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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2000
Werner Rahmfeld, Mülheim a..d. Ruhr, DE;
SMS Schloemann-Siemag Aktiengesellschaft, Düsseldorf, DE;
Abstract
A radius configuration of a strand guide of a vertical bending caster and including following over another bending zone, transition straightening zone, main radius guide zone, and transition final straightening zone, with the bending zone having at least one first region with a comparatively stronger bend and defined by a curvature formed by a series of continuously smaller, starting from an infinite radius of the vertical section of the strand guide, radii, and a second region adjoining the first region and having a comparatively smoother bend in comparison with that of the first region, and with the transition straightening zone, guide zone, being defined by a curvature with continuously increasing lengths of curvature-forming radii.