Device for the horizontal continuous strip casting of steel

A device for the horizontal continuous casting of steel, comprising:

• a tundish containing melt;
• a primary cooling zone placed adjacent the tundish for receiving the melt and producing a pre-strip with a thickness of <15 mm, said primary cooling zone having two deflection pulleys and a revolving cooled conveyor belt looped about the deflection pulleys;
• a secondary cooling zone downstream of an end of the primary cooling zone;
• and
• a guide assembly having rollers in spaced-apart offset relationship along an upward track and rollers along a following further track at the end of the primary cooling zone and before a start of the secondary cooling zone to neutralize an expansion of a bottom side of the pre-strip,
• wherein the rollers of the upward and further tracks are located above and below the pre-strip such that in a transport direction of the pre-strip along the upward track a first roller below the pre-strip is positioned offset to the right of a first roller located above the pre-strip and to the left of a second roller located above the pre-strip, and wherein the rollers above and below the pre-strip in the further track are not arranged in offset relationship.