Process and apparatus for continuous casting

Claim 1

A PROCESS OF CASTING MOLTEN METAL AND THE LIKE INTO SOLID FORM, COMPRISING THE STEPS OF PASSING MOLTEN METAL AND THE LIKE THROUGH A PLURALITY OF SMALL ORIFICES, THE ORIFICES HAVING OUTLET ENDS WHICH ARE DISPOSED ALONG A PATH, THE ORIFICES BEING DISTRIBUTED LONGITUDINALLY OF THE PATH AND ALSO TRANSVERSELY OF THE PARTH, RELATIVELY MOVING A HEAT EXTRACTING SURFACE MAINTANED AT A TEMPERATURE BELOW THE FUSHION TEMPERATURE OF SUCH METAL AND THE LIKE IN CLOSE CONTIGUOUS RELATION SHIP TO THE PATH AND TO THE OUTLETS OF THE ORIFICES SO THAT THE MOLTEN METAL AND THE LIKE IS COOLED ALONG THE PATH WITH SAID HEAT EXTRACTING SURFACE, AND PASSING THE HEAT FROM THE METAL AND THE LIKE BEING DEPOSITED AT A MORE DOWNSTREAM POINT ALONG THE PATH THROUGH PREVIOUSLY DEPOSITED SOLID METAL TO SAID HEAT EXTRACTING SURFACE, SAID ORIFICES AND THE RELATIVE MOVEMENT OF THE HEAT EXTRACTING SURFACE CAUSING ELONGATION OF THE CRYSTALS OF MOLTEN METAL AND THE LIKE DEPOSITED.