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Level control for continuous casting

CA 1104697 A · Owner: Poncet, Pierre · Inventors: Poncet, Pierre

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In the continuous casting of metals by means of a water-cooled tubular mold into which the molten metal is fed by means of a refractory pouring nozzle which opens in the molter metal bath below a supernatant protective layer of fusible slag, automatic control of the molten bath level is obtained by forming an image of the upper portion of the mold with the pouring nozzle and the slag layer by means of an optical instrument, by disposing a plurality of photo-electric cells on this image along a line substantially coincident with the axis of the nozzle on the said image some of said cells being on the image of said nozzle and others on the image of the slag layer by determining the radiation …

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  • Granted July 7, 1981. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended July 7, 1998.
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FiledAugust 9, 1977
GrantedJuly 7, 1981
Term endedJuly 7, 1998
Patent numberCA 1104697 A
Classification (IPC)B22D11/16 +2 more

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1978198119841987199019931996Application filedAug 9, 1977Patent grantedJuly 7, 1981Term endedJuly 7, 1998

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