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US3351126A
US3351126A US399145A US39914564A US3351126A US 3351126 A US3351126 A US 3351126A US 399145 A US399145 A US 399145A US 39914564 A US39914564 A US 39914564A US 3351126 A US3351126 A US 3351126A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
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    • B22D—CASTING OF METALS; CASTING OF OTHER SUBSTANCES BY THE SAME PROCESSES OR DEVICES
    • B22D11/00—Continuous casting of metals, i.e. casting in indefinite lengths
    • B22D11/06—Continuous casting of metals, i.e. casting in indefinite lengths into moulds with travelling walls, e.g. with rolls, plates, belts, caterpillars
    • B22D11/0602—Continuous casting of metals, i.e. casting in indefinite lengths into moulds with travelling walls, e.g. with rolls, plates, belts, caterpillars formed by a casting wheel and belt, e.g. Properzi-process

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  • each bar is reheated in a furnace and passed through the rolling mill, which reduces the bar to copper rod having a preselected diameter in the range of of an inch.
  • the copper rod leaves the rolling mill it is formed into a coil, which is subjected to a pickling operation to remove copper oxide scale, passed through a water wash to remove the pickling solution, and coated in a suitable manner so that the rod will maintain a bright color.
  • the coils of copper rod are butt welded together at their ends and drawn down into wire in a continuous wire drawing operation.
  • Prior known casting wheel apparatus have not been successful for the continuous casting and rolling of copper bar for wire drawing because the cast bar tends to break off adjacent the bar exit point of the casting wheel. Fur ther, the cast bar tends to be non-uniform in grain structure and hardness, and the inner side of the bar which was adjacent the casting wheel tends to tear or crack during the rolling operation, which conditions produce defects which cause wire breaks during the wire drawing operation.
  • an object of this invention is to provide new and improved casting wheel apparatus for the continuous casting of molten copper in the form of a continuous bar.
  • Another object of this invention is to provide new and improved casting wheel apparatus for the continuous casting of molten copper in the form of a continuous bar, in which the cast bar is positively advanced from a casting wheel to a rolling mill along a substantially uniform path, whereby breaking of the bar adjacent the point at which it exits from the casting wheel is substantially reduced.
  • a further object of this invention is to provide new and improved casting wheel apparatus for the continuous casting of molten copper in the form of a continuous bar, in which the cast bar is maintained in firm contact with a casting wheel until the bar is stripped from the wheel at a preselected point.
  • a still further object of this invention is to provide new and improved casting wheel apparatus for the continuous casting of molten metal in the form of a continuous bar, in which the cast bar is positively advanced from a casting wheel along a substantially uniform path.
  • Another object of this invention is to provide new and improved casting wheel apparatus for the continuous casting of molten metal in the form of a continuous bar, in which the cast bar always exits from a casting wheel at a preselected point.
  • apparatus for the continuous casting of a molten metal, such as copper, into a continuous bar includes a rotatable casting wheel, a continuous movable band engaged about a portion of the periphery of the wheel and cooperable with a portion of a peripheral groove therein to define a cavity in which the bar is cast, and a mechanism for stripping the cast bar from the wheel at a preselected point.
  • a power driven conveying mechanism positively advances the stripped bar from the stripping mechanism along a uniform path and, in addition, applies longitudinal tension to the cast bar to hold it firmly engaged with the bottom of the groove in the casting wheel until the bar is stripped from the wheel at the preselected point by the stripping mechanism.
  • apparatus for the continuous casting of molten copper into a continuous bar includes a casting wheel rotatable about a horizontal axis, a continuous movable band engaged about a portion of the periphery of the wheel and cooperable with a portion of a peripheral groove therein to define a cavity in which the bar is cast, a mechanism for stripping the cast bar from the wheel at a preselected point, and a power driven conveyor which positively advances the cast bar from the casting wheel, and which cooperates with the stripping mechanism to insure that the bar advances along a uniform path and always exits from the wheel at the preselected point.
  • the bar conveyor includes a plurality of power driven grooved rollers which receive and support the cast bar for movement in a uniform arcuate path extending upward from the stripping mechanism above the upper level of the casting wheel and in the general direction of the curvature of the wheel.
