Abstract: A rolling line for the stretch-reducing of tubes, has a plurality of rolling stands which are arranged closely one after the other. These rolling stands are driven by a group drive, whereby the rolling stands, or at least a part thereof, are divided into groups, the groups being defined between directly acting drive shafts (111). The stand locations lying between these drive shafts (111) are driven by way of differential gear stages (112), each combining two rotational speeds which are derived by way of gear wheel trains (113-116, 117-120) from the drive shafts (111).

Abstract: A multi-stage roll mill for producing a lengthy continuous rolled sheet material by a one-pass operation, comprises a driven central working roll, and a plurality of peripheral working rolls arranged spaced apart and on the periphery of the central working roll, the diameter of each of the peripheral working rolls being much smaller than that of the central working roll. Each peripheral working roll has a screw-down mechanism which is capable of freely adjusting the gap between the periphery of the peripheral working roll and the periphery of the central working roll. The peripheral working rolls are arranged in such a manner that the work being held in the gap between the peripheries thereof and the periphery of the central working roll is subjected to continuous multi-stage rolling.

Abstract: A metal workpiece such as a slab is rolled into a desired width without requiring broadsiding. The system generally involves reducing a first portion along the width of the workpiece to a first thickness while creating a second portion along the width of the workpiece having a thickness greater than the first portion thickness and having a predetermined mass. Subsequently the second portion is reduced to establish a predetermined increase in the width of the workpiece and a decrease in the thickness of the workpiece to obtain a substantially uniform thickness along substantially the entire width of the workpiece. A preferred approach includes providing a pair of cooperating work rolls at least one of which has a generally cylindrical portion and at least one adjacent tapered portion. Initial reduction is effected by employing a pair of cooperating cylindrical central portions and at least one tapered portion. This provides a workpiece with a reduced portion and an enlarged portion.

Abstract: Paired roller carrying shafts of a roller forming machine are arranged in two side-by-side sets on a table normally supported on a fixed base but elevatable for 180.degree. rotation. Thus, either selected one of the two sets can be in operation, coupled to drive heads on the base, along one side of it, while the other set is idle, adjacent to the opposite side of the base for possible change of forming rollers. One end portion of every roller shaft is journaled in an outboard support that is near a side edge of the table; its opposite end portion is journaled in an inboard support near the longitudinal centerline of the table. To facilitate change of forming rollers, gears for connecting the upper and lower roller shaft of each pair are secured to their inboard end portions and the outboard supports are detachably mounted on the table.

Abstract: An I-beam blank is rolled from a bloom by rolling into opposite edges of the bloom respective central triangular section notches of predetermined apex angle, apex radius of curvature, width, and height in a succession of roll passes. According to this invention the radius and apex angle of the notches are progressively increased a plurality of times during the succession of roll passes. Then the notches are pressed by rolling generally out of the bloom edges in at least one final rolling pass, thereby flattening these edges. The rolling passes are carried out between respective pairs of rolls having facing grooves bases and the roll pairs of the grooving steps are formed with respective triangular-section ridges complementary to the notches being formed. In addition the bloom is rolled repeatedly in the first pair of grooves until the material of the bloom flanking the notch mainly fills these grooves, that i until the bloom bottoms in the grooves.

Abstract: A method of and an apparatus for producing wide strip at increased production rates connects the individual lengths of rough-rolled or continuously caused rough strip end to end to form a continuous band which is passed at constant speed through the working rolls of a hot-rolling finishing line. Downstream of the hot-rolling stands, the wide hot-rolling band is subdivided into lengths of wide strip which can be coiled on separate coilers.

