Edge dam synchronization and tensioning control method and system for the shaping and profiling of continuously cast metal sections by means of a continuous casting machine
CA 1330384 C · Owner: Hazelett Strip-Casting Corporation · Inventors: Kaiser, Timothy D.; Kalaskie, Frank E.; Allyn, Jerome B.
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A method and system are provided for synchronizing the traveling edge dams in the continuous casting of metal slab strip, or bar, thereby, providing a means for the continuous uniform casting of longitudinally spaced edge shapes, contours, or profiles such as integral shoulders lugs, lobes, depressions, curves, or indentations in the opposite edges of the cast product. Shapes include the protruding lugs cast directly, opposite each other, for suspending copper anodes in electrolytic refining--also the intruding, material-saving contours in the tops of anodes. A belt-type continuous casting machine is shown wherein two moving contoured edge dam loops each comprise blocks strung upon flexible …
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- Granted June 28, 1994. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended June 28, 2011.
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