Abstract: A carrying tower for a metallurgical vessel includes at least one carrying arm cantilevering from a non-rotatable carrying column and pivotable about the carrying column, which carrying arm carries at least one metallurgical vessel. A pivot bearing is provided between the carrying arm and the carrying column. In order to enable a simple check, maintenance and a quick removal of the pivot bearing with the carrying arm remaining on the carrying tower, a single pivot bearing accommodating axial and radial forces as well as tilting moments, with a lower-side shoulder of a first bearing race, rests on a supporting surface arranged on the upper end of the carrying column. The carrying arm is mounted so as to be suspended on a second bearing race of the pivot bearing.

Abstract: A starter bar head for a continuous casting plant includes side faces that are directed to, and sealed relative to, the walls of a continuous casting mould, a front face closing the continuous casting mould, and at least one anchoring recess for the hot strand. The anchoring recess departs from a side face of the starter bar head, at least partly penetrates the front face of the starter bar head and is to be filled up by the metal to be cast. It is designed to be widened from the front face to a bottom face of the anchoring recess and includes at least two side walls arranged symmetrically to the longitudinal axis of the starter bar head and directed to the bottom face. The side walls of the anchoring recess pass over into a further recess whose surfaces that border at the mould side walls to be sealed off are directed upwardly, i.e. to the front face of the starter bar head.

Abstract: A guiding stand to be used in a continuous casting plant includes rollers supporting the strand at opposite sides and arranged in a supporting framework. The rollers, at least at one side of the strand, are mounted in guide rods pivotably arranged in the supporting framework for adjustment to various strand thicknesses. The guide rods are pivotable by an adjustment device, and the guide rods of neighboring rollers are each connected with one another by coupling rods in the manner of a four-bar linkage.

Abstract: A driving roll stand to be used in a continuous casting plant includes a lower roll and an upper roll arranged one above the other. At least one of the rollers is drivable by a rotary drive. The lower roll is mounted at a support supported on a base, and the upper roll is mounted at a lever hinged to the support and pivotably movable by an adjustment drive. The adjustment drive is hinged both to an upper part of the support rising above the lever in height and to the lever. Further the rotary drive of the upper and/or lower roll is mounted at this upper part of the support.

Abstract: In a shearing machine to be used in bow-type continuous casting plants for separating continuously cast strands, such as slabs or billets, two cutters are arranged in a carrying construction. One lower cutter of the machine is movable towards and away from an upper cutter fixed in the carrying construction during the cutting procedure. The upper cutter can be shifted by means of a toggle linkage adjustment device, out of a working position immediately above the surface of the pieces to be cut, into a pulled-back position farther removed from the surface of the pieces to be cut, and vice versa.

Abstract: In a shearing machine for a run-out roller table of a continuous casting plant, in particular a multiple-strand continuous casting plant for billets, including an upper and a lower cutter arranged in a shearing frame and movable towards and away from each other by means of drive and control aggregates. The shearing frame is mounted on a machine frame so as to be displaceable in the longitudinal direction of the run-out roller table. The shearing frame rests loosely on the machine frame, which machine frame exceeds the run-out roller table in height. The drive and control aggregates are mounted on the shearing frame and form a construction unit with it.

Abstract: In a supporting and guiding means for continuously cast strands including a plurality of exchangeable supporting elements each provided with rollers at opposite sides thereof, neighboring supporting elements are provided with shoulder-like projections where they are separated from each other. The projections are oppositely arranged, back each other, and carry one roller each so as to complement each other to form a pair of oppositely arranged rollers.

Abstract: An arcuate supporting and guiding construction for continuously cast strands, in particular slabs, has rollers forming oppositely arranged roller paths supporting the strand, arcuate longitudinal carriers extending over the entire guiding arc and accommodating the rollers, transverse carriers arranged in opposing pairs spaced along and connected by the arcuate longitudinal carriers to back them up, a base, drawing anchors connecting the pairs of transverse carriers, and a fixed bearing and expansion bearings provided on the supporting and guiding arc to connect it with the base.

Abstract: A fastening arrangement for a roller that is divided a number of times and is to be used in a continuous casting plant has supporting brackets arranged in the longitudinal direction of the roller. The brackets are provided with pocket-like recesses for accommodating outer and inner roller holding devices therein. Detachable bolting devices connect the outer roller holding devices with their respective supporting brackets, while the inner roller holding devices rest loosely in the respective pocket-like recesses.

Abstract: A supporting and guiding stand for continuously cast strands, in particular slabs, has rollers forming oppositely arranged roller paths to support the strand, uninterrupted longitudinal carriers accommodating the rollers, transverse carriers spaced along the longitudinal carriers, driven rollers journaled on the transverse carriers via brackets, and adjustment means provided for adjusting the driven rollers to the strand or to a starter bar.

Abstract: A supporting and guiding arc for a cast strand has roller-carrying arcuate longitudinal carriers arranged in a stationary framework, which carriers support the strand at opposite sides. At least the roller-carrying arcuate longitudinal carriers arranged at one side of the strand are braceable relative to the framework under elastic deformation for adjustment to various strand thicknesses. All of the longitudinal carriers arranged at one side of the strand are connected to transverse carriers which are movably guided on drawing anchors secured to the framework, and the transverse carriers are fixable relative to the drawing anchors.

Abstract: A roller stand to be used in continuous casting plants comprises two strand guide parts arranged opposite each other so as to guide the strand between them, which strand guide parts are held together by drawing anchors. The roller carrying means of one of the strand guide parts are movable relative to the strand by piston driving means. Overload protection means are provided within the area of the piston driving means and spacers maintain the distance between the opposing rollers.

Abstract: A strand guiding means for a continuous casting plant with sets of supporting rollers and also driving rollers. At least one driving roller being arranged at the beginning and/or at the end of a set of supporting rollers. The driving rollers are mounted on cross beams, which are in turn connected to one of two supporting roller carrying members, preferably by means of a linkage parallelogram. In addition the driving rollers are displaceable perpendicularly to the strand surface.

Abstract: A continuous casting plant has rollers or rolls for supporting, guiding, bending and straightening or deforming a wide strand, which rollers or rolls have annular recesses distributed over their longitudinal extensions forming bearing pins that are received in two outer bearings and at least one inner bearing arranged therebetween. One of the outer bearings acts as a fixed bearing, while all the other bearings act as expansion bearings.