公开(公告)号：US5279352A

公开(公告)日：1994-01-18

申请号：US931824

申请日：1992-08-18

申请人： Thomas S. Graham ,  Wojtek Szczypiorski ,  Jerome B. Allyn ,  Dean A. Boozan ,  George Desorcie ,  Norman Bergeron ,  R. William Hazelett ,  John Pennucci ,  S. Richard Hazelett

发明人： Thomas S. Graham ,  Wojtek Szczypiorski ,  Jerome B. Allyn ,  Dean A. Boozan ,  George Desorcie ,  Norman Bergeron ,  R. William Hazelett ,  John Pennucci ,  S. Richard Hazelett

IPC分类号： B22D11/06 ,  B22D11/124

CPC分类号： B22D11/0668

摘要： Electrostatic application of a dusting of dry, self-adhering, thermally and electrically insulative powder particles over a work face of an endless, thin, flexible, water-cooled, metallic casting belt advantageous for use in a continuous metal-casting machine. A dry dusting of protective powdery refractory substance is applied to the belt after being rendered airborne and electrostatically charged by various embodiments of suitable electrostatic apparatus. The casting belt to be dusted is electrically grounded for attracting the charged powder particles for adhering them to the casting belt. The dusting so deposited is remarkably uniform over a substantial area, a phenomenon explainable by mutual electrostatic repulsion of the dry powder particles being deposited. Continuously re-applied dusting over the work face of an endless casting belt during a cast provides an immediately useful repair of lost dusting powder. The dusting may be removed at will by means of an air knife. Certain powders that are effectively soft afford high thermal insulativity for the metallic casting belt, and desirably they cause only minimal interference with further mechanical processing of a cast metallic product into which they might inadvertently become entrained.

摘要翻译： 干燥，自粘，热和电绝缘的粉末颗粒在无缝，薄，柔性，水冷却的金属铸造带的工作面上静电施用，有利于连续金属铸造机。 通过适当的静电装置的各种实施例将保护性粉末状耐火材料的干燥粉尘施加到皮带上并进行静电充电。 要粉尘的铸造带被电接地以吸引带电的粉末颗粒以将它们粘附到铸造带。 这样沉积的粉尘在相当大的面积上是非常均匀的，这是通过沉积的干燥粉末颗粒的相互静电排斥而解释的现象。 在铸造过程中连续重新涂抹在无端铸造带的工作面上的粉尘可以立即有效地修复丢失的粉尘。 可以通过气刀随意除去除尘。 某些有效软的粉末为金属铸造带提供高的热绝缘性，并且理想地，它们对于铸造金属制品的进一步的机械加工只会造成极小的干扰，在这些铸造金属制品中它们可能被无意中夹带。

公开(公告)号：US5437326A

公开(公告)日：1995-08-01

申请号：US84352

申请日：1993-06-28

申请人： Thomas S. Graham ,  Wojtek Szczypiorski ,  Jerome B. Allyn ,  Dean A. Boozan ,  George Desorcie ,  Norman Bergeron ,  R. William Hazelett ,  John Pennucci ,  S. Richard Hazelett

发明人： Thomas S. Graham ,  Wojtek Szczypiorski ,  Jerome B. Allyn ,  Dean A. Boozan ,  George Desorcie ,  Norman Bergeron ,  R. William Hazelett ,  John Pennucci ,  S. Richard Hazelett

IPC分类号： B22D11/06 ,  B22D11/07

CPC分类号： B22D11/0668

摘要： Electrostatic application of a dusting of dry, electrostatically adherable, thermally insulative powder particles over a workface of a continuous metal-casting machine in which the mold surface or surfaces which provide the workface or workfaces revolve in a generally oval course. A dry dusting of protective powdery refractory material is applied to the workface after being entrained in an air stream and electrostatically charged by suitable electrostatic apparatus. The workface to be dusted is electrically grounded for attracting the charged powder particles for adhering them to the workface. The resultant coating formed by the dusting so deposited is remarkably uniform over a substantial area of the workface, a phenomenon explainable by mutual electrostatic repulsion of the dry powder particles being deposited. Continuously re-applied dusting over the workface during a continuous cast provides an immediately useful repair or replacement of dusting powder lost from the coating on the workface of a revolving mold surface during casting. The dusting may be removed at will by means of an air knife.

