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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8136575 | Twin-roll continuous casting machine and rolling equipment A twin-roll continuous casting machine includes: a moving mechanism for moving, relative to one roll, another roll; a plurality of upper side support rolls for supporting the one-roll side of a cast slab separated from the one roll and withdrawn; and a plurality of ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8122937 | Method of forming textured casting rolls with diamond engraving A method of forming a textured casting roll may include a step of forming a plurality of contiguous rows of gravure cells on the surface of a casting roll, removing portions of the cells to leave raised portions corresponding to raised portions of the gravure cells ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8113267 | Twin-roll casting machine Provided is a twin-roll casting machine capable of suppressing irregularities in crosswise thickness distribution of a strip. The twin-roll casting machine comprises chilled rolls, side weirs, and nozzle pieces. A plurality of openings for supply of molten metal to ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8087448 | Roll polishing apparatus A roll polishing apparatus that can suppress cracks on a strip. The roll polishing apparatus includes brush rolls which face outer periphery of chilled rolls over an axial length of the chilled rolls, respectively, cylinders which urge the brush rolls wholly to the ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8079404 | Lateral seal of a casting gap formed between two casting rollers of a strip casting machine Lateral seal of a casting gap formed between two casting rollers of a strip casting machine that can be placed against the casting rollers on the front face. The lateral seal includes a first moist part and a second part that is assigned to the front faces of the ca... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8042601 | Side dam with insert A side dam for use in a continuous twin roll caster system includes a body of refractory material having opposed outer surfaces with one outer surface adapted to contact molten metal and casting rolls in a continuous twin roll caster system and retain molten metal, ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8028740 | Twin roll caster A twin roll caster including chilled rolls, side weirs, and a molten-metal delivery nozzle. Baffles, contiguous with bottoms of end faces of the nozzle, project in a casting pool toward the side weirs to suppress stream of the molten metal into a nip between the rol... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7992621 | Side dam with insert A side dam for use in a continuous twin roll caster system includes a body of refractory material having opposed outer surfaces with one outer surface adapted to contact molten metal and casting rolls in a continuous twin roll caster system and retain molten metal, ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7913744 | Strip-casting machine for producing a metal strip and a method for controlling same The invention relates to a strip-casting machine (20) for producing a metal strip (15). Said strip-casting machine comprises a pair of casting rolls (22, 24) which are arranged adjacent to each other, form a casting gap and are rotatably mounted... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7874345 | Apparatus for the continuous surface cleaning of rotationally movable casting rolls of a strip-casting machine An apparatus serves for the continuous surface cleaning of rotationally movable casting rolls (2, 3) of a strip-casting machine. A plurality of laser beam units (25) are arranged on the circumference of the respective casting roll (2, 3), which ... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7721785 | Continuously casting steel strip Thin cast strip is produced in a twin roll caster by delivering molten steel between the rolls to form a casting pool confined between the rolls by a pair of side dams adjacent the ends of the casting rolls. Steel strip is delivered downwardly to the nip through a m... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7631685 | Pinch roll apparatus and method for operating the same Pinch roll apparatus has a pair of pinch rolls, each having a diameter between 300-1500 millimeters, positioned to form a nip through which metal strip can be continuously fed. The pinch rolls are positioned one above the other with the axes of the pinch rolls offse... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7604039 | Casting steel strip In twin roll casting of steel strip, molten steel is introduced into the nip between parallel casting rolls to create a casting pool supported on casting surfaces of the rolls and the rolls are rotated to deliver solidified strip downwardly from the nip. Casting sur... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7556084 | Long wear side dams The method of producing thin cast strip by continuous casting having a side dam assembly. The side dam assembly includes a side dam having opposite outer surfaces, one surface contacting molten metal and the opposite outer surface having fastening portions capable o... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7530384 | Dual roll casting machine A twin roll casting machine that can reduce an amount of inert gas supplied. A duct is upwardly urged by cylinders to compress resilient sealing members respectively between a flange on a casting module and an upper flange on the duct and between a lower flange on t... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7503375 | Method and apparatus for continuously casting thin strip A method of producing thin cast strip by continuous casting having a two-piece side dam assembly. The side dam assembly includes a side dam having an upper portion positioned adjacent to a lower portion. The upper and lower side dam portions each have opposite outer... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7398817 | Apparatus for confining the impurities of a molten metal contained into a continuous casting mould A twin roll caster for an apparatus for confining the impurities in a molten metal fed by means of a discharger and contained into an area of a strip continuous casting mold delimited by the side surfaces of two casting rolls with counter-rotating horizontal axis an... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7367378 | Casting steel strip with low surface roughness and low porosity A method of producing cast steel strip having low surface roughness and low porosity by casting with molten steel having a total oxygen content of at least about 100 ppm and a temperature that allows a majority of any oxide inclusions to be in a liquidus state. The ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7337827 | Method for operating a strip casting machine for producing a metal strip The invention relates to a method of operating a strip casting machine for producing a metal strip, during which molten metal is continuously poured between two casting rolls (1, 2) that form a casting gap. Lateral seals (10) having sealing plates (... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7328737 | Installation for continuously producing a thin steel strip A process for the continuous production of a thin steel strip, in which a steel melt from a melt reservoir is introduced onto one or more, in particular two, cooled shaping wall surfaces which move synchronously with a casting strip, in particular rotate in the form... