公开(公告)号：US6026759A

公开(公告)日：2000-02-22

申请号：US21332

申请日：1998-02-10

申请人： R. William Hazelett ,  Jeffrey Paul Lefebvre ,  Timothy D. Kaiser

发明人： R. William Hazelett ,  Jeffrey Paul Lefebvre ,  Timothy D. Kaiser

IPC分类号： B63B39/06 ,  B63H25/04 ,  B63H25/06 ,  B63H25/52

CPC分类号： B63H25/04 ,  B63B39/06

摘要： Method and apparatus for leveling or adjusting a power-boat's average angle of bank or list about its roll axis RA regardless of side wind or off-center loading to improve passenger comfort, increase fuel efficiency, and smooth hull passage through waves with reduced pounding. Improved operating characteristics are accomplished by adjusting steering force angle-of-attack of a small fin-rudder mounted under a forward portion of the boat's keel. The boat's heading is maintained by applying an opposite steering force by altering thrust direction of the driving and steering mechanism. Altering thrust direction occurs either by a pilot steering the helm or automatically by adjusting thrust direction independently of pilot steering. In an optional automatic mode, an electronic gravity inclinometer adjusts a fin-rudder servo. An electronic filter processes the inclinometer signal to control the boat's average attitude around its roll axis RA. For providing further automation, thrust direction of the driving and steering mechanism is adjusted substantially simultaneously and proportionally with adjusting fin-rudder angle-of-attack and without pilot steering. The boat's heading is maintained while adjusting fin-rudder angle-of-attack by compensatingly adjusting thrust direction of driving and steering. For further automation, a flux-gate compass controls thrust direction for holding the boat's heading while adjusting fin-rudder angle-of-attack.

摘要翻译： 用于调平或调整动力艇的平移角度或横列轴线RA的平均角度，无论侧风或偏心载荷如何，以提高乘客的舒适度，提高燃油效率，以及通过减少冲击的波浪平滑船体通过。 改进的操作特性是通过调整安装在船龙骨前部的小型舵头的转向力攻角来实现的。 通过改变驱动和转向机构的推力方向施加相反的转向力来维持船的航向。 改变推力方向通过驾驶员转向舵或通过独立于驾驶员驾驶来调节推力方向自动地发生。 在可选的自动模式下，电子重力倾斜仪调节翅片舵伺服。 电子滤波器处理倾斜计信号以控制船的其侧倾轴线RA周围的平均姿态。 为了提供进一步的自动化，驱动和转向机构的推力方向基本上同时和成比例地调节翅片方向舵的迎角并且没有先导操纵。 通过补偿调整驾驶和转向的推力方向，调整船舵攻角，保持船的航向。 为了进一步自动化，磁通门罗盘控制推进方向以保持船的航向，同时调整飞行方向舵的迎角。

公开(公告)号：US5804136A

公开(公告)日：1998-09-08

申请号：US756377

申请日：1996-11-27

申请人： Valery G. Kagan

发明人： Valery G. Kagan

IPC分类号： B22D11/06 ,  B22D11/10 ,  B22D11/11 ,  B22D11/112 ,  B22D11/116 ,  B22D11/117 ,  B22D11/119 ,  B22D11/16 ,  B22D11/00

CPC分类号： B22D11/064

摘要： A radial-flow, wide-pouring molten-metal distributor comprising a curved or arcuate overflow weir which is normally horizontal on its top and which is concave on its upstream side as viewed from above. Over this arc-shaped overflow weir flows molten metal to be continuously cast in an open pool. An impetus is thereby imparted to the molten metal along diverging radial lines. The flow so impelled continues radially onto a horizontal apron. The flow spreads fanwise to the desired width which may be as much as six times the width of the weir. Thence, the metal cascades or flows uniformly into the casting apparatus. The overflow weir is preferably supplemented by a skimmer mounted above it in substantially uniform spaced aligned relationship, thereby completing a slot beneath the skimmer through which the molten metal flows. When employed for the casting of wide, thin product, the invention results in a far more uniform and gentle distribution of metal than heretofore available. Dribbling and "beards" are eliminated. Swirls and porosity are reduced. The temperature profile across the section being cast is rendered more uniform, thereby permitting a lower temperature of the supply of molten metal entering this novel distributor.

