A shoe for dispensing molten lead into a mold cavity of rotating dmm to continuously cast a web of a plurality of serially connected grids for lead acid batteries. The shoe may have an elongate orifice slot in a face confronting the drum, a molten lead supply slot opening into an upper recessed portion of the orifice slot and an excess molten lead return slot communicating with the recessed portion downstream of the supply slot.

Disclosed is an amorphous nanocrystalline alloy strip. When the amorphous nanocrystalline alloy strip is cut into a plurality of narrow strips having a same width of less than or equal to 10 mm, a relative length difference among the plurality of narrow strips is not greater than 0.50%. Further disclosed is a method for manufacturing the amorphous nanocrystalline alloy strip. The amorphous nanocrystalline alloy strip has good surface flatness. The transverse temperature non-uniformity of molten steel inside a melting pool and the surface temperature non-uniformity of a cooling roller within a strip manufacturing position range are controlled in a process of manufacturing the amorphous nanocrystalline alloy strip, so that the surface flatness of the manufactured strip is improved. The manufacturing process is simple and convenient.

A method and apparatus for continuous Near Net Shape casting of a liquid metal (10) into a metal strip are described. Liquid metal is transferred in a velocity adjusted manner from a headbox (50) to a chilled substrate (36), via a meniscus gap (69). The headbox (50) has a slot nozzle (68) defined in a bottom portion (66) for the headbox (50) above the chilled substrate (36). The slot nozzle (68) defines a smooth elongated cavity with a slot width (67) and the slot length (65) of the metal strip (34). The generation of some turbulence at the outlet of the apparatus promotes stable Near Net Shape Continuous Casting. The present method and apparatus increase the level of turbulence in the liquid metal of the outlet nozzle upstream of the chilled substrate (36) to minimize premature metal freezing. In a particularly preferred embodiment, the slot nozzle is adjustable.

The present disclosure discloses a molten aluminum erosion resistant casting tip paint, the casting tip paint is formed by mixing magnesia-alumina spinel, alumina, magnesia, water, sodium tripolyphosphate and sodium carboxymethyl cellulose, wherein the proportions of various raw materials for the casting tip paint are as follows: magnesia-alumina spinel of 40-50 wt %, alumina of 10-20 wt %, magnesia of 5-10 wt %, water of 20-40 wt %, sodium tripolyphosphate of 0-10 wt %, and sodium carboxymethyl cellulose of 0-10 wt %. The present disclosure also discloses a preparation method of a molten aluminum erosion resistant casting tip. The molten aluminum erosion resistant casting tip paint provided by the present disclosure can be evenly coated onto the inner wall of the casting tip, so as to form a compact molten aluminum erosion resistant coating, thereby preventing infiltration and erosion of the molten aluminum.

A flat immersion nozzle stabilizes the discharging flow of molten steel thereby stabilizing the molten steel surface in a mold, namely, decreasing the fluctuation thereof. In the immersion nozzle having a flat shape in which a width Wn of an inner hole is greater than a thickness Tn of the inner hole, a central protrusion portion (1) is disposed in a center section of a wall surface in a width direction of a flat section. Wp/Wn, a ratio of a length Wp of the central protrusion portion in the width direction to Wn, is 0.2 or more and 0.7 or less. The central protrusion portion (1) is disposed symmetrically as a pair; and a total length Tp in the thickness direction of the pair of the central protrusion portions is 0.15 or more and 0.75 or less of Tn.

A flat immersion nozzle stabilizes the discharging flow of molten steel thereby stabilizing the molten steel surface in a mold, namely, decreasing the fluctuation thereof. In the immersion nozzle having a flat shape in which a width Wn of an inner hole is greater than a thickness Tn of the inner hole, a central protrusion portion (1) is disposed in a center section of a wall surface in a width direction of a flat section. Wp/Wn, a ratio of a length Wp of the central protrusion portion in the width direction to Wn, is 0.2 or more and 0.7 or less. The central protrusion portion (1) is disposed symmetrically as a pair; and a total length Tp in the thickness direction of the pair of the central protrusion portions is 0.15 or more and 0.75 or less of Tn.

Machine for continuous casting of a lead alloy for forming grids for plates of electric storage batteries, which comprises a rotary drum having an external peripheral surface with a plurality of grooves obtained according to the grid design to be made and a sliding block coupled in sliding relation with the external surface of the rotary drum and with a distribution duct obtained in order to insert the molten lead in the plurality of grooves. The plurality of grooves comprises circumferential notches and transverse notches that meet in respective vertices. At the vertices and within the circumferential notches, a plurality of studs are placed that are intended to shape corresponding corners of smoothed form of the grids.

A method of producing aluminum alloy material having a thermal bonding function in a single layer and including 2.00 mass % to 3.00 mass % Si, 0.01 mass % to 0.50 mass % Fe, and 0.80 mass % to 1.50 mass % Mn includes a casting process performing a twin roll type casting to form a plate having a thickness of 3 mm to 12 mm by rotating a roll having a diameter D (mm) at peripheral velocity v (mm/min) being satisfying a following formula of 0.057?v+0.0016?D?33.54.

A rapidly quenched Fe-based soft-magnetic alloy ribbon having wave-like undulations on a free surface, the wave-like undulations having transverse troughs arranged at substantially constant intervals in a longitudinal direction, and the troughs having an average amplitude D of 20 mm or less, is produced by a method comprising (a) keeping a transverse temperature distribution in a melt nozzle within 15 C. to have as small a temperature distribution as possible in a melt paddle of the alloy, and (b) forming numerous fine linear scratches on a cooling roll surface by a wire brush, thereby providing a ground surface of the cooling roll with an arithmetical mean (average) roughness Ra of 0.1-1 m and a maximum roughness depth Rmax of 0.5-10 m.

A casting nozzle for feeding molten metal into a moving casting mold of a caterpillar casting machine, including an elongated housing body having a slot-like outlet side (A), wherein multiple flow passages are formed in the housing body along its longitudinal direction (x) and over its width direction (B), through which passages molten metal can be channeled in the direction of the outlet side (A) and can be fed from there into the moving casting mold, wherein the housing body is of an at least two-part design in the direction of its height and has at least one upper shell and at least one lower shell, wherein the upper shell and the lower shell are spaced apart from one another by separating webs and the individual flow passages extend between the separating webs.