The invention relates to a mould for the casting of preliminary sections, in particular double T-shaped preliminary sections, the mould passage of which in the flow direction of the molten mass is provided with slight tapering.
As is well known, the tapering of the mould passage serves to compensate for the shrinkage of the cast strand that takes place within the mould during the solidification process. The production of this tapering is particularly problematic with large sized double T-shaped preliminary sections or beam blank sections because the latter are essentially produced from a tubular semi-finished product by forming, and because such sections have very large dimensions which can be over 800 mm total width, over 400 mm flange width and over 120 mm bar thickness. Since casting is slower with such large sizes than with smaller sizes, one requires for them a relatively large degree of tapering in the mould. However, in conventional moulds this tapering can only be produced to a limited extent because it is well known that the mould passage of the latter is produced during forming by means of a punch which is drawn as a female mould through a tubular blank or semi-finished product. Therefore, according to the known production method one can not in any case produce tapering towards the centre of the mould with the lateral inner sides of the profile because it is simply not possible to change the cross-section of the female mould used.
The object forming the basis of the invention is to provide a mould for large-sized sections which are particularly suitable for the casting of large T-shaped preliminary sections or beam blank formats because they satisfy the associated casting requirements with regard to the tapering of the mould passage.
This object is achieved according to the invention in that all of the interior walls of the mould in the mould passage respectively have tapering running from the upper to the lower side of the mould towards the centre of the mould.
In this way it is possible, particularly with large-sized sections, to adapt the mould cross-section optimally to the likewise linear shrinkage profile of the cast strand in the region of the mould passage. The machining, for example by means of milling, planing or polishing, is prior art in its own right, but the application according to the invention to the production of the mould is novel. It enables precise machining of the interior surfaces of the mould, respectively depending on the dimensions of the section to be produced.
The particular cross-section of the beam blank sections is associated with the fact that the degree of shrinkage of the cast strand varies greatly within the section cross-section. For example, it is smaller with the relatively narrow bar than in the longitudinal direction of the section. Therefore, provision is made according to the invention to optimise the strand formation such that every interior wall is provided with tapering dimensioned individually depending on the degree of shrinkage of the cast strand.
Furthermore, the invention makes provision such that the interior walls of the mould are formed linearly, curvilinearly, bent, parabolically or similarly.
In the following the invention is described in more detail by means of an exemplary embodiment with reference to the drawings. These show as follows:
The conventional mould 1 shown in
In order to compensate for the shrinkage of the cast strand that occurs during the solidification process, the interior walls 3a to 3f are produced with tapering 4. In contrast, the lateral interior walls 3i, 3j and 3k, 3l of this double T have tapering 5 because only in this way can the punch be extracted after the forming.
The mould 6 according to the invention of
The centre of the mould passage can be understood to be the central axis 1′ itself or the plane lateral to the longitudinal form of the mould cross-section. Strictly speaking, the solidification of the molten mass in the mould takes place towards the central axis. So that one does not, however, have to provide non-linear surfaces on these internal walls, as viewed laterally to the passage 2, in this direction they can be formed approximately linearly. The central axis can be a straight line or also curved when the mould passage forms a radius, in particular when the cast strand is guided about a radius from a vertical into a horizontal plane. The radius or the curvature would extend in the normal way perpendicular to the longitudinal form of the mould passage.
Advantageously the interior walls 7a to 7l are in the form of curved surfaces. They are shaped here with a curvature such that they are adapted to the solidification of the strand cast in the latter which does not take place linearly over the height of the mould. It can be, for example, that the strand already solidifies rapidly in the upper region of the mould, and then only shrinks minimally. Accordingly, these interior walls would already have to be reduced in the upper region of the mould to a relatively large extent and then be changed only minimally towards the inside in the lower region. Therefore, they can be formed linearly, curvilinearly, bent, parabolically or similarly as required.
The tapering 9 to 12 of the interior walls 7a to 7l is dimensioned such that they compensate everywhere for the shrinkage occurring there. For clarification
The mould 6 enables the continuous casting of particularly large-sized sections because, by means of the machining of the mould passage according to the invention, a correspondingly large degree of tapering can also be achieved which, moreover, is adapted to the local degree of shrinkage of the cast strand within the mould passage.
The mould according to the invention can, of course, also be used for casting bone-shaped sections by the mould passage being provided with a correspondingly bone-shaped cross-section. It is suitable in general for the casting of large-sized sections, independently of the cross-sectional geometry of the section to be cast.
The embodiment according to the invention can also be used for repairing or reworking used moulds.
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