the surface 16 of the bath of molten material in fig2 as well as fig1 and 3 the melt overflow system produces a thin melt film 38 which in this particular embodiment is deposited almost in the immediate kissing region 36 between wheels 20 and 28 upper wheel 28 is positioned so that the upper wheel surface 34 almost touches the surface 16 of the molten material in the receptacle 10 fig3 retains the basic geometrical relationship of the two rolls i e the axis of the spring controlled roll is above the melt deposited cooling roll 20 however roll 28 is now immersed in the pool of molten metal thus both lower and upper rolls form films 38 and 40 respectively of chilled material on their respective surfaces which are pressed into a fused film 24 it should be noted that although upper roll 28 is cooled in fig3 so as to produce a frozen film on its surface in other embodiments such as that of fig1 the upper roll does not have to be chilled and thus functions as a cold forming roll thus in the broadest embodiment the invention can utilize either one or two cooling surfaces to form a variety of resultant products it is preferred to utilize both wheels as chilling surfaces also the precise degree of.