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AssigneeVereinigte Osterreichische Eisen- und Stahlwerke-Alpine Montan Aktiengesellschaft
InventorWilhelm Dutzler
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The invention relates to a measuring installation for measuring the machine profile of a continuous casting machine. A strand-like body of elastically deformable material, e.g. rubber or plastics, corresponding to the nominal machine profile is insertable into the roller conveyor of the continuous casting machine. Into the strand-like body at least one measuring device is embedded, which device measures and/or records the actual machine profile, i.e. the clear distance between rollers lying opposite each other or the distance of each roller from the neutral fiber of the strand-like body. The invention also relates to a method of measuring the machine profile of a continuous casting machine, which method consists in that after an exact alignment of the individual rollers in accordance with the nominal machine profile, i.e. after putting the continuous casting machine into operation, the measuring device is pulled or pushed through the roller conveyor at intervals and the deviation of the rollers from the nominal machine profile is recorded continuously. By using the measuring installation with the method of the present invention it is possible to determine rapidly any discontinuities occurring during casting, thus avoiding cracks or even breaks in the strand.
A machine-profile-measuring installation for use in a continuous casting plant having a roller conveyor in which a plurality of rollers is arranged in pairs at a certain distance opposite each other and the pairs are at certain distances from each other so as to establish a certain machine profile for the roller conveyor, the rollers of said roller conveyor contacting a cast strand and transporting it from a vertical direction into a horizontal direction, said measuring installation comprising:
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