Patents by Inventor Christian Mengel

Christian Mengel has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10906078
    Abstract: An apparatus for winding up a metal strip into a coil. A frame in which a second counter-bending roller is mounted in a rotatable manner. The frame is movable with the aid of a second setting device between a coiler shaft position and a roller bed position. In the roller bed position, the second counter-bending roller alongside a first counter-bending roller acts as the roller bed roller of a roller bed which is arranged above the coiling device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: SMS group GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Cramer, Thomas Holzhauer, Andreas Kastner, Heinz-Adolf Müller, Christian Mengel, Janina Weber
  • Patent number: 10875065
    Abstract: A method for rolling a rolling material in a rolling mill comprising at least one roll stand. A gap height of a rolling gap arranged between working rolls of the roll stand is set to be smaller than an in-feed thickness of the rolling material before contact of the rolling material with the working rolls. At least one driven working roll of the roll stand is driven at a desired rotational speed once the rolling material has reached the rolling gap, and the driven working roll is operated at a feed-forward rotational speed deviating from the desired rotational speed, until the rolling material reaches the rolling gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: SMS group GmbH
    Inventor: Christian Mengel
  • Patent number: 10434552
    Abstract: A method for producing a metallic strip by continuous casting-rolling, wherein a slab is cast in a casting machine and then sent to a finishing mill located downstream, relative to the transport direction of the strip. In the event that the transport of the slab or strip comes to a complete or substantially complete standstill, the following steps are carried out: (a) cutting through the strip at a first point; (b) cutting through the strip at a second point that is 0.1-5.0 m upstream from the first point; (c) removing the cut-out piece of strip to create a gap in the strip; (d) conveying new strip material into the area of the gap from the area located upstream of the first point; and (e) cutting off pieces of the new strip material conveyed from upstream according to step (d) and removing the pieces from the transport line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: SMS GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Runkel, Christian Mengel
  • Publication number: 20190283095
    Abstract: A method and a device for producing a metallic strip by continuous casting-rolling, wherein a slab is cast in a casting machine and then sent to a finishing mill located downstream, relative to the transport direction of the strip. In the event that the transport of the slab or strip comes to a complete or substantially complete standstill, the following steps are carried out: (a) cutting through the strip at a first point; (b) cutting through the strip at a second point that is 0.1-5.0 m upstream from the first point; (c) removing the cut-out piece of strip to create a gap in the strip; (d) conveying new strip material into the area of the gap from the area located upstream of the first point; and (e) cutting off pieces of the new strip material conveyed from upstream according to step (d) and removing the pieces from the transport line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Thomas RUNKEL, Christian MENGEL
  • Publication number: 20180297094
    Abstract: A method for rolling a rolling material in a rolling mill comprising at least one roll stand. A gap height of a rolling gap arranged between working rolls of the roll stand is set to be smaller than an in-feed thickness of the rolling material before contact of the rolling material with the working rolls. At least one driven working roll of the roll stand is driven at a desired rotational speed once the rolling material has reached the rolling gap, and the driven working roll is operated at a feed-forward rotational speed deviating from the desired rotational speed, until the rolling material reaches the rolling gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicant: SMS group GmbH
    Inventor: Christian MENGEL
  • Publication number: 20170348747
    Abstract: An apparatus for winding up a metal strip into a coil. A frame in which a second counter-bending roller is mounted in a rotatable manner. The frame is movable with the aid of a second setting device between a coiler shaft position and a roller bed position. In the roller bed position, the second counter-bending roller alongside a first counter-bending roller acts as the roller bed roller of a roller bed which is arranged above the coiling device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicant: SMS group GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich CRAMER, Thomas HOLZHAUER, Andreas KASTNER, Heinz-Adolf MÜLLER, Christian MENGEL, Janina WEBER
  • Patent number: 9566626
    Abstract: An apparatus (1) for winding-up a metal strip (2) into a coil (3), includes a clamping pair (22) formed of a deflection roller (23) and a pressure roller (24) and located in front of the coil (3) in a material flow direction (10) so that the strip (2) is retained under tensional stress with respect to the coil (3) and is so bendable that the strip (2), which is provided with a corresponding pre-bend, is firmly wound into a coil (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: SMS Group GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Fest, David A. Nold, Heinz-Adolf Mueller, Christian Mengel
  • Publication number: 20160175903
