Abstract: A casting device for the continuous manufacture of a thin metal strip (2) which includes a rotating, cooled conveyor belt guided by guide rollers (3, 4), and a melt distributor (5) juxtaposed the conveyor belt (2) and from which metal melt (7) is fed onto the conveyor belt (2) and is solidified. In order to do away with underpressure in the casting device, the melt distributor (5) includes a distributor base having a surface which extends essentially tangential of a surface of the belt on the guide roller and at a centerpoint angle in front of the apex point (12:00 o'clock position) of the front guide roller (3), viewed in direction of movement of the conveyor belt (2)), that is in the range of 5.degree. to 20.degree.. The front quids roller (3) is cooled at least in the area thereof defined by the respective center-point angle .alpha..

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for the continuous manufacture of a metal strip (1) with near net shape. The metal melt (6) is fed from a melt distributor (5) through a casting nozzle (15) onto a rotating, cooled conveyor belt (2) and solidified. In the operating condition, the melt level is controlled in the melt distributor (5) as a function of the desired strip thickness d of the metal strip (1). In the melt distributor (5) there is initially adjusted a fill level (A), which corresponds at a maximum with the conveyor belt plane (E). Such a fill level (B) then is adjusted such that the melt (6) completely displaces the air from the area (11, 14) in front of the casting nozzle (15) and from the casting nozzle (15). In the operating condition, the fill level (C) is controlled some millimeters above the level (D) of the liquid metal on the conveyor belt (E) so that the melt (6) flows out of the casting nozzle (15) according to the pipette principle.