Cooled continuous-casting mold
AssigneeSMS Demag AG
InventorSiegbert Schwenecke
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Abstract
A continuous-casting mold has two parallel and spaced mold end plates having opposite ends and inner and outer faces and two parallel and spaced mold side plates extending generally perpendicular to the end plates, having inner and outer faces, and having opposite ends bearing on the respective side-plate ends. The inner faces form a generally rectangular mold passage having four corners. Respective rigid cooler plates bearing inward on the outer faces of the mold plates have ends at the corners. Respective clamps at the corners engage the cooler-plate ends, press the cooler plates inward on the mold plates, and thereby press the side-plate ends against the end-plate ends.
Claims10
A continuous-casting mold comprising:
- two parallel and spaced mold end plates having oppositely directed ends and inner and outer faces;
- two parallel and spaced mold side plates extending generally perpendicular to the mold end plates, having inner and outer faces, and having opposite ends bearing on the respective mold end-plate ends with the mold end elates lying between the mold side-plate ends, the inner faces forming a generally rectangular mold passage having four corners;
- respective rigid side and end cooler plates bearing inward on the outer faces of the mold side and end plates and having ends at the corners formed with angled bores;
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- respective tie bolts extending diagonally of the mold elates through the bores at the corners, having bolt ends bearing diagonally on the cooler-plate ends, pressing the cooler plates inward on the respective side and end mold plates, and thereby pressing the mold side-plate ends against the mold end plate ends, the bolts being wholly out of contact with the mold plates, and
- respective springs braced between each bolt and at least one of the respective cooler plates.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.