Abstract: A tapered roll stand for making seamless pipe has a stationary frame formed relative to a workpiece-travel direction with a pair of laterally and horizontally oppositely open windows. Respective cover doors carried on the frame are vertically shiftable between respective closed positions covering the respective windows and open positions offset therefrom and exposing the respective windows. A pair of tapered rolls are each shiftable horizontally through a respective one of the windows into a use position inside the frame, lying to a respective horizontal side of the direction, and rotatable about a respective axis forming an acute angle with the direction. A pair of Diescher disks are vertically engageable with a workpiece extending in the direction between the tapered rolls, and respective roll-positioning actuators carried on the doors are couplable with the tapered rolls in the use position for setting positions of the tapered rolls.

Abstract: A tapered roll stand for making seamless pipe has a stationary frame formed relative to a workpiece-travel direction with a pair of laterally and horizontally oppositely open windows. Respective cover doors carried on the frame are vertically shiftable between respective closed positions covering the respective windows and open positions offset therefrom and exposing the respective windows. A pair of tapered rolls are each shiftable horizontally through a respective one of the windows into a use position inside the frame, lying to a respective horizontal side of the direction, and rotatable about a respective axis forming an acute angle with the direction. A pair of Diescher disks are vertically engageable with a workpiece extending in the direction between the tapered rolls, and respective roll-positioning actuators carried on the doors are couplable with the tapered rolls in the use position for setting positions of the tapered rolls.