Support for foundry ladles for a continuous castingplant

A support device (1) for foundry ladles (13, 14) for a continuous casting plant has a stationary fixed base and a rotary base (4) mounted rotatably with respect to the fixed base and rotatable by means of a rotary drive, on which rotary base at least one support arm system (11, 12) for receiving a foundry ladle (13, 14) is articulated by a parallelogram linkage system (15) with arms (17 to 20) pivotable about horizontal bearing axes (24, 25), with support arm system (11, 12) viewed in outline having a rigid U-shaped support part (26) surrounding a foundry ladle (13, 14) on which part (26) foundry ladle (13, 14) is supportable and can be raised and lowered by at least one pressurized cylinder (16) with respect to rotary base (4). In order to be able to place foundry ladles (13, 14) directly on support arm system (11, 12) even when the lengthwise direction of a continuous casting bay is not aligned parallel to the lengthwise direction of the steel works bay, the two mutually parallel legs (27, 28) each provided with a receptacle (47) for foundry ladle (13, 14), of U-shaped support part (26), viewed in outline, are aligned roughly parallel to the bearing axes (25, 24) articulating arms (17 to 20) to rotary base (4), whereby one (27) of legs (27, 28) of U-shaped support part (26) is located closer to rotary base (4) and one (28) is located further from rotary base (4) by at least one foundry ladle diameter, and the mutually parallel legs (27, 28) of the U-shaped support part (26) form a free opening (31) directed in the circumferential direction of rotary base (4).