Ladle stream breaker

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1987-07-08

1988-10-11

Rutledge, L. Dewayne

Metallurgical apparatus

Process

266229, C21B 304

Patent

active

047765704

ABSTRACT:
A ladle stream breaker is disclosed, for use in a tundish comprising a pouring zone where a stream of molten metal is poured from a casting ladle through a pouring tube, and a flotation zone downward the pouring zone, where the molten metal free from its inclusions flows out through a vertical outlet tube into a continuous casting mold. The stream breaker consists of a closed box made from a refractory material, which box has a top wall provided with an opening sized to receive the lower end of the pouring tube, and a number of lateral walls each provided with a plurality of openings sized to allow the molten metal injected into the box to escape from this box in the form of a plurality of sub-streams of low energy. The lateral walls of the closed box and their openings are arranged in such a manner that every sub-stream flowing out of its associated opening impinges a wall of the tundish and flows in a direction substantially perpendicular to this tundish wall. This ladle stream breaker is particularly interesting in that it efficiently dissipates the kinetic energy of the stream of molten metal poured into the tundish and reduces the depth of penetration of this stream inside the tundish, thereby preventing any slag being formed in the pouring zone from being entrained downstream.

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patent: 3814167 (1974-06-01), Listhuber et al.
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patent: 4312668 (1982-01-01), Mannion et al.

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