Vertical casting line for slabs

摘要

Vertical casting line for slabs, which comprises at least a mould (11), an assembly of foot rolls (12) located at the outlet of the mould (11), a plurality of containing and guide assemblies (13) associated with the vertical segment of the line, a possible extraction assembly cooperating downstream with the last containing and guide assembly (13) and a drawing assembly (16) associated with the horizontal segment of the line, the containing and guide assemblies (13) covering at least the whole vertical segment of the casting line, at least part of the rolls (14) of the containing and guide assemblies (13) cooperating with actuation means (19) governed by a data processing unit (20) to obtain a controlled soft-reduction pre-rolling at least in the second part of the vertical segment of the casting line. <IMAGE>