METAL CONTINUOUS CASTING PLANT Russian patent published in 1995 - IPC

FIELD: metallurgy. SUBSTANCE: and upper section of rollers is rigidly joined with a lower end of a crystallizer, its lower portion is arranged in guides with possibility of moving along them. The guides are mounted on an additional roofing of a hopper of a secondary cooling zone, isolating an upper part of the hopper, connected with an outlet pipeline. Such structure provides prevention of metal outbreaks under the crystallizer and enhanced quality of ingots due to elimination of skewing of the upper roller section relative to be crystallizer and increased accuracy of their centering. EFFECT: enhanced quality of ingots in such plant. 1 cl, 2 dwg