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7323135 | Apparatus for controlling gas layer thickness on the surface of casting rolls in a twin roll strip caster An apparatus for controlling gas layer thickness on the surface of casting rolls in a twin roll strip caster includes: a pair of chambers fixedly mounted on both lateral portions of the meniscus shield in a width direction of a strip; blocking units for blocking int... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7308930 | Method of continuous casting steel strip A method of continuously casting thin strip where, at the start of a casting campaign, the side dams are pressed against the end surfaces of the casting rolls with a pressure of less than 3.0 kg/cm2 but more than 1.25 kg/cm2 and after the targe... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7302996 | Feed device for feeding molten metal into a crystallizer A drop feeder (1) for feeding molten metal into an ingot mould (15) comprises a distributor (3) having a substantially prismatic shape, with one of the faces open, in which the inside of the distributor comprises three tanks (4, 5, 6), se... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7299857 | Method and apparatus for localized control of heat flux in thin cast strip A method of and apparatus for localized control of heat flux in continuous casting of thin cast strip comprising removing oxides from the casting surface of each casting roll by contacting the casting surface of each casting roll with the rotating brush in advance o... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7296614 | Method and apparatus for controlling the formation of crocodile skin surface roughness on thin cast strip A method of controlling the formation of crocodile skin surface roughness on thin cast strip of plain carbon steel forming a casting pool of molten metal of plain carbon steel of less than 0.065% carbon supported on a casting surfaces above a nip, assembling a rotat... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7258157 | Lateral face of an installation used for the twin-roll continuous casting of metal bands The invention relates to a side wall (1) of a plant for the continuous casting of metal strip (5) between two counter-rotating rolls (2, 2′) having horizontal axes and being internally cooled, the surfaces of which define a casting space confi... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7246651 | Dual roll casting machine and method of operating the casting machine A twin roll casting machine that can reduce an amount of inert gas to be fed for prevention of oxidization. The machine includes an enclosure enclosing a strip in a range from chilled rolls to pinch rolls, a first swing wall within the enclosure and having a tip end... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7243702 | Continuous casting method for manufacturing thin cast strips and continuous casting machine In a method of manufacturing a plurality of coil-shaped thin cast strips while molten metal r is being supplied to the molten metal pool 3 formed by a pair of cooling drums 1, 1 and a pair of side dams, when a casting operation corresponding to one coi... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7234509 | Metallic bath containment device between the crystallizing rollers of a continuous casting machine A molten metal containment device between the crystallizing rollers (38, 39) of a continuous casting machine comprises a lateral containment plate (47) able to press against the shoulder surfaces (40, 41) of the crystallizing rollers (38, 39 | 06/26/2007 |
| 7216693 | Strip temperature regulating device in a continuous metal strip casting plant A temperature regulation device for the strip (3) produced in a continuous casting plant with ingot mold (16) comprising a pair of cooled, parallel, counter-rotating rolls (2, 2′), closed by two plates at the axial ends of the rolls, includes ... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7208433 | Ceramic plates for side DAMS of twin-drum continuous strip casters Ceramic plates for side dams of twin-drum continuous strip casters comprising a REAG phase of 10 to 90 vol. %, a Sialon phase of 5 to 50 vol. %, a BN phase of 5 to 50 vol. % and an amorphous phase of over 0 to 20 vol. %, with the REAG phase comprising at least one r... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7195054 | Method and device for sealing a gap between a roller front face and side seal on a roller-strip-casting machine The reliable sealing of a gap (10), between a roller front face (7) and a side seal (3) on a roller-strip-casting machine is achieved by the generation of an electrical eddy field in the region of the gap (10), such as to produce a local ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7191819 | Continuously casting steel strip Thin cast strip is produced in a twin roll caster by delivering molten steel between the rolls to form a casting pool. The casting pool is confined between the rolls by a pair of side dams adjacent the ends of the casting rolls. Steel strip is delivered downwardly t... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7168478 | Method of making thin cast strip using twin-roll caster and apparatus therefor A system and method for producing thin cast strip by continuous casting is disclosed. The system includes a twin-roll casting apparatus having a pair of casting rolls positioned laterally adjacent each other to form a nip between the casting rolls through which meta... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7165962 | Web handling roll stand A telescoping roll stand for use in an extrusion line includes a linkage connecting one or more auxiliary rolls in a spatial relationship relative to each other and other auxiliary web processing components, including conveyors, load cell rolls, draw rolls, and othe... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7163047 | Pinch roll apparatus and method for operating the same Pinch roll apparatus has a pair of pinch rolls each having a diameter between 300–1500 millimeters positioned to form a nip through which metal strip can be continuously fed. The pinch rolls are positioned one above the other with the axes of the pinch rolls offse... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7159641 | Cooling drum for thin slab continuous casting, processing method and apparatus thereof, and thin slab and continuous casting method thereof A cooling drum for metal cast strip by continuous casting has dimples 40 to 200 μm in average depth and 0.5 to 3 mm in diameter of circle equivalent formed on a plated peripheral surface of the cooling drum, adjacent to each other at rims of the dimples; and a film... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7156150 | Two-roll casting device A two-roll casting installation with two casting rolls which rotate in opposite directions about horizontal axes and forming a casting gap for forming and discharging a thin cast metal strip. A sealed housing which has a base and surrounds a conveying path for the m... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7147035 | Strip casting apparatus A method for casting metal strip by controlling the distance between the confining side plates confining the casting pool and the outer nozzle ends of discrete nozzle pieces of the delivery nozzle delivering the molten melt. The nozzle pieces defining the outer nozz... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7147033 | Dual drum type continuous casting device and method for continuous casting A twin-drum continuous casting apparatus for casting a metal sheet (4) by supplying molten metal (3) to a pouring basin formed by a pair of cooling drums (1) rotating in opposite directions, and side gates (2), to cool the molten metal ( | 12/12/2006 |
