US 6,715,535 B2Granted

Method of and device for rotary casting

AssigneeVAW mandl & berger GmbH

InventorsFriedhelm Kahn, Joachim Kahn, Gerhard Eisenberger, Horst Paul Grüness, Walter Hauder, Johann Winkler, Peter Stika, Johann Preisinger, Peter Jungbauer, Klaus Schröter, Rolf Gosch

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Abstract

A method of casting has a mold assembled on a base plate. The finished mold is rotated by approximately 180° around a horizontal rotational axis. A casting container with an upwardly positioned aperture end, removed from the mold, is filled with melt for one casting operation. The casting container is sealingly coupled by the aperture end to the ingate end of the mold. The mold, together with its contacting casting container, is rotated by approximately 180° around a horizontal axis. Accordingly, the melt reaches the mold, and the casting container is removed from the coupled position away from the mold.

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Dependent claims

A method of rotary casting, comprising:

providing a mold with an ingate end pointing upwardly and mounting said mold on a base plate;
rotating said mold together with the base plate by approximately 180° around a horizontal rotational axis so that the ingate end points downwardly;
providing a casting container with an upwardly positioned aperture end;
filling said casting container with melt for one casting operation;
then sealingly coupling the casting container with said aperture end to the downwardly pointing ingate end of the mold;
rotating the mold with the casting container approximately 180° around a horizontal axis;
letting the melt move into the mold during said rotating;
releasing the casting container from the mold;
and
removing the casting container from the mold wherein the casting container aperture end is positioned downward.

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