Tilt Pour Casting
Tilt pour casting colored
by temperature
In tilt pour casting, the metal is poured into a holding cup while the mold is in its horizontal position. Then, with a preset cycle time, the casting machine raises to a vertical position, allowing the metal to enter the die cavity at a slow, continuous pour rate. The tilt-pour method is a good choice for general casting purposes because of its feed/gate flexibility which allows for a wide variety of casting shapes.
The figure shows the flow of metal (red is hot) into a thin-walled mold. FLOW-3D's non-inertial reference frame motion model was used to prescribe the motion of the mold (a variable rotation in this case).
Read more in our Casting Tech Papers