Patent ID: 6863115

Claim:
A liquid-cooled mold for the continuous casting of metals, comprising: mold plates made of one of copper and a copper alloy, which are supported at their rear on supporting plates by use of a plurality of bolts, the bolts having bolt heads applied in a region of a backsides of the supporting plates facing away from the mold plates; and articulation systems allowing relative motions between the mold plates and the supporting plates are incorporated between the bolt heads and the backsides, wherein the articulation systems each include a first articulation member assigned to the bolt head and a second articulation member assigned to the backside of the supporting plate, having sliding surfaces facing each other, a sliding element being undetachably incorporated between the sliding surfaces of the articulation members, the first articulation member configured as a conical socket and the second articulation member configured with a second conical arrangement opposite the configuration of the conical socket of the first articulation member, the second conical arrangement pointing in a direction of the bolt head; and a rocker disk having a spherical cap-shaped surface, the rocker disk positioned between the first articulation member and the second articulation member.