Abstract: A liquid-cooled plate mold for continuous casting of metals has highly heat-conductive mold plates of copper or a copper alloy. The mold plates have a water side. A fastening support for each mold plate is provided for securing the mold plate thereon. The fastening support is in the form of a water box or a support plate. Fastening elements for securing the mold plates to the fastening supports are provided. Shaped parts having a thread are arranged on the water side of the mold plates. The shaped parts form fastening pieces that are non-positively connected by soldering connections or welding connections to the mold plates, wherein the fastening elements engage the fastening pieces.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for preventing undesirable intensive cooling particularly of the strip edge areas of a cast strand resulting from running water emerging from the bottom opening of a secondary cooling chamber, wherein high-energy spray jets of a deflection medium are produced and directed against the emerging running water transversely of the strip edge areas of the cast strand, such that the running water is deflected from the strip edge areas and is discharged through outlet openings of the secondary cooling chamber arranged on both sides of the cast strand.

Abstract: A continuous slab casting method whereby upstream of a soft reduction portion of a path of the strand and preferably downstream of a liquid core reduction portion, the strand is allowed to bulge by ferrostatic pressure of the liquid core, the bulge being pressed back during the soft reduction stage.

Abstract: In a method for changing a billet section of a continuous billet casting device from an initial section to a final section, the opposed billet sides interact with oppositely positioned roll supports of a billet guide arranged below a continuous casting die. The roll supports have segments with rolls, and each segment is individually adjustable with respect to its angular position relative to the billet. In an initial position of the roll supports, the segments are adjusted to a uniform production format of the billet. A controlled sequence of adjusting steps of the segments successively arranged in a direction of continuous casting is carried out, wherein, for reducing the section of the billet, the segments are advanced successively toward the billet in the continuous casting direction and, and for increasing the section of the billet, the segments are moved successively away from the billet in the continuous casting direction.

Abstract: A billet guiding unit of a continuous casting plant for thin slabs includes guide rolls supported on oppositely located frames, wherein the frames are tensioned relative to each other against stop surfaces by means of tension rods. Hydraulic cylinders for extending or stretching the tension rods are mounted between corresponding stop surfaces of the frames. The distance between oppositely located rows of rolls of the frames are corrected by determining a lower deviation side of the slab by carrying out a continuous measurement of the thickness of the slab sides, by determining from the difference of the dimensions the required extension of the tension rods on the lower deviation side and by applying to the hydraulic cylinders the pressure required for the extension of the tension rods.

Abstract: A continuous casting plant for casting thin slabs includes an electromagnetic decelerating unit for the molten steel which flows into the mold through a submerged casting pipe. The electromagnetic decelerating unit is composed of a coil with a ferromagnetic core arranged on each of the long sides of the mold and a yoke surrounding the mold. The cores on the long sides of the mold each are composed of a principal core and a partial core on the side of the cast strand, wherein different partial cores can be used as desired for adapting the magnetic field to changing casting conditions.

Abstract: A metal mold for continous casting of steel bands and including wide side walls and opposite narrow side walls extending parallel to each other between the wide side walls, and displaceable toward each other and away from each other for adjusting a distance therebetween, with the wide side walls each having a concave arcuate portion defining a pouring region, and inclined surfaces on opposite sides of the concave arcuate portion.

Abstract: An arrangement for operating a continuous casting plant for the manufacture of thin slabs for hot strip rolling includes at least one pair of reducing rolls which follow a continuous casting mold. Adjustable strand guide elements are arranged following the pair of reducing rolls.

Abstract: In a continuous casting mold, the adjustable cooled narrow walls between the broad walls for continuous casting of thin slabs are divided into upper slab-shaping and lower supporting parts. At the lower parts, gaps are provided at the edges of the slab to reduce cooling and thereby prevent the formation of edge cracks on the solidifying slab.

Abstract: A method of forming a wide side wall of a chill mold for a thin slab casting installation and which has a bulged widened region proceeding from the upper edge of the wall and terminating toward the sides and toward the bottom of the wall, includes making the wall of copper with a thickness of 5-50 mm, and forming the bulged widened region under tension or a combination of tension and compression conditions.The apparatus for performing the method includes a bottom plate die with an appropriate contoured face, and a power-operated upper die the end face of which is shaped to match desired bulge of the widened region of the wall and cooperates with the contoured face of the bottom die plate to form the widened region.

Abstract: The apparatus includes a set of no more than three pairs of deformation rollers for deforming the continuous cast strip. A drive device positioned downstream of the deformation rollers drives the cast strip. Guide rollers are positioned downstream of the deformation rollers.

