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US3352351A
US3352351A US547991A US54799166A US3352351A US 3352351 A US3352351 A US 3352351A US 547991 A US547991 A US 547991A US 54799166 A US54799166 A US 54799166A US 3352351 A US3352351 A US 3352351A
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    • C22—METALLURGY; FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS ALLOYS; TREATMENT OF ALLOYS OR NON-FERROUS METALS
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  • ABSTRACT 5F THE DISCLQSURE A slow pouring and casting apparatus for metals which provides an annular mold having an inner cavity with double walls and a connected central core for a cooling fluid, means for exhausting air from the upper core, means for introducing and discharging cooling fluid into the interior of the mold, a teeming ladle having a plurality of teeming nozzles in the bottom, stopper rods for said nozzles and means for moving the rods to control the flow of metal.
  • This invention relates to process and apparatus for teeming refined molten metal for the casting of ingots of all industrial sizes including macroingots at a relatively slow rate substantially corresponding to the rate of freezing of such teemed metal in the mold into which it is cast for production of uniform and sound ingots without pipe and blow holes and substantially without segregation. More particularly, this invention pertains to such process and apparatus in combination with tap degassing under a vacuum of moderate pressure for the production of microclean alloys and alloy steels, e.g., those used for large steam turbine rotors, generator rotors, tool steels, missile and special purpose steels including those used for aircraft landing gears.
  • microclean alloys and alloy steels e.g., those used for large steam turbine rotors, generator rotors, tool steels, missile and special purpose steels including those used for aircraft landing gears.
  • Ni-Cr-Mo and NiCr-Mo-V alloy rotor steels for example, a vacuum degassing double melting procedure has been used to provide high quality, microclean alloy steel of relatively uniform chemical analysis from sideto-side and top-to-bottom of the ingot, one such analysis, for example, being C .22 Mn .22 P .007 S .013 Si .025 Cr 1.56 Ni 3.15 Mo .37 Cu .14 V .04 Al .007
  • the size of such ingots in terms of diameter was less than the size desired by the purchasing industry and the final ingot had a considerable amount of discard at the top and bottom, being principally at the top where the inverted cone top, as shown by sulfur prints, had a depth of as much as A2 of the diameter even on the largest final ingot so made.
  • final high quality and microclean ingots desired by industry ranging in size from ingots 6 inches wide to macroingots of 100 inches or more in diameter may be made directly in a single operation without having to go through any intermediate step of first forming a consumable electrode to be remelted, or having to utilize high vacuums in the micron range, or involving the double sets of equipment, special handling and hazards of the prior practice outlined above.
  • FIGURE 1 is a view in elevation and cross section through the vertical axis of one combination of equipment in one embodiment which may "be employed in a practice of this invention utilizing tap degassing, controlled teeming in vacuo and a ring mold in the casting of a moving ingot;
  • FIGURE 2 is a top plan view in section taken along line IIII of FIGURE 1 to show the lower portion of the equipment in such embodiment;
  • FIGURE 3 is a bottom plan view taken along line IIIIII of FIGURE 1 to illustrate further features of such equipment including resistance heating means to maintain the top of the molten metal layer in the ingot open and free of bridging or crusting;
  • FIGURE 4 is a view in elevation and cross section through the vertical axis of the upper portion of a further a teeming ladle utilizable in a practice of this invention and capable of employing electrical field effects to at least assist in maintaining the selected rate of teeming through such nozzle in a practice of this invention;
  • FIGURE 7 is a view in elevation and cross section through the vertical axis of a further modification of this invention utilizing an ingot mold and a teeming ladle for the casting of a hollow ingot in a practice of this invention;
  • FIGURE 8 is a view in top plan section taken along line VIII-VIII of FIGURE 7;
  • FIGURE 9 is a view in elevation and cross section through the vertical axis of another combination of equipment in an embodiment which may be utilized for the selected teeming, casting and freezing of a moving ingot having an opening through the center thereof;
  • FIGURE 10 is a view in plan and cross section of the embodiment shown in FIGURE 9 taken along line XX thereof.
