JP6099476B2 - Casting drawing device - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a slab drawing apparatus constituting a continuous casting facility.

  Generally, in continuous casting equipment, molten steel carried by a ladle is poured into a tundish, and the poured molten steel is poured into a mold through the tundish. The injected molten steel is drawn out as a slab from the lower part of the mold, and this slab is drawn further downstream while being held by a support roll. The pinch force for pulling out the slab is applied by a slab drawing device provided along a slab conveying path (sometimes referred to as a pass line).

  The slab drawing device rotates a pair of pinch rolls facing each other vertically via a pass line, a roll stand having an expansion / contraction device that expands / contracts the space between these pinch rolls, and each pair of pinch rolls. And a roll rotation driving device. This slab drawing device sandwiches a slab conveyed on a pass line between each pair of pinch rolls, and in this state, rotates each pinch roll toward the downstream side of the pass line, thereby causing the slab to pass line. It is a device that pulls out from the upstream side to the downstream side.

As described above, as an apparatus for pulling a slab from the upstream side of the pass line to the downstream side, there is one disclosed in Patent Document 1.
Patent Document 1 provides a driving device composed of a driving motor and a speed reducer directly connected to the driving motor for each set of upper and lower driving rolls, and this driving device is provided under a mold of a continuous casting facility. A slab drawing apparatus is disclosed in which an output shaft is disposed on a frame with a slab pass line facing the output shaft.

Japanese Patent No. 3204594

  In the slab drawing apparatus of Patent Document 1, as shown in FIG. The drive device for two strands is NO. It is arranged almost directly above the two-strand worm reducer. Similarly, NO. The drive device for 3 strands is NO. It is arranged almost directly above the worm speed reducer for 3 strands. When performing maintenance such as periodic inspection and replacement for such a slab drawing device, it is necessary to take this slab drawing device (roll stand) out of the continuous casting equipment.

However, in the slab drawing apparatus as disclosed in Patent Document 1, the drive device is disposed almost directly above the roll stand, and when this roll stand is pulled up above the continuous casting equipment and taken out to the outside, There is a risk of interference between the stand and the driving device.
In order to avoid the above-mentioned interference problem, measures such as increasing the spacing between the strands and securing a space for taking out the slab drawing device may be effective. However, if the spacing between the strands is increased, the continuous casting equipment becomes larger. There is a risk that.

  Therefore, in view of the above problems, an object of the present invention is to provide a slab drawing device that can be easily taken out from a continuous casting facility when performing maintenance such as periodic inspection and replacement.

In order to achieve the above-described object, the present invention takes the following technical means.
The slab drawing apparatus according to the present invention is provided in a continuous casting facility composed of a plurality of strands, and includes a roll stand provided with a pair of pinch rolls for pulling out the slab, and a rotational driving force is applied to the pinch rolls. In a slab drawing apparatus comprising a drive device for transmitting and a transmission shaft for transmitting a rotational driving force from the drive device to a roll stand, a roll stand disposed along one strand, and another adjacent to the one strand The roll stands arranged along the strands of the rolls are arranged such that the power input portions provided on the side surfaces of the roll stands face each other, and the driving device is a roll arranged on the one strand. It is provided in the center between the power input unit of the stand and the power input unit of the roll stand disposed on the other strand, and above the power input unit. One wherein the is arranged so as to line up in a row along the strand.

Preferably, the transmission shaft connected to the driving device extends obliquely downward toward each strand and is connected to the power input portion of the roll stand.
Preferably, a transmission shaft extending to the power input portion of the roll stand disposed on the one strand, and a transmission shaft extending to the power input portion of the roll stand disposed on the other strand, It is good to have a staggered arrangement in plan view.

Preferably, a transmission shaft extending to a power input unit of a roll stand disposed on the one strand is a side portion of the power input unit and downstream of the slab transfer direction in the one strand. The transmission shaft connected to and extended to the power input portion of the roll stand disposed on the other strand is on the side of the power input portion and upstream of the slab transfer direction on the other strand. It should be connected.
Moreover, the most preferable form of the slab drawing apparatus according to the present invention is provided in a continuous casting facility composed of a plurality of strands, and a roll stand provided with a pair of pinch rolls for pulling out the slab, and the pinch roll A slab drawing device comprising: a driving device that applies a rotational driving force to the roll stand; and a transmission shaft that transmits the rotational driving force from the driving device to the roll stand. The roll stands deployed along other strands adjacent to the other strands are arranged such that power input portions provided on the side surfaces of the respective roll stands face each other, and the drive device is It is the center between the power input part of the roll stand provided in the strand and the power input part of the roll stand provided in the other strand. And a transmission shaft connected to the driving device extends obliquely downward toward each strand, and is arranged in a line along the strand. A transmission shaft connected to the power input unit and extending to the power input unit of the roll stand disposed on the one strand, and extending to the power input unit of the roll stand disposed on the other strand. The transmission shaft has a staggered arrangement in plan view.
Preferably, the drive device is disposed on a frame, and the width of the frame is narrower than the width between the one strand and the other strand.