摘要翻译： 径向流动的，广泛浇注的熔融金属分配器包括弯曲或弓形的溢流堰，其在其顶部上通常是水平的，并且如上所述从其上游侧是凹的。 在这个弧形溢流堰上流动熔融金属，以连续铸造在一个开放的池中。 从而沿着发散的径向线赋予熔融金属的动力。 如此推动的流体径向延伸到水平围裙。 流量散布到期望的宽度，其可以是堰的宽度的六倍。 因此，金属级联或均匀地流入铸造装置。 溢流堰优选由安装在其上方的基本上均匀间隔对齐的关系的撇渣器补充，由此完成熔融金属流过的撇渣器下方的槽。 当用于铸造宽，薄的产品时，本发明导致比迄今可获得的金属更均匀和温和的金属分布。 盘带和“胡须”被淘汰。 漩涡和孔隙率降低。 铸造的部分的温度曲线变得更均匀，从而允许进入该新型分配器的熔融金属供应的较低温度。

公开(公告)号：US4972900A

公开(公告)日：1990-11-27

申请号：US426096

申请日：1989-10-24

申请人： Wojtek Szczypiorski

发明人： Wojtek Szczypiorski

IPC分类号： B22D11/06

CPC分类号： B22D11/0642

摘要： Method and apparatus for the feeding of molten metals through nozzles having gas-permeable walls, cooperating with twin-belt continuous metal-casing machines. The closed-channeled, multi-passaged nozzles have gas-permeable refractory walls, allowing the escape of gases that may be dissolved in the molten metal and become expelled or liberated from it while the molten metal is flowing through the passageways in the nozzle. Gaseous voids in the continuously cast product are thereby avoided, notably in aluminum casting as shown by experimental results to date. The nozzles are made from gas-permeable refractory material having interconnected porosity--that is, interconnected void interstices--extending through the nozzle walls. The interconnected void interstices are of sufficient size for allowing the passage of hydrogen gas through the walls, while being sufficiently small for preventing the leakage of molten metal. The gas-permeable refractory material is relatively non-wettable by the molten metal. For example, the nozzles are made of fibrous sintered refractory material--for instance, fibers of alumina or silica intertwined and cohered within a major volume-percentage of interstitial voids, which provide the interconnected porosity. Such fibrous material displays high resistance to thermal shock. It is relatively compliant to nozzle clamps, with consequent resistance to breakage, while the coefficients of thermal conductivity and thermal expansion of such fibrous refractory material are advantageously low.

公开(公告)号：US4934441A

公开(公告)日：1990-06-19

申请号：US85270

申请日：1987-08-12

申请人： John F. B. Wood ,  Timothy D. Kaiser ,  Jerome B. Allyn ,  Charles D. Dykes ,  Frank E. Kalaskie ,  Robert J. Carmichael ,  Charles R. Simon

发明人： John F. B. Wood ,  Timothy D. Kaiser ,  Jerome B. Allyn ,  Charles D. Dykes ,  Frank E. Kalaskie ,  Robert J. Carmichael ,  Charles R. Simon

IPC分类号： B22D11/06

CPC分类号： B22D11/066

摘要： For closing gaps between blocks of a moving edge dam prior to its travelling downstream into the entrance of a moving mold defined between upper and lower revolving casting belts moving downstream from the mold entrance to its exit, the moving edge dam is initially elevated into a crest, as shown in FIGS. 12 and 14. This crest is above a plane generally defined by the lower casting belt travelling downstream. Then, a guide roller positioned above thrusts downwardly upon the moving edge dam bending it convex downwardly as shown at "B" in FIG. 14 for causing its dam blocks to press against each other for sliding them along their high strength endless flexibile carrying member, thereby closing gaps between the blocks entering the mold entrance for sealing the entrance against outward leakage of molten metal between blocks. The downward convex bending also produces desired downward pressure of the moving edge dam against the lower casting belt, thereby enhacing sealing action between moving edge dam and lower belt. The downward thrust of this roller is sensed for indicating the amount of tension in the endless flexible carrying member of the moving edge dam. Back-breaker apparatus in rolling contact with a moving edge dam during its sagging return travel from mold exit to mold entrance has remotely controllable lift means for controllably raising or lowering the sagging edge dam for respectivley increasing or decreasing tension of the endless flexible carrying member.

