APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING CONTINUOUS CASTING INCLUDING A MULTI-FUNCTION ROBOT

摘要

A continuous casting method which monitors a melt surface condition within a mold(1), including melt surface abnormalities such as boiling and lack of powder, and a condition of slag beard formation by using image sensors (20), and also detects a condition of Deckel formation by using a load sensor through a sensor rod, thereby controlling a casting speed, a flow rate of gas blown into a pouring nozzle (12), a flow rate of a melt poured into the mold(1),scatter of powder (7) and the like to prevent the occurrence of the melt surface abnormalities, while remvoing a slag beard by a hitting oscillator and removing Deckels by the sensor rod. Those works can be performed following priority thereof by a multi-functional robot equipped with a multi-articulated arm having at its distal end an automatic tool changer mechanism.