Patent ID: 6619377
Filing Date: 2003-09-16
Classification: B22D

Abstract:
A process for the vertical continuous casting of metal products in an oscillating mold having cooled plates joined together, in which process the molten metal to be cast is cast by keeping it in contact with said oscillating cooled plates and the region of the meniscus of the liquid metal present in the mold is subjected to the action of an axial alternating magnetic field, collinear with the direction of casting, tending to impose on said meniscus a domed overall shape, characterized in that a magnetic field generated by an AC current pulsed at a frequency of less than 500 Hz is used and said region of the meniscus (12) is also subjected to a continuous magnetic field directed transversely to the direction of casting (11) in order to allow the shape of said meniscus (12) to be stabilized.