Patent ID: 8171983

Claim:
Mould for the continuous casting of blooms, slabs or billets comprising: a mould component, the mould component including support profiles extending in a longitudinal direction of the mould and being distributed over an outer periphery of the mould component, a supporting structure that surrounds the mould component, the mould component being supported on the supporting structure by the support profiles, the mould component and the supporting structure including cooperating connecting profiles that extend in the longitudinal direction of the mould, the connecting profiles including pairs of engaging profile strips that provide a clearance in a peripheral direction of the mould between the mould component and the supporting structure when engaged, each pair of engaging profile strips including a first profile strip outwardly projecting from an outer periphery of and integral with the mould component and a second profile strip inwardly projecting from an inner periphery of and integral with the supporting structure, and cooling ducts that guide cooling water and are defined by the support profiles and the connecting profiles such that the cooling ducts are arranged at least partly in the clearance between the mould component and the supporting structure.