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US 6,206,083 B1Granted
Strip casting device
AssigneeMannesmann Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsKlaus Schwerdtfeger, Karl-Heinz Spitzer, Wolfgang Reichelt, Ulrich Urlau, Joachim Kroos, Heino Buddenberg
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Abstract
A strip casting plant with a circulating belt. In the cooling area, the belt is sucked against carriers by a negative pressure in the cooler. The carriers are arranged so that, with given mechanical properties of the circulating belt, a deflection that compensates for the thermal elongation takes place between the supporting surfaces of the carriers.
Claims2
A strip casting device, comprising:
- a circulating, water-cooled belt for cooling a cast melt;
- melt feed means for feeding the melt to the belt;
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- carriers for supporting the circulating belt, a negative pressure being actuable on a side of the belt facing the carriers, wherein each of the carriers comprising supporting surfaces of uniform diameter and spacings between each two supporting surfaces, wherein the supporting surfaces are spaced at a distance greater than a length of the supporting surfaces and the spacings are of a smaller diameter than the supporting surfaces, so that a bending of the belt that compensates for thermal elongation takes place between the supporting surfaces.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.