  • the bar is forced into firm engagement with at least some of the grooved rollers by pressure rollers, which are movable away from the grooved rollers to permit initial threading of the cast bar therein.
  • the aforementioned function of the conveyor is achieved by having the speed of a drive mechanism for the grooved rollers synchronized with the speed of a drive mechanism for the casting wheel and the band such that the driven grooved rollers not only positively advance the cast bar from the casting wheel, but in addition apply sufiicient longitudinal tension to the bar to hold it firmly engaged with the bottom of the groove in the casting wheel until the bar is stripped from the wheel at the preselected point by the stripping mechanism.
  • the conveyor also is swingable about a vertical axis to an inoperative position in which it is spaced substantially from the casting wheel, the band and the stripping mechanism.
  • FIG. 1 is an elevational view of the apparatus
  • FIG. 2 is an enlarged partial cross'sectional view of the apparatus taken substantially along the line 22 of FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 3 is an enlarged partial plan view of the apparatus as seen substantially along the line 3-3 of FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 4 is a further enlarged partial view of the apparatus as seen along the line 4-4 of FIG. 2;
  • FIG. 5 is an enlarged partial elevational view of the apparatus as seen along the line 55 of FIG. 1, and
  • FIG. 6 is a block diagram illustrating a drive motor control system for the apparatus.
  • the illustrated embodiment of the invention relates to the manufacture of an elongated continuous bar 11 of a metal, such as copper.
  • the bar 11 is continuously cast from molten copper in a casting wheel 12 (FIGS. 1 and 2), is stripped from the wheel in solidified form by a stripping mechanism 13, and then is advanced by a power conveyor 14 upward in a uniform arcuate path and to the right, as viewed in FIG. 1, to a rolling mill (not shown) which reduces the bar to copper rod suitable for wire drawing. Subsequently, the copper rod is drawn into wire in a continuous Wire drawing operation.
  • the casting wheel 12 which is of the general type disclosed in U.S. Patent No. 2,710,433 to I. Properzi and which is supported for rotation about a horizontal axis on a base member 16, is formed of a suitable metal, such as copper, and is provided with a peripheral groove 17, which may be coated, as with chromium, to reduce the tendency for the metal to seize to the casting wheel. As is best shown in FIG.
  • the idler wheel 19 is tensioned away from the casting wheel 12 in a suitable manner so as to hold the metal band 18 tightly against the periphery of the wheel to form a tight seal adjacent the opposite sides of the peripheral groove 17, whereby the band cooperates with the groove to form a casting cavity in which the bar 11 is cast.
  • the base member 16 is supported on the fioor of a pit 22 so as to reduce the difference in height between the point at which the cast bar 11 exits from the conveyor 14 and at which it enters the above-mentioned rolling mill which is supported on a main floor 23, thereby facilitating movement of the bar from the conveyor to the rolling mill.
  • the casting wheel 12 is rotated clockwise, as viewed in FIG. 1, by a motor 24 connected to the wheel through a speed reducing mechaism 26 and a sprocket and chain drive 27, with the friction between the casting wheel and the metal band 18 being such that the band moves in unison with the casting wheel.
  • a motor 24 connected to the wheel through a speed reducing mechaism 26 and a sprocket and chain drive 27, with the friction between the casting wheel and the metal band 18 being such that the band moves in unison with the casting wheel.
  • the motor 24 and the speed reducing mechanism 26, as in the case of the base member 16, are supported on the floor of the pit 22.
  • the molten copper which is refined in a suitable furnace so as to have a lead content of less than 002%, as is described in the copending U.S. patent application of J. A. Bell, D. B. Cofer and G. E. Sorber, Serial No. 399,145, filed September 25, 1964, and assigned to the same assignees, is fed from the furnace to a pour pot 28 on the base member 16 through a heated trough 29.
  • a pour pot 28 on the base member 16 through a heated trough 29.
