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AssigneeAluminum Company of America
InventorsJohn W. Cobes, S. John Pien, Larry W. Cisko
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A continuous block caster is provided with a mold block assembly having an internal anchor pin which is insulated. One end of a support pin, many of which are used to support each block, is threaded into the anchor pin, the other end is demountably secured in a fastening member in turn fastened to a carriage block. All the fastening members except only one at the center, are y- or x-y slides, so termed because they permit lateral movement of the support pin. A stepped lock-down key which provides a camming means, allows an entire mold block assembly and supporting pin assembly to be connected and disconnected quickly from the carriage block by rotating the key. Insulating the support pin in this manner allows the planarity of a casting face to be maintained in a lateral plane within 5 mils (127 micrometers) of vertical movement. Such limited distortion does not adversely affect the planarity of the upper and lower faces of the cast slab.
In a continuous block caster for casting molten metal in a moving mold cavity defined by opposed casting faces of mold blocks in mold block assemblies carried by carriage blocks in upper and lower casting trains of said block caster, wherein each of said mold block assemblies is mounted with plural mounting units to a carriage block, and each said mounting unit comprises a supporting means connected to a fastening means attached to said carriage block, the improvement comprising,
In a continuous block caster for casting molten metal in a moving mold cavity defined by opposed casting faces of mold blocks in mold block assemblies carried by carriage blocks in upper and lower casting trains of said block caster, wherein each of said mold block assemblies is mounted with plural mounting units to a carriage block, and each said mounting unit comprises a supporting means connected to a fastening means attached to said carriage block, the improvement comprising,
In a continuous block caster for casting molten metal in a moving mold cavity defined by opposed casting faces of mold blocks in mold block assemblies carried by carriage blocks in upper and lower casting trains of said block caster, wherein each of said mold block assemblies is mounted with plural mounting units to a carriage block, and each said mounting unit comprises a supporting means connected to a fastening means attached to said carriage block, the improvement comprising,
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