Horizontal continuous casting device
AssigneeYoshida Kogyo K.K.
InventorsYoshitaka Nagai, Makoto Arase, Norio Ohatake
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Abstract
A horizontal continuous casting device including a mold horizontally mounted through an orifice plate on a front side of a tundish. A front portion of the orifice plate is exposed into the mold. A horizontally extending small gap is formed between an outer circumferential surface of the front portion of the orifice plate and an inner circumferential surface of the mold. A facing surface between the mold and the orifice plate is provided with an annular lubricating oil passage and a given number of radial grooves communicated from the lubricating oil passage to the gap.
Claims1
In a horizontal continuous casting device including a mold horizontally mounted with an orifice plate on a front side of a tundish;
- the improvement wherein a front portion of said orifice plate is exposed into said mold, and a horizontally extending small gap is formed between an outer circumferential surface of said front portion of said orifice plate and an inner circumferential surface of said mold, and a facing surface between said mold and said orifice plate is provided with an annular lubricating oil passage and a plurality of radial grooves which communicate from said lubricating oil passage to said gap.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.