3 suspended in a flexible manner. absence of effort exerted vertically on the upper end thereof. In this case, a vertical clearance remains between the spherical bearing surface 76 of the ring, and the seat 75 of the cover reinforcement 71.
  • the mold 1 of the casting installation is tilted into the casting position (as shown in FIG. Figure 1) the lower part of the closure device 17 presses on the upper end of the tube 3.
  • the springs 87 are compressed and the ring 77 is supported on reference blocks 88 which determine the attitude of the ring and consequently the position of the tube.
  • the thickness of the reference shims 88 is preset so that the spherical bearing surface 76 of the ring 77 is pressed with sufficient force on the seat 75 to ensure the tightness of the contact, when the tabs 86 are supported on the shims of reference 88.
  • the tube and the collar 73 are preferably held rigidly with respect to the ring 77 by clamping the flange 83 on said ring.
  • the two embodiments which have just been described essentially have the aim of facilitating the adjustment of the position of the tube 3, so that its lower end 31 is in perfect match with bowl 33 in the pocket.
  • the difficulty of this positioning comes from the fact that numerous causes of eccentricity exist, originating from the defects of concentricity and parallelism of the different elements present, in particular from positioning differences of the pocket 10 in the tank 2, of the cover 7 relative to to the tank 2, and the tube 3 relative to the collar 73, as well as possible deformations of the cover and the tube. All of these causes can result in an eccentricity of the lower end of the tube 3 relative to the bowl 33 of the pocket bottom, of the order of 80 to 100 mm.
  • the reference shims 88 which determine the seat of the ring 77, when the mold is tilted in the casting position and presses on the upper end of the tube.
  • the assembly of the tube 3, of the collar 73 and of the ring 77 are slightly raised relative to the cover by the springs 87, which ensures a certain freedom of movement of this assembly relative to the cover. This avoids, for example during the movement of the carriage 5, creating significant stresses in this fixing assembly, subjected to the effects of the inertia of the tube and possible jolts during movement, constraints which would risk causing breakage. of tube if it was linked to the cover by a rigid fitting.
  • flanges 101, 102 designed to come into tight contact with each other.
  • these means comprise a plurality of C-shaped locking pieces, hereinafter called “cés” 103, distributed circumferentially at the periphery of the tank and whose upper 104 and lower 105 branches enclose the flanges 101, 102 in the locked position.
  • Ces 103 are pivotally mounted on the tank by means of pivots 106 of vertical axis fixed on the flange 102 of the tank beyond the outer perimeter thereof.
  • the lower branch 105 of the cé 103 carries a stop 107 directed towards the inside of the cé intended to rest, in the locked position, on a support plate 108 fixed under the underside of the tank flange 102.
  • the upper branch 104 of the cé has a bore 109 of vertical axis in which a hydraulic cylinder 110 is placed, the head of the movable rod 111 of which is supported, in the locking position and when the cylinder is pressurized, on a second support plate 112 fixed on the upper face of the cover flange 101.
  • the tank flange 102 and the cover flange 101 are pressed one on the other, between the stops 107 and the heads 111 of the jacks, the latter ensuring the clamping pressure.
  • the cylinders being supplied from the same source, the clamping pressure is uniform over the entire periphery of the tank.
  • the position of the axis of the pivots 106 is such that, by pivoting the ribs 103 about this axis, the upper branch 104 can be brought into a release position 104 ′ (shown in phantom in Figure 6a) in which the cover 7 can be lifted without its flange 101 interfering with said upper branch 104.
  • the cé 104 has a lug 113 located at the height of the cover flange 101, and forming a lateral projection of the cé.
  • the pivot 106 passes through a bore produced in this lug 113, which can thus pivot on this pivot.
  • a washer 114 aimed at the upper end of the pivot prevents clearance 104 ′, 104 ⁇ . accidental from the cé upwards.
  • a vertical clearance is provided between the tab 113 on the one hand of the washer 114 and the upper surface of the fixing piece 115 of the pivot on the flange 102 on the other hand, so that the web 103 has a certain latitude of movement vertical, when the clamping force applied by the jack 110 tends to move the block upward to press its stop 107 against the support plate 108 of the tank flange.
  • the two ribs 103, 103 ′ of the same pair are adjacent and connected to their rear part 117 opposite the branches 104, 105, by a double-acting hydraulic cylinder 116.
  • Each of the pivots 106, 106 ′ of the two ribs 103, 103 ′ of a pair is offset laterally with respect to the vertical median plane of the cé, in the direction of the other cé, respectively 103 ′, 103, of the same pair.
  • the cés 103, 103 ′ are symmetrical with respect to a vertical median plane equidistant from the two cés of the same pair.
  • the jack 116 In the lid locking position, the jack 116 is in the extended rod position. To unlock the cover, the pressure of the clamping cylinders 110 is first removed, then the pivoting control cylinders 116 are supplied to retract their rod, which causes the pivoting of the two sides of the same pair in opposite directions until 'to bring their branches into their release position 104 ′, 104 ⁇ .
