Patent ID: 7140416
Filing Date: 2006-11-28
Classification: B22D

Abstract:
1. A continuous casting plant of a metallic strip comprising a casting plane, a casting station and a plurality of further stations substantially separated from said casting station and, in said casting station, a mobile ingot mould comprising two cylindrical, cooled, counter-rotating rolls and two plates each of which is set at the ends of said rolls, to close at the sides of said rolls the space between them, said rolls defining, between their respective facing surfaces, a space inside which molten metal is cast and solidifies upon contact with the surface of said rolls and is then extracted from below as a hot metal strip, said continuous casting plant further comprising: at least one tundish and at least one under-tundish; at least one turret set on the casting plane adjacent to a side of the casting station, said turrent having first and second pivoting arms; preheating stations for preheating said tundish and/or under-tundish, the preheating stations being disposed on the casting plane adjacent to the turret within reach of said pivoting arms; wherein the first and second pivoting arms are operative to traverse respective said tundish and said under-tundish from the pre heating stations to the casting station.