Patent ID: 9266167
Filing Date: 2016-02-23
CPC Classification: B22D

Claim Text:
1. A continuous casting mold oxide control process comprising: providing a continuous casting mold with a mold cavity configured to produce a castpart; providing an oxide dam positioned relative to the mold cavity to contain oxides developing on a surface of molten metal provided to the mold, the oxide dam including a dam interior; providing one or more oxide outlets from the dam interior configured to direct the oxides developing on the surface of the molten metal within the oxide dam interior to a pre-determined location within the mold cavity; introducing molten metal into the mold cavity until the desired metal level is sensed by a molten metal level sensor; providing the controlled oxide dam outlet at the surface of the molten metal to direct the oxides forming within the oxide dam interior to flow outside the oxide dam to the pre-determined location within the mold cavity.