Abstract: A metallic strip is hot-rolled in a succession of roll stands arranged in a row by passing the strip longitudinally in a travel direction through the stands. The strip is then compressed in the upstream stands to substantially reduce its thickness measured perpendicular to the travel direction and parallel to the strip while substantially increasing its width measured perpendicular to the travel direction and transverse to the strip. Then in the downstream stands it is compressed and tensioned without substantially increasing its width to level it and stretch it longitudinally in the travel direction. With standard steel strip this critical thickness is about 12 mm. The local band thickness is measured downstream of the upstream roll stands and the furthest downstream stand of the upstream stands is operated to eliminate any nonuniformities in thickness thus detected. The nonuniformities are detected by comparing the local band thicknesses detected with standard set-point thicknesses.

Abstract: A system for controlling interstand tension of a tandem rolling mill includes a detector for directly detecting a travelling speed of a work between two neighboring stands. A value of a speed of the work thus obtained is processed by a tandem rolling controlling section together with a value of a load and another value of a rotational speed of rolls. A rotational speed of the rolls is thus determined in accordance with a result of the process.

Abstract: In a method of operating a tandem rolling mill, the speeds of the mill rolls are kept constant, a signal representing the mass flow of material entering the first stand is compared with a signal representing the desired mass flow of material leaving the last mill stand and the difference, if any, is used to control the load on the first stand in the sense to reduce the difference substantially to zero.

Abstract: Rolling method and apparatus for forming sections having a flange connected to a web. Between two optional steps of roughing, intermediate rolling, and finishing steps, rolls 15, 15', 16, and 16' are arranged to expand the web in the widthwise direction. The rolls 15, 15', 16, and 16' fall in contact with the inner sides 21 and 22 of flanges. The rolls 15, 15', 16, and 16' may be engaged with the upper and lower faces of the web. The axes of the rolls 15, 15', 16, and 16' may be inclined at a predetermined angle .theta.h in a direction horizontally rectangular to the rolling direction. It is preferred that the axes of the rolls 15, 15', 16, and 16' be vertically inclined at an angle .theta.v to the horizontal plane.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for a very exact correction of the thickness profile of strip rolled in a multi-stand hot strip mill. A measuring device determines the distribution of tensions in the cross-section of the strip (19). The measuring values are processed in a computer (32) to manipulated variables for a swinging or tilting device and a roll bending device (42). The roll bending device (42) is installed at the end of a hot strip mill train, and one or several roll swinging or tilting devices with measuring devices are provided, as seen in rolling direction, before the roll bending device (42).

Abstract: A cascade speed control for tensionless production in a rolling mill by the measurement of stand motor current with temperature compensation. A low tension speed ratio between pairs of mill stands is calculated by successive incremental corrections. The corrections are based on the difference between a no tension current and a tension current for the motors of the mill stands as compensated for temperature variation. In one embodiment a compensation factor is calculated by taking the temperature difference of the material at the times the currents are measured and multiplying the difference by an empirical constant which relates the change in motor current to a change in temperature for a particular plant. Another embodiment illustrates temperature compensation by using current compensation values which are obtained by storing a no tension current profile for one of the mill stands.

Abstract: A tandem mill has a plurality of stands and has at each stand one mill suitably selected from a common four-high mill, a sleeve sliding mill, an intermediate back-up roll shifting mill, and a sleeve expanding mill.

Abstract: The apparatus and method for eliminating crescent formation in a steel strip reduction mill includes a strip tension monitor which measures the tension between the stands and transmits the measured tension to a controller. A roll speed monitor for the driven roll of the stands transmits data to the controller indicative of the roll speed. A tail end detector is positioned upstream of the upstream stand for detecting the tail end of the strip and for transmitting that information to the controller. A controller receives the data and calculates a target interstand strip tension when the tail end is sensed and causes a speed controller to increase the rotational speed of the rolls and to thereby decrease the strip tension until such time as the measured tension equals the target interstand tension.

Abstract: A rough beam (4) is formed on a universal stand (11), and a two high stand starting with an initial section (1) of rectangular or trapezoidal cross-section, in two series of passes in the universal stand. During the first series reduction of the web forming portion is effected by horizontal rolls (5, 6) acting on the central portion of the initial section (1) and during the second series of passes both the horizontal rolls (5, 6) and the vertical rolls (7, 8) of the universal stand (11) simultaneously reduce the web and flanges, respectively. The rough-beam being formed during the second series of passes is also rolled in the open grooves of a two high stand.

