Apparatus for Continuous Casting and Method to Assemble Said Apparatus for Continuous Casting

Abstract

Apparatus for continuous casting comprising a support frame and a plurality of plates coupled to each other to define a tubular element provided with a casting cavity. Positioning members are provided to connect the plates to the support frame. The positioning members comprise attachment devices suitable to connect at least a first plate to a wall of the support frame, and thrust devices configured to compress the other plates with respect to each other, in correspondence with respective connection edges and against the at least one first plate.

1 . Apparatus for continuous casting comprising a support frame and a plurality of plates coupled to each other to define a tubular element provided with a casting cavity positioning members being provided to position said plates with respect to said support frame, said positioning members comprising each time attachment devices or thrust devices, wherein only one first plate of said plates is attached to a wall of said support frame, by means of corresponding attachment devices, and in that thrust devices are associated to the other plates to thrust them toward the inside of said support frame and to compress them with respect to each other, in correspondence with respective connection edges and against said first plate. 
     
     
         2 . Apparatus as in  claim 1 , wherein said thrust devices are mounted on said support frame. 
     
     
         3 . Apparatus as in  claim 2 , wherein said thrust devices comprise elastic blocks attached to the external surface of said plates and thruster elements attached to said support frame and configured to compress said elastic blocks. 
     
     
         4 . Apparatus as in  claim 3 , wherein each of said elastic blocks comprises a containing body attached to said plates and configured to contain a plurality of elastic elements. 
     
     
         5 . Apparatus as in  claim 4 , wherein said containing body is housed in a hole made in the thickness of said plates. 
     
     
         6 . Apparatus as in  claim 4 , wherein said containing body comprises a container provided with an aperture for the introduction of said elastic elements, said aperture being closed by a lid contain said elastic elements. 
     
     
         7 . Apparatus as in  claim 2 , wherein each of said thruster elements comprises a thruster screw and a threaded hole made in said support frame and into which said thruster screw is screwed. 
     
     
         8 . Apparatus as in  claim 1 , wherein said attachment devices comprise a plurality of screws able to be associated with said support frame and with one first plate. 
     
     
         9 . Apparatus as in  claim 8 , wherein said support frame is provided with through holes into which said screws are inserted, and in that said at least one first plate is provided with threaded holes into which said screws are screwed. 
     
     
         10 . Apparatus as in  claim 1 , wherein said positioning members comprise positioning devices provided to position said plates with respect to said support frame in an axial and transverse direction. 
     
     
         11 . Method to assemble an apparatus for continuous casting comprising the positioning by means of positioning members of a plurality of plates to a support frame to define a tubular element provided with a casting cavity, wherein it comprises the attachment of only a first plate of said plates to a wall of said support frame by means of attachment devices, and a second operation of coupling the other plates with respect to each other and to said first plate thrusting them toward the inside of said support frame and compressing them in correspondence with respective connection edges by the action of thrust devices. 
     
     
         12 . Method as in  claim 11 , wherein the attaching of said first plate provides an action of holding said at least one first plate to said support frame. 
     
     
         13 . Method as in  claim 11 , wherein said second operation provides to regulate the pressure action exerted by said thrust devices, associated with said support frame, against said other plates. 
     
     
         14 . Method as in  claim 13 , wherein during said second operation, thruster elements of said thrust devices act against respective elastic blocks attached to the external surface of said plates. 
     
     
         15 . Method as in  claim 11 , wherein said second operation provides to insert said plates into said support frame, disposing them in reciprocal contact with their connection edges.