摘要 |
PURPOSE:To obtain a slab having a prescribed thickness without adjusting operating conditions by disposing a stationary casting mold in parallel with the sloped plane of an endless belt which transfers molten metal and produces the slab. CONSTITUTION:The molten metal 7 on the bottom of a well 5 cooled by a cooler 2 attached to an endless belt 1 moves toward the direction of an arrow 8b and solidifies to have the solid-liquid boundary as shown by an alternated long and two short dashes line 8a. Ths solidified layer arrives at the surface 9a of a stationary casting mold 9 where the growth of the solidification stops. The thickness of a slab 8 is regulated by the space between the base of the well (the sloped plane of the belt 1) and the mold surface 9a. The slab 8 having a prescribed thickness is thus obtd. without the operation of detecting the error in the thickness of the slab and feeding the same back to a control system. |