Metal founding – Means to shape metallic material – Continuous or semicontinuous casting
Reexamination Certificate
2007-01-02
2007-01-02
Lin, Kuang Y. (Department: 1725)
Metal founding
Means to shape metallic material
Continuous or semicontinuous casting
C164S481000
Reexamination Certificate
active
11253992
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for guiding a moving, flexible, tensed casting belt on a continuous metal casting machine along a substantially oval path. The continuous metal casting machine having an entrance-end, an exit-end and a moving-mold casting region extending from the entrance-end to the exit-end. The apparatus includes a non-rotating fluid pillow structure at the entrance end of the machine. The fluid pillow structure supports the mold-width of the casting belt. The apparatus includes two narrow shoulder-pulleys at the entrance end of the casting machine which are adjacent to opposite sides of the entrance-end fluid-pillow structure. Each pulley supports a portion of the belt outside of the moving-mold casting region. Each pulley guides the belt around the fluid-pillow structure as the belt revolves along its substantially oval path. The apparatus also facilitates the sealing, controlled-venting and recovery of pressurized fluids used to levitate the belt about a fluid-pillow structure.
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Hazelett R. William
Wood J. F. Barry
Hazelett Strip Casting Corporation
Lin Kuang Y.
McCormick Paulding & Huber LLP
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