  By using the slab drawing device of the present invention, a wide space above the slab drawing device can be secured, and the slab drawing device can be easily replaced.

It is a front view of the slab drawing apparatus of this invention. No. It is the side view which looked at the slab drawing apparatus arrange | positioned by 2 strand from the power input part side, Comprising: It is the figure seen from the B side of FIG. No. of the slab drawing apparatus of the present invention. 1 strand and no. It is the schematic which planarly viewed 2 strand. It is a perspective view which shows schematic structure of a continuous casting installation. No. of slab drawing equipment. 1 strand and no. It is the schematic which planarly viewed another example of the roll stand arranged by 2 strands.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 4 shows an outline of a continuous casting facility 30 provided with the slab drawing device 1 of the present embodiment.
The continuous casting equipment 30 shown in FIG. 4 is a curved continuous casting equipment 30 for multi-strands, and a slab 32 (bloom, billet) drawn from the lower end of the mold 31 is supported by a plurality of support rolls 33. It is gently bent while being pulled, and finally it is pulled out horizontally. That is, in the continuous casting facility 30, the pass line extends to the end portion in a curved shape with the lower end of the mold 31 as the start end portion.

The continuous casting facility 30 shown in FIG. 4 has two strands, but this is an example, and as shown in FIG. 1, the continuous casting facility 30 is a multi-strand type having three or more strands. It may be.
As shown in FIG. 4, the continuous casting facility 30 supports a tundish 34 that temporarily stores molten steel and injects the molten steel into a mold 31, a mold 31 that casts molten steel, and a slab 32 such as a bloom coming out of the mold 31. And a plurality of support rolls 33 to be transferred. Moreover, the slab drawing apparatus 1 is arranged at a plurality of positions between the middle part of the pass line and the terminal part (A in FIG. 4).

In the continuous casting equipment 30 having such a configuration, the molten steel carried by the ladle is poured into the tundish 34, and the poured molten steel is injected into the mold 31 through the immersion nozzle 35 provided in the tundish 34. Is done. In the mold 31, the injected molten steel is cooled (primary cooling), and only the surface portion thereof becomes a cast slab 32 in a solidified state, and is drawn out from the lower part of the mold 31.
The slab 32 drawn along the pass line passes from the start end portion to the end portion of the curved pass line in which the slab drawing device 1 is provided while being held by each support roll 33. At that time, the slab 32 is cooled (secondary cooling) while passing through the pass line. And the slab 32 cooled and leveled is cut | disconnected by predetermined length with the gas cutting machine (not shown) provided in the downstream.

In the continuous casting facility 30, not only the casting of the same steel type is continuously performed, but molten steels of different steel types are continuously supplied, and slabs 32 having different components may be produced in series.
As shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, the slab drawing apparatus 1 includes a roll stand 2 having a plurality of upper and lower paired pinch rolls 6 that pinches and pulls a slab 32 conveyed from a mold 31. A driving device 3 that applies a rotational driving force and a transmission shaft 4 that transmits the rotational driving force from the driving device 3 to the roll stand 2 are provided. In addition, a roll stand speed reducer 5 (power input unit) for reducing the rotational driving force from the driving device 3 to a predetermined rotational speed is attached.

As shown in FIG. 2, a pair of upper and lower pinch rolls 6 are arranged on the roll stand 2 such that a plurality (three) of the pinch rolls 6 are connected along the pass line. It is attached to a side frame 7 provided so as to be erected on both sides.
Below the side frame 7 is provided a base frame 8 provided with a flange perpendicular to the pass line and projecting outward. The base frame 8 is fastened to the foundation floor surface F via a fastener (not shown) such as a bolt. Thereby, the roll stand 2 is fixed to the foundation floor surface F. Further, the roll stand 2 is provided with a roll support mechanism 9 that pivotally supports a pair of upper and lower pinch rolls 6 so as to be close to and away from each other in the vertical direction.