摘要翻译： 在连续金属铸造机的工作面上静电施加干燥，静电可粘合的绝热粉末颗粒，其中模具表面或提供工作面或工作面的表面在大致椭圆形的过程中旋转。 保护性粉末状耐火材料的干粉尘在夹带在空气流中并通过合适的静电装置静电充电后施加到工作面上。 要被除尘的工作面被电接地，以吸引带电的粉末颗粒将它们粘附到工作面上。 通过这样沉积的粉尘形成的所得涂层在工作面的大部分区域上显着均匀，这是通过沉积的干燥粉末颗粒的相互静电排斥而解释的现象。 在连续铸造过程中连续重新施加在工作面上的粉尘可以在铸造过程中立即进行有用的维修或更换从旋转模具表面的工作面上的涂层丢失的除尘粉末。 可以通过气刀随意除去除尘。

公开(公告)号：US4487157A

公开(公告)日：1984-12-11

申请号：US549652

申请日：1983-11-07

申请人： Norman J. Bergeron ,  Dean A. Boozan ,  R. William Hazelett

发明人： Norman J. Bergeron ,  Dean A. Boozan ,  R. William Hazelett

IPC分类号： C23C4/06 ,  B22D11/06 ,  B05B3/18

CPC分类号： B22D11/0668

摘要： Machine for producing insulative and protective coatings on endless flexible metallic belts of continuous casting machines is described. The coating is applied to a revolving belt being supported and driven by pulleys in the machine. The coating is applied by thermally spraying a powdered mixture directly onto the roughened casting surface of the belt. The machine holds the revolving belt under tension and applies cooling to the rear (inner) surface of the revolving belt opposite to the region where the thermal spray gun is applying the coating to the belt.

摘要翻译： 描述了连续铸造机的环形柔性金属带上生产绝缘和保护涂层的机器。 该涂层被施加到由机器中的皮带轮支撑和驱动的旋转皮带上。 通过将粉末混合物直接喷涂到带的粗糙化铸造表面上来施加涂层。 机器将张紧皮带保持在张力下，并将冷却至旋转皮带的后部（内部）表面，该表面与热喷枪将涂层涂覆在皮带上的区域相对。

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：US5967223A

公开(公告)日：1999-10-19

申请号：US885092

申请日：1997-06-30

申请人： Valery G. Kagan ,  R. William Hazelett

发明人： Valery G. Kagan ,  R. William Hazelett

IPC分类号： B22D11/06 ,  B22D11/124

CPC分类号： B22D11/0685 ,  B22D11/0677

摘要： Permanent-magnetic hydrodynamic methods and apparatus stabilize a moving, flexible, thin-gauge, heat-conducting, magnetically soft ferromagnetic casting belt against thermal distortion while moving along a mold cavity being heated at its front surface by heat coming from molten metal being cast while being cooled at its reverse surface by flowing pumped liquid coolant. Hydro-magnetic devices are arranged in an array wherein flows of pumped coolant pass through fixedly throttling passageways feeding pressure pockets facing the belt's reverse surface. These pockets are shown rimmed by magnetic pole faces. Coolant issues from the pressure pockets as fast-moving films radiating therefrom and travelling in gaps between the belt's reverse surface and the pole faces. These films cool the belt and apply hydrodynamic forces levitating the belt spaced from the pole faces while the belt is stabilized in even condition by powerful reach-out magnetic attraction forces reaching out from these pole faces and extending across the gaps to the moving belt. Pumped liquid coolant is twice throttled: once in feeding into the pressure pockets and once again in flowing out from the pockets escaping over the pole faces which rim the pockets. A hydro-magnetic array includes powerful permanent magnets formed of unique permanent-magnetic material in magnetic circuits in the array providing reach-out magnetic attraction having unusual characteristics critical to successful operation of disclosed embodiments of the invention. A hydro-pillow array without magnets may be positioned downstream from the hydro-magnetic array.