Abstract: A device for determining a setting value of a shape operating amount in a continuous rolling mill having shape controlling means therein. As rolling conditions such as thicknesses, width, rolling loads, roll crown, incoming crown, and incoming flatness are inputted, shape operating amounts are set to attain a constant crown ratio corresponding to a product target crown as early as possible in the first n-1 stands or passes such that as many as possible of the final stands or passes maintain the constant crown ratio to improve the final product flatness.

Abstract: A rolling apparatus has a grooved roll rotatable about an axis, having an outer roll surface, and formed with a radially outwardly open groove having a pair of frustoconical groove flanks extending to the outer roll surface and spaced axially apart at the roll surface by a groove width. Juxtaposed with this grooved roll is a ridged roll rotatable about an axis parallel to the axis of the grooved roll and formed with a ridge engaging radially in the groove, and having an at least partially cylindrical outer ridge surface centered on the respective axis and a pair of annular axially oppositely directed ridge faces flanking the ridge outer surface. The ridge outer surface forms with the flanks of the groove a rolling opening extending perpendicular to a plane including the axes and having a maximum dimension measured parallel to the axes which is smaller than the groove width.

Abstract: A method of and an apparatus for controlling the load distribution ratio among a plurality of stands in a continuous rolling mill preferentially performs load distribution ratio control between or among a group of downstream side ones of the stands including the last stand to appropriately correct the load distribution ratio between or among the downstream side stands.Subsequently, correction of the load distribution ratio is performed for a group of the downstream side stands and an upstream stand, and this will be repeated in order for the upstream side stands to effect correction of the load distribution ratio for the entire stands.

Abstract: A process for forming a rail blank in a universal stand, starting with an initial section (1) of rectangular cross-section comprising a first series of passes for cutting into the web forming portion by way of horizontal rolls (2, 3) accompanied by reduction of the head by way of one of the vertical roll (5), and a second series of passes for simultaneously reducing the head flank forming portions by the horizontal rolls (2, 3) and the base forming portions by one of the vertical roll (4) of the universal stand, the other roll (5) remaining non-active.

Abstract: A method of and apparatus for correcting the rolling load distribution ratio between given stands in a continuous rolling mill involves comparison of rolling load amounts at a pair of adjacent stands with a load distribution ratio set value. When coincidence is not found, the plate thickness on the exit side of an upstream side one of the pair of stands is changed, and at a time when a plate thickness changing point reaches the downstream side stand, the rolling reduction position at the downstream side stand is corrected so as not to change the plate thickness on the exit side of the downstream side stand.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling the gauge of a product, such as for example a rod or bar, as the product is passing from an upstream roll stand to a finishing block. The product is rolled under tension between successive sizing stands arranged between the upstream roll stand and the finishing block. Variable loops are introduced in the product between the upstream stand and the first sizing stand as well as between the second sizing stand and the finishing block. Cross sectional dimensional measurements are taken of the product emerging from the second sizing stand, and signals representative of such measurements are employed by a controller to vary the product tension between the sizing stands in order to correct off gauge conditions in the product emerging from the second sizing stand.

Abstract: A mill and a method for rolling flat workpieces of great width such as metallic strip, plates and the like. The mill comprises upper and lower housing beams joined at their ends by pairs of channels defining windows in which chocks are slidably mounted. Upper and lower work rolls are mounted in the chocks to maintain the work rolls in the vertical plane of symmetry of the mill. Each work roll is provided with a plurality of pressure transmitting elements evenly spaced therealong and contacting a part of the periphery of the work roll. The set of pressure transmitting elements for the upper work roll is operatively affixed to the upper housing beam and the set of pressure transmitting elements for the lower work roll is operatively affixed to the lower housing beam. The pressure transmitting elements of at least one of the sets are each provided with a fluid pressure actuator by which the pressure exerted by that pressure transmitting element on its respective work roll can be rapidly increased or decreased.