  A pair of upper and lower roll stand speed reducers 5 connected by coupling is attached to one outer wall surface of the side frame 7 constituting the roll stand 2. The roll stand speed reducer 5 of the present embodiment is a “power input unit” to which the rotational driving force from the drive device 3 is input, and uses a worm speed reducer configured with a worm wheel and a worm gear. The upper worm reducer is connected to the upper pinch roll 6, and the lower worm reducer is connected to the lower pinch roll 6. Then, the input shaft 10 of the upper worm speed reducer and the lower end side of the long transmission shaft 4 that transmits the rotational driving force from the drive device 3 (drive motor 11) described later are connected by a universal joint. Yes. The upper end side of the transmission shaft 4 is connected to the output shaft 13 of the motor speed reducer 12.

In this embodiment, a worm speed reducer is used as the roll stand speed reducer 5, but an orthogonal speed reducer (for example, a hollow shaft type speed reducer) connected to the pinch roll 6 may be used. In the present embodiment, the pair of upper and lower pinch rolls 6 are driven, but only one of the upper and lower pinch rolls 6 may be driven.
The drive device 3 for applying a rotational driving force to the pinch roll 6 provided in the roll stand 2 includes a drive motor 11, a motor speed reducer 12 connected to the motor, and the speed reducer and the respective pinch rolls 6. And a transmission shaft 4 for connecting with a worm reduction gear provided on the vehicle. The drive devices 3 are arranged on the frame M above the roll stand 2 by the number corresponding to the pair of upper and lower pinch rolls 6.

In the slab drawing apparatus 1 described above, the rotational driving force generated by the drive motor 11 is transmitted to the pair of upper and lower pinch rolls 6 via the motor speed reducer 12, the transmission shaft 4, and the roll stand speed reducer 5. Thus, the pair of upper and lower pinch rolls 6 are rotated, and the slab 32 sandwiched between the pair of upper and lower pinch rolls 6 is pulled out.
Note that the operation mode and the driving force transmission structure of the roll stand 2 employed in the present embodiment are basically the same as the conventional ones, and thus detailed description thereof is omitted.

Next, arrangement | positioning of the slab drawing apparatus 1 mentioned above is demonstrated.
The slab drawing apparatus 1 according to the present invention is arranged from the position shown in A of FIG. 4, that is, from the bending part to the correction part of the continuous casting equipment 30.
FIG. 1 is a view of a slab drawing device 1 of the present invention as viewed from the front, and the left-right direction of the paper surface is the left-right direction of the device. Further, the left side of FIG. 2 is the upstream side of the pass line, and the right side of the page is the downstream side of the pass line. FIG. 3 is a plan view of the slab drawing device 1 as viewed from above, with the left side of the paper being the upstream side of the pass line and the right side of the paper being the downstream side of the pass line.

In the case of this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 1, three pass lines, that is, three strands are provided in the continuous casting facility 30. Note that these three strands are No. 1 strand (# 1), no. 2 strand (# 2), no. Three strands (# 3) are used.
First, no. As shown in FIG. 1, the roll stand 2 of the slab drawing apparatus 1 arranged in one strand (# 1) is arranged so that the roll stand speed reducer 5 (power input unit) is on the right side. Next, no. The roll stand 2 arranged in two strands (# 2) is arranged such that the roll stand speed reducer 5 is on the left side. In other words, the roll stand 2 provided along one strand and the roll stand 2 provided along another strand adjacent to the one strand include a power input unit provided on a side surface of each roll stand 2. 5 are arranged to face each other.

  As shown in FIG. The roll stand 2 arranged in 3 strands (# 3) is arranged so that the roll stand speed reducer 5 is on the right side. No. When 4 strands (# 4) are present, no. The roll stand 2 arranged in 4 strands is arranged so that the roll stand speed reducer 5 is on the left side. A three-strand roll stand 2; The roll stand speed reducer 5 faces the four-strand roll stand 2.

On the other hand, as shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, the driving devices 3 for driving the roll stand 2 are respectively disposed on the frame M of the continuous casting facility 30 provided above the three strands.
No. The drive device 3 for driving the roll stand 2 arranged in one strand is No. 1. 1 strand and no. It is provided on a frame M provided substantially above the center between the two strands and spanned from the upstream side to the downstream side of the continuous casting facility 30. No. The driving device 3 for driving the roll stand 2 arranged in two strands is also No. 1 strand and no. It is provided on a frame M provided substantially above the center between the two strands and spanned from the upstream side to the downstream side of the continuous casting facility 30.

