Patent ID: 8973791
Filing Date: 2015-03-10
Classification: B22D

Abstract:
1. Frame for a device for holding and replacing plates for casting molten metal out of a metallurgical vessel having a casting channel, the axis of the casting channel defining the casting axis (Z); the frame comprising a casting opening arranged to be in registry with the casting channel of the vessel in operating position; the frame configured to be fixed to the lower side of a metallurgical vessel; the frame comprising a first, upper portion and a second lower portion, joining at a middle section plane defining the plane where an upper refractory element and a plate form a sliding contact; the plane being substantially perpendicular to the casting axis (Z); wherein the orthogonal projection onto the central longitudinal plane of the recesses situated on the first side of the housing are spaced apart vertically from the orthogonal projection onto said central longitudinal plane of the recesses situated on the second side of the housing.