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Document Number
US Patent 7028748
Issued Date
April 18, 2006
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Inventors
Maiwald; Klaus (Parnamirim/Recife-PE,BR)
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Abstract
A plant for the continuous casting of aluminum strip, according to current construction type, has two counterrotating continuous casting rolls (1, 2), between which a casting gap (4) is formed. According to the present invention, the 1. continuous casting roll (1) is made of a copper material at least in its circumferential edge region, and the other, 2. continuous casting roll (2) is made of a steel material at least in its circumferential edge region. The copper material should have a thermal conductivity .lamda..sub.K of 230 to 260 W/mK, and the steel material should have a thermal conductivity .lamda..sub.S of 30 to 40 W/mK. Rejecting the prevailing idea that casting can only be performed with two continuous casting roll materials of the same kind, so as to ensure uniform crystal growth, a continuous casting roll pairing of steel and copper is provided in the present invention. In order to ensure a qualitatively high value casting microstructure, the difference in the thermal conductivity of the continuous casting rolls should not exceed a factor from 5 to 9. A ratio of thermal conductivity .lamda..sub.K of the copper material to thermal conductivity .lamda..sub.S of the steel material of 6:1 to 8:1 has proven particularly favorable.
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Owner
KM Europa Metal AG (Osnabruck,DE)
Published
April 18, 2006
Application Number
11/036,397
Filed
January 14, 2005
US Classification
164/428  
Int'l Classification
B22D   11/06   (20060101)  
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Attorney/Law Firm
Priority Data
Jan 14, 2004 [DE] 10 2004 002 124
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164/428   164/448  
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