Patent ID: 6715537
Filing Date: 2004-04-06
Classification: B22D

Abstract:
A device for the continuous casting of metal, in particular, steel, comprising a lifting platform which can be driven in an oscillating fashion by means of a drive device, further comprising a continuous casting mold received on the lifting platform, as well as a stationarily arranged support frame which is provided with guiding or bearing elements for the lifting platform, wherein such a guiding or bearing element is an elastic spring system (61a to 64a, 61b to 64b), comprised of two spring legs (201, 202; 301, 302) arranged angularly relative to one another, which spring legs extend perpendicularly to the oscillation direction, respectively, wherein the two spring legs are formed like a tuning fork and wherein respectively overlapping upper and lower ends (211a, 211b, 212a, 212b; 311a, 311b, 312a, 312b) of the two spring legs form the support surface for the lifting platform (3a, 3b) or the connecting surface with the stationarily arranged support frame (2a, 2b), and wherein the spring system, in addition to the force in the oscillation direction, compensates by load balancing disturbing forces in directions perpendicular to the oscillation direction.