GB1339844A - Device for accomodating and positioning the dummy ingot in a curved continuous installation - Google Patents

Abstract

1339844 Continuous casting FIVES LILLE CAIL and KONSTRUKTIONSBURO FUR STAHL UND WALZWERKE 19 April 1971 [23 Jan 1970] 20096/71 Heading B3F A cradle 32 for holding a starter 36 is borne by a carriage 24 running on a track 22, extending above a curved casting-guideway 14 and from a position adjacent the mould 10 to a starter discharge position (on rollers of a run-out table 20 for introducing the starter 36 into the cradle and for removing the casting cut from the starter by shears 18). At the end of a casting run, the carriage 24, with a cradle-carrying arm 28 retracted, is brought to the position indicated in dot-dash lines, bearing the starter 36. By means of a cable of a ladle crane 38, the starter 36 is lifted into the mould 10, with the aid of a guide 40, for a fresh run. The cradle 32 might be detached and lifted with the starter to lower the latter into the mould or, with a longer track 22, the arm 28 could be extended to present the cradle above the mould. The guideway 14 has driven rollers which hold and lower the starter 36. A withdrawing and straightening device 16 precedes the shears 18. The cradle 32 has upper and lower rows of cross members, bracing two sides forming a housing for the starter, and rollers 34 at the top. Notches on the lower edges of the sides and between the lower cross members are spaced to correspond to the rollers of the runout table 20. Retractable abutments can hold the starter in the housing. In another embodiment, the cradle is pivoted at the end of the carrying arm and adjustably inclined thereto by a jack and has driven rollers by which the starter can be moved in the cradle. By these means the starter can be introduced between upper rollers of the guideway, a group of rollers being withdrawable to facilitate this. The arm 28 may be pivoted on the carriage 24 to facilitate raising of the cradle above the mould. Instead of the arm 28, pulley blocks might be used to connect the cradle to the carriage.