Patent ID: 6585029
Filing Date: 2003-07-01
Classification: B22D

Abstract:
A continuous casting mold for continuous casting of a thin slab steel billet, the mold comprising:a pair of wide side walls spaced apart and opposite each other; a pair of narrow side walls spaced apart, and opposite each other, arranged clampably between the wide side walls and also displacable along the wide side walls in a direction transverse to a casting direction of the mold, the narrow side walls both narrowing in a wedge shape in the casting direction; the wide side walls together being shaped and oriented to define a funnel shaped pouring-in region which extends in the casting direction; the wide side walls being positioned by the narrow side walls so that the distance between the wide side walls continuously narrows at least over part regions of the extent of the wide side walls, in the direction of the narrowing of the narrow side walls and the casting direction, whereby the wide side walls converge in the direction of the narrow side walls; the wide side walls extending to an end of the mold in the casting direction, the wide side walls having a distance between them at the end of the mold in the casting direction, which distance is constant over the entire width of the wide side walls; at least one supporting wall at one of the wide side walls and the one wide side wall being releasably fastened to the at least one supporting wall; an adjusting device connected to the at least one supporting wall for adjusting the displacement and tilt of the one supporting wall jointly with the respective wide side wall thereto fastened, such that the at least one supporting walls and the thereto fastened wide side wall is tiltable with respect to the opposite wide side wall.