Abstract: In a process and apparatus for the continuous casting of slabs and blooms which uses a soft-reduction line including a pair of movable rollers arranged in a plane perpendicular to slab movement and a mechanism for driving the rollers towards each other and an adjustable spindle for holding the rollers apart by a desired gap, the load on the spindle is reduced during the spindle adjustment process. This reduction in load may be temporary in which case, after the adjustment is complete and the new gap has been established, the spindle load is retuned to its pre-adjustment value. Alternatively, the spindle can operate in a reduced load condition permanently in which case the desired gap can be set continuously using the reduced-load spindle with only a small spindle adjustment force being necessary.

Abstract: A continuously cast steel strip which consists of a solidified casting shell and a liquid core is reduced in thickness in a roll deformation and is then rolled. In order to avoid undesired fluctuations in thickness, to improve the structure and to simplify the roll deformation unit, a steel strip billet of 40-80 mm thickness is cast, roll deformed to 15-40 mm thickness having a 2-15 mm residual liquid core in a maximum of three steps. The roll deformed billet is then guided to complete solidification.

Abstract: In a continuous-casting mold for strip steel relatively long side walls have inner surfaces bridged by and forming an upwardly open passage with relatively short end walls, and each side wall has starting at an upper edge an inwardly open recess having an inwardly concave central portion joined at respective upright lines with a pair of flanking inwardly convex side portions. The portions having respective radii of curvature. The radius of curvature of the central portion increases continuously from the upper edge to a straight line at a lower edge of the respective recess and the radius of curvature of each outer portion is substantially constant within at least 100 mm of the upper edge of the respective side wall and may be constant over the entire vertical length of each side portion.

Abstract: A pouring tube for feeding molten steel into the pouring zone of a continuous casting mold includes a tube portion connected to a pouring container and an end portion provided with a bottom piece. To ensure safe operation of the pouring tube and an improved flow distribution, the bottom piece has in the direction of outlet openings thereof a width which is smaller, between 30% and 80%, than the distance between the walls which form the upper limits of the outlet openings.

Abstract: A continuous casting plant for casting beam blanks to be used in rolling section steel. The continuous casting plant includes a cooled mold and a strand guide arrangement following the mold. The mold has two side walls which each define a web surface, two expanding surfaces and two parallel adjusting surfaces. End rolls are adjustably mounted between the adjusting surfaces. The expanding surfaces of the mold are inclined at an angle of 20.degree. to 45.degree. relative to the plane of the web surface. Guide rollers are arranged in alignment with and following the web surfaces, the expanding surfaces and the adjusting surfaces of the mold. The adjustable end rolls are provided with sections which project into the mold space. Guide elements are arranged following the end walls, the guide elements being adjustable in the same direction.

Abstract: A dummy bar for use in a strip steel casting machine of the type including a continuous casting mold having a sealing plane between a pair of broad side walls and a pair of narrow side walls, and at least a first set of driven rollers or rolls located in spaced relation to and downstream of the outlet of said mold. The dummy bar is formed of a single piece of steel plate, and includes an upper contour adapted to form a cast connection with the leading end of the strip being cast, a sealing portion, and means for supporting and withdrawing the forward end of the strip from the mold. The bar, measured from the upper end of the sealing portion to the bottom of the lower portion, is longer than the spacing between the sealing plane of the mold and the common axle plane of the first roller or roller pair.

Abstract: A method for the sequential casting of steel strip in steel strip casting equipment wherein under normal operating conditions a steel melt is fed through a pouring tube having discharge ports into the pouring area of a cooled ingot mold at a location below the surface of the melt in the mold and is thereafter removed from the mold in the form of steel strip by the combined operation of mold oscillation means and strip discharge means. After the feed of melt is interrupted, anchoring rods are partially longitudinally immersed into the melt laterally of the pouring area of the mold, and the surface of the melt in the mold is lowered to a level below the pouring area. After a desired interval, the melt feed is continued, and the level of the surface of the melt in the mold is allowed to rise above the discharge ports of the pouring tube. Thereafter, casting flux is applied to the surface of the melt, and the operation of the mold oscillation means and the strip discharge means is resumed.

Abstract: The dummy bar includes a flexible sheet having several rows of contact elements fastened along a portion of its length to both sides of the sheet. Free projections of contact elements of different rows overlap one another in a lengthwise direction to the dummy bar. In order to create a simple, operationally safe, low maintenance dummy bar the flexible sheet includes recesses corresponding to the projection of the free projections of the contact elements.

Abstract: The mold for continuous casting of a rollable steel flanged billet having a web and two flanges used to make a steel beam or girder comprises two side walls extending over the web and the flanges and two end walls determining the thickness of the flanges positioned movably between the side walls. To provide a continuous casting mold in which the web length, the web thickness and the flange thickness can be independently varied, each of the side walls has a straight portion and an exteriorly directed bent out end portion angled relative to the straight portion, each of the end walls is positioned between a straight portion of one of the side walls and an adjacent opposing bent out end portion of the other of the side walls and at least one side wall is movable in the direction of its planar surface relative to the other side wall transverse to the casting direction.