| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 5582230 |
Direct cooled metal casting process and apparatus |
December 10, 1996 |
| In direct cooling an ingot emerging from a mold, two sets 136 and 142 of liquid coolant streams are discharged onto the ingot from an annulus 62 circumposed about the lower end opening 72 of the mold. One set of streams, 136, is discharged downwardly at 22.5 degrees to the axis 12 of |
| 5518063 |
Direct cooled metal casting apparatus |
May 21, 1996 |
| The apparatus includes a first chamber disposed about the mold cavity and defined by a top, a bottom, and walls extending between the top and bottom at the inner and outer peripheries of the first chamber. A liquid coolant is supplied under pressure to the first chamber through an inlet. |
| 5323841 |
Annular metal casting unit |
June 28, 1994 |
| As a reversal of previous practice, the annular body of the mold in the unit has an annular case at the bottom thereof, rather than at the top thereof. The case is relatively thick axially of the mold, so as to form the greater portion of the axial length of the mold body at the outer |
| 5318098 |
Metal casting unit |
June 7, 1994 |
| A casting unit 6 consists of a monolithic body which is annular in shape and has an annular flange 72 outturned about the axis and monolithically outstanding on the body at the outer periphery, a set of lugs 110 angularly spaced about the axis on the lower end portion of the body and |
| 5119883 |
Apparatus and process for direct cooling an emerging ingot with gas-laden coolant |
June 9, 1992 |
| A body of partially solidified metal emerging as ingot from the exit end 10 of an open ended mold 2, is direct cooled by charging liquid coolant into an annular retention chamber 32 circumposed about the exit end opening of the mold in the body thereof, and discharging the coolant from t |
