Patent ID: 7036557

Claim:
A device for the continuous casting of metals, especially steel materials, to elongated products in a multistrand casting apparatus with a plurality of continuous casting molds which are separately mounted in respective oscillating frames ( 2 ) oscillatingly driven in a casting direction ( 1 ), the casting frames being mounted on both sides of the casting strands ( 3 ) by leaf spring pairs ( 4 ) which extend transversely to the casting direction for guiding and weight compensation on a foundation frame, characterized in that, two housings ( 6 a ) configured as compact flat cassettes ( 6 ) are arranged one behind the other in the continuous casting direction ( 1 ) on an elongated foundation frame ( 5 ), in which housing upper and lower leaf spring pairs ( 4 a ; 4 b ) extend transversely to the cast strands ( 3 ) and that oscillating drives ( 11 ) engage the leaf spring pairs ( 4 a ; 4 b ), whereby a front oscillating drive ( 11 a ) operates synchronously with the rear oscillating drive ( 11 b ).