Patent ID: 7987896

Claim:
A method for guiding a cast material out of a casting chamber of a casting system, the method comprising the steps of: discharging the cast material from the casting chamber by means of a succession of guiding rollers and rolling rollers, exerting by a rolling roller a rolling force on the cast material to reduce the thickness of the cast material, wherein an only guiding roller exerts no rolling force on the cast material, and wherein at least the rolling rollers are driven by a drive, each drive applied under load, detecting the rolling force of each rolling roller, calculating a total rolling force as the sum of the detected rolling force for each rolling roller, detecting the load of each drive, calculating a total load as the sum of the detected load of each drive, determining a setpoint rolling force for a particular rolling roller, calculating a setpoint load to apply to the particular rolling roller based on the determined setpoint rolling force for the particular rolling roller, the calculated total rolling force, and the calculated total load, and applying the calculated set point load to the particular rolling roller.