Abstract: A tandem rolling mill having a plurality of stands with each stand having a pair of work rolls and a pair of backup rolls. A downstream roll stand has work rolls of reduced diameter and backup rolls of increased diameter with respect to an upstream stand preferably at least a major number of downstream stands have reduced diameter work rolls and enlarged diameter work rolls with respect to an upstream stand. The center-to-center spacing between work rolls and backup rolls decreases in a downstream direction and the length of the rolls increases from stand-to-stand in a downstream direction.

Abstract: A hot-rolling mill for producing sheet metal has a reversing roughing stand having pairs of roughing rolls and a reversing finishing stand adjacent thereto and having pairs of finishing rolls. Each stand is selectively operable alone and both stands are operable in tandem operation. The roughing rolls have diameters larger than the diameters of the finishing rolls and the finishing rolls operate at a higher rotary speed than the roughing rolls in the tandem operation.

Abstract: A method for producing a strip of material having a non-uniform cross section is carried out by passing a strip of material in the longitudinal direction through a first set of working rolls, at least one of which is provided with an annular slot intermediate the ends thereof so that a reducing force is applied only to those portions of the strip engaging said roll on opposite sides of the slot whereby the excess material flows toward that portion of the strip opposed to the slot to cause the strip to buckle outwardly into the slot. The strip is subsequently passed through a set of smooth rolls to flatten the buckled portion. This procedure is repeated any desired number of times with the width of the slot becoming progressively smaller. The strip may then be passed through one or more sets of finishing rolls and a heating and annealing operation can take place before each passage through a set of finishing rolls.

Abstract: A method of and apparatus for effecting slitting rolling on a steel sheet, wherein a wide steel sheet is slit in the breadthwise direction into a plurality of steel sheets having smaller width and the slit steel sheets are moved in the breadthwise direction to form and maintain a predetermined distance therebetween. The steel sheets are then rolled independently to have edge drops on both breadthwise ends thereof, and, thereafter, the slit steel sheets having edge drops are subjected to a plating step. According to the invention, it is possible to obtain plated steel sheet product of high quality by slitting rolling.

Abstract: A rolling mill is provided with at least one roll stand for rolling bar material having three adjustable driven roll disks arranged radially to the axis of the rolled material, the maximum working surface of at least one of said disks being at least 20% wider than the maximum working surface of the other two roll disks.

Abstract: The dimensions of a product passing through the finishing block of a roll rolling mill are measured. Where the dimensions of the product exiting the last finishing stand are out-of-tolerance, a calculation is made to determine the extent to which the roll parting of the work rolls of one of the two last finishing stands must be adjusted to bring the product into tolerance. Based on the calculated adjustment, progressively smaller adjustments are made to the roll partings of the work rolls of the upstream finishing stands to distribute the work which must be performed on the product to bring the product into tolerance.

Abstract: Width and thickness of a hot-rolled and descaled strip are controlled by performing, in a line in which the strip runs, a rough control step for reducing correction of the width and the thickness of the strip in only the longitudinal ends thereof and a fine control step for reducing correction of the width and the thickness of the strip over the entire length thereof, respectively at least one time, so that the desired width and thickness of the strip are obtained in the last reduction.

