Patent ID: 8522858

Claim:
A continuous casting installation for the continuous casting of slabs, thin slabs, blooms, preliminary sections, rounds, tubular sections or billets from molten metal, with a mold, from which the metal is discharged vertically downward, a vertical strand guide arranged below the mold, and means for deflecting the metal strip from the vertical direction into the horizontal direction, where mechanical means for deforming the metal strip are located in the terminal area of the deflection of the metal strip into the horizontal direction or after the deflection into the horizontal direction, wherein the vertical strand guide has a number of rollers arranged on both sides of the metal strip in the direction of conveyance of the metal strip, where first cooling devices, with which a cooling fluid can be applied to the surface of the metal strip, are arranged in the area of the rollers, where the first cooling devices are mounted in such a way that they can be moved in the vertical direction or in the vertical and horizontal direction, and where stationary second cooling devices are additionally installed in the area of the vertical strand guide, wherein the first cooling devices have a higher cooling capacity than the second cooling devices, wherein the first cooling devices are arranged downstream of at least one of the second cooling devices in the conveyance direction of the strip.