Means for moving the chill-mould in continuous casting plant

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR THE CONTINUOUS CASTING OF METAL COMPRISING AN OPEN-ENDED CHILL MOULD FOR CASTING MOLTEN METAL INTO A STRAND, A MOULD TABLE CARRYING SAID CHILL MOULD, A FIRST PIVOT FIXEDLY MOUNTED ADJACENT ONE END OF SAID TABLE AND SEPARATED THEREFROM, A SECOND PIVOT FIXEDLY MOUNTED ADJACENT THE SECOND END OF SAID TABLE, AND SEPARATED THEREFROM, A FIRST AND SECOND LEVER, ONE END OF EACH OF SAID FIRST AND SECOND LEVERS BEING PIVOTED ABOUT SAID FIRST PIVOT, SAID FIRST AND SECOND LEVERS BEING POSITIONED ASTRADDLE SAID MOULD TABLE, THE OTHER END OF SAID LEVERS BEING PIVOTABLY CONNECTED TO SAID MOULD TABLE AT THE SECOND END THEREOF, A THIRD AND FOURTH LEVER, ONE END OF EACH OF SAID LEVERS BEING PIVOTED ABOUT SAID SECOND PIVOT, SAID THIRD AND FOURTH LEVERS BEING POSITIONED ASTRADDLE SAID MOULD TABLE, THE OTHER ENDS OF SAID THIRD AND FOURTH LEVERS BEING PIVOTABLY CONNECTED TO SAID TABLE AT THE FIRST END THEREOF, SAID FIRST AND THIRD LEVERS BEING PIVOTABLY COUPLED TOGETHER AT A POSITION BETWEEN SAID FIRST AND SECOND PIVOTS, SAID SECOND AND FOURTH LEVERS BEING PIVOTABLY CONNECTED BETWEEN SAID FIRST AND SECOND PIVOTS, SAID PIVOTAL CONNECTIONS BEING SLIDABLE WITHIN AT LEAST ONE OF THE LEVERS COUPLED TOGETHER THEREBY, AND MEANS COUPLED TO SAID FIRST AND SECOND LEVERS TO PERIODICALLY DEFLECT SAID LEVERS THEREBY TO RECIPROCATE SAID MOULD.