Abstract: Rolling mills for rolling seamless tubes from axially pierced blanks or billets using a restrained mandrel have suffered from a high dead time in the oprating cycle due to the necessity of returning a mandrel-restraining cross-piece or other member from its final position back to its initial position through the roll stands before beginning the positioning of the next billet to be rolled. This invention overcomes the above-mentioned problem by providing an elongate axially extending recess in the mandre-restraining crosspiece which allows the next billet to be positioned before the end of the preceding rolling operation. The mandrel-restraining crosspiece is ready to be connected up immediately to the next billet when the mandrel-restraining crosspiece has returned to its initial working position, by enabling the crosspiece to pass over the billet which goes through the recess.

Abstract: An apparatus for changing the rolls of a vertical rolling mill stand by moving each roll of a roll pair to the roll changing position transversely outwardly of the rolling position where the spacing between the rolls is maximum and then pulling upwardly the roll together with its upper and lower bearing boxes from a housing. The rolls may be changed even when a slab is passing.

Abstract: Standard hot strip mills include a roughing train and a finishing train having a plurality of finishing stands F-1, F-2, F-3 . . . F-X. F-2 is eliminated from the finishing train and F-1 is converted into a reversing mill. Coiling furnaces are installed on either side of F-1 with the downstream coiling furnace replacing F-2. The resultant reversing mill and coiling furnaces are arranged so that a transfer bar is first reduced as it passes through F-1 in a forward direction and coiled in the downstream coiling furnace, then further reduced as it is passed in a reverse direction through F-1 to the upstream coiling furnace, then further reduced as it is passed the third time through F-1, and then further reduced to the final gauge as it passes successively through F-3 and the remainder of the finishing stands in the finishing train.

Abstract: In the rolling of wire or rod in a rolling line having a roughing or intermediate block whose rolling stands have non-adjustable rolls except for those at the exit end of the block, the rolls of the non-adjustable stands can be re-used at least once in the same stand location after being re-conditioned by reconditioning all the rolls defining a first series of sizing passes so as to form a second series of sizing passes whose individual sizes are larger than those of the first series. The change in dimensions of a given sizing pass as a result of reconditioning is less than the difference between the dimensions of that sizing pass after reconditioning (i.e. of the second series ) and the dimensions of the immediately preceding sizing pass before reconditioning (i.e. of the first series). Thus, after a second or subsequent reconditioning the rolls of a given stand are transferred to the immediately preceding stand for re-use to define the first series of sizing passes.

Abstract: A metal workpiece is rolled in a rolling mill, including an upstream rolling stand or pinch rolls and more than one stream rolling stand. The roll gaps of the workrolls of the downstream rolling stand are set so that the eqivalent contact angle .theta.e (.theta.e=tan.sup.-1 (cos .alpha..times.tan .theta.) wherein .theta. denotes the contact angle between the workrolls in the bottom of the roll groove and the workpiece and .alpha. denotes the inclined angle of the groove) is larger than tan.sup.-1 .mu. (.mu. denotes a coefficient of friction between the workpiece and the workrolls at the time of biting therebetween and also is smaller than tan.sup.-1 .mu.' (.mu.' denotes a coefficient of friction between the workpiece and the workrolls when the workpiece is completely bitten between the workrolls and the rolling operation is in progress).

Abstract: In a hot strip rolling mill a velocity damping compensator circuit is added to the current regulating loop of the looper motor drive generating a torque on the looper arm mechanism between roll stands, thereby to prevent disturbances when applying the looper arm and looper roller against the strip being rolled.

Abstract: A roller block comprising a frame, a carriage vertically displaceable relative to the frame and having upwardly open or openable holders for the two ends of a roller unit which has a horizontal shaft or axis with at least one roller arranged thereon, and two bearers displaceable between a lowered position and a raised effective position, wherein the upper ends of the bearers form or are provided with bearing members for end members of the roller unit, which bearers are retainable in the raised position thereof independently of the carriage.

Abstract: A safety device for roll forming apparatus that has a pair of oppositely rotating pressure rollers with parallel axes and peripheral cylindrical surfaces which define between them a gripping and contact gap. The safety device comprises a pair of safety rollers located rearwardly of the pressure rollers and having peripheral portions spaced apart a distance greater than the gap between the pressure rollers and means for rotating the safety rollers in a rearward direction with respect to the pressure rollers in order to engage and reject foreign articles placed between the safety rollers.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for the rolling of bars, rods or wire to avoid thickened ends in which a number of rolling stands are provided in tandem forming a rolling line and in which one or more of the last rolling stands in the line have separate drive means with means to regulate the speed independent of the other rolling stands to provide momentarily increased speed and tension on the two ends of the material being rolled.

Abstract: Heavy profiled supports or rails may be produced by rolling through a series of rolling stands. Material is passed through a two-high reversing pre-rolling stand, an edging stand, a reversing universal stand, a second compression stand, and a second reversing universal stand. When rails are to be produced the material is passed through stands in through-travel only. When rolling profiled supports it is preferable to replace the stand by a roller train section.

