US3477493A - Method of making a refractory hot top panel insert - Google Patents

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US3477493A
US3477493A US636072A US3477493DA US3477493A US 3477493 A US3477493 A US 3477493A US 636072 A US636072 A US 636072A US 3477493D A US3477493D A US 3477493DA US 3477493 A US3477493 A US 3477493A
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  • a TTURNEYJ is .then dried to form el insert unit.
  • the entire insert unit is manufactured by making a slurry of sand, a resin binder, an inorganic fibrous material, and water, and depositing the slurry on a filter'screen in a frame over a vacuum box, and embedding the wirenetting in the layer of slurry. Applying a vacuum under the filter screen in the vacuum box effects removal 'of part of the water from the slurry and leaves a wet mat in which is embedded wire netting.
  • the wet mat the highly insulating refractory pan- The present invention relates to a hot topstructure and a method of making the same, and more particularly to a refractory panel insert unit having a plurality of interconnected panel sections which are relatively movable to "form a tubular container at the upper end of an ingot mold to permitmetal in a molten state to be fed to the solidfying metal in the ingot mold to compensate for shrinkage of the metal during solidification thereof.
  • The-present invention relates to a method of making an'insulating panel insert unit comprised of a plurality of'flat panels interconnected by flexible hinge means so that the panels may be moved from a flat position to a closed'configuration defining a tubular structure.
  • An object of the present invention is to provide a new and improved method for making a highly insulating 'u'nitof the type described in which the hinge means is embedded in frangible portions extending between adja cent panels and folded integrally. with the panels. 7,
  • a still further object of the present invention is “to provide a new and improved method for making a highly insulating panel insert unit of the kind described, and
  • Another objectof the present invention is to provide beneath the filter screen to remove most of the liquid from the slurry after the slurry is poured into the mold and flows beneath the bars and around the wire netting to provide the frangible portions integrally interconnecting the adjacent panels.
  • FIG. 1 is a fragmentary view, partly in elevation and partly in section, of a hot top embodying the present invention and taken approximately along line 1-1 of FIG. 2 and shown mounted in the open upper end of an ingot mold;
  • FIG. 2 is a fragmentary sectional view taken approximately along line 2-2 of FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 3 is a view of a panel insert unit embodying the present invention and illustrates the insert unit in its unfolded condition
  • FIG. 4 is an enlarged fragmentary transverse sectional view of the panel insert unit shown in FIG. 3;
  • FIG. 5 is a fragmentary vertical sectional view showing an insert unit of the present invention positioned in the open upper end of an ingot mold;
  • FIG. 6 is a fragmentary and somewhat schematic top plan view of an apparatus for use in making the panel insert unit shown in FIG. 3;
  • FIG. 7 is an enlarged fragmentary longitudinal crosssectional view of the apparatus shown in FIG. 6.
  • the present invention provides a novel panel insert unit and method of making the same, and more particularly provides a novel preformed pane].
  • insert unit 10 having .a plurality of integrally connected panels or panel sections 10a, 1% which are relatively movable to provide a multisided tubular container at the upper end of an ingot mold to hold a mass of metal in a molten state above the ingot mold to compensate for shrinkage of the metal in the mold during solidification thereof.
  • the preformed panel insert unit 10 can be embodied in or is susceptible for use, with various types of hot top constructions, it is particularly useful when folded and inserted in a hot top casing, to form a highly insulating hot top A.
  • the hot top A is adapted to be mounted in the open upper end of an ingot mold 12 and insofar as the metal casing 11 and its manner of use are concerned, is conventional.
  • the metal casing 11 is of a one-piece construction having a central opening 13, although the casing can be made in two pieces and fastened together.
  • the opening or internal cavity 13 is tapered so as to be larger at the bottom than at the top thereof. It will, of course, be understood that the opening 13 could be non-tapered and be of any suitable configuration, such as round or oval, if desired.
  • the panel insert unit 10 is adapted to be folded to form a multisided tubular container or inner hot top lining having sides shaped complementary to and corresponding in number to the sides defining the opening 13 in the metal casing 11.
  • a multisided tubular container or inner hot top lining having sides shaped complementary to and corresponding in number to the sides defining the opening 13 in the metal casing 11.
  • the opening 13 in the metal casing has eight sides and the inner hot top lining is adapted to be inserted into the opening 13 of the metal casing 11.
