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 of continuously casting steel in which a melt is introduced through a movable immersion nozzle. The method includes the steps of controlling the start of the casting process in connection with the withdrawal of the casting by starting the withdrawal of the casting upon reaching a desired height of the surface of the steel in the mold, and driving the casting from the mold at a desired casting removal speed via a control element in a predetermined manner. Further, the method includes measuring the position of the bath level as it ascends in the mold during the continuous casting and adjusting the position of the immersion nozzle in relation to the ascending bath level from a first position to a desired operating position by changing the position of the distributor.

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.

Abstract: Seen against the direction of casting, the narrow width dimension of a mold is widened through appropriate surface contour, at least in the mold center, to facilitate charging of the mold whereby the lower portions of the longitudinal walls of the mold are essentially parallely curved while in the upper portion at least one of the walls tangentially merges into the pour-in portion of the mold.

Abstract: Molten metal is introduced into a tubular mold and is withdrawn from the mold in the partly solidified state. There is included a sensor to measure the behavior of the metal strand as close as possible to the mold in order to control or regulate the drive unit for the withdrawal of the strand on a continuous casting machine. For a more precise determination of the actual conditions, the movement of the strand is measured in an area close as possible to the point where the strand leaves the mold. The measurement of the movement may be made in a non-contact and non-delayed manner by the sensor which responds to radiation. The sensor is designed and positioned so that it produces an evaluatable measurement signal in response to the displacement-time behavior of the strand. The measurement signal is transmitted to a display unit and/or evaluation unit for adjustment of the drive unit in order to obtain the desired speed of withdrawal.

Abstract: The utilization of a feeder immersion type pipe for continuous casting is avoided through an antechamber-like feeder vessel on top of the mold for continuous casting, having a short extension that reaches into the mold cavity and defines a step towards the wall proper from which steel flows in widening cross section to directly form the casting strand. Casting extraction is enhanced by feeding appropriate material, either fluid or a foil, into the space of the mold cavity immediately underneath this step.

Abstract: A tubular mold is included in a coolant container there being a tubular guide sheet arranged around the mold at a certain distance therefrom, the coolant flows through the gap between the mold and the guide sheet; as specific improvement the upper portion of the mold has grooves cut into the outside to be flown though by water offering therefore a relatively enlarged cooling surface as compared with the remainder of the configuration of the mold underneath, the guide sheet has a radially inward extension such that water is forced into and through the grooves; these grooves are provided in the area in which the liquid bath level is expected to occur in the mold.

Abstract: Casting powder is to be fluidized for feeding to a mold for continuous casting. The gas flow providing the fluidization is controlled in response to bath surface temperature, monitored by means of a curved copper sheet, serving as radiation detector. A thermofeeler is attached to the sheet and controls a pneumatic control circuit for the fluidization gas.

Abstract: The particular pipe is provided with a system of blind bores being gas conductively interconnected and an inert gas is fed to this duct and channel system to traverse the gas permeable material of which the pipe is made to emerge particularly from surfaces in contact with molten steel to thereby prevent the precipitation of deposits, particularly on the inside of the pipe, but also on the outside surface thereof where being submerged in the bath of molten steel.

Abstract: A hot casting, freshly emerging from the mold, is inspected for any surface defects by a revolving line scan camera; the camera is disposed in an annular water-cooled, two-part housing having an inwardly directed annular gap covered by a sheet that revolves with the camera; the camera can look through a small gap of that sheet.

Abstract: A casting is inspected by equipment similar to the equipment in a companion application. That equipment includes a revolving camera. The camera is electrically powered by a generator which revolves with the camera and is, by itself, driven pursuant to that rotation.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for spraying a coolant on steel slabs, comprising spraying nozzles preceded by a mixing chamber with separate feed lines for the propellant and the coolant, the nozzle discharges being designed in such a manner that the mixture of propellant and coolant impinges in the form of wide fans, at an acute angle and in opposite directions on the slab surface, in that the nozzle discharges start from a common nozzle housing into which issues the mixing chamber, the coolant connector to the mixing chamber consisting of an exchangeable inset tube projecting into the mixing chamber, in particular as regards slab-format castings obtained from a continuous casting mold, where the particular nozzles located in the gap between two adjoining guide rollers for the cast slab are directed parallel to the axes of the guide rollers and the nozzle housing is mounted between the plane of the guide roller axes and the slab surface.

Abstract: A device for spraying a mixture of coolant and propellant onto steel plate emerging from a continuous casting mold through guide rolls comprising a mixing chamber and means separately feeding coolant and propellant thereto, a nozzle housing having at least two nozzle outlets offset in side by side and oppositely directed relationship and adapted to discharge the coolant/propellant mixture in wide dispersion and at an acute angle onto the steel plate and feed means connecting the mixing chamber with the nozzle housing and including a replaceable insert pipe extending into the mixing chamber.

Abstract: Ingots or castings are supported by fairly closely spaced rollers. The resulting spaces adjacent to exposed surface portions of the ingot or casting are filled with atomized water to generate a fog or mist being retained so that as much water droplets as possible vaporize by heat radiation from the ingot or casting, supplemented by radiation from the adjacent roller surfaces.

Abstract: The solid treatment material is contained in rotationally symmetrical, flotation body having a ballast weight and openings for discharging jets of vaporized treatment material into the steel while the body floats, and the jets have a tangential component so that the body rotates and wobbles and the jets vary their direction to distribute the treatment material.

Abstract: The steel in a tundish is treated under pressure to add Ca, Mg or a rare earth for reducing dendritic and enhancing globulitic crystallation.

Abstract: Molten steel pouring from a ladle into a tundish is surrounded by a vessel which is pressurized to maintain an excess pressure of an inert gas and/or a gas or vapor of a material that treats the steel, e.g., for deoxidizing, desulfurizing and/or other cleansing action. The excess pressure per se inhibits any reoxidation. Reactant material is fed to the chamber at a rate to maintain the excess pressure and/or to ensure sufficient presence of reacting material commensurate with the amount of steel passing through.