B - Operations – Transporting – 22 – D
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
22
D
22/53
B22D 11/06 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1093272
APPARATUS AND PROCEDURE FOR THE BELT CASTING OF METAL ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE In apparatus for the continuous casting of metal in strip form between moving belts, belt support means comprising a multiplicity of elements that are distributed crosswise and lengthwise of a belt path area beside the mod space and are individually yieldable against a loading force, permit close belt stabilization to a selected path while yielding locally under excess outward force by the belt such as caused by solidified metal. Arrangement of belt support and cooling means along the mold space in successive sections each indi- vidually adjusted in respect to one or more of the conditions of: belt path taper; degree of compliance, if any, in the re- tention of the belt against the support; and cooling action; are such that these features, as well as provision, if desired, of local yieldability, permit accomodation of the apparatus to various requirements of casting operation. A specific process for casting, well realized with the foregoing apparatus, includes controlling the stabiliza- tion of the belt along its path so that in a first zone where the metal is essentially liquid, the belt is held firmly against the supports, while in a second zone the belt may if necessary have soft support in the sense of locally following the surface shell of metal to avoid local impairment of cool- ing; this method may include provision of highly localized yieldability as by the above means, especially in later zones of the path where the metal completes solidification. Process -?- improvement is further afforded, with a closed path for liquid coolant, by recirculatin the liquid while controlling its temperature to a somewhat elevated level and if desired, ad- justing its chemical character. The apparatus also has means for adjusting the con- tour of the belt support sections transversely of the path, e.g. to afford a profile concave toward the mold space for better assuring a flat product, such means coacting especi- ally with the individually yieldable support elements across and along the path. The belts travel around carriage struc- tures supported in desired relation to each other, with simpli- fied means for seperating one carriage from the other, for servicing purposes. -?-
250297
Alcan Research And Development Limited
Fetherstonhaugh & Co.
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