  • the panel insert unit is held against the interior sides of the casing 11 by the taper of the insert against the taper of the casing, and is supported by the bottom ring. Clamps might be used only in multipiece panel inserts for slabs.
  • a refractory bottom ring 16 is placed on the lower end of the hot top, and in a manner and for reasons well known to those skilled in the art.
  • the refractory bottom ring 16 has a recess 17 adjacent its inner periphery to provide an upwardly facing shoulder that engages the lower edge of the panel insert unit 10 to aid in supporting the latter within the metal casing 11 and to prevent molten steel getting behind the panel insert.
  • rings 16 of other configurations with or without recess 17 may be used.
  • a wiper strip 18 is positioned on the bottom ring 16 and which is engageable with the sides defining the opening at the upper end of the mold'12 for reasons well known to those skilled in the art.
  • the refractory bottom ring 16 and the wiper strip 18 are adapted to be secured to the casing 11 in any suitable or conventional manner, such as by clips (not shown).
  • the hot top A When the hot top A thus equipped is used for a pouring operation, it is positioned a predetermined distance in the upper open end of an ingot mold 12 and initially held in such position by suitable blocks (not shown). After the pouring of the molten metal into the mold 12 and the hot top A, the blocks are knocked out or destroyed and thereafter the hot top rest-s or floats on the solidifying ingot.
  • the hot top contains a molten mass of metal some of which is fed to the ingot in the mold to compensate for shrinkage of the metal during the solidifieation.
  • the panels or panel sections 10a, 10b of the panel insert unit 10 are preferably made from a highly insulating refractory material and are disposed in a side-by-side relationship, and with the adjacent panels being integrally connected by refractory portions 22 of reduced thickness as compared to the thickness of the panels 10a, 10b proper.
  • the panels are preferably /3" to 1 /2" in thickness.
  • the panels have substantially planar front and back faces 23, 24 which respectively are adapted to face toward and away from the interior of the hollow inner hot top lining when the unit is folded.
  • top and bottom edge surfaces 27, 28 joining and extending transversely of the front and back faces 23, 24 and planar adjacent side edge surfaces 30, 31 joining the front face and extending toward the back face, but terminating at a location spaced from the back face 24.
  • the top and bottom edge surfaces 27, 28 are preferably tapered so as to form with the front face 23 an obtuse included angle therebetween.
  • the adjacent side edge surfaces 30, 31 of adjacent panels 10a, 10b are spaced from and face one another and are tapered so as to form with the front faces 23 an obtuse included angle therebetween.
  • the adjacent side edge surfaces 30, 31 are planar and tapered toward each other so as to join one another at a location intermediate the front and back faces 23, 24 of the panels so as to define grooves 32 whose bottoms 33 are spaced from the back face 24 of the panels preferably approximately from the back face of the panels.
  • the grooves 32 are V-shaped and the adjacent side edge surfaces 30, 31 define an included angle therebetween.
  • the angle of the groove will vary depending upon the number of panels in the insert unit and the angular distance through which the panels must move to conform to the opening in which they are to be inserted. For example, if four panels are in the insert unit and the unit is to form a complete lining, the angle of the groove would be approximately 90 degrees. in the illustrated embodiment, the angle is approximately 45 degrees.
  • the refractory portions 22 integrally connecting the adjacent panels 10a, 10b extend between the bottoms 33 of the grooves 32 and the back face 24 of the panels. These portions 22 are frangible and break substantially along the bottom 33 of the V-shaped grooves 32 when the panels 10a, 10b are relatively moved to form the hollow lining, as will be hereinafter more fully apparent.
  • the panels 10a, 10b of the preformed insert unit 10 are also hingedly conected together by a flexible backing or hinge means 40 secured thereto and preferably substantially embedded therein,
  • the hinge means- 40 could be of any suitable construction and formed from any suitable material which has sufficient strength to support the respective panels when the frangible portions 22 are broken.
  • the hinge means is a flexible wire netting or screen.
  • the flexible wire netting or screen is preferably completely embedded within the material at a location spaced rearwardly from the bottom 33 of the grooves 32, and intermediate the bottom 33 of the grooves 32 and the back face 24 of the panels 10a,10b.
  • the thickness of the wires forming the wire screen is somewhat exaggerated in the drawings for illustrative purposes.
  • the insert unit is preferably made of a material which includes a granular refractory filler, such as silica flour of such particle size as to substantially all be through 200 mesh U.S. sieve, a heat-destructible binder, and an inorganic fibrous material.
