Method and device for producing homogeneous alloys

A device for continuous casting of a homogeneous alloy consisting of immiscible metals, comprising:

• crystallizer means having two ends and being fillable with a melt prepared from said metals;
• homogenizer means incorporated in, and communicating with, said crystallizer;
• feeder means located on either end of said crystallizer means for passing a D.C. current through the melt in said crystallizer means to produce therein an electric field of predeterminable intensity;
• at least one electromagnet having pole pieces straddling said crystallizer means and adapted to produce therein a magnetic field of predeterminable induction;
• nozzle means adapted to direct jets of a coolant at selected regions of said crystallizer to cause said melt to solidify within a predeterminable period of time, and
• puller means to extract solidified portions of said alloy melt from said crystallizer,
• wherein said electric field and said magnetic field cross one another, and wherein the interaction between the electric field produced by said D.C. current passing through said melt and the magnetic field produced by said at least one electromagnet modifies the effect of gravity, producing an indifferent equilibrium of the components of said alloy, thus preventing the liquational sedimentation, due to gravity, of the heavier one of the metals constituting said alloy.