Patent ID: 6619371
Filing Date: 2003-09-16
Classification: B22D

Abstract:
A method of controlling the pivoting movement of a teeming ladle about a theoretical fulcrum relative to a teeming funnel of a mold of a substantially linear array thereof and provided in a first teeming machine adapted to be moved in a first direction parallel to the array, the ladle comprising at one side thereof a protruding spout provided with a teeming channel of predetermined radius curved about the fulcrum, comprising the substantially simultaneously executed steps of:moving the ladle toward the mold in a second direction substantially normal to the first direction for placing the spout over the teeming funnel; lifting the ladle in a third direction substantially vertically relative to the first and second directions; and pivoting the ladle about an axis intermediate the one side and a side opposite therefrom and extending substantially normal to the second direction.