Metal casting ladle
AssigneeVersa Companies
InventorPhilip N. Bear
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Abstract
A metal casting ladle utilized for pouring molten metal and having mounting blocks located on each side of a pour spout and used for independent and alternate attachments of the ladle to either a left mount or a right mount casting machine to permit pouring molten metal from the ladle on an axis falling through the lip of the spout.
Claims7
A metal casting ladle used on a metal casting machine having either a left or right mounting connector for picking up and transferring by rotational motion about a horizontal pour axis a preselected amount of a flowable fluid metal to a casting mold which comprises:
- a. a bowl having a wall with inner and outer surfaces and terminating in a top rim;
- b. said bowl having a spout formed at a first side of said bowl said spout having a lip positioned below the said rim of said bowl and extending beyond said bowl to provide an outlet opening for metal to be poured from said bowl;
- c. the wall of said bowl forming uniform curved inner and outer surfaces at the interface between said spout and the wall of said bowl to provide a uniform inner surface for the flow of molten metal;
- d. a left mounting block connected to the outer surface of said wall at the interface with said spout;
- e. a right mounting block connected to the outer surface of said wall at the interface with said spout and opposite the left mounting block;
- f. said left and right mounting blocks providing independent and alternative mounting attachments for metal casting machines having either left or right mounting connector;
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- g. a bracket adapted to interconnect one of said mounting blocks of said ladle and said metal casting machine such that the pour axis falls through said lip.
A metal casting ladle for use on a metal casting machine having either a left or right mounting connector for picking up and transferring by rotational motion about a horizontal pour axis a preselected amount of a flowable fluid metal to a casting mold, the ladle comprising:
- a. a bowl having a wall with inner and outer surfaces and terminating in a top rim;
- b. said bowl having a spout formed at a first side of said bowl said spout having a lip positioned below the said rim of said bowl and extending beyond said bowl to provide an outlet opening for metal to be poured from said bowl;
- c. the wall of said bowl forming uniform curved inner and outer surfaces at the interface between said spout and the wall of said bowl to provide a uniform inner surface for the flow of molten metal;
- d. means for alternatively interconnecting said ladle and said metal casting machine to position said lip on said pour axis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.