Supporting casting in a continuous casting machine by means of exchangeable segments as holders for support rolls

Guiding and support arrangement for a casting issuing from a mold of a continuous casting machine having a stand structure, comprising:

• a plurality of first guide rolls arranged in spaced-apart relation along a path for guiding said issuing casting;
• a plurality of bearing blocks respectively journalling said first guide rolls in said stand structure;
• and
• a plurality of support segments, removably disposed at said path, each segment of the plurality of support segments holding and journalling a particular number of upper and lower second guide rolls, the segments being associated with said first guide rolls of said plurality of first guide rolls, each of which respectively provides an additional lower roll, so that a lower track path is established by the lower second guide rolls on the segments and by the plurality of first guide rolls.