Dummy bar handling apparatus and method
CA 1104789 A · Owner: Concast Incorporated · Inventors: John, Wolfgang W.
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A continuous casting installation has a generally vertical open-ended mold supported on a casting platform a, flexible dummy bar for sealing the lower end of the mold prior to the start of a cast, a curved guide below the casting platform for the strand formed in the mold and a mechanism for handling the dummy bar. This mechanism includes a carriage which is provided with a semi-circular downwardly concave, roller bed having a length at least equal to that of the dummy bar. The carriage is located on the casting platform and is movable between the mold and a location above that at which the dummy bar emerges from the strand guide. A rotatably driven, telescopic arm on the carriage pivots on …
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- Granted July 14, 1981. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended July 14, 1998.
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