摘要 |
PURPOSE:To execute quick insertion and disconnection of a dummy bar and to shorten the time for prepn. of casting by providing a curved guide roll group for guiding the dummy bar, pinch rolls and an ingot guide curved in the direction opposite therefrom onto a carriage. CONSTITUTION:The carriage 16 commonly used for inserting and disconnecting the dummy bar and guiding the ingot is constituted by providing a group of the guide rolls 7 curved toward the carriage 16, the pinch rolls 5, 6 along the same and the ingot guide 18 curved in the direction from the curving direction of the guide rolls 7 onto the carriage 16 from the upper part thereof. The dummy bar is inserted by the carriage 16 into a casting mold constituted of a belt 1, etc., at the time of casting the thin ingot continuously by using the carriage 16. The dummy bar is pulled downward together with the ingot by means of the belt 1 and the pinch rolls 3 and is retreated onto the guide rolls 7 by the pinch rolls 5, 6 in the starting stage of casting. The dummy bar is disconnected when a dummy bar head arrives at the point A. The carriage 16 is moved in the direction of an arrow B and the ingot is drawn out to a leveling roll 9 side along the ingot guide 18.
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