摘要翻译： 为了在移动边缘坝的下游进入到从模具入口到其出口的下游移动的上下旋转铸造带之间限定的移动模具的入口之间的间隙处封闭间隙，移动边缘坝最初被升高成一个顶部 ，如图1和2所示。 该顶部位于通常由下游行进的下铸造带限定的平面之上。 然后，定位在上方的引导辊在移动边缘上向下推动​​，使其向下弯曲，使其向下凸起，如图3中的“B”所示。 14，用于使其坝块彼此挤压以沿着它们的高强度无限弹性承载构件滑动，从而封闭进入模具入口的块之间的间隙，以密封入口以防止块之间的熔融金属向外泄漏。 向下的凸起弯曲也产生移动边缘坝抵靠下铸造带的期望的向下压力，从而在移动边缘坝和下部带之间形成密封作用。 感测到该辊的向下推力用于指示移动边缘坝的环形柔性承载构件中的张力的量。 在从模具出口到模具入口的下垂返回行程期间，与移动边缘坝滚动接触的背部破碎装置具有可远程控制的提升装置，用于可控地升高或降低下垂边缘坝，以便相对地增加或减小环形柔性承载构件的张力。

公开(公告)号：US4921037A

公开(公告)日：1990-05-01

申请号：US221230

申请日：1988-07-19

申请人： Norman J. Bergeron ,  J. F. B. Wood ,  R. W. Hazelett

发明人： Norman J. Bergeron ,  J. F. B. Wood ,  R. W. Hazelett

IPC分类号： B22D11/06

CPC分类号： B22D11/0665 ,  B22D11/0677

摘要： The wide, thin, revolvable, flexible, metallic casting belts are made to incorporate differential patterns of residual internal longitudinal tensile and compressive stresses. The two marginal areas are residually longitudinally stretched more than the main middle area straddled by these margins. This main middle area is used as a moving mold and is expected to contact molten metal. Thus, the treated belts have two marginal areas in a state of mild longitudinal compression straddling the main middle area in a state of mild residual longitudinal tension. During casting, when hot metal comes into contact with the main middle area of such treated belt, the main middle area expands. Because of the built-in differential compensating stresses, the stresses throughout such belt during casting advantageously become balanced or equalized across the whole belt width. This equalized stress condition during casting assures that the critical moving belt mold area will be flatter than experienced with belts not having differential stress treatment. Thus, cast metal product typically will be improved in flatness, surface finish, section uniformity, soundness and metallurgy. Two methods are described for longitudinally stretching marginal areas relative to the middle area: (A) Use a work roller effectively of larger diameter toward its end than its middle for stretching both margins relative to the main middle area; (B) Use conventional cylindrical work rollers and heat (for expanding and slacking) the middle area during roller-stretching while leaving cold margins for residually stretching both margins relative to the main middle area.

公开(公告)号：US4586559A

公开(公告)日：1986-05-06

申请号：US774161

申请日：1985-09-06

申请人： Marcel K. Govaerts ,  Hendrik A. L. Gielen ,  John M. A. Dompas

发明人： Marcel K. Govaerts ,  Hendrik A. L. Gielen ,  John M. A. Dompas

IPC分类号： B22D11/06 ,  B22D11/16 ,  B22D11/22

CPC分类号： B22D11/066

摘要： An improved process and apparatus for casting a strip with laterally extending lugs by introducing molten metal at the inlet of a molding zone having a bottom and sidewalls, the bottom of the molding zone being formed by the upper surface of a moving endless belt and the sidewalls being formed by a first and second moving endless sidedam. The sidedams move with the belt from the inlet to the outlet of the molding zone and return from the outlet to the inlet. Each sidedam comprises an endless strap and a multiplicity of blocks strung thereon. Some of the blocks form lug molding pockets, the height of each pocket being lower than the height of the molding zone. A cast strip with laterally extending lugs is extracted at the outlet of the molding zone. The passage of lug molding pockets or blocks forming these pockets in each sidedam is detected. The difference between the temperatures of the first and the second sidedams is corrected so as to change the advancing speed of at least one of these dams, a warmer sidedam moving slower than a colder sidedam, if an unwanted lag is found between the molding pockets of the first sidedam and those of the second sidedam. The improvement comprises controlling the result of the correction measures by detecting the passage of the externally extending lugs in the cast product, modifying the correction as a function of the lug detection, and modifying the difference between the temperatures of the first and the second sidedams by use of cooling and heating units.

