Device to park starter bars
AssigneeDanieli & C. Officine Meccaniche SpA
InventorRoberto Manera
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Abstract
Device (10) to park starter bars employed in continuous casting plants, which is able to take at least one starter bar coming from a casting line and to draw and position at least one starter bar towards a casting line and comprises a revolver-type drum (13), which can rotate about a pivot shaft (29) and contains within itself at least one chamber (18-25) to lodge starter bars belonging to at least two types of starter bar, the device (10) comprising also first means (12-30) able to impart rotation to the drum (13) and second means (26) able to cooperate with a temporary pre-set position of standstill of the drum (13) and at the same time to impart to that at least one starter bar a movement into or out from the at least one chamber (18-25).
Claims8
A device to park starter bars in a continuous casting plant, comprising a revolver-type drum rotatable about a pivot shaft and containing within itself a plurality of chambers to lodge starter bars belonging to at least two types of starter bar;
- first means for rotating said drum about said pivot shaft whereby a series of chambers can be positioned in alignment with the casting lines according to the circumferential position taken by the drum;
- and second means for moving at least one starter bar from a casting line into at least one chamber of said plurality of chambers or out from at least one chamber of said plurality of chambers and towards a casting line;
- said second means being able to cooperate with a temporary pre-set position of standstill of said drum.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.