To provide a casting apparatus which is manufactured relatively compactly at low cost, and capable of reliably releasing an ingot of aluminum cast for each of a plurality of molds from the molds.
The casting apparatus 1 continuously casts molten metal m of aluminum or an aluminum alloy into ingots, and includes a rotary shaft 2 with its axial direction being vertical, a disk-like rotating body 4 which is located around the rotary shaft 2 and rotated together with the rotary shaft 2, a plurality of molds c penetrating between an upper surface 5 and a lower surface 6 of the rotating body 4, a water cooling means 20 including a water cooling tank 21 to cover a range from a vicinity of the rotary shaft 2 to an outer circumferential side thereof out of the lower surface 6 of the rotating body 4 and a part of the circumferential direction on the lower surface 6, and a molten metal pouring means 26 which is arranged above the rotating body 4 to pour the molten metal m into the molds c.
ISHIKAWA SADANOBU
FUJIBE MASASHI
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