Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd.

Nkk Corporation

Nippon Kokan Kabushiki Kaisha

H. Ikeuchi & Co., Ltd.

Koichi Ozawa

Taizo Sera

Yutaka Sakata

Yoshinari Iwamura

Shinobu Miyahara

Katsunori Okimoto

Shigetaka Uchida

Takashi Mitsuhiro

Toshio Teshima

A center alignment mechanism of a cavity thickness adjustable mold for continuous casting, comprises a guide mechanism which supports a spindle of a carriage device of each narrow face unit of the mold slidably in the wide face-wise directions of wide face units of the mold, and a driving mechanism which moves the guide mechanism in the narrow face-wise directions of the narrow face unit. The guide mechanism comprises a guide block in which the distal end portion of the spindle is slidably supported, a guide groove formed in the wide face units so as to support the guide block slidably in the narrow face-wise directions of the narrow face unit, a bracket in which the proximal end portion of the spindle is slidably supported, and another guide groove formed in the wide face units so as to support the bracket slidably in the narrow face-wise directions of the narrow face unit. The driving mechanism comprises worm jacks provided between the guide block and the fixed wide face unit and between the bracket and the fixed wide face unit, and a driving source of the worm jacks. Thus, there can be provided a cavity thickness variable mold in which narrow face units are not distorted when they are moved, so that wide face copper plates will not be damaged.

Thickness adjustable mold for continuous casting

A spray nozzle which has a nozzle main body and opening at one end in fluid communication with an inflow hole passing into the central portion of the nozzle main body. The inflow hole has a rounded orifice portion in fluid communication with an elongated discharge slot at an opposite end of the nozzle main body. Stirring channels extend along and are in fluid communication with the inflow hole. Each stirring channel has a cup-shaped end which is laterally adjacent the rounded orifice portion of the inflow hole. The cut-shaped portion of the stirring holes causes a reverse flow of mixed gas and liquid which passes down the stirring channels such that mixed gas and liquid passing through the inflow hole towards the elongated discharge slot is agitated and a uniform spray with fine droplets is jetted from the discharge slot.

Spray nozzle

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Fukuyama, Japan

Koichi Ozawa