CONTINUOUS STEEL PLATE MANUFACTURING FACILITIES

• Main Authors: YUJI ABE, KINICHI HIGUCHI, SHIGEKI NARISHIMA
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 31.05.2001
• Subjects: CASTING; CASTING OF METALS; CASTING OF OTHER SUBSTANCES BY THE SAME PROCESSES OR DEVICES; CHEMISTRY; GENERAL DEVICES FOR HEAT TREATMENT OF FERROUS OR NON-FERROUSMETALS OR ALLOYS; MAKING METAL MALLEABLE BY DECARBURISATION, TEMPERING OR OTHERTREATMENTS; MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVINGMATERIAL; METALLURGY; METALLURGY OF IRON; MODIFYING THE PHYSICAL STRUCTURE OF FERROUS METALS; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; POWDER METALLURGY; PUNCHING METAL; ROLLING OF METAL; TRANSPORTING

THE INVENTION PROVIDES A CONTINUOUS STEEL PLATE MANUFACTURING FACILITY INCLUDING CONTINUOUS CASTING EQUIPMENT (12) HAVING A PLURALITY OF STRANDS, A PLURALITY OF ROWS OF SLAB CONVEYERS (14) DISPOSED DOWNSTREAM OF EACH OF THE STRANDS, AND A SINGLE SLAB TRANSPORTING APPARATUS (16) DISPOSED DOWNSTREAM OF THE SLAB CONVEYERS FOR HORIZONTALLY TRANSPORTING SLABS FROM THE ROWS OF SLAB CONVEYERS TO A SINGLE ROLLING LINE DISPOSED DOWNSTREAM OF THE ROWS OF SLAB CONVEYERS. A CONTINUOUS SLAB CASTING LINE DEFINED BY THE STRAND AND THE SLAB CONVEYERS DIAGNALY INTERSECTS, AT AB INSERTAIN POINT, ON THE SLAB TRANSPORTING APPARATUS WITH A SLAB FEEDING LINE (18) WHICH IS IN COMMUNICATION WITH THE ROLLING LINE. THE SLAB TRANSPORTING APPARATUS IS HORIZONTALLY SWINGABLE ABOUT THE INTERSECTION POINT (19) BETWEEN A RECEIVING POSITION A WHEREIN THE SLAB TRANSPORTING APPARATUS IS DISPOSED ON AN EXTENSION OF ONE OF THE CONTINUOUS SLAB CASTING LINES, AND A FEED-OUT POSITION B WHEREIN THE SLAB TRANSPORTING APPARATUS IS DISPOSED IN ALIGNMENT WITH THE SLAB FEEDING LINE. THE PRESENT INVENTION PROVIDES ADVANTAGES THAT SLABS CAN BE TRANSPORTED IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME TO THE SINGLE ROLLING LINE THROUGH A PLURALITY OF THE CONTINUOUS CASTING APPARATUS BY USING A RELATIVELY SMALL-SIZED AND SMALL-POWERED FOCILITY, AND THAT THE CONTINUOUS STEEL PLATE MANUFACTURING FACILITY CAN BE COMBINED WITH THREE OR MORE CONTINUOUS CASTING APPARATUS.(FIG. 4)