  • the combinative equipment 10 shown therein comprises a tapping spout 11 having a channel 12 therein for the discharge of tapped molten metal from a furnace (not shown) such as an electric furnace ofrthe tilting type, to discharge molten metal into a pouring funnel 13 when the furnace is tilted.
  • a furnace not shown
  • Funnel 13 is refractory lined and provided with a bottom pouring nozzle 14 having a passageway 15 therein of selected size.
  • nozzle 14 is closed by a stopper rod 16 operated by external linkage connected to a remotely controllable operating cylinder 17, or to a manual control.
  • a safety overflow channel 18 is provided in the funnel.
  • An annular peripheral flange 19 on the funnel is adapted to be seated on a peripheral flange 20 at the top of a sealing cylinder 21 forming a part of a vacuum cover 22 surrounding an opening 23 therein through which nozzle 14 extends.
  • a vacuum sealing gasket is provided between flanges 19 and 20 so that there .is a vacuum seal therebetween.
  • Vacuum cover 22 has a lower flange 24 adapted to seat upon a peripheral flange. 25 which is part of a refractory lined bottom pour teeming ladle 26 having lifting lugs 26a.
  • the bottom of ladle 26 is provided with a teeming nozzle 27 of any suitable material having a teeming passageway 28 therethrough of predetermined diameter.
  • the top of passageway 28 may be closed by a vertical movement stopper rod 29 covered with refractory and connected through a vacuum sealing sleeve 30 to a manipulator rod 31 which may be manually or mechanicaly raised and lowered for the operation of rod 29, cover 22 being provided with a bay portion 32 to accommodate such movement.
  • a vacuum sealing gasket is provided between flanges 24 and 25 so that the interior 33 of ladle 26 may be evacuated through an elbow section of pipe 34 comprising a port to the ladle interior 33.
  • a flexible vacuum hose 35 is fixed to pipe 34 for the pre-evacuation preferably of interior 33 when cover 22 and a refractory radiation shield 36 are in place as shown.
  • a refractory lined basket 37 open at its top and bottom, is supported in opening 38 in shield 36 to shield the stopper rod refractory and confines the fragments into which the molten metal discharge from passageway 15 divides upon encountering the evacuated interior 33 of teeming ladle 26.
  • Such fragments upon leaving the bottom of basket 37 tend to spread as they fall through the interior space of such ladle and expose considerable surface to the vacuum conditions, thereby readily yielding up gases in the molten metal including oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen.
  • the pressure of such vacuum need only be moderate to produce very high quality and microclean relatively segregation-free alloy steel under this invention, a vacuum in the order of from about 1 to 6 mm. of Hg, absolute, usually being sufficient.
  • the vacuum producing means (not shown) connected to flexible vacuum pipe 35 are left on as the level of molten metal in ladle 26 rises to provide vacuum degassing of the fragmented molten metal as it falls and of the body of molten metal which collects in the lower portion of ladle 26 at the end of such fall.
  • a circular stand 39 is provided around the bottom of teeming ladle 26 and a sealing cylinder 40 is provided inwardly thereof around nozzle 27.
  • Induction heating coils 41 which may also be used to stir, may be provided in the side walls of ladle 26 to maintain any desired non-freezing temperature in the molten metal in ladle 26 for fluidity and/ or other control.
  • flow control induction coils 42 may be provided in the bottom of the ladle immediately surrounding, or in, the teeming nozzle 27 which, as shown, is made of a high temperature ceramic, e.g., zirconium oxide, resistant to thermal shock and erosion by molten metal being teemed therethrough.
  • cylinder 40 When ladle 26 is in its normal teeming position atop a bell cover 43, cylinder 40 is in vacuum sealing relation with an annular platform 44 t at the top of the bell, a vacuum sealing gasket being therebetween for sealing security.
  • the lower end of nozzle 27 within sealing cylinder 40 may also be covered by a fusible diaphragm 45, e.g., one of aluminum, to insure separation of the interior 33 of ladle 26 from the interior 46 of bell cover 32 during evacuation and before teeming.
