Mannesmann Aktiengesellschaft

Elmar Wagener

Wolfgang Reichelt

Fritz P Pleschiutschnigg

Dieter Kothe

Dietmar Lohse

Gerd Moellers

Bernhard Krueger

Peter Vos-Spilker

A method of continuous casting of ingots having a cross section with a high width to height or thickness ratio includes the steps of using a mold with a corresponding cross section and a casting pipe with bottom or near-bottom outlets and having laterally a minimum distance from the wall of the mold; preheating the casting pipe prior to casting to a temperature being at least approximately similar to the temperature of the metal later to be poured into the mold; initially closing the bottom outlet of the mold prior to startup; pouring molten metal into the mold for filling the mold up to a particular level while continuing heating the casting pipe; commencing withdrawal of an ingot from the mold along a curved path when the level of molten metal in the mold has reached the level of the outlet or outlets of the casting pipe.

Continuous casting of thin slab ingots

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Neukirchen-Vluyn, Germany

Elmar Wagener