Abstract: An apparatus for adjusting the roll gap between cooperating rolls of a rolling stand for coating e.g. plastic foils or metal strips with a material which does not or does effect the roll gap includes a split bearing shell for each roll journal, with one shell half being part of a support unit and arranged inwardly relative to the roll gap and the other shell half being part of an adjusting unit and arranged outwardly relative to the roll gap. The individual elements of the adjusting units are arranged relative to the individual elements of the support unit in such a manner that the forces exerted free from play by the adjusting unit and of the support unit at both sides of the roll journals act in a common plane extending perpendicular to the axes of the rolls.