  • lid locking means which have just been described reside in particular in the uniformity of the tightening over the entire circumference of the tank, and in the absence of the need for a determined orientation of the cover relative to the tank. , since the support points of the clamping cylinders 110 do not necessarily have a precise circumferential location on the cover flange. In addition, even in the event of a hydraulic leak on these clamping cylinders or on their supply circuit, the cover is retained by the upper branches of the cés, and cannot therefore be lifted under the effect of the internal pressure of the tank. only slightly, thus limiting the leakage of pressurized gas contained in the tank, and also avoiding the ejection of the cover.
  • a circumferential groove 117 can be machined in one flanges, the other comprising a rib 118 which penetrates into said groove 117.
  • a seal 125 is interposed in the bottom of the groove 117 and compressed by the rib 118 when the cover is tightened on the tank.
  • shock absorbers in the form of elastic elements 119 are placed in blind bores made in the cover flange 101.
  • these elastic elements are compressed, as shown in FIG. 7, and are flush with the joint plane of the two flanges 101, 102.
  • these elastic elements are relaxed and protrude below the underside of the cover flange 101.
  • the cover is put in place, it is these elastic elements which first come into contact with the tank flange 102, thus damping the contacting of the cover on the tank.
  • FIG. 8 represents another variant of these shock absorbers, placed here outside the flanges.
  • a shock absorber housing 120 is fixed on the cover 7.
  • This housing contains a spring 121 compressed by a shoulder of a shock absorber rod 122 which carries a shoe 123, which is supported when the cover is positioned on the tank, on a support plate 124 fixed on the tank flange 102.
  • the carriage 5 Before casting, the carriage 5 is in the standby position remote from the mold 1, the cover being removed and the bag removed.
  • the cover 7, provided with the tube 3, rests by its flange 101 on a nearby oven in which the pouring tube 3 enters to heat it and keep it at temperature.
  • the pocket containing the molten steel from the steelworks, is deposited in the tank 2 on the pocket holder frame 9 kept in the low position.
  • the cover with the pouring tube is then lifted and moved to place it on the tank.
  • the risks of damage and breakage of the tube 3 are considerably reduced thanks to the means for fixing the tube to the cover, previously described in their second variant, which allow a certain freedom of movement of the tube relative to the cover.
  • the fitting of the cover on the tank is done smoothly thanks to the shock absorbers 119.
  • the cover is lowered, the slag floating on the liquid metal is moved away from the zone of penetration of the tube so as to avoid its introduction into this one. This can be done by blowing argon or nitrogen into the tube from its upper end, or by scraping the central part of the metal surface to remove the slag, or by bubbling, that is ie by introduction of a neutral gas through the bottom of the pocket.
  • the carriage carrying the assembly thus formed is then moved to put it in the casting position under the mold 1.
  • the mold is then tilted and the closure device 17, previously open, comes to bear on the upper end of the pouring tube, thereby pressing the ring 77 of the means for fixing the tube on the cover, on its seat 75.
  • the pressure exerted by the mold, associated with plastic seals inserted between the closure device and the tube provides the seal of the connection.
  • the actual casting operation can then begin.
  • compressed air under a pressure of 1 to 8 bars or more is injected into the tank, which causes the liquid metal to rise in the tube and then in the mold.
  • the pressure is adjusted according to a program which permanently takes into account the quantity of metal introduced into the mold and the variations in the horizontal sections of the mold encountered by the metal during its rise in the mold.
  • the closure device is closed and the internal pressure of the tank brought back to ambient pressure.
  • the carriage can then be moved to another mold where the operations described above are repeated.
  • the pocket is kept in the low position.
  • the level of metal in the pocket is calculated from the measurement of the weight of the pocket-metal assembly by integrating the dimensional characteristics of the pocket and of the tube.
  • the total lift stroke is determined so as to obtain a minimum distance between the bottom of the bowl 33 and the bottom end 31 of the tube 3 at the end of the stroke so as to leave as little metal as possible in the bottom of the pocket.
  • the pressure of the tank is regulated during the casting.
  • the rise of the steel in the mold is obtained by an increase in the pressure in the tank. It is therefore necessary to permanently check on the one hand the value of the pressure and on the other hand the instantaneous value of the variation of the pressure as a function of time. Checking the deposit dP dt , which represents the pressure variations P as a function of time t, allows the control of the rate of rise of the metal in the mold.
  • the speed of this rise would be added to the speed resulting from the setpoint dP dt which determines the pressure that must be created at all times in the tank.
  • the objective being to control the rate of rise of the metal in the mold, a setpoint correction is necessary.
  • the pressure measurement is representative of the height of steel in the mold only on condition that the correction corresponding to the lifting height of the pocket is effected since the lifting of the pocket creating a corresponding variation in the level of metal in the pocket compared to the level of metal in the mold, it follows a variation of the ferrostatic height between these two levels.
  • the objective is to stop the pouring when only the bowl of the ladle contains liquid metal, the lower end of the tube being then still immersed in this metal.

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