Patent ID: 8763677

Claim:
A method for casting a material by bringing the material into a free-flowing state by heating and introducing the material into a casting mold according to a principle of gravity casting, wherein introducing the material into a cavity of the casting mold takes place from underneath by a bottom-casting principle, wherein the material—viewed in flow direction of the material—is first introduced into a pouring basin of a runner, then flows through the runner, thereafter through a storage space located upstream from the cavity and arranged underneath the cavity and from there into the cavity, wherein during the introduction of the material into the casting mold according to the principle of gravity casting, the pouring basin is disposed above the cavity, wherein after introduction of the material into the casting mold the casting mold is pivoted together with the pouring basin, the runner and the storage space, so that the storage space takes over the function of a feeder or riser and solidifying of the material takes place by a top-casting principle, and wherein the pouring basin is disposed above the cavity before the pivoting of the casting mold and the pouring basin.