Machine for molding hot metal

Claim 1

A MOLDING MACHINE ADAPTED FOR RECEIVING HOT METAL POURING EQUIPMENT OVERHEAD COMPRISING; (A) A BASE; (B) MOLD MEANS IN FIXED, GENERALLY UPWARDLY EXTENDING RELATION WITH THE BASE HAVING A MOLDING FACE FACING IN A GENERALLY HORIZONTALLY DIRECTION TOWARD THE FRONT END OF THE MACHINE; (C) A HORIZONTAL GUIDEWAY DISPOSED IN DOWNWARD OFFSET RELATION WITH SAID FACE AND ITS LENGTH EXTENDING IN A FRONTWARD DIRECTION RELATIVE TO SAID FACE IN GENERALLY PARALLEL RELATION TO SAID HORIZONTAL DIRECTION; (D) A RECIPROCAL MOLD MEMBER IN GUIDE RELATION WITH SAID GUIDEWAY AND SHARING GUIDE MEANS THEREWITH RESTRICTING RELATIVE MOVEMENT TO A PATH LENGTHWISE OF THE GUIDEWAY, SAID GUIDE MEANS INCLUDING MEANS ESTABLISHING FIXED ANGULAR BUT SLIDABLE RELATION OF THE MEMBER WITH THE GUIDEWAY, SAID MEMBER HAVING A MOLDING FACE IN OPPOSED RELATION WITH SAID FACE OF THE MOLD MEANS; (E) A SUPPORT MEMBER PROJECTING UPWARDLY FROM THE BASE IN FIXED RELATION THEREWITH ADJACENT THE END OF THE PATH FURTHER FROM SAID MOLD MEANS, SAID SUPPORT MEMBER AND SAID MOLD MEANS BEING DISPOSED IN HORIZONTALY OPPOSED RELATIONSHIP IN GENERALLY CANTILEVER RELATION WITH SAID BASE; AND (F) EXPANSIBLE AND CONTRACTIBLE MEANS DISPOSED BETWEEN, AND CONNECTED TO, SAID MEMBERS ALONG AN AXIS ABOVE, AND GENERALLY PARALLEL TO, SAID GUIDEWAY FOR TRAVERSING THE MOLD MEMBER LENGTHWISE OF SAID PATH; (G) ANY PORTIONS OF SAID GUIDEWAY AND SAID GUIDE MEANS EXTENDING IMMEDIATELY REARWARD OF SAID SUPPORT AND REARWARDLY THEREOF LENGTHWISE OF TH GUIDEWAY BEING DISPOSED BELOW A LEVEL ADJACENT THE LOWER EXTREMITIES OF SAID MOLDING FACES, SAID EXPANSIBLE AND CONTRACTIBLE MEANS BEING THUS DISPOSED ABOVE SAID GUIDEWAY AND GUIDE MEANS PORTIONS, AND THE SPACE ABOVE, AND COEXTENSIVE WITH, SUCH PORTIONS BEING CLEAR OF ANY MECHANISM FOR GUIDING SAID MEMBER RELATIVE TO SAID MOLDING MEANS.