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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2005
Filed:
Apr. 15, 2002
Applicants:
Tadahiro Izu, Hikari, JP;
Takashi Arai, Hikari, JP;
Mamoru Yamada, Hikari, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Nippon Steel Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B22D011/06 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In a method of manufacturing a plurality of coil-shaped thin cast strips while molten metal r is being supplied to the molten metal poolformed by a pair of cooling drumsand a pair of side dams, when a casting operation corresponding to one coil of the coil-shaped thin cast strip has been completed, gas is made to blow from the gas nozzlestoward the scum s floating on the molten metal, so that the scum s drifts, due to the gas flow to one meniscus m, and the thus drifted scum is attached to a surface of the cast strip and circumferential faces of the cooling drums and is then discharged from the molten metal pool.