Sms Concast, Inc.

Gerhard Arnolds

Horst Grothe

A continuous casting apparatus has a casting platform which supports a mold defining two casting passages. A laterally undivided roller guide is disposed below the mold. The apparatus further includes a pair of dummy bars, and a carriage on the casting platform for storing the dummy bars. When a casting operation is to be performed, each dummy bar is lowered into the roller guide via a respective casting passage so as to seal the lower end of such passage. At this time, the dummy bars are spaced from, and are generally parallel to, one another. Since the roller guide is laterally undivided, the roller guide is unable to maintain the spacing between the dummy bars as the latter are withdrawn from the roller guide during casting. Accordingly, distancing means is provided to keep the dummy bars spaced from one another. The distancing means includes a rod-like member which is receivable by one of the dummy bars in such a manner as to extend laterally of the dummy bars across at least a portion of the gap between the same.

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Mulheim (Ruhr), Germany

Gerhard Arnolds