摘要翻译： 一种用于通过在具有底部和侧壁的模制区域的入口处引入熔融金属来浇铸具有横向延伸的凸耳的条带的改进的工艺和装置，模制区域的底部由移动的环形带的上表面和侧壁 由第一和第二移动的无端边缘形成。 双面胶带随着带从成型区的入口到出口移动，并从出口返回入口。 每个侧面包括一个环形带和多个块在其上。 一些块形成凸耳成型袋，每个袋的高度低于成型区的高度。 具有横向延伸凸耳的铸造带在模制区的出口处被抽出。 检测到在每个侧面中形成这些袋的凸耳成型袋或块的通道。 校正第一和第二侧面的温度之间的差异，以便改变这些水坝中的至少一个的行进速度，如果在成型袋的成型袋之间发现不期望的滞后 第一面和第二面。 该改进包括通过检测铸造产品中的外部延伸凸耳的通过来控制校正措施的结果，修改作为凸耳检测的函数的校正，以及通过以下方式修改第一和第二侧面的温度之间的差异： 使用冷却和加热单元。

公开(公告)号：US4062235A

公开(公告)日：1977-12-13

申请号：US694378

申请日：1976-06-09

申请人： Robert William Hazelett ,  John Frederick Barry Wood

发明人： Robert William Hazelett ,  John Frederick Barry Wood

IPC分类号： B22D11/06 ,  G01L5/04

CPC分类号： B22D11/0605

摘要： Continuous casting methods and apparatus are described wherein the flexible casting belts in twin-belt machines having two or more main rolls in each belt carriage are sensed by mechanical probes, and belt temperatures are controllably elevated prior to contact with the molten metal to improve the casting conditions and the operation of the thin flexible casting belts; the temperature elevation preferably being relatively gradual may be carried out while the travelling belts are approaching the nip rolls or while the belts are in contact with the nip rolls, or both. Zone control of belt pre-heating is disclosed, and control of the coolant streams issuing from the curved nip roll tubes by use of fingernail-like extenders may be provided to aid in pre-heating the belts and in controlling their operation. Intensive infra-red heaters are shown directed at close range toward the casting surfaces of the belts, these heaters serving also to cure and dry any coating material on the belts. Heating by means of hot fluid, such as steam, is described, with the hot fluid being directed into the deep grooves in the nip roll beneath the rear surfaces of the casting belts. Mechanical and thermal sensors are employed to sense the distortion of the belts and to measure their operating temperatures, these sensors being shown with automatic control of the belt pre-heating action. The methods and apparatus of the invention can be applied to twin-belt casting machines regardless of whether the molten metal is supplied by open pool, closed pool or injection feeding.

摘要翻译： 描述了连续铸造方法和装置，其中在每个带托架中具有两个或更多个主辊的双带机中的柔性铸造带由机械探针感测，并且在与熔融金属接触之前可控地提升带温度以改善铸造 薄型柔性铸造带的条件和操作; 优选地相对渐进的温度升高可以在行进带接近压辊时或当带与压辊接触时，或两者都进行。 公开了皮带预热的区域控制，并且可以提供通过使用指甲状延伸器从弯曲压辊辊管发出的冷却剂流的控制，以有助于预热带并控制其操作。 密集的红外线加热器被示出朝向带的铸造表面的近距离，这些加热器也用于固化和干燥带上的任何涂层材料。 描述了通过热流体（例如蒸汽）进行加热，其中热流体被引导到铸辊的后表面下方的压辊中的深槽中。 采用机械和热传感器来感测皮带的变形并测量其工作温度，这些传感器可以自动控制皮带预热动作。 本发明的方法和装置可以应用于双带铸造机，而不管熔池是通过开放池，闭池还是注射进料供应。