摘要翻译： 永磁式流体动力学方法和装置使移动的，柔性的，薄的，导热的，软磁性的铁磁铸造带稳定，以抵抗热变形，同时沿着正在被铸造的熔融金属的热量在其正面加热的模腔移动 通过流动泵送的液体冷却剂在其反面被冷却。 水力磁性装置以阵列布置，其中泵送的冷却剂流通过固定的节流通道，供给面向带的相反表面的压力袋。 这些口袋显示为磁极面。 冷却液从作为快速移动的膜的压力袋中发生，并且在带的反面和极面之间的间隙中行进。 这些膜冷却皮带并施加悬浮皮带与杆面间隔开的水动力，同时通过从这些极面伸出的强大的伸出的磁力吸引力使皮带稳定，并延伸穿过间隙到移动带。 泵送液体冷却液两次节流：一次进入压力袋，并再次从口袋中流出，从而在口袋周围的极面上逸出。 液压磁力阵列包括在阵列中的磁路中由独特的永磁材料形成的强大的永磁体，其提供具有对于本发明所公开的实施例的成功运行至关重要的不寻常特性的伸出磁吸引力。 没有磁体的水枕头阵列可以位于水力磁阵列的下游。

公开(公告)号：US5728036A

公开(公告)日：1998-03-17

申请号：US677882

申请日：1996-07-10

申请人： Valery G. Kagan ,  R. William Hazelett

发明人： Valery G. Kagan ,  R. William Hazelett

IPC分类号： F16C13/00 ,  B22D11/06 ,  G03G19/00

CPC分类号： B22D11/0677

摘要： Elongated finned backup rollers have multiple magnetized fins for rolling contact with a moving endless, flexible, thin-gauge, heat-conducting, magnetically soft ferromagnetic casting belt for guiding and stabilizing the belt against thermal distortion while it moves along the mold cavity being heated at its front surface by heat from molten metal while being cooled at its reverse surface by flowing liquid coolant. Each finned backup roller includes an elongated, non-magnetic shaft rotatable around its axis and having multiple annular fins of magnetically soft ferromagnetic material fitted onto the shaft spaced along the shaft. The fins have circular perimeter rims for rolling contact with the reverse surface of a belt. Intervening collar shaped reach-out permanent magnets are mounted on the shaft between successive fins. The fins and reach-out collar magnets alternate in sequence along the length of the roller. The reach-out collar magnets are magnetized in a direction parallel with the axis of the roller. Thus, fins become magnetized by the magnets with their perimeters having alternate North and South magnetic polarities in sequence along the roller. In addition to attraction of the belt by magnetic flux which passes through small localized rim-contact regions where fin rims are rolling on the belt surface, the belt also is attracted toward the fins by reach-out magnetic flux extending out in three-dimensional patterns toward the belt from the rim and also from tapered side surfaces of each fin.

摘要翻译： 细长的翅片支撑辊具有多个磁化翅片，用于与移动的无端，柔性，薄规，导热，磁软铁磁铸造带滚动接触，用于在沿着加热模具腔的模腔移动时引导和稳定皮带以防止热变形 其表面通过来自熔融金属的热量，同时通过流动液体冷却剂在其反向表面处被冷却。 每个翅片支撑辊包括可围绕其轴线旋转的细长的非磁性轴，并且具有安装在沿轴间隔开的轴上的多个磁性软铁磁材料的环形翅片。 翅片具有用于与带的反面滚动接触的圆形周边轮缘。 插入式环形伸出永磁体安装在连续翅片之间的轴上。 翅片和伸出式轴环沿着辊的长度顺序交替。 伸出的轴环磁铁在与滚子的轴线平行的方向上被磁化。 因此，翅片被磁体磁化，其周边沿着辊顺序地具有交替的北和南磁极性。 除了通过通过薄片边缘在带表面上滚动的小的局部边缘接触区域的磁通量吸引皮带之外，带也通过以三维图案延伸的伸出磁通而被吸引到翅片 从边缘朝向皮带，并且还从每个翅片的锥形侧表面。

公开(公告)号：US07156147B1

公开(公告)日：2007-01-02

申请号：US11253992

申请日：2005-10-19

申请人： J. F. Barry Wood ,  R. William Hazelett

发明人： J. F. Barry Wood ,  R. William Hazelett

IPC分类号： B22D11/06

CPC分类号： B22D11/0605 ,  B22D11/0677

摘要： An apparatus for guiding a moving, flexible, tensed casting belt on a continuous metal casting machine along a substantially oval path. The continuous metal casting machine having an entrance-end, an exit-end and a moving-mold casting region extending from the entrance-end to the exit-end. The apparatus includes a non-rotating fluid pillow structure at the entrance end of the machine. The fluid pillow structure supports the mold-width of the casting belt. The apparatus includes two narrow shoulder-pulleys at the entrance end of the casting machine which are adjacent to opposite sides of the entrance-end fluid-pillow structure. Each pulley supports a portion of the belt outside of the moving-mold casting region. Each pulley guides the belt around the fluid-pillow structure as the belt revolves along its substantially oval path. The apparatus also facilitates the sealing, controlled-venting and recovery of pressurized fluids used to levitate the belt about a fluid-pillow structure.