  That is, the drive device 3 is No. The power input unit 5 (roll stand reduction gear) of the roll stand 2 arranged in one strand; It is provided at the center between the power input section 5 (roll stand speed reducer) of the roll stand 2 arranged in two strands, and is arranged in a single row (single row) along the strand. Is arranged. One drive device 3 is provided so as to correspond to one set of pinch rolls 6, and the drive device 3 is arranged on the substantially straight line from the upstream side to the downstream side along the strand.

And the transmission shaft 4 which transmits the rotational driving force from the drive device 3 to the roll stand 2 is extended in a slanting downward direction from the drive device 3 toward each strand, and is connected to the power input section 5 of the roll stand 2. It is connected.
In addition, as shown in FIG. The drive device b, the drive device d, and the drive device f are No. 1 to drive the pinch roll 6 of the roll stand 2 arranged in one strand. The pinch roll 6 of the roll stand 2 arranged in two strands is driven. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 1, the transmission shaft 4 is arranged in a C shape when viewed from the front, and as shown in FIG. A transmission shaft 4 extending to the power input section 5 of the roll stand 2 arranged in one strand; The transmission shaft 4 extending to the power input portion 5 of the roll stand 2 arranged in two strands is arranged in a staggered manner in a plan view (rightward protruding, leftward protruding, rightward protruding along the strand,... ). With such a staggered arrangement, it is possible to avoid interference between the transmission shaft 4 extending downwardly and obliquely downward from the drive device 3 toward each strand and the casing of the worm reducer.

On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 5, in the slab drawing apparatus 100 of another example, the inclination angle between the power input unit 105 of the roll stand 102 and the transmission shaft 104 connected to the driving apparatus 103 becomes large. There is.
Therefore, as shown in FIG. 3, the slab drawing apparatus 1 of the present invention is a plan view of the transmission shaft 4 connected to the driving device 3 and the power input unit 5 of the roll stand 2 provided in each strand. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the inclination angle of the transmission shaft 4 connected to the power input unit 5 of the roll stand 2 from increasing.

  Further, as shown in FIG. The transmission shaft 4 extending to the power input unit 5 of the roll stand 2 arranged in one strand is a side part of the power input unit 5, and It is connected to the downstream side in the slab transfer direction in one strand, The transmission shaft 4 extending to the power input unit 5 of the roll stand 2 arranged in the two strands is a side portion of the power input unit 5, and It is connected to the upstream side in the slab transfer direction with two strands. In another example slab drawing apparatus 100 shown in FIG. Roll stand 102 deployed in one strand and No. The roll stand 102 arranged in two strands is a roll stand opposite in plan view, and a different roll stand is used for each strand. On the other hand, in the slab drawing apparatus 1 shown in FIG. Roll stand 2 deployed in one strand and No. 1 The roll stand 2 arranged in two strands is the same roll stand, and there is no need to prepare a different roll stand for each strand. That is, no. If the roll stand 2 arranged in one strand is turned 180 ° in plan view, No. It can also be used for two strands.

As described above, the drive device 3 is arranged in a line along the front-rear direction on the frame M provided substantially above the center between the adjacent strands, so that a space above the roll stand 2 is greatly opened. be able to. Thereby, replacement | exchange of the slab extraction apparatus 1 (roll stand 2) can be made easy.
Further, the drive device 3 is arranged in the front-rear direction on a frame M provided substantially above the center between one strand (No. 1 strand in FIG. 1) and the other strand (No. 2 strand in FIG. 1). By arranging the roll stands 2 arranged on each strand so that the power input unit 5 faces each other, the interval between adjacent strands can be reduced (narrowed). Therefore, the width of the continuous casting facility 30 as a whole can be reduced, and the scale of the continuous casting facility 30 can be made compact. And the continuous casting equipment 30 made compact can be constructed in a narrow area, and an increase in construction cost can also be suppressed. Moreover, the small tundish 34 which suppressed the cost increase of the refractory material can be used. Moreover, as the roll stand 2 arranged on each strand, the same shape and type of apparatus can be used, which can contribute to cost reduction.