  • the molten copper then flows from the pour pot 28 and through a pouring spout 31 removably mounted thereon, into the casting cavity defined by the peripheral groove 17 in the wheel and the movable band 18, with the flow from the pour pot being metered in a suitable manner so as to maintain a substantially constant level of molten copper in the cavity.
  • the molten copper introduced into the peripheral wheel groove 17 moves in unison with the wheel and the band.
  • the molten copper will have been cooled into the form of the continuous bar 11.
  • the bar 11 which is being held in firm engagement in the wheel groove 17 by the conveyor 14 in a manner to be described, is stripped from the groove by the stripping mechanism 13.
  • the stripping mechanism 13 includes an elongated blade 32, the lower end portion of which extends into the peripheral groove 17 of the casting wheel 12 into engagement with the bottom of the groove for the stripping of the cast bar 11 therefrom.
  • the upper portion of the blade 32 is secured between a pair of spaced vertical plate members 33 (FIGS. 1 and 2) which are integrally connected together by being welded to spacer members therebetween.
  • Upper and lower bar support rollers 34 and 36 are mounted for rotation between the plate members 33 on shafts having their opposite ends force-fitted into apertures in the plate members.
  • the interconnected plate members 33 carrying the stripping blade 32 and the bar support rollers 34 and 36 are bolted or otherwise removably secured to an upright support member 37.
  • a bar guide roller 38 for guiding the leading end of the cast bar 11 into the bar conveyor 14 at the beginning of a casting operation, also is removably mounted on the support member 37 for adjustable movement toward and away from the upper bar support roller 34, as by having its support shaft projecting through and releasably secured in an elongated slot (not shown) in the support member.
  • the lower end of the support member 37 is welded or otherwise suitably secured to a dove-tailed member 39 (FIG. 1) removably mounted in a correspondingly grooved plate member 41 secured to the top of the base member 16.
  • the bar conveyor 14 when in operating position, extends obliquely with respect to the plane of rotation of the casting wheel 12 in order to provide clearance between the conveyor and the movable band 18. Accordingly, as the cast bar 11 is stripped from the casting wheel 12 by the stripping mechanism 13, it is necessary that the bar be deflected out of the plane of rotation of the wheel in order for the bar to enter the conveyor 14, and for this purpose the stripping mechanism 13 includes a deflector assembly 42 formed of suitable plate members welded to one another and welded to the upright support member 37, for deflecting and guiding the cast bar 11 into the conveyors bar entrance end. Further, as is illustrated in FIG. 2, the bar support rollers 34 and 36 are canted in the direction that the bar is to be deflected, to facilitate the deflecting of the bar by the deflector assembly 42.
  • the cast bar 11 is supported for movement on the bar conveyor 14 in a plurality of power driven V-grooved rollers 43 mounted between a pair of arcuate side plate members 44 of a conveyor frame, the rollers being keyed to rotatable shafts 46 (best shown in FIG. 4) journalled adjacent their opposite ends in suitable bearing assemblies 47 mounted on the side plate members.
  • Adjacent the upper or bar exit end of the conveyor 14, a pair of laterally spaced idler rollers 48 (FIGS. 1 and 5), for limiting lateral movement of the bar 11, are supported for rotation on the upper portions of a pair of vertical shafts secured at their lower ends in brackets on the side plate members 44.
  • the bottoms of the side plate members 44 adjacent the bar exit end of the conveyor 14 are secured, as by welding, to a relatively large, horizontally disposed support plate 49.
  • Additional transverse connecting members 51 may be provided for connecting the bottoms of. the side plate members 44 as desired.
  • each pressure roller 52 is mounted on a double-armed lever member 53 by being journalled for rotation on a shaft carried by one end of an arm 54 of the lever member.
  • the other end of the arm 54 of each lever member 53 is integral with a cylindrical portion 56 of the lever member, by means of which the lever member is pivoted on a support shaft having one end thereof secured to the adjacent conveyor frame side plate member 44.
  • a second arm 57 of each of the double-armed lever members 53 has one end thereof integral with the cylindrical portion 56 of the lever member and its other end pivotally connected to a piston rod of an air cylinder 58, as is shown in FIGS. 2 and 4.
