Continuous casting mold

Claim 1

A CONTINUOUS CASTING MOLD FOR THE CASTING OF MOLTEN MATERIAL, ESECIALLY IRON AND STEEL, HAVING PLANAR MOLD WALLS WITH A DECREASINGG TEMPERATURE GRADIENT WITHIN THE WALLS FROM INSIDE TO OUTSIDE WHEN IIN USE, EACH MOLD WALL COMPRISING A PLATE PORTION, A FRAME PORTION INTEGRAL WITH SAID PLATE PORTION AND A PORTION HAVING SPACED RECTANGULAR COLUMNS ALSO INTEGRAL WITH SAID PLATE PORTION, SAID FRAME PORTION SURROUNDING SAID COLUMN PORTION AND EXTENDING OUTWARDLY FROM SAID PLATE PORTION AND DISTANCE APPROXIMATERLY 4 TIMES AS GREAT AS THE THICKNESS OF SAID PLATE PORTION, SAID COLUMN PORTION EXTENDING OUTWARDLY THE SAME DISTANCE ANND COMPRSIIGN A PLURALITY OF RECTANGULAR COLUMNS POSITIONED IN VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL ROWS SPACED FROM EACH OTHER A DISTANCE WHICH IS ABBOUT ONE-FIFTH THE THICKNESS OF SAIDD PLATE PORTION, THE SPACING BETWEEN SAID COLUMNS BEING SUCH THAT COOLING WATER COULDD HARDLY CIRCCULATE THEREIN EVEN IF SAID SPACINGWERE NOT FILLED WITH SOLID MATERIAL, SAID SPACING BEING FILLED WITH A SOLID YIELDING HEAT RETAINING MATERIAL; WHEREBY THE TEMPERATURE GRADIENT ACROSS THE INSIDE TO OUTSIDE DIMENSION OF THE MOLD WALL REMAINS SUBSTANTIALLY CONSTANT AND SAID YIELDING MATERIAL ABSORBS DEFORMATIONS IN SAID COLUMNS DUE TO THE TEMPERATURE GRADIENT INN THE MOLD WALL THEREBY STOPPING DEFORMATIONS FROM ACCUMULATING FROM ONE COLUMN TO ANOTHER AND FROM ONE PART OF THE MOLD WALL TO ANOTHER.