  • Coil or coils 42 may be utilized to provide anralternating current field of selected frequency and intensity, in one or more phases, to regulate and/ or vary the rate at which molten metal flows out through the teeming passageway 28. This may be done without rectifying, or by rectifying, so that energy is generated to act in an upward direction relative to the vertical axis of passageway 28 to a greater or lesser intensity as desired to produce the selected rate of teeming (and see FIGURE, 6). Inasmuch as, in the case of molten alloy steel, such is substantially nonmagnetic, nevertheless there is an energy effect exercised by the coil or coils 42 which may be due to eddy currents. Other forms of electric current may be used for such flow control. If desired, the coil turns may be hollow tubes and a coolant, such as air or carbon dioxide, may be circulated through such tubes. Further, any such cooling can be limited so as not to chill nozzle, 27 and cause any freezing or flow impeding effect in passageway 28.
  • a coolant such
  • Bell cover 43 in this embodiment is provided with a strong circular casing 47 which extends up and over the conical frustum top 48 to terminate in a central opening 49 surrounding diaphragm 45 and nozzle 27.
  • a separate structural steel frame 59 is provided having rafter members 51 to support with bell 43 the cousiderable weight of teeming ladle 26, particularly when there is molten metal therein.
  • the lower flanged end of frame 50 sits on an annular ring 52 in the floor of the plant, a sealing gasket being provided therebetween.
  • the lower flanged end of a bell 43 sits on the annular bottom flange of frame 50 with a sealing gasket therebetween to form a gas-tight enclosure.
  • a pipe end 53 forms a part of cover 43 and provides a vacuum or pressure port into the interior of bell 43 through the circumferentially spaced columns of frame 50.
  • Pipe 53 is connected to a flexible pipe 54 which leads to a vacuum source (not shown), or in some cases as desired for a flow of non-oxidizing gas therethrough, or to a source of gas pressure it interior 46 is to be operated under pressure which sometimes is useful in further minimizing any tendency to form a dendritic structure in the congealing molten metal.
  • the lower end of bell 43 is closed by a foundation well 55 having a deeper central axial bore 56 the purpose of which is hereinbelow described.
  • Each of the support columns in frame 50 is provided with an inwardly extending bracket 57 to support a ring mold 58 made of a highly thermally conductive metal such as copper.
  • the top annular surface of mold 58 is depressed at 59 to form a notch or channel for any overfiow that may chance to occur if an operation of this invention therein is not properly conducted.
  • the inside wall of mold 58 is generally circular or polygonal but fiares somewhat outwardly and downwardly around the central vertical axis to free itself from an ingot 61 being made.
  • Mold 58 is provided with a series of peripheral passageways 62 some or all of which may be in parallel and connected by an insulated pipe 63 to the outside of bell 43. Header pipe 63 is connected to a coolant pipe 65.
  • Another header pipe 64 is connected to the other end of the passageways 62 and then to a further coolant pipe 66.
  • Union and valve shut-off connections are provided at 50a in frame 50 to enable it to be disconnected and lifted away if desired at the end of a casting operation, and, further such may be provided near the plant floor as shown in FIGURE 1.
  • coolant may be water, but preferably is carbon dioxide, or other non-explosive coolant, the quantity and speed of circulation of the coolant being a function of the circulating equipment (not shown) connected to the pipes 65 and 66.
  • casting begins against a freeze block 67 which preferably is a relatively massive steel block having upstanding studs 68 welded to the upper surface thereof.
  • the initial freeze in the formation of ingot 61 grips the block and studs and block 67 is moved downwardly by a motor drive 69 at the selected speed of formation of ingot 61.
  • the freezing by mold 58 at the top of ingot 61 is rapid under a practice of this invention and virtually at the slow rate of teeming.
  • ingot 61 The contraction of ingot 61 as it freezes toward the center frees it from wall 60 to all material extent leaving but a very shallow liquid layer 70 at the top in physical contact with wall 60, such layer being virtually fiat and having an almost congealed transition portion or substratum 71 of but slightly dished shape in about to final freeze condition in uniform and continuous contact with the already frozen top of ingot 61 immediately therebeneath.
