Abstract: To reduce the cost of the mold, the mold of a continuous casting machine has no frame and the machine comprises an oscillating table constituted by a rectangular frame having large sides and small sides defining an opening, a mold carried by the oscillating table in this opening and comprised of two opposing large plates and two opposing small plates held tightly between the large plates. Supports for the small plates are integral with devices for adjusting the position of the small plates and jacks are provided for exerting a pressing force upon the large plates for pressing them tightly against the small plates. The large plates, the position adjusting devices and the jacks for exerting the pressing force are mounted on the oscillating table.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for controlling the oscillations of a continuous pour ingot mold which comprises at least one eccentric having a sleeve with an eccentric boring mounted to rotate on an off-center portion of a shaft. In order to eliminate the drawbacks resulting from the existence of a play between the sleeve and the shaft, the sleeve is so clamped on an off-centered shaft portion as to cancel the clamping constraints to allow the rotation of the sleeve on the shaft when the eccentricity is to be adjusted.

Abstract: An apparatus for deburring a product of continuous casting, which comprises a support frame including two vertical side plates defining respective guides in alignment with each other in a direction transverse to the longitudinal extension of the product and the guides having open ends, the guides extending downwardly from the open ends in a direction substantially perpendicular to the surface of the product, and crossbeams extending in the transverse direction and interconnecting the side plates. A girder having two ends is glidably mounted in two transversely aligned ones of the guides and a burr cutter is mounted on the girder. Two superposed rollers defining a nip therebetween for passage of the product are rotatable for displacing the product in the longitudinal direction and have journals glidably mounted in two additional ones of the transversely aligned guides.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling and guiding oscillations of a mold having an outlet for a continuous casting, comprises a fixed support, a first connecting rod pivotally connected to the mold at one end thereof, a first cam shaft carried by the fixed support, the first cam shaft having an axis extending perpendicularly to the axis of the continuous casting or to the direction of a tangent on the axis at a point adjacent the mold outlet and parallel to a vertical plane containing the axis, an end of the first connecting rod opposite to the one end being mounted on the first cam shaft, a second connecting rod pivotally connected to the mold at an end thereof, and a second cam shaft carried by the fixed support, the second cam shaft having a horizontal axis extending perpendicularly to the axis of the first cam shaft, an end of the second connecting rod opposite to the one end being mounted on the second cam shaft, the mounting of each connecting rod on a respective one of the cam shafts being arranged to prevent a

Abstract: The invention is an apparatus for removing a dummy bar from a casting line and reintroducing the dummy bar into the mold. The apparatus comprises a handling system for moving a basket from an end station where the dummy bar is separated from a continuous casting to a position above the mold of the casting installation. The system includes a lifting frame capable of holding the basket, a raising device having one end attached to the lifting frame for vertically raising the lifting frame, a travel frame supporting and end of a raising device opposite to the one end, the travel frame having vertical runways capable of receiving and guiding the raised lifting frame, and a horizontal pathway supporting the travel frame for movement to and from the position above the mold.

Abstract: An installation for casting molten metal into a continuous strand from an oscillatory mold comprises a mold discharge guide rack including an assembly of guide elements for the continuous metal strand and two side supports for the guide elements. A mechanism for imparting oscillations to the mold includes a guide bar and a control lever operatively associated with the guide bar. Two fluidtight housings each affixed to a respective one of the side supports encloses the guide bar which is mounted in the housing on guide rollers assuring lateral and transverse guidance of the guide bar therein.