  • Each air cylinder 58 is of a double-acting type in which air may be introduced into either end of the cylinder for moving its piston rod in opposite directions, and the lower end of the cylinder is pivotally mounted on an angle member 59 (FIG. 4) hav ing one leg thereof secured to a depending bracket 44:! on the adjacent conveyor frame side plate member 44,
  • the pressure rollers 52 can be moved away from their associated grooved rollers'43 into the broken lines positions shown in FIG.
  • the pressure rollers can be moved toward the grooved rollers into the solid line positions shown in FIG. 1 to engage the cast bar and to force the bar into firm engagement with the grooved rollers.
  • the grooved rollers 43 are driven by a mechanism including a motor 61 (FIGS. 3 and 5) supported upon a horizontally extending extension of the support plate member 49.
  • the motor 61 includes a drive shaft having a drive sprocket 62 keyed thereto and connected by an endless chain 63 to a sprocket 64 which is keyed to the grooved roller support shaft 46 nearest the bar exit end of the conveyor 14, adjacent one end of the shaft.
  • Adjacent the opposite end of the roller support shaft 46 a drive sprocket 66 is keyed to the shaft for rotation therewith and is drivingly connected by an endless chain 67 to a first sprocket 68 keyed to the next adjacent roller support shaft 46.
  • each succeeding grooved roller support shaft 46 is driven from its associated preceding roller support shaft 46 in a similar manner by associated sprockets 68 and 69 and endless chains 71.
  • any tendency for the bar to break ofi? by reason of its inability to support its own weight is substantially reduced by operating the conveyor drive motor 61 at a speed relative to the speed of the casting wheel drive motor 24 such that the grooved rollers 43 positively advance the bar from the casting wheel toward the above-mentioned rolling mill.
  • the driving force of the grooved rollers 43 is such that they apply sufiicient longitudinal tension on the cast bar 11 to hold it firmly engaged with the bottom of the casting wheel groove 17, despite shrinkage of the bar as it is cooled in the groove, until the bar is stripped from the wheel by the stripping blade 32 of the stripping mechanism 13, and to hold the bar firmly engaged over the bar support roilers 34 and 36 of the stripping mechanism.
  • the stripping mechanism 13 and the conveyor 14 cooperate to insure that the cast bar 11 travels in firm contact with the bottom of the casting wheel groove 17 and in a uniform path from the casting wheel 12, whereby breaking off of the bar adjacent the wheel as a result of the bar exiting from the wheel at too high a temperature, or as a result of oscillation of the bar laterally toward and away from the wheel, also is substantially reduced,
  • the cast bar 11 since the cast bar 11 is maintained in firm contact with the bottom of the groove 17 and always exits from the casting wheel 12 at the same point, non-uniform cooling of the bar and the formation of cold fronts therein is substantially reduced, thereby reducing non-uniformity in the grain structure and hardness of the bar, and tearing off of the bar in the rolling mill as a result of portions of thebar entering the rolling mill at too low a temperature, which conditions produce defects which cause wire breaks during the above-mentioned wire drawing operation.
  • Control of the speed of the conveyor drive motor 61 relative to that of the casting wheel drive motor 24 may be accomplished either manually, as by a potentiometer in the operating circuit for the conveyor drive motor, or automatically in a suitable manner, as is illustrated by the block diagram in FIG. 6.
  • both of the drive motors 24 and 61 are shown as being of a variable speed A.C. type connected to an AC. power source 72 through associated control potentiometers 73 and 74.
  • the casting wheel drive motor 24 drives a tachometer generator 76, which feeds a signal voltage to a servo-mechanism 77.
  • the servo-mechanism 77 is drivingly connected to the control potentiometer 74 for the conveyor drive motor 61 and is designed, in response to the voltage signal from the tachometer generator 76, to vary the potentiometer so as to vary the speed of the conveyor drive motor relative to the casting wheel motor 24 such that the conveyor 14 will operate as described in the preceding paragraph. Accordingly, upon manual adjustment of the control potentiometer 73 for the casting wheel drive motor 24 so that the motor will operate at a preselected desired speed, the speed of the conveyor drive motor 61 is automatically synchronized with that of the motor 24.
