Patent ID: 6474401
Filing Date: 2002-11-05
Classification: B22D

Abstract:
A continuous casting mold adapted for casting molten steel for manufacturing slabs, particularly for manufacturing thin slabs, the molten steel defining during operation of the mold a lowest molten steel level, the continuous casting mold comprising water-cooled short side walls and long side walls, wherein the long side walls have inner sides and outer sides, wherein the inner sides of the long side walls define a pouring funnel and the inner sides extend parallel to each other from the pouring funnel toward the short side walls, and wherein the outer sides of the long side walls have cooling grooves, further comprising a wall armor on the outer sides of the long side walls only for reinforcing the long side walls only, the wall armor extending from a location below the lowest molten steel level downwardly in a strand casting direction, wherein a thickness of the wall armor decreases from the location below the lowest molten-steel level downwardly in the strand casting direction.