The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2000
Milorad Pavlicevic, Udine, IT;
Anatoly Kolesnichenko, Kiev, UA;
Alfredo Poloni, Fogliano di Redipuglia, IT;
Andrea Codutti, Udine, IT;
Danieli & C. Officine Meccaniche SpA, Buttrio (UD), IT;
Abstract
Continuous casting device and method with rollers for plane products such as strip ( ) or sheet, comprising counter-rotating rollers ( ) immersed in a receptacle ( ) containing molten metal ( ), said receptacle ( ) including a bottom ( ) and side walls ( ), said rollers ( ) being arranged parallel and adjacent to define a transit gap ( ) through which the strip ( ) to be produced is extracted, the device comprising holding elements ( ) of the electromagnetic type arranged in cooperation with each of the ends of said rollers ( ), said holding elements ( ) having an inner edge, an outer edge and a curved shape suitable to surround, without contact, at least partly the surface of said rollers ( ) immersed in said molten metal ( ), said holding elements ( ) comprising at least a coil ( ) suitable to be passed through by an alternating current to generate a magnetic field in said molten metal ( ) and generating currents induced therein in order to obtain the lateral confinement of said molten metal ( ) in the space (“1”) between the relative facing inner edges of said holding elements ( ).