Automated casting line supply system
OwnerEugene Guegueninventor
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Abstract
A heated ladle provides a reserve of molten metal. Vertical closing rods release desired quantities into pouring troughs. These are indexed into alignment with the mold casting orifices. The system includes a chassis movable parallel to the step-by-step movable casting line, a mobile cart carried by the chassis and also movable parallel to the line, and trough-bearing means movable perpendicularly to the line and also providing pivotal movement capability for the troughs. Reference marks on the molds or inter-mold spaces cooperate with position sensors to control the indexing. Redescent and resulting closing of the closing rods is automatic.
Claims10
Molten metal supply system, particularly for filling molds or boxless moldings upon a continuous casting line, the supply system comprising in combination:
- a chassis which is normally stationary during the casting operation but displaceable upon a rollway, such as rails, positioned parallel to a portion of the path of a mold bearing conveyor equipped with a step-by-step advancing means, the said chassis being provided with a cart movable between two abutments, the cart being provided with a heated ladle constituting a reserve of metal permanently maintained in molten state, the ladle comprising one or more closing rods controlling delivery of the molten metal contained within the ladle,
- one or more pouring troughs disposed in said mobile cart and adapted to lead the metal delivered from the ladle to casting orifices of the molds or boxless molding devices, said troughs further being adjustable in a direction perpendicularly to the displacement direction of the mobile cart and angularly adjustable in a horizontal plane around a pivot,
- means adapted to control the quantity of metal delivered by the one or more closing rods, and
- indexing means adapted to control the mobile cart displacement means to provide precise positional alignment between the one or more pouring troughs and the one or more casting orifices of the molds.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.