Casting support apparatus for continuous casting equipment

摘要

A casting support apparatus comprising pairs of opposed separate cooling plates arranged in an upper stage immediately below a mold and each having grooves in its surface; pairs of opposed separate cooling plates arranged in a lower stage immediately below the upper stage cooling plates and each having grooves in its surface; a plurality of cooling rolls each rotatably provided in a space formed between each two adjacent cooling plates in each of the stages, each of the cooling rolls being formed with annular grooves along its outer periphery; jet nozzles arranged for introducing cooling water into a space between a casting and the cooling plates in each stage from above the cooling plates; jet nozzles arranged for introducing cooling water into a space between the casting and the cooling rolls in each stage from above the cooling rolls; and auxiliary jet nozzles arranged for applying cooling water to the rear surfaces of the cooling plates in each stage. The apparatus cools the casting efficiently and is easy and inexpensive to maintain.