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Abstract

A continuous casting apparatus has a series of rolling stands for lightly rolling a continuously cast strand while the core of the strand is liquid. Each of the rolling stands has a lower module which contains an idler roll disposed at a fixed location. Each of the rolling stands further has an upper module containing a driven roll as well as a hydraulic unit for moving the driven roll towards and away from the idler roll. The upper modules are mounted on pairs of columns where the columns of each pair are located directly across from one another on opposite sides of the strand. The upper modules of two neighboring rolling stands share a pair of columns thereby allowing the distance between such rolling stands to be reduced.

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