Nippon Steel Sumitomo Metal Corporation

Yasuo Maruki

Masafumi Miyazaki

Daisuke Miki

Hiroaki Uchiyama

Eiichiro Ishimaru

Yasushi Kurisu

Hideaki Yamamura

Norimasa Yamasaki

Tadahiro Izu

Shuntaro Imai

Masanobu Hayama

Yukihiro Matsuoka

Satoshi Senoo

Kazumi Seki

Eiichi Takeuchi

Mamoru Yamada

Isao Suichi

Mitsuru Nakayama

Naoya Hamada

Hideki Oka

The present invention is a casting product reduction apparatus that applies reduction to a casting product drawn from a mold with a sufficient reduction force and thereby can surely decrease center segregation and porosity and suppress occurrence of internal cracks so as to manufacture a high-quality casting product and includes: a pair of casting product press rolls that hold and press the casting product therebetween; backup rolls that support the casting product press rolls; and a pair of frames arranged to face each other, wherein three or more sets of the casting product press roll and the backup roll are arranged in a casting product drawing direction on each of the frames, and wherein a reduction means that decreases and increases a distance between the frames is provided at two or more places on the pair of frames.

Casting product reduction apparatus

Continuous casting equipment includes a casting product reduction apparatus and a casting product drawing apparatus, the casting product reduction apparatus including a pair of casting product reduction rolls that sandwich and apply pressure to a casting product and being configured to apply reduction to the casting product, the casting product drawing apparatus being provided in a following stage of the casting product reduction apparatus and configured to sandwich and draw the casting product with a pair of casting product drawing rolls. At least one of the pair of casting product reduction rolls includes a large-diameter part that projects radially outward in an axial-direction center region and applies pressure to a width-direction center region of the casting product. The casting product that is subjected to reduction by the casting product reduction apparatus has a depressed part corresponding to the large-diameter part. At least one of the pair of casting product drawing rolls of the casting product drawing apparatus includes a depressed part supporting part that contacts with and supports the depressed part, and is driven by a driving mechanism. An axial-direction length Lof the depressed part supporting part and an axial-direction length Lof the large-diameter part of the casting product reduction roll satisfy 0.5&#xd7;L&#x2266;L&#x3c;L.

Continuous casting equipment

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Tokyo, Japan

Yasuo Maruki