Mannesmann Aktiengesellschaft

Gustav Wiegard Maschinenfabrik

Lechler Gmbh & Co. Kg

Aeg-elotherm G.m.b.h.

Hans Schrewe

Fritz-Peter Pleschiutschnigg

Hans Gruner

Fritz P Pleschiutschnigg

Lothar Parschat

Gerd Diederich

Sepp Mezger

Axel Von Starck

Karl Holter

Jurgen Sardemann

Kurt Lerch

Josef Glaser

Hans Butz

Klaus Franken

Gustav Wiegard

Hans-Dieter Funderich

Klaus Frenken

Gerhard Komma

Hans E Gerbig

Fritz-Peter Pleschhutschnigg

Werner Christner

Hans-Erwin Gerbig

Erich Keuper

Peter Geisbusch

Helmuth Orsech

Hans Van Bonn

Claus-Dieter Haufe

Device for continuous casting of slabs

Multiple castings are cut into billets, combined in a transverse transport facility, separate into billets to be inspected or not, recombined and cooled. Transportation includes two transverse facilities and two longitudinal facilities, combined in various combinations. The transportation is carried out with only one, or no, pivoting action and cooling is provided for alongside one of the multiple transport paths with overall accommodation to subsequent transport of billets out of the system.

Quality control in multiple continuous casting plants

Casting powder is to be fluidized for feeding to a mold for continuous casting. The gas flow providing the fluidization is controlled in response to bath surface temperature, monitored by means of a curved copper sheet, serving as radiation detector. A thermofeeler is attached to the sheet and controls a pneumatic control circuit for the fluidization gas.

Controlling the feeding of casting powder

The particular pipe is provided with a system of blind bores being gas conductively interconnected and an inert gas is fed to this duct and channel system to traverse the gas permeable material of which the pipe is made to emerge particularly from surfaces in contact with molten steel to thereby prevent the precipitation of deposits, particularly on the inside of the pipe, but also on the outside surface thereof where being submerged in the bath of molten steel.

Injection and feeder pipe for apparatus for continuous casting of steel

A hot casting, freshly emerging from the mold, is inspected for any surface defects by a revolving line scan camera; the camera is disposed in an annular water-cooled, two-part housing having an inwardly directed annular gap covered by a sheet that revolves with the camera; the camera can look through a small gap of that sheet.

Device for inspecting a casting

An apparatus is disclosed for adjusting the inclination of the small sides in a mold for continuous casting, selectively in response to any variations of the mold sides as such, and in response to any variation of the gap between the casting emerging from the mold and the lower end thereof. A feedback loop operating in response to mold side inclination should be responsive to command input which are dependent upon the casting speed.

Supervising the inclination of mold sides

A casting is inspected by equipment similar to the equipment in a companion application. That equipment includes a revolving camera. The camera is electrically powered by a generator which revolves with the camera and is, by itself, driven pursuant to that rotation.

Inspection of castings

The invention relates to an apparatus for spraying a coolant on steel slabs, comprising spraying nozzles preceded by a mixing chamber with separate feed lines for the propellant and the coolant, the nozzle discharges being designed in such a manner that the mixture of propellant and coolant impinges in the form of wide fans, at an acute angle and in opposite directions on the slab surface, in that the nozzle discharges start from a common nozzle housing into which issues the mixing chamber, the coolant connector to the mixing chamber consisting of an exchangeable inset tube projecting into the mixing chamber, in particular as regards slab-format castings obtained from a continuous casting mold, where the particular nozzles located in the gap between two adjoining guide rollers for the cast slab are directed parallel to the axes of the guide rollers and the nozzle housing is mounted between the plane of the guide roller axes and the slab surface.

Apparatus for spraying a coolant on a steel slab

One or more electromagnetic stirring elements are mounted on arms and/or holders, extending from a carriage which runs on a stationary bed and in a direction transversely to the direction of casting. The stirring elements are either directly positioned in the direction of carriage movement or orthogonally thereto. Multiphase elements can be positioned from three different directions to circumscribe the casting.

Stirring of molten metal core in a casting as withdrawn from a machine

A device for spraying a mixture of coolant and propellant onto steel plate emerging from a continuous casting mold through guide rolls comprising a mixing chamber and means separately feeding coolant and propellant thereto, a nozzle housing having at least two nozzle outlets offset in side by side and oppositely directed relationship and adapted to discharge the coolant/propellant mixture in wide dispersion and at an acute angle onto the steel plate and feed means connecting the mixing chamber with the nozzle housing and including a replaceable insert pipe extending into the mixing chamber.

Device for spraying of a coolant on steel plates during continuous

An electromagnetic stirring apparatus for stirring the liquid center core of a continuous casting. The casting is supported by and transported over guide rolls while a changing electromagnetic field is induced within the liquid casting core by induction coils positioned beneath the casting. Fingers of a stack of ferromagnetic plates form the cores of the induction coils and are positioned between the guide rolls and are close enough to the casting to induce a strong field therein.

Electromagnetic stirring apparatus

Ingots or castings are supported by fairly closely spaced rollers. The resulting spaces adjacent to exposed surface portions of the ingot or casting are filled with atomized water to generate a fog or mist being retained so that as much water droplets as possible vaporize by heat radiation from the ingot or casting, supplemented by radiation from the adjacent roller surfaces.

Cooling of ingots or castings

The tundish is mounted on a frame which can be lifted in relation to a carriage. A holder for a casting pipe is either positioned on the frame to be lifted therewith or on the carriage to be controlled in synchronism with the frame lifting so that the pipe retains its position relative to the tundish.

Tundish for continuous casting

Additives in the form of a wire-like object are introduced through a tube into the interior of molten metal bath. The wire in the tube is surrounded by a pressurized gas which prevents metal from entering the tube. Since the tube extends close to the bottom of the bath, the additives melt near that bottom and are distributed in the bath through convective flow.

Feeding additives into the interior of molten metal

The apparatus includes a parallelogram-like foldable frame, opposite corners of which carry centering rollers to position the frame between two opposite track rollers; feelers measure the distance to the latter. The frame can be hung between the tracks or can be self-propelled by a belt drive. Some of the centering rollers can be used for reeling tests of the track rollers.

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Duisburg, Germany

Hans Schrewe