Method for making a multicast roll

A method for making a roll for transferring a flat, heated strip from a furnace, comprising the steps of:

• rotating an elongated tubular mold about a longitudinal axis, and introducing a first steel alloy in a molten state inside the rotating mold from a source of the first steel alloy such that the first steel alloy advances in a first axial direction to form an outer layer;
• and
• then introducing a second steel alloy in a molten state from a source of the second alloy into the outer layer and then axially advancing the second alloy in the opposite axial direction in the rotating mold to form an inner layer, and then
• permitting the two layers to cool to form a rigid multi-cast roll.

A method for making a roll for transferring a flat, heated strip of a first steel alloy from a furnace, said roll comprising an elongated inner tubular body having a longitudinal axis, the inner body being formed of a second steel alloy, a support layer carried on said inner body having an outer strip-contacting surface for contacting and supporting the flat heated strip as the tubular body is being rotated, said support layer being formed of a third steel alloy that is relatively insoluble with respect to the first steel alloy of the heated strip;

• said method comprising the steps of:
• rotating an elongated tubular mold about a longitudinal axis, the mold having a first end and a second end;
• introducing the third steel alloy inside the rotating tubular mold from a source of the molten third steel alloy and then advancing the source in the tubular mold in a first axial direction to form said support layer;
• introducing the second steel alloy from a source of the molten second alloy within the support layer as the source of the second steel alloy is being advanced in the opposite axial direction to form an inner body while the support layer is sufficiently heated to form a fused connection therebetween;
• and
• then permitting the support layer and the inner body to cool to form a rigid unitary multi-cast roll.

A method for making a roll for transferring a flat, heated strip from a furnace, comprising the steps of:

• rotating an elongated tubular mold about a longitudinal axis, and introducing a first steel alloy in a molten state inside the rotating mold such that the first steel alloy advances in a first axial direction to form an outer layer;
• and
• then introducing a second steel alloy in a molten state into the outer layer and then axially advancing the second alloy in the opposite axial direction in the rotating mold to form an inner layer,
• permitting the two layers to cool to form a rigid multi-cast roll;
• and
• reducing the outer layer in diameter in selected areas to expose the inner layer.

A method for making a roll for transferring a flat, heated strip from a furnace comprising the steps of:

• (a) providing an elongated tubular mold having a first end, a second end, and a longitudinal axis;
• (b) providing a first feed nozzle at said first end of said mold, and a second feed nozzle at said second end of said mold;
• (c) rotating said mold around said longitudinal axis while feeding a first molten alloy through at least one of said feed nozzles such that an outer layer of said first alloy is formed on the inner surface of said tubular mold;
• (d) rotating said mold around said longitudinal axis while said outer layer is in a molten state, and at the same time feeding a second molten alloy, though at least one of said feed nozzles, such that an inner layer of said second alloy is formed on the inner surface of said still molten outer layer to form a two layer roll;
• (e) removing the two layer roll from the mold;
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• (f) machining the outer surface of said roll at axially spaced points to form a multiple number of rings comprised of said first alloy.