Patent ID: 7246651

Claim:
A twin roll casting machine, comprising: a pair of chilled rolls; a pair of pinch rolls for pinching a strip continuously cast by said chilled rolls and feeding the same to a succeeding process; an enclosure with lateral side walls confronting widthwise edges of the strip and enclosing the strip in a range from the chilled rolls to the pinch rolls; chilled-roll sealing members arranged on the enclosure so as to confront outer peripheries of the chilled rolls substantially in parallel therewith; actuators adapted to move the chilled-roll sealing members toward and away from the outer peripheries of the chilled rolls; pinch-roll sealing members between the enclosure and outer peripheries of the paired pinch rolls; and gas supply means for supplying inert gas into the enclosure; wherein the chilled-roll sealing members are hollow and cooling-medium supply means are provided to supply cooling medium into said chilled-roll sealing members.