SEGMENT EXCHANGING EQUIPMENT OF CONTINUOUS CASTING MACHINE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the efficiency of the segment exchanging work, and to simplify an equipment by installing a pair of guide rails on each side of a roller apron corresponding to a segment, pulling out the segment to the inner side of a curved arc along a guide rail, and inserting another segment into the previous position. SOLUTION: A pair of guide rails 20 on each side extending to an inner side from an outer side of an arc of a roller apron 12 corresponding to a plurality of segments 13 to constitute the roller apron 12 of a vertical bend type or curved type continuous casting machine are installed. A pair of guide rollers 13a to be engaged with a guide rail 20 are provided in the radial direction of a curved arc of the segment 13 with a clearance, and the segments 13 are pulled out to an inner side of the curved arc along the guide rail 20 on each side, and new segments are inserted in the original position. The guide rails 20 are located on an outer circumferential part of the curved arc of the roller apron 12, and are of the fixed type in which an inclined part directed in the radial direction of the curved arc is connected to a vertical part located on an inner circumferential part of the arc.