Strand guide arrangement to be used in a continuous casting plant
AssigneeVoest-Alpine Aktiengesellschaft
InventorWerner Scheurecker
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Abstract
A strand guide for a continuous casting plant includes oppositely arranged rollers for supporting and guiding the strand. The axes or shafts of the rollers are detachably fastened to longitudinal carriers of a strand guiding stand. The longitudinal carriers are arranged between holding means supporting the axes of at least two pairs of oppositely arranged rollers, and the holding means of these oppositely arranged rollers are clamped relative to each other by centrally positioned clamping means.
Claims6
In a strand guide arrangement to be used in a continuous casting plant for casting a strand, and of the type including a strand guiding stand comprising longitudinal carriers, oppositely arranged rollers forming two roller guideways spaced from each other, said rollers having roller axes with ends, and holding means for detachably fastening said roller axes to said longitudinal carriers, the improvement which is characterized in that
- said longitudinal carriers are hollow so as to define a cavity therein and have side walls generally parallel to the roller axes, which side walls are arranged between the holding means for the oppositely arranged rollers,
- each of said holding means encompasses the ends of the roller axes of two neighboring rollers,
- clamping bolts are provided for clamping the holding means for oppositely arranged rollers relative to each other, said clamping bolts penetrating the cavities of the longitudinal carriers through said side walls and being centrally positioned between the two neighboring roller axes, and
- pipes are provided in the cavities of said longitudinal carrier and surround said clamping bolts so as to seal said bolts from the other portions of the cavities.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.