  • FIGURES 1 to 3 provides for dynamic casting in that as motor-reducer 69 is operated at selected speed it rotates a worm 72 to rotate a worm Wheel 73 and thereby a nut 74 in engagement with the threads of a threaded plunger 75 strong enough to support ingot 61 and block 67 steadily on a plate 77, from which block 67 is readily separable, at the top of the plunger 75. Rotation of nut 74 does not rotate plunger 75 about its axis due to a spline 75a engaging a splineway 75b in the plunger, but will bring it downwardly at the prescribed speed corresponding to the rate of teeming of the molten metal from ladle 26.
  • a removable cover 76 for motor-reducer 69 is attached to its fixed base and is provided with a collar to which spline 75a is fixed.
  • a variety of heating means may be used to keep the surface of layer 70 open and free from crusting or bridging as ingot 61 is built up by teeming and freezing, such openness also aiding in degassing when the interior of bell 43 is evacuated, and, in all cases, the movement to the top of layer 70 of any oxide residuals that may be in such layer, as well as avoiding voids in the ingot.
  • the underside of the rafters 51 is lined with a radiant refractory 78 beneath which are suspended sets of so-called glow bars 80, which may be made of a material such as silicon carbide arranged in an annular pattern and positioned at a distance from the vertical axis so that heat therefrom is most intense at substantially one-third of the radial distance from the perimeter of the ingot toward its center.
  • Holders 81 are provided for each chordal group of bars 80, at least one of the holders being conductive and in clamping relation to one end of its particular group and the other holder permitting the glow bars to slide therethrough in accordance with their change in length with differences in temperature.
  • Conductive leads 82 for each set of glow bars are brought out through the refractory 78 and by suitable conductive buses are lead down through electrical conductors 83 in one or more of the columns 50 to a junction box 84 from which further leads 85 pass to the outside of bell 43 beneath the floor plate 52 in the manner of the coolant circulation pipes 65 and 66, suitable vacuum sealing provision being employed in connection therewith to preserve the sealing of the space 46.
  • the use of such heating means 80 also tends to maintain a minimum slope of temperature gradient between the center of layer 79 and the edge of that layer next to wall 60 to thereby keep it relatively flat and thin.
  • suitable heating means such as consumable electrode arc heating means as illustrated in FIGURE 4, or electron beam guns of high energy output such as are shown in FIGURE 9 for use when a higher vacuum, in the order of of 1 mm. of Hg, absolute, may be employed in the space 46.
  • the refractory of the pouring funnel 13, ladle 26 and bell cover 43 preferably are preheated. Then tapping starts and when the tapped molten metal rises to a predetermined intermediate level in the pouring funnel 13, stopper rod 16 is opened and the metal will dissolve a fusible diaphragm preferably sealing the lower end of nozzle 14 and flow into the teeming ladle 26 in fragmented form for vacuum tap degassing.
  • Ring mold 58 is fixed because the contraction, as the successive substratum increments 71 congeal, will cause the peripheral surface of that portion of ingot 61 to readily pull free from the top of wall 60. However, provision may be made if desired for slight relative axial movement between ingot 61 and mold 58 to inhibit any freeing difficulty. There will be little turbulence because nozzle 27 purposefully is relatively close at all times to the top of mold 58 where freezing takes place quickly and as nearly as possible in a planar layer. Covered visual port means 47a are provided at least in the frustum top of casing 47 to insure proper observation and operation.
  • any heating by coils 41 may be regulated to change fluidity sufliciently .for control purposes.
  • pouring funnel 13 is fed by a tapping spout 11, or by a tapping ladle rather than directly from a furnace,.
  • such furnace or ladle may make several heats or trips to the pouring funnel 13 for replenishment of the teeming ladle 26 without detriment to the ingot 61 or, loss of the vacuum seal because, in this invention, of the unusually slow rate of pouring and casting consonant with the rate of freezing of the metal in ingot 61 under the control of the heat removal devices for mold 58.
  • An ingot tong can be used to pick up ingot 61 and block 67 to take it to a point where block 67 can be freed therefrom for return to .
  • plate 77 after new studs 68 are welded to the surface of the block, leaving ingot 61 to be taken to its place of storage or deposit.
  • the pouring funnel 13 and ladle 26 rereadied, and frame 50 and bell cover 43 replaced, the equipment is ready for a new evacuation and operation.