摘要翻译： 一种用于沿着基本上椭圆形路径在连续铸造金属铸造机上引导移动的，柔性的，张紧的铸造带的装置。 该连铸金属铸造机具有从入口端到出口端延伸的入口端，出口端和移动模铸造区域。 该设备包括在机器入口端的非旋转流体枕头结构。 流体枕头结构支撑铸造带的模具宽度。 该设备包括在铸造机的入口端处与入口端流体 - 枕头结构的相对侧相邻的两个窄肩带轮。 每个滑轮支撑移动模具铸造区域外部的带的一部分。 当皮带沿其基本上椭圆形的路径旋转时，每个滑轮引导皮带围绕流体 - 枕头结构。 该装置还有助于密封，控制排放和回收用于使带围绕流体 - 枕头结构悬浮的加压流体。

公开(公告)号：US6026887A

公开(公告)日：2000-02-22

申请号：US810414

申请日：1997-03-04

申请人： Charles D. Dykes ,  J. F. Barry Wood ,  Charles R. Simon ,  R. William Hazelett

发明人： Charles D. Dykes ,  J. F. Barry Wood ,  Charles R. Simon ,  R. William Hazelett

IPC分类号： B22D11/06

CPC分类号： B22D11/0605 ,  B22D11/0677

摘要： Steering, tensioning and driving a revolving metallic casting belt in continuous casting machines wherein the belt travels along a generally straight casting plane P. Two two-axis robotic mechanisms are positioned at opposite ends of an exit-pulley drum, each including a "floating" housing carrying a bearing rotatably supporting a journal at the respective drum end. A drive shaft connected to one of the journals rotates the drum for revolving the belt. The robotic mechanisms adjustably position opposite ends of a rotating drum in X--X plane parallel with plane P for tensioning the belt and in Y--Y plane perpendicular to plane P for steering the revolving belt. These robotic mechanisms are controlled to operate in any of several modes: (1) "Walking-tilt" steering keeps the belt much closer to an exiting product than prior art, the belt being flatter and in better contact with the product for improving casting speed and quality. Mode (2) provides a "virtual squaring shaft" causing a drum to simulate being constrained by a rigid mechanical squaring shaft for synchronizing downstream movements of both drum ends for regularizing tension fully across a "cylindrical" casting belt. In modes (3), (4) and (5) the rigidity of the virtual squaring shaft may be "softened," or re-zeroed or eliminated, to accommodate small "frustro-conical" errors in belt manufacture. Moreover, even a small error in built-in length dimensions of a belt carriage may effectively be canceled by mode adjustments which effectively "twist" the virtual squaring shaft.

摘要翻译： 在连续铸造机器中转向，张紧和驱动旋转的金属铸造带，其中带沿着大体上直的铸造平面P行进。两个两轴机器人机构位于出口 - 皮带轮鼓的相对端，每个包括一个“浮动” 壳体承载在相应的鼓端部可旋转地支撑轴颈的轴承。 连接到其中一个轴颈的驱动轴使滚筒旋转以使皮带旋转。 机器人机构可以将平面P平行于X-X平面的旋转滚筒的相对端定位在与平面P垂直的Y-Y平面上，用于转动皮带。 这些机器人机构被控制为以下几种模式中的任何一种操作：（1）“步行倾斜”转向使得皮带比现有技术更靠近离开的产品，带更平坦并且更好地与产品接触以提高铸造速度 和品质。 模式（2）提供了一个“虚拟平方轴”，使得滚筒模拟受刚性机械平方轴的限制，用于使两个滚筒端部的下游运动同步，以使整个横跨“圆柱形”铸造带的张力正常化。 在模式（3），（4）和（5）中，虚拟平方轴的刚度可能会“软化”或重新归零或消除，以适应皮带制造过程中的“截头圆锥形”错误。 而且，通过有效地“扭曲”虚拟平方轴的模式调整，也可以有效地消除皮带托架的内置长度尺寸的小误差。

