intermediate ladle having vertical channels 10 and primary heating coil 11 to which the supplied power is adapted to be controlled pouring of melt from a preceding melt container such as melt container 35 the actual temperature value of which is predicted by a curve such as depicted in fig2 is shown at 12 and discharge of melt takes place at 13 as shown in fig4 the discharge takes place at several outlets 13 and the number of outlets may be course vary between one and a very great number the intermediate ladle is provided with lid 14 and the distributing channel is also provided with lid 15 numeral 16 denotes the iron core yoke of the low frequency channel furnace fig6 illustrates an embodiment of controller 5 shown in fig1 the temperature drop in melt container 35 is predicted in predicting means 17 combined with a motor driven potentiometer 18 provided with switch means 19 for start and return operation potentiometer 18 provides a time function which in predicting means 17 gives the predicted temperature drop in melt container 35 as shown in fig2 the temperature function for controlling a specific casting operation may be chosen by selector 20 which switches in the desired predicted temperature drop function from one of several different temperature functions 17 39 17 34 or 17 34 39 by switch means 21 in potentiometer 22 the melt steel temperature to in is adjusted i e the melt temperature at the beginning of the casting operation in melt container 35 when the casting starts motor driven potentiometer 18 starts and the predicted temperature change u03b4t in is.