  • the equipment therein to the extent that it corresponds generally in structure and function with equipment in the first above-described embodiment, isprovided with the same reference numerals with the addition of a prime accent thereto, respectively.
  • the molten metal is received either from a furnace, or from a tapping ladle, and then poured into teeming ladle 26'.
  • the molten metal fed to teeming ladle 26' will have been deoxidized in the furnace or tapping ladle supplying such teeming ladle 26' as by the use of a deoxidizing ingredient, or by other means.
  • the substantially deoxidized molten metal received in teeming ladle 26 is fed through passageway 28' at a predetermined rate as was done in the first above-described embodiment so that the rate of teeming and the rate of freezing respectively correspond.
  • a refractory lined pressure cover 91 may be placed thereon in sealing relation with a peripheral flange 92 of ladle 26. The cover is clamped in place to the flange by clamps 93 at peripherally spaced locationstherearound.
  • a source of pressure gas preferably non-oxidizing such as argon, is supplied through a flexible pipe 94 to an elbow 95 comprising a port into the interior of ladle 26', so that a selected pressure on top of the molten metal in ladle 26 will provide a further regulating control for the discharge of molten metal through passageway 28" when stopper rod 29' is raised opening nozzle 27'.
  • Rod 29 is operated through a side opening 26a in the upper portion of the ladle, such opening being closed and made pressure tight by a sliding plate 96 where the stopper rod cross arm passes through such plate96.
  • a stream of non-oxidizing gas such as argon, may be fed under pressure into interior 46 through a pipe 90 from a source not shown and removed below through a pipe corresponding to pipe 53-54.
  • the heating means 80' used in space 46' are consumable electrodes 97 each of which are axially movable through a pressure sealing sleeve 98 in the frustum top portion of bell cover 43' and frame 50', the electrodes 97 being automatically fed in a known manner by voltage control means to provide the direct current amperage usually at low voltagefor the creation of a heating are between the lower end of each of the lower electrodes 97 and molten metal layer 70, such heating also melting the electrodes 97 in such further embodiment.
  • Such consumable electrodes are made in advance preferably with the desired composition of ingot 61. If desired, further, the electrodes 97 may be mounted for oscillation about the vertical axis of ingot 61 to cover more area with each such electrode.
  • Slag 99 of a reducing or neutral nature, may be placed and maintained on top of layer 70 and normally will surround the arcs and will pick up, particularly when reducing, oxide formations and inclusions from layer 70'. While two pairs of electrodes 97 are shown, additional ones at angularly spaced positions around the vertical axis of the ingot may be provided as desired, and, such electric arc heating may be utilized under the vacuum conditions within cover '43 in the first above-described embodiment.
  • the polygonal ring shape of wall 60' in mold 58 assists in detering shrinkage defects in larger ingots as ingot 61" contracts and pulls away from wall 60.
  • FIGURES 4 and 5 has a relatively coherent stream of molten metal issuing from passageway 28', even though teemed at a selected rate, and while it strikes the layer 70 with somewhat more mass and force than is the case in the first above-described embodiment and may have a tendency somewhat to deepen such layer, the equipment parts are so close as to prevent detrimental splash and turbulence even though long high ingots are made. Indeed, in some operations particularly those in which smaller lighter ingots are made, a lip pouring ladle with a precise tipping device such as a gear mechanism may be utilized with other equipment shown in a practice of this invention to provide a very slow pouring rate corresponding to the freezing rate of the teemed metal in the mold.
  • FIGURE 6 represents a somewhat enlarged detail view of a modified nozzle portion of any of the teeming ladles 26 shown in the drawings to illustrate a teeming rate control utilizing three phase alternating current coils immediately surrounding the nozzle, which coils may or may not be internally cooled as desired depending upon the characteristics thereof.
  • the steel bottom 100 of the teeming ladle is lined with refractory 101 and is provided with an opening through which a refractory or ceramic teeming nozzle 102 extends.
  • a cylindrical metal guard 103 welded to bottom 100 surrounds the nozzle 102 and the radial space therebetween is filled with a rammed refractory.
