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US 4,036,284 AGranted
Continuous casting apparatus for slabs
OwnerRudolf Hoffmanninventor
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Abstract
In a continuous casting apparatus for slabs, the driven guide rollers of two closely adjacent casting guide tracks are driven from the outside of one and the same guide track so that the outside of the other guide track is free of driving motors, and at least a third guide track can be added thereto while maintaining the smallest possible width of the whole apparatus in order to deliver melt from a single distributor groove to the moulds of the individual guide tracks.
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Continuous casting apparatus for slabs, comprising:
- first and second mould means, arranged in closely spaced, side-by-side relationship;
- a common distributor groove for supplying melt to said mould means;
- first and second independent guide tracks operatively connected respectively to said first and said second mould means, and arranged in side-by-side relationship located as closely adjacent each other as possible, each of said independent guide tracks having idler rollers and individually driven rollers for guiding a cast slab;
- first motor means located on the free outside of said first guide track, and connected to the driven rollers of said first guide track;
- second motor means also located on the free outside of said first guide track;
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- drive shaft means extending across said first guide track from said second motor means to the driven rollers of said second guide track, and connected to said driven rollers of said second guide track.
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Continuous casting apparatus for slabs, comprising:
- first and second mould means;
- a common distributor groove for supplying melt to said mould means;
- first and second casting guide tracks operatively connected respectively to said first and second mould means, each of said guide tracks having idler rollers and individually driven rollers for guiding a cast slab;
- and motor means for driving said driven rollers, wherein said motor means for driving the driven rollers of said first guide track and said motor means for driving the driven rollers of said second guide track are disposed on the same free outside of said first guide track, and wherein said first and second guide tracks are located as closely adjacent each other as possible, the driven rollers of the second guide track each being connected to a driven shaft which traverses in the form of a carrier shaft the in-line roller of the first guide track, the said roller being in the form of an idler roller which is freely rotatably mounted on this carrier shaft, and wherein an adjacent roller of the first guide track is positively driven.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.