  • the bar conveyor 14 is supported on a rotatable vertical post 78 so that the conveyor can be rotated counterclockwise, as viewed in FIGS. 2 and 3, from its operative position shown in the drawings in which position the bar entrance end of the conveyor is closely adjacent the stripping mechanism 13, into a position in which the conveyor is spaced substantially from the casting wheel 12, the movable band 18 and the stripping mechanism for maintenance purposes.
  • the connection of the conveyor 14 to the vertical post 78, adjacent the bar exit end of the conveyor includes a pair of laterally spaced parallel angle bars 79 secured to the bottom of the support plate 49.
  • a horizontally extending pivot pin 81 is insertable through a selected pair of axially aligned apertures 82 in depending legs of the angle bars 79 and axially aligned apertures in a pair of horizontally spaced plate members 83 (FIG. 5) secured along their bottoms to a top plate member of the post 78, a plurality of pairs of the apertures 82 being provided in the angle bars 79 to permit adjustment of the conveyor 14 horizontally.
  • an adjustable screw-threaded link 84 (FIG. 1) is pivotally connected at one end to the frame of the conveyor 14 and at its other end to the rotatable post 78, to permit variations in the degree of inclination of the conveyor.
  • the lower portion of the rotatable post 78 is telescopingly received in a fixed hollow post 86 for rotation and for vertical linear movement, and the rotatable post is secured in the position shown in FIG. 1 by a locking pin 87 extendable through.
  • the lower interior portion of the fixed post 86 is provided with a cylindrical stop element 88 for limiting the extent of downward movement of the rotatable post 78, and the lower end of the fixed post is suitably secured to the floor of the pit 22, with the fixed post adjacent its upper end being secured to a vertical side wall of the pit by a stud and bracket connection.
  • the casting wheel and conveyor drive motors 24 and 61 are energized, as by the closing of a suitable control switch in the operating circuit thereof, and the control potentiometer 73 for the casting wheel drive motor is adjusted manually so that the motor drives the casting wheel12 at a preselected desired speed.
  • the servo-mechanism 77 and the control potentiometer 74 then is automatically synchronized with the speed of the casting wheel drive motor 24 so that the conveyor 14 (1) will positively advance the cast bar 11 from the casting wheel 12 toward the rolling mill (not shown), and (2) will apply longitudinal tension to the bar so as to hold it in firm engagement with the bar support rollers 34 and 36, and firmly engaged in the bottom of the casting wheel groove 17 until it is stripped from the groove by the stripping blade 32.
  • the cast bar 11 always will exit from the casting wheel 12 at the same point and will travel in a uniformpath from the casting wheel to the rolling mill during the 1 critical initial portion of its movement.
  • Molten copper then is fed from the above-mentioned refining furnace through the heated trough 29 (FIG. 1) into the pour pot 28, from which it is metered through the spout 31 into the casting cavity (right-hand side of FIG. 1) defined by the peripheral groove 17 in the casting wheel 12 and the continuous movable band 18, such that the level of molten material in the cavity always is substantially constant.
  • the casting wheel 12, the molten copper, and the movable band 18, which is biased into tight engagement with the casting wheel by the tensioned idler wheel 19, move in unison as the casting wheel is rotated by the drive mechanism 24, 26, 27.
  • the casting wheel 12 has completed one half of a revolution (left-hand side of FIG. 1) the copper has been cooled sufiiciently so that it has attained the form of the continuous cast bar 11,-which then is stripped from the groove 17 of the casting wheel by the stripping blade 32 of the stripping mechanism 13.
  • the leading end of the cast bar 11 then is threaded through the power driven grooved rollers 43 of the bar conveyor 14, this threading operation being facilitated by the guide roller 38 on the support member 37, and also by the bar deflector assembly 42 and the canted bar support rollers 34 and 36, which assembly and rollers subsequently continue to guide the advancing bar into the bar entrance end of the conveyor.
  • the air cylinders 58 then are actuated to pivot the double-armed lever members 53 and the pressure rollers 52 thereon counterclockwise, as viewed in FIG.