  • Nozzle 102 is provided with a teeming passageway 104 of predetermined size which is closed when stopper rod tip 105 is in the position shown.
  • a cylindrical box 106 depends from bottom 100 and is closed at its bottom by an annular plate 107 through which the tip of nozzle 102 extends. Box 106 and cover 107 preferably are coated with refractory, unless a slag layer, such as slag layer 99, is used as a radiation shield floating on top of the molten metal layer 70 in the case of the formation of a moving ingot 61, although a device of FIGURE 6 may be used in any embodiment of the invention.
  • Box 106 is provided with coils 108a, 10% and 108a respectively connected to the three lines of a threephase power system of desired frequency.
  • the electrical energy effect provided by the coils 108 is more intense near the inside wall of passageway 104 than it is at the central vertical axis of that passageway, a matter indicated by some change in the length of the arrows which are not to any scale. Consequently, the teeming metal indicated by the downwardly pointing arrows will tend to flow more along the central vertical axis of passageway 104, still at the selected overall quantitative rate per unit of time, than it will at the walls, with the consequence that not only is there a pouring rate control for use in a practice of this invention, but there is also thereby provided a device for inhibiting erosion of the wall of the passageway 104 by the relative movement therealong of the molten metal, such erosion with certain refractories occuring relatively soon and causing a change in the effective diameter of the passageway by enlargement thereof.
  • FIGURES 7 and 8 show an embodiment comprising an annular mold 120 having hollow outer circumferential walls 121 and a hollow center 122, the interior of center 122 and the outer wall interiors being connected by a hollow base 123.
  • the cavity 124 in mold 120 is an annulus which has a selected diameter relatively low in relation to its height.
  • a coolant such as water, chilled compressed air, or carbon dioxide, is circulated through circulation inlet pipe 125 and outlet pipes 126 bringing coolant to the entire jacket wall of the ingot mold.
  • Inlet pipe 125 is provided with a rotary ball joint 110 so that the upper end pipe 111 thereof may rotate with mold 121 if and when it is turned.
  • Mold 120 is mounted on a rotatable table 112 which in turn forms the upper part of a fixed base 113, the table being turned by a motor-reducer 114 when it is energized to turn table 112 at a speed usually of not more than six r.p.m.
  • a bent pipe 115 extends from the upper interior end of portion 122 to the entry side of one of the pipes 126 in the outer wall 121 of mold 12!).
  • mold 120 is fed by molten metal at a selected teeming rate from a teeming ladle 127 having a plurality of sized bottom pouring ceramic nozzles 128 with sized passageways therein and respectively closed by stopper rods 129 all at one time operated by a common linkage 129a and operating cylinder 1291) while suspended from a ladle crane.
  • ladle 127 is provided with a pressure cover 130, like cover 91, kept on in pressure tight relation by clamps 130a so that any desired pressure or change in the pressure in ladle 127 above the molten metal therein can be supplied by gas under pressure supplied through a flexible pipe 131 to the interior of ladle 127, such gas preferably being non-oxidizing and non-contaminating gas relative to the molten metal in question.
  • gas under pressure supplied through a flexible pipe 131 to the interior of ladle 127, such gas preferably being non-oxidizing and non-contaminating gas relative to the molten metal in question.
  • mold 121 are such that even at the beginning of teeming, the teemed metal does not fall a great distance and, in any event, the freezing thereof is so rapid and uniform as to inhibit segregation substantially irrespective thereof.
  • a teeming ladle for example,
  • teeming therefrom into mold preferably should be accompanied by rotation of mold 120 about its vertical axis at a slow speed of, say, 1 to 6 r.p.m., to insure that the molten metal layer will be a complete annulus around the entire cavity 124 of the mold, particularly in view of the rapid freezing rate employed and following so quickly and in such correspondence with the relatively slow teeming of metal in its molten state from the ladle immediately above.
  • FIGURES 9 and 10 a practice of this invention is provided for the making of a hollow moving ingot which is open along the vertical axis thereof.
  • Parts corresponding generally in structure and in functioning to parts of the first above-described embodiment in FIGURES 1 to 3, inclusive, are provided with the same reference numerals with the addition of a double prime accent thereto, respectively.
