Vertical downstream casting

The drawing illustrates the vertical downstream casting. The main components are: melting furnace or transportation ladle, casting furnace with tundish, crystalliser with cooling system and installed graphite mould, secondary cooling, roll support and saw.

The equipment functions as follows: first the metal is molten in the melting furnace and tapped into the ladle for transportation to the casting furnace or given directly into the tundish of the casting furnace. From the tundish the hot metal flows under the influence of gravitation trough the graphite mold, installed in the crystallizer vertically downwards, where metal is being cooled and gains definite form. The roll support catches up the product and adjusts the casting speed. The Product comes out of the casting machine vertically. With a moving circular saw the product is being cut into predefined length and after that passed on for further processing.