Abstract: A method of producing a steel H-sheet pile from a beam blank of an H-shape cross section, symmetrical in the vertical and lateral directions, and prepared through blooming rolling or continuous casting including a first step wherein a breakdown mill having a preparatory step forming caliber and a forming caliber is used to form the beam blank in such a manner that in the preparatory step forming caliber the beam blank is changed into an asymmetrical shape in the vertical direction and subsequently, in the forming caliber, the beam blank is rolled to have a socket and projections; a second step wherein a group of roughing universal mills is used to roll the beam blank in such a manner that in a roughing universal mill mainly the web and flanges are reduced in thickness while in a sizing universal mill the outer surfaces of the flanges are pressed by vertical slots thereof while the end portions of the flanges are sized-rolled by horizontal rolls thereof; a third step wherein a joint portion at the end portion

Abstract: To reduce the width of slabs from a reheating furnace to the width required in a finishing rolling train, thereby making it possible to feed slabs of only one width, or only a few widths, into the reheating furnace, the invention proposes rolling the slab in a width-reducing roll train in which the slab is subjected to traction such that plastic deformation occurs between the roll sets. In particular the width-reducing roll train has only one set of thickness rolls and has one or more sets of width rolls, thereby minimizing the length of the roll train and consequently reducing the lengths at the ends of the slab which are not subjected to the traction.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for rolling of bright foil wherein a foil pack is comprised of foil webs each having a relatively bright side and a relatively gray side, which webs are provided by a split mill having work rolls which are differentiated as to surface finish roughness, and wherein the pack is formed with the relatively bright sides of the foil webs juxtaposed and the relatively gray sides thereof providing contact surfaces which contact the pack mill work rolls during pack rolling.

Abstract: A mini hot strip mill comprises three close coupled mill stands including a first and second four high finishing mill and a two high roughing mill positioned therebetween. A first coiler furnace is positioned upstream and a second coiler furnace is positioned downstream of the mill. The mills may each be retained in their own mill housings or the finishing mills may be in separate housings and the roughing mill may be retained in supports connecting the finishing mill housings. The mills are closely spaced so that the finishing mills are maintained open while operating in a roughing mode so as to allow free passage of the slab being reduced and the roughing mill is maintained open while the two four high mills are operative in a finishing mode. Two motors connected through a gear box to said mill provide for independently driving the finishing mills in speed coordinated relationship and for jointly driving the roughing mill.

Abstract: The primary blank 1, which is to be transformed into a finished rail by means of universal passes, edging passes and a finishing pass, is characterized by a symmetric `.UPSILON.` section the thickness of which always varies in the same way. It is designed to be shaped exclusively in open grooves.This primary blank 1 is roughed in a specific manner in a universal stand and undergoes a strong forging which improves the quality of the finished rail. A secondary blank is then formed which has a special shape allowing the production by universal rolling of a very accurate profile of the finished rail.

Abstract: The invention provides a method for controlling a continuous rolling mill having at least ith and (i+1)th stands and a control apparatus therefor, wherein an exit strip thickness reference value of an automatic gauge control is changed in accordance with a predetermined strip length during size changing and roll gap is corrected so as to change a strip thickness at an exit side of the ith stand, when a size (e.g.

Abstract: Panel forming apparatus for producing a curved panel from a straight panel disclosed has first and second pairs of wall-indenting dies (281, 282 and 283, 284) spaced from one another to receive therebetween each inclined sidewall portion of a straight panel. A hydraulic motor (M1) is coupled by a power train to rotate said first pair of wall-indenting dies. A hydraulic motor (M2) is coupled by a second power train to rotate the second pair of wall-indenting dies. A third pair of wall-indenting dies (121, 122) is located downstream of the first-mentioned pairs of dies to receive the intermediate wall portion of the panel between each of the third pairs and engage the intermediate wall portion of the panel after it has passed through the first-mentioned pairs of dies. A third hydraulic motor (M3) is coupled by a third power train to rotate the third pair of wall-indenting dies. A tank 301 and pumps (P1, P2) deliver fluid under pressure to the motors.