  • hollow ingot 61" is formed with the use of an external ring mold 58" and an internal ring mold 158", which functions in the same manner but to fashion the internal periphery 61"! of ingot 61", just as wall 60" fashions the external surface 61"a of ingot 61".
  • Wall 160 of internal ring mold 158" tapers downwardly and inwardly somewhat, as shown.
  • internal mold 158" is provided with coolant passageways 162" which function in the same manner as passageways 62" and are supplied by coolant through the same set of pipes which are extended on for the internal mold across one of the bridge members across the top of bell cover 43" and the frame 50".
  • the sector-like openings 141 left between the bridging portion 140 are lined with refractory and form openings in bell cover 43 and frame 50 through which the teemed molten metal falls onto the top of layer 70", now an annulus forming the topmost portion of annular ingot 61", the layer 70" having a substratum congealing portion 71".
  • the tee-med molten metal comes from a ladle 26 with teeming nozzles 27 which, like the teeming ladle in FIGURES 7 and 8, are four in number, each of such nozzles being closeable by a stopper rod 29". All stopper rods 29" being operable together by a common operating linkage.
  • the underside of each of the nozzles 27" at the start of operations may be provided with a fusible diaphragm seal in the event that either ladle 26" or interior 4.6", or both, is to be operated under evacuated conditions.
  • the opening of the stopper rods 29" will teem molten metal through the refractory lined sector openings onto block 67" which, for purposes of the start of an operation, is up against the underside of internal ring mold 158".
  • Ring mold 158 may, if desired, be made half the height of ring mold 58" to insure against any escape of molten metal in the initial freezing stage as the ingot 61" starts being formed.
  • the movement downwardly of block 67" is substantially continuous as the ingot is formed by the congealing layer on top.
  • the internal ring mold 158" is suspended by hangers 142 from the center of the bridging portions 140 rigidly joined to the remainder of frame 50" in the instant embodiment being described.
  • the ring mold 58 is joined to an annulus 57" which acts as a bracket except instead of being fixed to frame 50", such annulus 57" is connected to a plunger 143 for cyclic axial movement if desired, up, or down, or both, by a remotely operable cylinder 144 fixed to frame 50".
  • the annular ring 57" cannot be rotated in any way inasmuch as it is notched at angularly spaced places along its external periphery for engagement by projections 147 fixed to the columns in frame 50".
  • heating means 80" in the embodiment of FIGURES 9 and 10, electron bombardment high energy guns have been shown which can be aimed by the use of a ball and socket connection 146, such guns working best in a relatively high vacuum. of the order of of one mm. of Hg, absolute, or even lower pressure.
  • vacuum or pressure tight seals are provided in the form of plastic chinking or by other means.
  • a twenty ton ingot for example, would usually be teemed at a rate between two and three tons of molten metal per hour, with freezing being accomplished in virtually the same period of time; while in the case of macroingots of 100 tons each and larger, it is conceived that the teeming rate will be in the order of from 7 to 10 tons per hour with freezing occurring at the same rate and within the same overall length of time. Providing such combinative steps of action and equipment to enable such coincident teeming and freez-. ing rates to be obtained with or without single or double.
  • Slow pouring and casting apparatus for metals comprising, in combination, an annular mold having an an- 12 nular mold cavity, said annular mold having double walls and a central core portion interconnected for passage of cooling fluid therethrough, means for exhausting air at least fromthe upper interior of said central core portion, means for introducing cooling fluid into the interior of said mold, means for discharging cooling fluid from said mold, a teeming ladle having a plurality of teeming nozzles in the bottom thereof in uniformly angularly spaced arrangement spaced from the center of said teeming ladle, a plurality of stopper rods for said nozzles connected to a common stopper, rod operating assembly, means for selectively rotating the mold about an axis through the central core, and means for raising said stopper rods 21 selectcd distance regulate the rate of teeming through said nozzles, whereby molten metal in said teeming ladle may be teemed at a predetermined
  • a pressure-tight cover for said teeming ladle and means for supplying non-oxidizing gas to the interior of said teeming ladle at a selected pressure to at least assist in the regulation of the rate of teeming from said teeming ladle.

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