公开(公告)号：US4002197A

公开(公告)日：1977-01-11

申请号：US602579

申请日：1975-08-07

申请人： Robert William Hazelett ,  John Frederick Barry Wood

发明人： Robert William Hazelett ,  John Frederick Barry Wood

IPC分类号： B22D11/06 ,  B22D27/02

CPC分类号： B22D11/0605

摘要： Continuous casting apparatus is described wherein the temperature of the flexible casting belts in twin-belt machines having two or more main rolls in each belt carriage is controllably elevated prior to contact with the molten metal to improve the casting conditions and the operation of the thin flexible casting belts; the temperature elevation preferably being relatively gradual may be carried out while the travelling belts are approaching the nip rolls or while the belts are in contact with the nip rolls, or both. Zone control of belt pre-heating is disclosed, and control of the coolant streams issuing from the curved nip roll tubes by use of fingernail-like extenders may be provided to aid in pre-heating the belts and in controlling their operation. Intensive infra-red heaters are shown directed at close range toward the casting surfaces of the belts, these heaters serving also to cure and dry any coating material on the belts. Heating of the nip rolls by means of hot fluid, such as steam, is described, with the hot fluid being directed into the interior of the nip roll or being directed into the deep grooves in the nip roll beneath the rear surfaces of the casting belts. Mechanical and thermal sensors may be employed to sense the distortion of the belts and to measure their operating temperatures, these sensors being shown with automatic control of the belt pre-heating action. The apparatus of the invention can be applied to twin-belt casting machines regardless of whether the molten metal is supplied by open pool, closed pool or injection feeding.

摘要翻译： 描述了连续铸造设备，其中在每个带托架中具有两个或更多个主辊的双带机中的柔性铸造带的温度在与熔融金属接触之前可控地升高，以改善铸造条件和薄柔性 铸带; 优选地相对渐进的温度升高可以在行进带接近压辊时或当带与压辊接触时，或两者都进行。 公开了皮带预热的区域控制，并且可以提供通过使用指甲状延伸器从弯曲压辊辊管发出的冷却剂流的控制，以有助于预热带并控制其操作。 密集的红外线加热器被示出朝向带的铸造表面的近距离，这些加热器也用于固化和干燥带上的任何涂层材料。 描述了通过诸如蒸汽之类的热流体对压辊进行加热，其中热流体被引导到压辊的内部，或被引导到压铸辊的深沟槽中 。 可以使用机械和热传感器来感测皮带的变形并测量它们的操作温度，这些传感器被显示为带式预热动作的自动控制。 本发明的装置可以应用于双带铸造机，而不管熔池是通过开放池，闭池还是注射进料供应。

公开(公告)号：US11904384B2

公开(公告)日：2024-02-20

申请号：US17224755

申请日：2021-04-07

申请人： HAZELETT STRIP-CASTING CORPORATION

发明人： Charles D Dykes ,  Valery G Kagan ,  Douglas A Hamilton ,  Casey J Davis ,  John E Pennucci

IPC分类号： B22D11/06

CPC分类号： B22D11/0654 ,  B22D11/0605 ,  B22D11/0677

摘要： A continuous casting apparatus includes a first belt carried by a first upstream pulley and a first downstream pulley, a second belt carried by a second upstream pulley and a second downstream pulley, and a mold region defined by a first mold support section arranged behind the first belt and a second mold support section arranged behind the second belt. The first mold support section supports the first belt and defines a shape of the first belt in the mold region and the second mold support section supports the second belt and defines a shape of the second belt in the mold region. At least one of the first mold support section and the second mold support section includes a transition portion and a generally planar portion downstream from the transition portion. The transition portion has a variable radius configured to receive molten metal from a metal feeding device.

公开(公告)号：US20180290204A1

公开(公告)日：2018-10-11

申请号：US15945844

申请日：2018-04-05

申请人： CHARLES D DYKES ,  VALERY G KAGAN ,  DOUGLAS A HAMILTON ,  CASEY J DAVIS ,  JOHN E PENNUCCI

发明人： CHARLES D DYKES ,  VALERY G KAGAN ,  DOUGLAS A HAMILTON ,  CASEY J DAVIS ,  JOHN E PENNUCCI

IPC分类号： B22D11/06

摘要： A continuous casting apparatus includes a first belt carried by a first upstream pulley and a first downstream pulley, a second belt carried by a second upstream pulley and a second downstream pulley, and a mold region defined by a first mold support section arranged behind the first belt and a second mold support section arranged behind the second belt. The first mold support section supports the first belt and defines a shape of the first belt in the mold region and the second mold support section supports the second belt and defines a shape of the second belt in the mold region. At least one of the first mold support section and the second mold support section includes a transition portion and a generally planar portion downstream from the transition portion. The transition portion has a variable radius configured to receive molten metal from a metal feeding device.