Abstract: The rail is rolled by the steps of breakdown rolling, reforming rolling, first and second universal rolling, head-wheel rolling and base-wheel rolling in that order. The reforming rolling is performed using a pair of horizontal rolls provided with a reforming pass and a head-wheel pass and a vertical roll adapted to reduce the base of the rail, with the paired horizontal rolls, together with said vertical roll, shifted and set in such a position where the reforming pass matches the pass line of the first universal rolling pass. The head-wheel rolling is performed using the same paired horizontal rolls and a vertical roll adapted to reduce the head of the rail, with the paired horizontal rolls, together with said vertical roll, shifted and set in such a position where the head-wheel pass matches the pass line of the second universal rolling pass.

Abstract: A rail is rolled from a hot-rolled bloom having a square or rectangular cross section by a method which is constituted by the steps of breakdown rolling, universal rolling, which is effected by causing the bloom to travel through a plurality of stands making only a single pass on each stand, base-wheel rolling, head-wheel rolling and edging. The bloom is broken down into substantially H-shaped beam blank whose cross section is symmetrical with respect to the center line of its web. In the base-wheel rolling, the flanges of the blank corresponding to the head and base of the rail are respectively rolled widthwise and thicknesswise in three or more passes using a pair of horizontal rolls and a vertical roll, respectively.

Abstract: A method for hot rolling metal slabs to strip thicknesses comprises close coupling a hot reversing mill having a coiler furnace on at least the upstream side thereof with a finishing train having at least one finishing stand and preferably at least three finishing stands. The finishing train is maintained in the open position as the slab is passed back and forth through the hot reversing mill in flat passes with the slab freely passing through the finishing train. At an intermediate thickness the workpiece is coiled in the coiler furnace. In one embodiment a downstream coiler furnace is employed and the workpiece is reduced by passing it back and forth between the coiler furnaces while it is acted upon by the hot reversing mill. The coil is finally decoiled out of the upstream coiling furnace and passed through the finishing train which has been reset to the appropriate roll gaps during the intermediate rolling stage between coiler furnaces.

Abstract: In an eleven-step butterfly rolling process for producing inertial sheet piling, the upset grooving hitherto used in the fourth step is eliminated and replaced by one or more flat rolling steps intended to work the bulges at the edges of the flanges so as to impart a grain structure parallel to the flat rolled surfaces and thereby avoid cracking after the edge portion has been bent into hook configuration.

Abstract: In a hot-rolling plant, a single roughing stand directly precedes a forward reversing coiler and is closely spaced therefrom. A set of two reversing finishing stands is arranged in direct succession between the forward reversing coiler and a rear reversing coiler, the distance between the roughing stand and the finishing stands being just sufficient to accommodate the forward reversing coiler. The set of finishing stands and the roughing stand are selectively operable individually and jointly with each other.

Abstract: A method of hot rolling strip on a hot strip mill includes coiling on a coiler at least a portion of the transfer bar by initiating coiling at the tail end of the transfer bar after it exits the roughing train and, thereafter, decoiling or paying off the partially formed coil into the finishing stand. The coiler is movable between a first position adjacent the roughing train and a second position adjacent the finishing train. Coil payoff apparatus may be positioned adjacent to an upstream end of the finishing train for receiving the coil from the coiler and paying it off into the finishing train.

Abstract: A rolling stand includes a frame and a pair of working rolls mounted on the frame centered on and rotatable about respective parallel axes and defining a nip so that a strip can pass in each of a succession of passes forming a single run through the nip so that with each pass the thickness and width of the strip are reduced. The ends of the working rolls project laterally beyond the longitudinal edges of the strip. Respective backing rolls mounted on the frame extending generally the full length of the working rolls are braced toward the nip against the working rolls to urge same against the strip. Tools displaceably mounted on the frame reduce the diameters of the projecting ends of the working rolls several times after respective passes during a single run so that the working rolls only contact the respective backing rolls along a diatance equal generally to the workpiece width.

