Abstract: The invention relates to a device for rapping a row of collector electrodes in an electrostatic precipitator, the collector electrodes consisting of strip plates suspended from their upper ends with respect to their longitudinal extension. The aim of the invention is to provide a device for rapping a row of collector electrodes which guarantees an even supply of impact energy to the electrode plates and allows a high cleaning efficiency during rapping and a free thermal expansion in the longitudinal direction of the plates. This aim is achieved in that a gap is defined between the side of every collector electrode facing away from the rapping device and the subsequent anvil. An elastic spring element having a predetermined spring rate is arranged in said gap and is connected only on one side, either to the collector electrode or to the anvil, and is suitable to allow a substantially free oscillation of the collector electrodes between the anvils after an impact momentum.

Abstract: A method for continuous casting of thin slab ingots with reduced thickness following immediately the casting particularly of steel under utilization of a mold which is open at the bottom and under further utilization of roller pairs arranged along the withdrawal path, at least some of them are driven and at least some of the rollers are hydraulically adjustable perpendicular from the path so as to act as ingot deforming rolls. The invention is further improved by determining the speed of driven rollers, and the pressure force of adjustable roller pairs acting against the ingot and providing feedback control for the speed and the force. Additionally, providing a master control action for the speed control such that a point of solidification is dynamically maintained in a particular geometric position as far as the passing ingot is concerned; and by limiting the adjustment of rollers as far as the gap between pairs of such rollers is concerned downstream from that point.

Abstract: A method for continuous casting metal products under utilization of a mold and pouring molten metal into the mold to obtain a flat stock with a thickness below 100 mm, includes withdrawing the partially solidified casting by at least one roll pair which reduce the thickness of the stock upstream from complete solidification by at least 10% but not more than 70% while further reduction in thickness by at least 30% obtains downstream from complete solidification is improved by requiring that the product being cast has a thickness not below 50 mm; that exclusively internally cooled rollers are used for obtaining the reduction; and that the thickness is reduced downstream from the complete solidification at a point where the temperature is only little below the solidus temperature particularly in the case of steel being a temperature between 1500 and 1200 degrees C.