Continuous casting plant strand guiding means
AssigneeVereinigte Osterreichlsche Eisen- und Stahlwerke-Alpine Montan Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsAlois Scheinecker, Franz Kagerhuber
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Abstract
A strand guiding means for a continuous casting plant with sets of supporting rollers and also driving rollers. At least one driving roller being arranged at the beginning and/or at the end of a set of supporting rollers. The driving rollers are mounted on cross beams, which are in turn connected to one of two supporting roller carrying members, preferably by means of a linkage parallelogram. In addition the driving rollers are displaceable perpendicularly to the strand surface.
Claims11
A continuous casting plant strand guiding means for supporting, guiding and extracting a cast strand or a starter bar, which comprises:
- sets of supporting rollers arranged one behind the other in the extraction direction of the strand, each set of supporting rollers including a number of rollers located opposite each other and carried by respective upper and lower roller carrying members also arranged opposite each other, which members are adjustable perpendicularly to the strand surface and fixable, the strand or the starter bar being guided between the respective supporting rollers of the upper and lower carrying members;
- a plurality of driving rollers, at least one driving roller being arranged at at least one end of a set of supporting rollers;
- cross beams movable perpendicularly to the strand surface, each cross beam carrying at least one driving roller;
- parallel motion means connecting each cross beam to a roller carrying member;
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- pressure medium cylinder means for adjusting the cross beams.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.