Continuous casting mold and means for securing mold liners therein
AssigneeAllis-Chalmers Corporation
InventorsWilliam A. Schmucker, Lloyd M. Dings, Jr.
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Abstract
An improved continuous casting mold and means for securing the mold liners wherein vertical cooling water passages which in cross-section present a dovetail configuration are machined in the back side of the mold liner plates. The cooling water passages are all of substantially equal dimensions and are equally spaced along the length of the mold liner plates. Corrosive resistant bars having beveled edges to match the dovetail passages are inserted into the water passages. Tapped holes in the bars receive hold down bolts which pass through the bars between the formed water passages and thus do not interfere with uniform heat transfer.
Claims3
In a continuous casting mold which includes a mold liner, said casting mold having a backup structure to which said mold liner is secured in abutting relationship, the improvement of a plurality of vertical cooling water passages formed in the surface of said liner which abuts said backup structure;
- a plurality of holding bar members each engageable within an associated vertical cooling water passage, each said holding bar member including tapped holes extending completely therethrough, said holding bar members when in operating position serving as a vertical side for said vertical cooling water passages;
- a plurality of securing bolts extending through the said backup structure into threaded holding connection with said tapped holes of said bar members, said threaded connection being effected adjacent to said water cooling passages;
- and,
- water inlet and outlet means communicating with all of said water passages to provide a circulation of cooling water in said passages;
- whereby heat is uniformly transferred and the threaded ends of the securing bolts associated with said liner are cooled without interfering with the uniform heat transfer from said liner.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.