    Abstract: A method for producing a metallic strip by continuous casting-rolling, wherein a slab is cast in a casting machine and then sent to a finishing mill located downstream, relative to the transport direction of the strip. In the event that the transport of the slab or strip comes to a complete or substantially complete standstill, the following steps are carried out: (a) cutting through the strip at a first point; (b) cutting through the strip at a second point that is 0.1-5.0 m upstream from the first point; (c) removing the cut-out piece of strip to create a gap in the strip; (d) conveying new strip material into the area of the gap from the area located upstream of the first point; and (e) cutting off pieces of the new strip material conveyed from upstream according to step (d) and removing the pieces from the transport line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Thomas RUNKEL, Christian MENGEL
  • Patent number: 9346090
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for depositing a metal coil (200) on two stationary support points (110-1; 110-2). In order to be able to deposit even metal coils that have high internal residual stress in a stable manner on the two support points, according to the invention, a third support point (140) is pivoted against the outer circumference of the metal coil (200) if needed).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: SMS Group GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Cramer, Thomas Holzhauer, Wolfgang Fuchs, Andreas Kastner, Christian Mengel, Heinz-Adolf Mueller, Carsten Heide, Karl Robert Hofmann
  • Patent number: 9289809
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for handling a metal strip. The device comprises a coiling device (110) with a coiling mandrel (112) for winding the metal strip to form a coil (200) on the coiling mandrel and a coil stripper car (120) with supports (124) for receiving the coil (200) from the coiling mandrel and removing the coil from the coiling device (110). In order to additionally secure the metal strip in the coiling device during the transfer from the coiling mandrel onto the coil stripper care and during a transport by means of the coil stripper car, a first hold-down arm (130) is provided for exerting a first hold-down force (F1) onto the outer circumference of the coil (200) in order to press the coil onto the supports of the coil stripper car.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: SMS GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Ulrich Cramer, Thomas Holzhauer, Wolfgang Fuchs, Andreas Kastner, Christian Mengel, Heinz-Adolf Mueller, Carsten Heide, Karl Robert Hofmann
  • Patent number: 9266156
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for lateral guidance of a rolled strip transported on a roller bed, particularly a hot rolled strip in front of a winding device (3), having parallel first and second side guides provided on both sides of the rolled strip, said side guides being movable toward or away from one another by adjusting means that are adjustable independently of one another; the invention is characterized in that a control device (14, 15, 16), to which operating forces and/or positions of the side guides and/or of the rolled strip can be fed as output values in the guidance of the rolled strip, is provided for damping the periodic deviation of the rolled strip, and in that the control device (14, 15, 16) controls the positions of the side guides and/or forces that the side guides exert on the rolled strip based on the measured output values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: SMS GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Olaf Norman Jepsen, Peter Sudau, Christian Mengel
  • Publication number: 20150151345
    Abstract: An apparatus (1) for winding-up a metal strip (2) into a coil (3), includes a clamping pair (22) formed of a deflection roller (23) and a pressure roller (24) and located in front of the coil (3) in a material flow direction (10) so that the strip (2) is retained under tensional stress with respect to the coil (3) and is so bendable that the strip (2), which is provided with a corresponding pre-bend, is firmly wound into a coil (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicant: SMS Siemag AG
    Inventors: Thomas Fest, David A. Nold, Heinz-Adolf Mueller, Christian Mengel
  • Patent number: 8807201
    Abstract: A device and a method for horizontal casting of a metal band. The device includes a dispensing vessel for a melt and a cooled conveyor belt disposed downstream of the dispensing vessel in the casting direction running between two deflecting rollers and on which the metal band can be transported. The device further includes at least one roller that can be engaged with the metal band for profiling. Early and therefore improved influence on the profile of a metal band, that is the leader band, is thereby made possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: SMS Siemag Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rolf Franz, Christian Mengel, Olaf Norman Jepsen, Karl-Heinz Spitzer, Hellfried Eichholz
  • Patent number: 8555476
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for depositing a metal coil (200) on two support points (110-1; 110-2). In order to avoid risks, in particular instability, while depositing metal coils having high residual stress, according to the invention the risk of an unstable position of equilibrium is checked, if a change in the relative position of the two support points (110-1; 110-2) with respect to one another is foreseeable, it is carried out such that the metal coil (200) comes to rest on both support points at least approximately in a stable position of equilibrium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: SMS Siemag Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ulrich Cramer, Thomas Holzhauer, Wolfgang Fuchs, Andreas Kastner, Christian Mengel, Heinz-Adolf Mueller, Carsten Heide, Karl Robert Hofmann
