Pouring tube for feeding molten steel into a continuous casting mold
AssigneeSMS Schloemann-Siemag Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsHans Streubel, Horst Grothe, Jurgen Friedrich
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Abstract
A pouring tube for feeding molten steel into the pouring zone of a continuous casting mold includes a tube portion connected to a pouring container and an end portion provided with a bottom piece. To ensure safe operation of the pouring tube and an improved flow distribution, the bottom piece has in the direction of outlet openings thereof a width which is smaller, between 30% and 80%, than the distance between the walls which form the upper limits of the outlet openings.
Claims6
In a pouring tube for feeding molten steel into a pouring zone of a steel strip casting mold, the mold having broad side walls and narrow side walls connecting the broad side walls, the pouring tube having a side wall with an inner wall surface and including a first tube portion connected to a pouring container and a second end portion connected to the first portion, the end portion defining outlet openings directed toward the narrow side walls of the mold, each outlet opening having an upper end located in the side wall of the pouring tube and a lower end located in a bottom piece at the end of the pouring tube, the improvement comprising the bottom piece having a width between the lower ends of the outlet openings which is at most 80% of the distance between the inner wall surface of the side wall of the tube at the upper ends of the outlet openings, wherein the bottom piece is substantially flat and lipless adjacent the lower ends of the outlet openings.
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