Apparatus for continuous casting

A continuous casting apparatus including an annular cooling casting mold situated to surround an orifice plate secured to an outlet, the outlet allowing egress of a molten metal through the orifice plate from a tundish, the apparatus comprising:

• a primary cooling water jetting mouth having an impinging angle between 15 and 30 degrees and a secondary cooling water jetting mouth having an impinging angle between 30 and 60 degrees, the jetting mouths disposed at a predetermined distance in a withdrawing direction of an ingot downstream from the outlet and formed integrally with said mold wherein the predetermined distance of the primary cooling water jetting mouth is between 15 and 40 mm and the predetermined distance of the secondary cooling water jetting mouth is between 20 and 45 mm allowing for withdrawing of the ingot having a diameter between six and nine inches and further wherein the second cooling water jetting mouth is located a greater distance from the outlet than the first cooling water jetting mouth;
• a wiper made of heat-and-wear-resistant material arranged downstream from said cooling mold to contact with a circumferential surface of said ingot formed during withdrawal from said mold and to wipe off the cooling water from said cooling mold and impinging on the circumferential surface of said ingot;
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• a third cooling water jetting mouth disposed downstream from said wiper.