Abstract: A measuring roller for determining a property of a strip-shaped material such as metal strip, passed over a measuring roller, having a measuring roller body with a circumferential surface, at least one recess in the measuring roller body, which is arranged at a distance from the circumferential surface or leads from the circumferential surface into the interior of the measuring roller body, and with a first force sensor arranged in the recess and a second force sensor arranged in the recess or in a further recess adjacent to the recess, wherein the first force sensor has a sensor surface and the first force sensor can generate a sensor signal when the position of the sensor surface of the first force sensor changes, and the second force sensor has a sensor surface and the second force sensor can generate a sensor signal when the position of the sensor surface of the second force sensor changes.

Abstract: A tensioning pulley set for a straightening machine for straightening a strip or for a re-rolling stand for re-rolling a strip, comprising a first tensioning pulley with a first pulley axis and at least one second tensioning pulley with a second pulley axis, the first tension pulley being a flatness measuring pulley having a force sensor for measuring a radial force applied to the circumferential surface of the flatness measuring pulley, and a drive for the second tensioning pulley with which a torque can be applied thereto on the second pulley axis, either the first tensioning pulley configured without a drive, or an auxiliary drive provided for the first tensioning pulley with which a torque can be applied to the first tensioning pulley on the first pulley axis, the auxiliary drive for the first tensioning pulley being significantly weaker than the drive for the second tensioning pulley.

Abstract: A method for removing liquids from the surface of a strip, characterized in that the liquid is excited in such a way that it oscillates. The invention is based on the recognition that the root of the problem of removing liquids from the surface of a strip lies in the adhesion forces and that these adhesion forces can be overcome by exciting the liquid in such a way that it oscillates. Its oscillation causes the liquid to detach itself from the surface of the strip and it can then be easily carried away, for example by suction by means of low pressure, blowing or stripping by means of a stripper.

Abstract: In a method and a strip treatment installation, in particular a strip rolling mill train or a strip rolling stand, to avoid strip stickers, as the material is being wound up the distribution of the radial pressure exerted by the strip on the coiler drum or a winding reel is measured over the strip width, then the measured values are used to produce a reproduction of the actual local stress distribution in the strip, and this reproduction is used as a template for a set curve for controlling the strip tensile stress distribution, on the basis of which actuators of the strip treatment installation are adjusted with a view to achieving a uniform compressive stress distribution.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for the rolling or winding of strip having an equal thickness over the strip width, in which the tension in a strip length portion limited by rolls, winders, or control, guide or deflecting rollers is measured by means of a measuring roller. In order, in this case, to obtain more accurate measurement values and keep disturbing stresses away from the measuring point, between the measuring roller and an assembly (roll, winder, or control, guide or deflecting roller) causing disturbing stresses in the strip, a partitioning device for absorbing the disturbing stresses is arranged.

Abstract: The invention relates to a measuring method in particular for the strip tension and the line force of a strip conveyor system, in which the strip is guided so as to wrap partially around a corotating measuring roller, which has at least one pressure sensor for measuring a pressure acting on a surface section of the measuring roller, and guided through a gap formed between the measuring roller and a backing roller. The pressure acting on a surface section of the measuring roller is measured by means of the pressure sensor at least at two rotational positions of the measuring roller. The rotational angle of the measuring roller is measured relative to a reference position. The invention is based on the basic idea of measuring the variation of a pressure acting on a surface section of the measuring roller over at least part of the rotation of the measuring roller.

Abstract: In a method and a strip treatment installation, in particular a strip rolling mill train or a strip rolling stand, to avoid strip stickers, as the material is being wound up the distribution of the radial pressure exerted by the strip on the coiler drum or a winding reel is measured over the strip width, then the measured values are used to produce a reproduction of the actual local stress distribution in the strip, and this reproduction is used as a template for a set curve for controlling the strip tensile stress distribution, on the basis of which actuators of the strip treatment installation are adjusted with a view to achieving a uniform compressive stress distribution.

Abstract: A measuring roller for determining flatness deviations when rolling metal strip measures the stress distribution, for example, with the aid of force measuring sensors over the width of the strip, said sensors being arranged in recesses in the measuring roller at a distance from the wall of the recess and thus being surrounded by an annular gap. The annular gap is closed off to the outside and connected to axially parallel ducts for the feed and discharge of a coolant.

Abstract: The invention concerns a measuring idler-roller for measuring stress distution of flexible bands that are moved in the direction of their length, in which roller force-measuring transducers arranged in recesses or their covers are surrounded by a plastic layer that fills in a gap and prevents the penetration of fine abraded metal particles, and makes easier the installation of the cover and/or the measuring transducer.

Abstract: In a process for presetting the adjusting-member positions of a roll stand upon the rolling of a new coil or for the next pass in each case during cold rolling of bands, adjusting-member positions for the band flatness are used that are based on the corresponding actual data of the first pass of a reference coil, whose reference data results in the best correspondence with the target data of the new coil, or on the actual data of the preceding pass. At the same time, the band thickness can be preset by the specification of a rolling force or adjustment position adapted over a certain time period from the actual data of reference conditions of the roll stand or the rolling mill train.

Abstract: In an apparatus for straightening metal strip comprising guide rolls arranged parallel to one another a straightening roll is arranged in the gusset space between two guide rolls which has the strip wrapped round it in a form-fitting manner between two lines of contact along which the guide rolls are in indirect contact with the straightening roll. This makes it possible to straighten even high-strength strip without the need to apply tensile loads which exceed the magnitude needed to transport the strip through the apparatus.

Abstract: A deflecting roller for sensing the distribution of stress along the roller while the roller deflects a strip of sheet material, and in particular, a deflecting roller having a plurality of stress sensors disposed around the roller such that the stress sensors sense the radially acting force on the roller, without contributing any interfering forces thereto. The roller has a plurality of measuring locations defined about the circumference of the roller. Each measurement location includes a recess in the roller; a stress-responsive sensor disposed in the recess; and a sensor cover positioned within the recess so as to cover the stress-responsive sensor. The sensor cover has the same cross sectional shape as the recess so that the sensor cover is guided by the wall of the recess for radial movement with respect to the roller. The sensor cover does not rest on a shoulder in the recess.

Abstract: A deflection measuring roller includes mutually non-rotatable rings having orce sensors for determining the stress distribution of undirected, flexible strips. A receiving chamber is made of a window which is formed in the material of the annular wall and within which the force sensor and wedge are provided.

Abstract: In a method for cold-rolling sheets and strips, measured values which characterize the surface evenness, especially the tensile stress distribution, are formed on the delivery side of a rolling mill and, in dependence thereon, adjusting members of the rolling mill are actuated which form part of at least one regulating circuit for the surface evenness of the rolled sheets and strips. Incorrect adjustments and disruptions in the rolling process on the basis of the different time responses of the individual adjusting members are avoided by adjusting the adjusting members at speeds so matched to one another that during at least a portion of the adjusting time, the ratio of the adjustments of the participating adjusting members remains constant, and all adjusting members reach their desired values simultaneously.

Abstract: A device for measuring stress distribution across the width of flexible litudinally moving strip material, such as strip steel during coldrolling. The device includes a deflection measuring roller comprised of a plurality of rotatable sections mounted side-by-side. Some of the sections have force pick-ups fitted therein and the elements cooperatively function to detect and measure deflection as an indication of stress distribution across the strip.

Abstract: Apparatus for measuring stress distribution across the width of a flexible strip travelling in the direction of its length, comprising a pick-up deflector roller having a plurality of rings, encased in a tire of flexible material, the edges of the rings being cut away to produce local stress in the tire as compared with a smooth cylindrical roller.