Patent ID: 6386267
Filing Date: 2002-05-14
Classification: B22D

Abstract:
Air-pillow apparatus for guiding a moving, flexible, tensed, heat-conductive metallic casting belt along a cylindrically shaped path wherein the cylindrically shaped path is suitable for guiding such a casting belt moving toward an entrance into a mold space of a continuous casting machine for continuously casting molten metal, said air-pillow apparatus comprising:a plurality of stationary belt-guiding elements defining the cylindrically shaped path; said belt-guiding elements being arranged for association with pressurized air for applying pressurized air in belt-levitating relationship against a cylindrically curved inner surface of such a casting belt moving along the cylindrically shaped path; and said stationary belt-guiding elements being located at a plurality of positions spaced from each other and arranged in a pattern extending transversely across said cylindrically shaped path.