  • a granular refractory filler such as silica flour of such particle size as to substantially all be through 200 mesh U.S. sieve, a heat-destructible binder, and an inorganic fibrous material.
  • the inorganic fibrous material isan asbestos material.
  • a material of this type is disclosed in application Ser. No. 401,944, filed Oct. 6, 1964 and assigned to the same assignee as the present invention.
  • the fine pore structure created in the manufacture of the panels make the panels highly insulating.
  • the high insulating property of the panels can be expressed by the thermal conductivity or K factor of the material.
  • the K factor is, as is well known in the art, the amount of heat in B.t.u.s which will flow through a 1" thick l-sq, ft. area in one hour per degree F. difference between the hot and cold sides or faces of the panel.
  • the K factor varies with the average or mean temperature between the hot and cold faces of the material.
  • the present panels are highly insulating since they have a K factor of less than 1.5 determined for an average or mean temperature range of 1000 degrees F. to 1750 degrees F. This, of course, means that less than 1.5 B.t.u.s are lost by conduction through 1 sq. ft.
  • the relatively low K factor indicates that the panels are highly insulating and particularly adapted for use in a hot top casing without a ceramic lining or directly in an ingot mold.
  • the panel unit 10 is preferably formed by a vacuum or pressure wet molding operation during which the flexible wire netting is immersed in the aqueous slurry therein and in which the panels 10a, 10b are formed in a sideby-side open, unfolded position, as shown in FIG. 3, and in a manner to be hereinafter more fully described.
  • the panel insert unit is adapted to be folded from its unfolded position shown in FIG. 3 to a position in which the adjacent side and corner panels 10a, 10b are angnlarly related to form a tubular container for insertion into the opening 13 of the metal casing 11 by grasping the adjacent panels 10a, 10b and bending and stretching the flexible netting 40 at and along the frangible portions 22 between the panels to an angle necessary to bring the adjacent side edge surfaces 30, 31 of the panels into engagement with one another.
  • the frangible portion 22 therebetween will break to allow the flexible screen 40 to bend so that the adjacent side edge surfaces 30, 31 of the panels 10a, 10b properly mate to form the tubular container.
  • the flexible netting holds the panels together after the frangible portions 22 are broken.
  • the preformed insert unit 10 when folded to form the inner hot top lining, then is inserted into the opening 13 in the top of the metal casing.
  • the bottom ring 16 and the wiper strip 18 are then secured in place and the hot top A is positioned in the opening at the upper end of the mold.
  • the molten metal to form the ingot is then poured through the hollow opening 13 in the hot top A and the hot top is filled to the level desired.
  • the panel insert unit 10 makes a highly insulating container and provides that some of the molten metal in the hot top A will feed by gravity to the ingot in the mold to compensate for shrinkage of the metal during solidification.
  • the panel insert unit 10 is designed so that when folded, it forms a generally trapezoidal tubular container.
  • FIG. shows another way in which the panel insert unit can be employed to form a hot top.
  • the panel insert unit -10 is there shown as being inserted down into and attached directly to the open upper end of an ingot mold 50.
  • the ingot mold 50 as shown in FIG. 5, is of the conventionally known, big-end-down type of ingot mold having a downwardly tapered central opening 52.
  • a bigend-down type of ingot mold is one in which the central opening 52 is tapered so as to be larger at the bottom than at the top thereof. It will, of course, be understood that the provisions of the present invention are also applicable to the big-end-up type of mold and to molds having different contours.
  • the panel insert unit 10 when folded to form a tubular container or form whose sides are complementary to the sides of the opening 52, is adapted to be inserted into the opening of the mold 50 and attached to or held against the interior sides defining the opening 52 by any suitable or conventional means to form a hot top, After the insert unit 10 is in place, molten metal to form the ingot can then be poured through the tubular container to the level desired to provide that some of the molten metal at the upper end of the ingot in the mold will feed downward to compensate for shrinkage of the metal in the solidifying ingot.
  • the present invention provides a novel and economical method for making the panel insert unit 10.
  • the method in general, includes a one-step molding operation in which the panels 10a, 10b and the frangible sections 22 are shaped as an integral unit and the flexible wire screen is embedded within the refractory material.
  • the various steps in carrying out the method of the present invention will be described with reference to the description of an apparatus 55, schematically shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, for carrying out the method.
  • the apparatus 55 for carrying out the method of the present invention comprises a vacuum box 60 which is an open top box of the desired shape and which has a horizontally disposed vacuum screen 61 backed up by a strong grid 61a extending thereacross at its upper end.