Abstract: A device for automatically wrapping a strip of metal to be rolled partly around upper and lower working rolls in the form of S or inverted S in a safeguarded and simplified manner.

Abstract: A tool pack assembly includes three modular units that are aligned with the path for a punch to redraw and iron a cup into a container shell. The first modular unit has a redraw ring assembly, a lubricating ring and an ironing ring serially supported in a support member while the second modular unit has a lubricating ring and an ironing ring in a support member. The third modular unit has a unique lubricant removal ring, a lubricating ring, an ironing ring and a stripper assembly arranged in series in a support member.

Abstract: A method of controlling roll eccentricity of a rolling mill is disclosed, in which a component of a rolling load variation which is due to eccentricities of an upper and a lower backup rolls of the rolling mill is obtained as a first eccentricity compensation signal by removing a rolling load variation component due to a variation of thickness of a material to be rolled from a rolling load variation occurred during the rolling operation, a rolling load variation value due to the roll eccentricity of the backup rolls is obtained from a rolling load variation occurred during rotations of work rolls which are in contact with each other under a load and is memorized as a second roll eccentricity compensation signal, a first signal is obtained by multiplying the first roll eccentricity compensation signal with a coefficient which is larger than 0 and smaller than 1, a second signal is obtained by multiplying the second roll eccentricity compensation signal with another coefficient which is larger than 0 and smalle

Abstract: A rolling mill includes at least one roll carrying a sleeve loosely on the barrel, and a sleeve-supporting-and-guiding unit the restricting point of which, i.e. the point at which force for axially shifting or restricting the shifting of the sleeve is applied on the sleeve, is located somewhere along the second-half semi-circular portion of the sleeve as viewed in the rotational direction of a complete turn of the sleeve ending at the loading point where the sleeve and the associated roll are subjected to loading pressure. The mill has a powerful crown-controlling capacity for workpieces varying widths, and the sleeve-supporting-and-guiding unit is sufficiently durable to withstand high speed rolling for mass production.

Abstract: A method of and apparatus for rolling metal strips in a rolling mill having a 4-high roll stand and a tension roll stand comprising a plurality of pairs of combined rollers. The method comprises advancing the metal strips through the 4-high roll stand and tension roll stand, so that the strip extends between the roller of each pair of combined rollers and is partially wrapped around each of the rollers. The rollers of each pair are rotated in opposite directions at a pre-determined circumferential differential speed ratio.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for separating a liner from a formed metal closure by at least partially everting the closure so as to make the liner accessible for separation from the closure.

Abstract: The mill comprises essentially a roughing train having a reversing roughing stand or stands and a finishing train having a reversing finishing stand or in-line finishing stands, the roughing and finishing trains being disposed with pass lines parallel to each other and at different elevations, the work in the roughing train progressing in the opposite direction from the work in the finishing train. The roughing train for strip and light plate is provided with a hot upcoiler at each end positioned above the table so that slabs and breakdowns pass beneath them, but adapted to coil and payout strip of coiling gauge. The delivery end of the roughing train is laterally opposite the entry end of the finishing train and separate mechanisms are provided for transferring coils and plate broadside from roughing train to finishing train.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a device for inserting and thrusting a bar into a double rolling pressure piercing mill (PPM) machine comprises a drum-shaped bedplate coaxially keyed to a motor-driven shaft having its axis of rotation parallel to the PPM's rolling axis, a first and a second thrust means on the drum-shaped bedplate having acting lines (R R.sub.1) parallel to the PPM's rolling axis and circumferentially spaced from each other by a predetermined center angle, a motor for angularly moving the drum-shaped bedplate from a position in which the line R coincides with the rolling axis to a second position in which the line R.sub.1 coincides with said rolling axis and vice-versa.

Abstract: There is disclosed a multi-roll beam-backed mill for cold-rolling wide strips, where small diameter workrolls are supported by other rolls and finally by casters whose supporting saddles are located in channels provided in arcuate-section segments affixed to inner cavities of said beams, said cavities forming jointly a cylindrical surface. Said arcuate segments may be removed and replaced by other arcuate segments to provide various roll configurations.

Abstract: A roller entry guide for a rod mill consists of a body with a funnel shaped entrance leading to a through bore for the rod. The exit is provided with two guide rollers each mounted on a rocker arm for adjustment of their spacing. Each guide roller has a ring of fluid reaction recesses at which a nozzle directs a stream of pressurized fluid, usually air, to keep the rollers rotating at operative speeds and prevent excessive wear and possible bearing failure, which can lead to cobbles in the rod. Each roller includes an annular outer members mounted on a central member by two spaced bearings, the outer races of which have radially projecting flanges engaged in counterbores in the annular outer member to automatically locate the parts together for rapid assembly and disassembly.