Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Nippon Steel Corporation

Hatsuyoshi Kumashiro

Hideo Kaneko

Hiroyuki Nakashima

Shogo Matsumura

Toshihiro Kosuge

Haruo Ohguro

Ryuuzou Hanzawa

Youji Ao

Tsutomu Fujii

Hiroyuki Kawai

Akira Iwata

Hiroshi Iwasaki

Yukio Morimoto

Katsuhiko Kawamoto

Sadaaki Murakawa

Taizou Kiyosuke

Yoji Ao

Kazuaki Sueoka

Toshio Iida

Kenichi Murai

Yoshikazu Nishi

Makoto Ueda

A continuous casting apparatus comprises continuously supplying molten metal from a tundish to a cooled mold having an inlet and an outlet at least through a break ring, forming a cast section by continuously cooling the molten metal in the mold and starting the solidification of the molten metal below its surface, and intermittently withdrawing the cast section with respect to the mold through its outlet. During continuous casting, a sealing gas having a pressure higher than atmospheric and being soluble in the molten metal is invariable supplied to the entirety of the contact area of the mold and the break ring.

Apparatus for continuous casting

A horizontal continuous casting apparatus comprises, in one aspect, a tundish in which a molten metal material is stored, a mold assembly connected air-tightly to the tundish for casting a round billet, and an extraction device disposed on a downstream side of the mold assembly for forming a billet having a predetermined shape from the round billet fed from the mold assembly. The extraction device comprising a plurality of formation roll units arranged along a casting direction of the round billet and the formation roll units are composed of horizontal circular roll pairs, press units for pressing the roll pairs against the round billet and drive units for driving the roll pairs.

Method and apparatus for performing horizontal continuous casting

A continuous cast method comprises continuously supplying molten metal from a tundish through a break ring to a cooled mold having an inlet and an outlet. A cast section is formed by continuously cooling the molten metal in the mold and starting the solidification of the molten metal below its surface and intermittently withdrawing the cast section with respect to the mold through its outlet. During continuous casting, a sealing gas having a pressure higher than atmospheric and soluble in the molten metal is constantly supplied to the entirety of the contact area of the mold and the break ring.

Method and apparatus for continuous casting

In a method and apparatus for withdrawing a strand in a horizontal continuous casting installation, the strand is withdrawn from a mold by a predetermined stroke and then retracted by a smaller stroke corresponding to shrinkage of the strand. This cycle of withdrawal and retraction is repeated intermittently. A strand withdrawing and retracting characteristic of a cycle is set in a control unit, and pinch rolls for withdrawing and retracting the strand are controlled based on the set characteristic. Actual withdrawing and retracting strokes of the strand are detected by a detecting device and the detected signal is compared with the set characteristic to produce an instruction signal which is fed back to the pinch rolls, so that the positional accuracy of the strand and the quality of the strand are improved.

Method of and apparatus for withdrawing strand in horizontal continuous

A horizontal continuous casting installation, particularly for casting a strand of a large transverse dimension, wherein a body of molten metal stored in a tundish is continuously supplied through a tundish nozzle secured to the tundish in the vicinity of its bottom and extending horizontally therefrom to a mold connected to the forward end of the tundish nozzle and arranged coaxially therewith to cast a strand which is continuously withdrawn horizontally from the mold. The mold has an inner transverse dimension greater than the inner transverse dimension of the tundish nozzle. An electromagnetic field generating device is located between an outer surface of the tundish nozzle and an inner surface of the mold in the vicinity of an end surface of the mold facing the tundish nozzle for exerting an electromagnetic force on the body of molten metal flowing from the tundish nozzle to the mold in such a manner that the electromagnetic force is oriented toward the center of the body of molten metal.

Horizontal continuous casting installation

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Hatsuyoshi Kumashiro