Casting ladle mounting for steel strand casting plants
AssigneeDemag Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsSiegfried Dangeleit, Klaus Neumann
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Abstract
The invention relates to a mounting for a casting ladle for use in a steel strand casting plant where one or more ladles are cantilevered from a revolving turret atop a central support column. Each cantilevered ladle is set in the mounting of the invention which permits the monitoring of the ladle weight before and during casting.
Claims12
In a mounting for a casting ladle, particularly for use in a steel strand casting plant with a support column and a revolving turret on said column, and having
- (a) one or more ladle mountings cantilevered from said turret;
- (b) each said ladle mounting having a recess for a casting ladle;
- (c) each recess having opposed support recesses for loading crane loops on said ladles;
- the improvement in each said ladle mounting characterized by
- (d) the said ladle mounting being U-shaped with a body and opposed legs forming said recess;
- (e) a longitudinally extending weighing frame for a ladle mounted in opposed positions on each of said legs;
- (f) a dynamic test cell positioned between each end of each weighing frame and said ladle mounting;
- (g) said dynamic test cells supporting their respective weighing frame in a vertical direction on said legs;
- (h) a plurality of positioning and guiding connections between each said weighing frame and said ladle mounting preventing relative horizontal movement therebetween;
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- (i) each said weighing frame having one said crane loop support recess;
- (j) said plurality of positioning and guiding connections including a plurality of cooperating projections disposed between each said weighing frame and said ladle mounting;
- (k) said projections disposed in at least two horizontal planes vertically spaced from each other;
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- (l) positioning means disposed between said projections and said legs permitting frictionless relative vertical displacement of said weighing frames on said legs while preventing relative horizontal displacement.
In a mounting for a casting ladle, particularly for use in a steel strand casting plant with a support column and a revolving turret on said column, and having
- (a) one or more ladle mountings cantilevered from said turret;
- (b) each said ladle mounting having a recess for a casting ladle;
- (c) each recess having opposed support recesses for loading crane loops on said ladles;
- the improvement in each said ladle mounting characterized by
- (d) the said ladle mounting being U-shaped with a body and opposed legs forming said recess;
- (e) a longitudinally extending weighing frame for a ladle mounted in opposed positions on each of said legs;
- (f) a dynamic test cell positioned between each end of each weighing frame and said ladle mounting;
- (g) said dynamic test cells supporting their respective weighing frame in a vertical direction on said legs;
- (h) a plurality of stabilizing and guiding connections extending between each said weighing frame and said ladle mounting, at a plurality of locations and at a plurality of horizontal levels serving to prevent relative horizontal movement therebetween;
- (i) said plurality of stabilizing and guiding connections including a plurality of connecting links disposed between and joining each said weighing frame and said ladle mounting;
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- (j) said plurality of stabilizing and guiding connections allowing limited relative vertical movement between said ladle and said weighing frames, while effectively preventing relative horizontal movement therebetween.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.