  • Publication number: 20130256439
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for handling a metal strip. The device comprises a coiling device (110) with a coiling mandrel (112) for winding the metal strip to form a coil (200) on the coiling mandrel and a coil stripper car (120) with supports (124) for receiving the coil (200) from the coiling mandrel and removing the coil from the coiling device (110). In order to additionally secure the metal strip in the coiling device during the transfer from the coiling mandrel onto the coil stripper care and during a transport by means of the coil stripper car, a first hold-down arm (130) is provided for exerting a first hold-down force (F1) onto the outer circumference of the coil (200) in order to press the coil onto the supports of the coil stripper car.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: SMS SIEMAG AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Ulrich Cramer, Thomas Holzhauer, Wolfgang Fuchs, Andreas Kastner, Christian Mengel, Heinz-Adolf Mueller, Carsten Heide, Karl Robert Hofmann
  • Publication number: 20130075517
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for depositing a metal coil (200) on two support points (110-1; 110-2). In order to avoid risks, in particular instability, while depositing metal coils having high residual stress, according to the invention the risk of an unstable position of equilibrium is checked, if a change in the relative position of the two support points (110-1; 110-2) with respect to one another is foreseeable, it is carried out such that the metal coil (200) comes to rest on both support points at least approximately in a stable position of equilibrium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2011
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Inventors: Ulrich Cramer, Thomas Holzhauer, Wolfgang Fuchs, Andreas Kastner, Christian Mengel, Heinz-Adolf Mueller, Carsten Heide, Karl Robert Hofmann
  • Publication number: 20130071223
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for depositing a metal coil (200) on two stationary support points (110-1; 110-2). In order to be able to deposit even metal coils that have high internal residual stress in a stable manner on the two support points, according to the invention, a third support point (140) is pivoted against the outer circumference of the metal coil (200) if needed).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2011
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Inventors: Ulrich Cramer, Thomas Holzhauer, Wolfgang Fuchs, Andreas Kastner, Christian Mengel, Heinz-Adolf Mueller, Carsten Heide, Karl Robert Hofmann
  • Publication number: 20120132390
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for horizontal casting of a metal band (4). The device thereby comprises a dispensing vessel (3) for a melt (1) and a cooled conveyor belt (6) disposed downstream of the dispensing vessel (3) in the casting direction running between two deflecting rollers (77) and on which the metal band (4) can be transported, and wherein the device comprises at least one roller (8, 889, 9 that can be engaged with the metal band (4) for profiling. Early and therefore improved influence on the profile of a metal band (4), that is, the leader band (4), is made possible by said embodiment and further preferred embodiments of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2010
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: SMS SIEMAG AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Rolf Franz, Christian Mengel, Olaf Norman Jepsen, Karl-Heinz Spitzer, Hellfried Eichholz
  • Patent number: 8171982
    Abstract: A device for manufacturing a metal strip has solidification section (3) formed as a horizontally extending conveyor element for transporting cast metal in a transport direction (F), a delivery vessel (2) for delivering liquid metal to a first location of the solidification section (3), a delivery vessel (2) for delivering liquid metal to a first location of the solidification section (3); and a device provided at or downstream of a second location spaced from the first location for maintaining a desired tension of a metal strip and including at least one driver (8, 9) for transporting the metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: SMS Siemag Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rolf Franz, Olaf Norman Jepsen, Christian Mengel, Michael Breuer
  • Publication number: 20110247380
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for lateral guidance of a rolled strip transported on a roller bed, particularly a hot rolled strip in front of a winding device (3), having parallel first and second side guides provided on both sides of the rolled strip, said side guides being movable toward or away from one another by adjusting means that are adjustable independently of one another; the invention is characterized in that a control device (14, 15, 16), to which operating forces and/or positions of the side guides and/or of the rolled strip can be fed as output values in the guidance of the rolled strip, is provided for damping the periodic deviation of the rolled strip, and in that the control device (14, 15, 16) controls the positions of the side guides and/or forces that the side guides exert on the rolled strip based on the measured output values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2009
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: SMS SIEMAG AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Olaf Norman Jepsen, Peter Sudau, Christian Mengel