Patent ID: 6889749

Claim:
A discharge device to discharge liquid steel from a container to a crystallizer having two rollers, the discharge device comprising: a discharge element arranged between said container and said rollers, wherein said discharge element is shaped to define a main tank comprising two substantially vertical intermediate walls which define a central compartment into which said liquid steel is able to be cast from said container, two lateral walls which, with said intermediate walls, define two lateral compartments communicating with said central compartment by apertures made in the lower part of said substantially vertical intermediate walls, and a bottom wall, wherein said bottom wall has, in a position between the prolongement of said intermediate walls and said lateral walls, discharge apertures for flowing a first portion of the cast steel downwards into the crystallizer, and guide means provided at the sides of said discharge apertures to guide a second portion of the cast steel towards said lateral compartments to have said second portion of the cast steel discharged from above said lateral walls into the crystallizer along the generatrixes of said rollers.