  In the conventional technology, the driving device 3 is generally arranged in the slab drawing device 1 main body. However, by using the slab drawing device 1 of the present invention, the driving device 3 is made to be a high-temperature casting. It can be installed at a location away from the piece 32, and maintenance inspection becomes easy. Moreover, since the slab drawing apparatus 1 of the present invention only has to connect the driving device 3 and the roll stand 2 with the transmission shaft 4, the miter gear box and the gear device that have been conventionally required are not required, and the parts An increase in cost due to an increase in the number of points can also be suppressed.

In addition, the following can be considered as a modification of the above-described embodiment.
For example, although the driving device a to the driving device f shown in FIG. 2 are arranged in a row along the upstream and downstream directions on the frame M, when the roll stand 2 is replaced, the driving device 3 does not become an obstacle. If there is, they may be arranged in an array shifted from side to side. For example, the frame M may be arranged slightly in the left-right direction from the center line in the upstream / downstream direction. That is, on the frame M, the adjacent drive devices 3 may be arranged alternately (staggered arrangement) in the left-right direction in plan view. Further, in the drive device 3 employed in the present embodiment, the drive motor 11 and the motor speed reducer 12 are integrally configured, and the drive motor 11 and the motor speed reducer 12 are coaxially connected. It is what. Therefore, the driving devices 3 can be arranged close to each other on the frame M. However, as shown in FIG. 2, any configuration may be used as long as it is a compact drive device 3 that can be arranged close to the frame M.

Further, although a spindle shaft connected by a universal joint such as a cross type is adopted as the transmission shaft 4, a spindle shaft connected by a constant velocity ball joint or the like may be adopted as the transmission shaft 4.
Moreover, in this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 4, although the slab drawing apparatus 1 arrange | positioned in the correction | amendment part (horizontal part) of the continuous casting equipment 30 was demonstrated in detail, it is arrange | positioned at the curved part of a pass line, etc. Even the slab drawing apparatus 1 can be applied.

  It should be thought that embodiment disclosed this time is an illustration and restrictive at no points. In particular, in the embodiment disclosed this time, matters that are not explicitly disclosed, for example, operating conditions and operating conditions, various parameters, dimensions, weights, volumes, and the like of a component deviate from a range that a person skilled in the art normally performs. Instead, values that can be easily assumed by those skilled in the art are employed.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Casting drawing apparatus 2 Roll stand 3 Drive apparatus 4 Transmission shaft 5 Roll stand speed reducer (power input part)
6 Pinch Roll 7 Side Frame 8 Base Frame 9 Roll Pivot Mechanism 10 Input Shaft 11 Driving Motor 12 Motor Reducer 13 Output Shaft 30 Continuous Casting Equipment 31 Mold 32 Casting Slab 33 Support Roll 34 Tundish 35 Submerged Nozzle 100 Casting Slab Pulling device 102 Roll stand 103 Drive device 104 Transmission shaft 105 Roll stand speed reducer (power input unit)
F Foundation floor M Frame

Claims (3)

A roll stand provided with a continuous casting facility composed of a plurality of strands and provided with a pair of pinch rolls for pulling out a slab, a driving device for applying a rotational driving force to the pinch rolls, and a roll from the driving device In a slab drawing device having a transmission shaft for transmitting rotational driving force to a stand,
In the roll stand deployed along one strand and the roll stand deployed along another strand adjacent to the one strand, the power input portions provided on the side surfaces of each roll stand face each other. Are deployed as
The drive device is provided in the center between and above the power input portion of the roll stand disposed on the one strand and the power input portion of the roll stand disposed on the other strand, and Arranged in a line along the strand ,
The transmission shaft connected to the driving device extends obliquely downward toward each strand, and is connected to the power input portion of the roll stand,
A transmission shaft extending to the power input portion of the roll stand disposed on the one strand and a transmission shaft extending to the power input portion of the roll stand disposed on the other strand are in plan view. A slab drawing apparatus characterized by being arranged in a staggered manner . The transmission shaft extending to the power input part of the roll stand arranged in the one strand is connected to the side of the power input part and downstream of the slab transfer direction in the one strand,
The transmission shaft extending to the power input unit of the roll stand arranged in the other strand is connected to the side of the power input unit and upstream of the slab transfer direction in the other strand. The slab drawing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein: The drive device is disposed on a frame, and the width of the frame is narrower than the width between the one strand and the other strand.
The slab drawing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the slab drawing device is provided.

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