  • Apparatus for the continuous casting of molten metal into a continuous bar which comprises:
  • a casting wheel mounted for rotation about a substantially horizontal axis and having a peripheral groove therein;
  • a continuous movable band engaged about a portion of the periphery of the wheel and cooperable with a portion of the groove to define a cavity in which the bar is cast;
  • grooved rollers on said frame for receiving the cast bar and for supporting the bar for movement along a uniform arcuate path extending upward from said stripping means above the upper level of said casting wheel and in the general direction of the curvature of said wheel;
  • first drive means for driving said casting wheel and said band
  • Apparatus for the continuous casting of molten copper into a continuous bar which comprises:
  • a casting wheel mounted for rotation about a substantially horizontal axis and having a peripheral groove therein;
  • a pivoted frame swingable about a substantially vertical axis into substantially spaced relationship with respect to said Wheel, said band, and said stripping means, and swingable so that said frame extends obliquely to the plane of rotation of said casting wheel with a part of said frame closely adjacent said stripping means;
  • grooved rollers on said frame for receiving the cast bar and for supporting the bar for movement along a uniform arcuate path extending upward from said stripping means above the upper level of said casting wheel and in the general direction of the curvature of said wheel;
  • pneumatic means for pivoting said lever members to move said presure rollers away from said grooved rollers to permit initial threading of the cast bar in said grooved rollers, and to move said pressure rollers into engagement with the cast bar to force the bar into firm engagement with at least some of said grooved rollers;
  • first drive means for driving said casting wheel and said band
  • Apparatus for the continuous casting of molten copper into a continuous bar which comprises:
  • a rotatable casting wheel mounted for rotation about a horizontal axis and having a peripheral groove therein, the groove having a substantially smooth continuous bottom and sides;
  • a continuous band engaged about a portion of the periphery of said casting wheel and movable with said casting wheele, said band being cooperable with a portion of the groove in said casting wheel to define a cavity into which the molten copper is introduced and in which the molten copper cools to a solidified state to form the continuous bar;
  • stripping means for causing the bar to exit from the groove in said casting wheel at a preselected point
  • power driven conveyor means extending from a point closely adjacent said stripping means and upward along a uniform arcuate path above the upper level of said casting Wheel and in the general direction of the curvature of said wheel, for limiting lateral movement of the bar after the bar has advanced beyond said stripping means;
  • said means including said stripping means and said conveyor means, for controlling the advancement of the continuous bar so that the solidified portion of the bar which is in the groove of said casting Wheel travels in a uniform path in the groove in said casting wheel until the bar exits from the groove at the preselected point, to facilitate uniform cooling of the bar.
  • Apparatus for the continuous casting of molten metal into a continuous bar which comprises:
  • a casting wheel mounted for rotation about a substantially horizontal axis and having a peripheral groove therein, the groove having a substantially smooth continuous bottom and sides;
  • a continuous band engaged about a portion of the periphery of said casting wheel and movable with said casting wheel, said band being cooperable with a portion of the groove in said casting wheel to define a cavity in which the molten metal is cast and in which the molten metal cools to a solidified state to form the continuous bar;
  • stripping means for causing the bar to exit from the groove in said casting Wheel at a preselected point
  • first bar engaging means extending closely adjacent said stripping means, for supporting the continuous bar for movement along a uniform arcuate path extending upward from said stripping means above the upper level of said casting wheel and in the general direction of the curvature of said wheel;
  • Apparatus for the continuous casting of molten from the groove at the preselected point, to facilitate metal into a continuous bar which uniform cooling of the bar. further comprises: 6.
  • Apparatus for the continuous casting of molten first drive means for driving said casting wheel and metal into a continuous bar which comprises: said band;
  • a casting wheel mounted for rotation about a substausecond drive means for driving said power driven contially horizontal axis and having a peripheral groove veyor means; and therein, the groove having a substantially smooth 15 means for synchronizing the speed of said second drive continuous bottom and sides;

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DE19651483631 DE1483631B1 (de) 1964-09-25 1965-09-09 Foerdervorrichtung fuer metallische Gussstraenge
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