JPS5633120A - Slab inverter - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To uniformly, quickly cool the slab, and to surely invert the slab, by constituting the slab inverter of the rotatable turner possessing the open mouth for inserting the slab, the driver to drive to turner, the slab cooler, the slab inserter, and the slab discharger.

CONSTITUTION: The turner 10 is turned by the pinion 20 so as to locate the open mouth 12 of the turner 10 at the position to open the mouth toward the inserting table 30, and the slab 14 is inserted into the turner 10 by the swing motion of the inserting pusher 32. Next, the pinion 20 is driven by the motor 22 in order to 90° turn the turner 10 in the arrowed direction; hereby, the open mouth 12 is placed so as to vertically open its mouth 12 upward. Then, the water is sprayed from the spray header 16 against the vertically held slab 14 to cool it. After this cooling, the turner 10 is again 90° turned in the arrowed direction by the pinion 20, and the open mouth 12 is located so as to open its mouth toward the table 38 on the discharging side; then, the slab discharging pusher 40 is driven to swing for pushing out the slab 14 onto the table 38 on the discharging side.

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