Continuous casting plant
AssigneeVereinigte Osterreichische Eisen- und Stahlwerke-Alpine Montan Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsWerner Scheurecker, Reinhard Hargassner
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Abstract
A continuous casting plant has a frame-shaped lifting table, a mould insertable in the lifting table, and a strand guide device following the mould and including strand guide parts. The strand guide part following the mould is surrounded by a carrying frame, and this strand guide part and the carrying frame are installable in and removable from the continuous casting plant together. The carrying frame is arranged with play in the lifting table and is vertically movable therethrough together with the pertaining strand guide part. On the mould and on the carrying frame, supporting faces opposing each other with play are provided and can engage each other when the carrying frame is lifted.
Claims7
In a continuous casting plant of the type including a frame-shaped lifting table, a mould insertable in said lifting table and reciprocated by said lifting table, a strand guide means comprised of strand guide parts following the mould in the extraction direction and a carrying frame surrounding the strand guide part following the mould for removing the strand guide part from the plant, the improvement which is characterized in that the carrying frame, the strand guide part following the mould and the mould as a unit are installable in and removable from the continuous casting plant independent of the lifting table because said carrying frame is arranged with play within said frame-shaped lifting table and is vertically movable through the frame-shaped lifting table together with said strand guide part following the mould, and supporting faces are provided on said mould and on said carrying frame opposite each other with play, which supporting faces engage each other when the carrying frame is lifted so as to lift the mould along with the carrying frame.
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