公开(公告)号：US07244156B1

公开(公告)日：2007-07-17

申请号：US11345827

申请日：2006-02-02

申请人： R. William Hazelett ,  Jeffrey P. Lefebvre

发明人： R. William Hazelett ,  Jeffrey P. Lefebvre

IPC分类号： B63B22/20

CPC分类号： B63B22/16 ,  B63B22/20

摘要： A lightweight constructed navigation buoy, and method for handling the same, is provided with waterborne stability comparable to the conventional and much heavier navigation buoys. The desired waterborne stability is achieved using a liquid-ballasting/-venting system in which a ballasting compartment and a connection cooperate to allow a liquid ballast to be added and/or removed from the ballasting compartment. The position-accuracy of said buoy can be improved by incorporating the liquid ballasted buoy with a high-strength, flexible, elastic tether providing a scope of between 1.5-to-1 and 1-to-1 at high water.

摘要翻译： 轻便的导航浮标及其处理方法具有与传统和重型导航浮标相当的水性稳定性。 使用液体压载/防渗系统实现所需的水稳定性，其中压载隔间和连接件配合以允许从压载隔间加入和/或移除液体镇流器。 通过将液体压载浮标与高强度，柔性，弹性系绳结合起来，可以提高所述浮标的位置精度，在高温下提供1.5至1和1对1的范围。

公开(公告)号：US5964276A

公开(公告)日：1999-10-12

申请号：US122014

申请日：1998-07-24

申请人： John Dompas ,  Stanley E. Aylward ,  R. William Hazelett

发明人： John Dompas ,  Stanley E. Aylward ,  R. William Hazelett

IPC分类号： B22D11/06

CPC分类号： B22D11/0657 ,  B22D11/0608

摘要： Edge-dam blocks assembled with their upstream faces in keyed mating interengagement with downstream faces of adjacent blocks form an endless edge dam revolvable in a preselected path for defining a boundary of a moving-mold casting region. The edge dam keeps molten metal in the casting region. Upstream and downstream faces of adjacent blocks have mutually complementary shapes for minimizing intrusion of molten metal between abutting blocks. Keying engagement between abutting blocks prevents relative translational slippage of blocks toward or away from molten metal. An abuttable face on each block has at least one protrusion such as an integral elongated key extending perpendicularly to a casting belt associated with the casting region, or the protrusion includes two round pins having projecting tapered ends. Another abuttable face has a recess such as a keyway for snugly receiving a key on an adjacent block or has two tapered recesses for snugly receiving two tapered projections of an adjacent block. External edges and root fillets of keys (and shoulders and root fillets of keyways) are radiused with radii in a range between about 1.2 and about 3 millimeters. Blocks' lower surfaces are shown having slots for receiving a tension member. A key's lower end may be undercut near the slot for relieving stress concentration. A pair of parallel undercut fillets are shown extending along opposite sides of a key. They have a radius in a range from about 3 to about 5 millimeters.

摘要翻译： 与其上游面组装的边缘坝块与相邻块的下游面的键合配合相互接合形成在预选路径中可旋转的无限边缘坝，用于限定移动模铸造区域的边界。 边坝在铸造区域保持熔融金属。 相邻块的上游和下游面具有相互互补的形状，用于最小化相邻块之间的熔融金属侵入。 相邻块之间的键合接合防止块朝向或远离熔融金属的相对平移滑动。 每个块上的可接合面具有至少一个突起，例如垂直于与铸​​造区域相关联的铸造带延伸的整体细长键，或者该突起包括具有突出的锥形端部的两个圆形销。 另一个可接合面具有凹槽，例如键槽，用于紧密地接收相邻块上的键或具有两个锥形凹槽，用于紧密地接收相邻块的两个锥形突起。 钥匙（和键槽的肩部和根部圆角）的外边缘和根圆角的半径在约1.2和约3毫米之间的范围内。 块的下表面被示出具有用于接收张力构件的槽。 钥匙的下端可能在狭槽附近被切削以减轻应力集中。 示出了一对平行的底切圆角，其沿着键的相对侧延伸。 它们的半径在约3至约5毫米的范围内。