  • the box 60 is provided with an upwardly facing peripherally extending supporting ledge 62 on which the vacuum screen 61 and grid 61a is supported.
  • the vacuum screen 61 defines with the sides and bottom of the box 60 a vacuum chamber 63 located beneath the vacuum screen 61.
  • the vacuum chamber 63 is adapted to be connected with a suitable vacuum source to provide or create a vacuum in the chamber 63 and the presence of the vacuum in the chamber 63 is designated generally by the arrow 64.
  • the contoured molding frame 70 comprises an outer frame part 71 shaped so as to provide the outer peripheral configuration of the panel insert unit 10 when in its flat position, as shown in FIG. 3.
  • a plurality of spaced bar members 72 are suitably secured to and extend transversely between the upper and lower generally longitudinal extending portions of the outer frame part 71, as viewed in FIG. 7.
  • the bars 72 are employed to form the grooves 32 in the panel unit 10 and are spaced and disposed relative to each other and the outer frame 71 so as to define with the outer frame 71 the configuration of the respective panels 10a, 10b to be molded.
  • the bars are V-shaped to form the V-shaped grooves 32 in the panel unit 10 and the inner vertically extending sides 75 of the outer frame part 71 are suitably contoured or tapered to provide the free side edge surfaces 30 and 31 of the two endmost panels.
  • the top and bottom end surfaces at each panel have tapered surfaces formed by corresponding surfaces of frame 71.
  • the outer frame part 71 has a planar bottom surface 76 which is placed directly onto the vacuum screen 61 and the bars 72 have their lowermost portions 78 located or spaced above the plane of the bottom surface 76 of the outer frame part 71, and thus located above the vacuum screen 61, and for reasons to be hereinafter more fully described.
  • the flexible wire netting 40 is placed directly on the vacuum screen 61 and then a contoured molding frame 70 movable relative to the box 60 is placed or positioned on top of the vacuum screen 61.
  • this mold is filled with slurry of a suitable composition, such as the composition disclosed in the aforementioned patent application, Ser. No. 401,944.
  • the slurry covers the vacuum screen 61 and surrounds and flows underneath the bar members 72 to provide the frangible portions 22 and surrounds the wire netting to substantially embed the latter within the slurry.
  • the slurry is partially dewatered to leave a wet mat and then the contoured molding frame 70 is moved upwardly relative to the vacuum box 60 to remove the same from the wet mat which will subsequently become the panel insert unit 10.
  • a method of making a hot top structure which comprises a refractory panel insert unit having front and back faces and a plurality of spaced grooves extending thereacross whose bottoms are spaced from the back face of the panel insert unit to define a plurality of integrally connected refractory panels disposed in a side-by-side relationship and flexible hinge means imbedded within said refractory insert unit between the bottom of the grooves and the back face of the insert unit to hingedly interconnect the adjacent panels, and which comprises the steps of placing the flexible hinge means on a generally horizontally disposed porous base, placing a contoured mold of a shape to provide the desired outer configuration of said one-piece refractory insert unit and which has a plurality of spaced bars whose bottommost portions are spaced upwardly from the plane of the bottommost surfaces of the remainder of the contoured mold onto said porous base to form a mold with the bottommost portions of said bars being spaced upwardly from said porous base, pouring a refractory slurry into said mold
  • a method of forming a highly refractory insulating unit comprised of a plurality of panels inter-connected by flexible material for relative angular movement from an open flat position to a closed position defining a closed tubular structure comprising the steps of simul: taneously molding the adjacent panels in a mold ,cavity and forming integral portions interconnectingadjacent panels adjacent one side of the unit with the flexible ma,- terial for hingedly connecting the same imbedded in.the inter-connecting portions and the panels by flowing slurry of refractory material into a mold cavity having laterally spaced bars extending inwardly from one side thereof to separate one part of the mold cavity into mold spaces corresponding to the panels with the slurry beingof greater depth than the height of the bars to provide'at oneside of said panels a slurry receiving .space, filling the space so that the slurry extends through said spaces coextensively with theunit by flowing slurry into said spaces and around said flexible material disposed in.
  • dewatering is accomplishedby drawing water through holes in the bottom of the mold by using a pressure below atmospheric and maintaining said co-extensive portion during the dewatering operation to provide an air seal for preventing the drawing of air along the sides of said bars.

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