Patents Assigned to Alfred Wertli Inc.
  • Apparatus for guiding and supporting a continuously cast slab
    Patent number: 4314600
    Abstract: The continuous casting installation is provided with freely rolling rollers which can be releaseably coupled to drive motors to impart a pushing force on the moving slab. The drive motors are mounted on slides which are reciprocated by a piston-cylinder unit. Also, each drive motor can be reciprocated toward and away from a facing roll by another piston-cylinder unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1980
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1982
    Assignee: Alfred Wertli Inc.
    Inventor: Bertrand Reymont
  • Apparatus for guiding and supporting a continuously cast slab
    Patent number: 4313488
    Abstract: The freely rolling rolls are provided with distance wheels at the respective ends. Alternating rolls are provided with distance wheels which are fixedly mounted to the roll bodies while the remaining rolls are provided with distance wheels which are rotatably mounted on the roll bodies. The adjacent distance wheels are also provided with interengaging V-shaped grooves and projections for lateral stability of the rolls. The distance wheels provide for a constant uniform spacing of the rolls and maintain the rolls in parallel relation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1980
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1982
    Assignee: Alfred Wertli Inc.
    Inventor: Bertrand Reymont