Abstract: When two strand workpieces pass through a roll opening between two grooved working rolls on a roll stand so as to be rolled, the trailing end of one of them may leave the rolls and cause change in the roll separation. At that time mating bilateral screw-down devices are remotely controlled to adjust the roll opening at least at the position of the remaining workpiece. Alternatively in a multi-strand tandem rolling mill, the rolling speeds on roll stands upstream of a roll stand which one of the strand workpieces has left are changed by a speed ratio of (1-b.sub.2)/(1-b.sub.1) where b.sub.1 and b.sub.2 respectively designate rates of backward slip when two strand workpieces are being rolled and in the absence of one of the strand workpieces from the last-mentioned roll stand. Alternatively the roll speeds on roll stands downstream of the roll stand which one of the strand workpieces has left may be changed by a speed ratio of (1+f.sub.2)/(1+f.sub.1) where f.sub.1 and f.sub.

Abstract: A method of forming slats for venetian blinds and the like is disclosed. An elongated baked enameled metallic strip is subjected to a plurality of gradual bending increments through the use of sequential pairs of forming rollers that form a central longitudinal body section of upwardly arched configuration, longitudinal ribs which extend downwardly and outwardly from the body section and longitudinal edge sections which extend outwardly from the ribs but are curled inwardly to provide marginal edges on the strip. By bending the strip in gradual increments in a preferred sequence with a plurality of pairs of sequential rollers, slats can be formed in a continuous operation wherein bending stresses on the strip are minimized to avoid stress cracks in both the baked enamel and in the metal.

Abstract: A method of implementing the modernization of continuous tandem hot strip rolling in existing hot strip mills includes utilizing certain of the roughing stands of the roughing train and installing at least two tandem stands upstream of the finishing train in the area of the holding table so as to provide continuous tandem rolling with the finishing train. A critical transfer bar thickness on the order of 3.8 to 5 inches is necessary for the product going into the initial tandem mill stand to assure optimum results for the modernized mill.

Abstract: A hot strip mill includes at least one roughing reversing mill and a finishing train with the reversing mill spaced from the finishing mill by a distance greater than the length of the transfer bar on the penultimate pass but less than the distance of the final pass through the roughing reversing mill so as to be close coupled to the finishing train on that last pass. The method of rolling includes close coupling the reversing roughing mill to the finishing mill on the last downstream pass through the reversing roughing mill.

Abstract: A processing line for rolling metal slabs into strip thicknesses along a substantially horizontal pass line includes the utilization of an intermediate mill formed of an upstream coiler furnace and a pair of coiler furnaces downstream of a reversing mill where the downstream coiler furnaces are in vertical alignment with one above the pass line and the other below the pass line. The method of rolling includes reducing a transfer bar in the reversing mill and coiling it in one of the downstream coiler furnaces. The coil is then passed back through the reversing mill into the upstream coiler furnace. Thereafter, the coil passes through the reversing mill for the third time and is again coiled in one of the downstream coiler furnaces. The coil is then uncoiled and directed into the finishing train while a subsequent coil is processed in the reversing mill utilizing the empty downstream coiler furnace. The rolling of the workpiece through the intermediate mill is done independent of the finishing train.

Abstract: The hot strip mill for rolling slabs of a minimum thickness on the order of 7.75 inches into strip on the order of 1000 PIW comprises a plurality of mill stands TM1 through TMx, each of the stands spaced from an adjacent stand by a distance less than the length of the strip between the stands so as to roll in tandem at a constant mass flow. The method of rolling includes reducing slabs into the strip thickness through continuous passes on the TM1 through TMx mill stands while maintaining a constant mass flow on each stand and a minimum temperature differential from head to tail. The method includes selecting the correct slab thickness to achieve the desired productivity and temperature differential.

Abstract: A hot-rolling mill has a rough-rolling section and a finish-rolling section. These sections are transversely offset from one another and the end of the rough-rolling section is connected to the beginning of the finish-rolling section by a heating station. Within the heating station, at the end of the rough-rolling station, is mounted a take-up coiler for the rough product. This coiler can transfer its product coil to a pay-out coiler which is either movable transversely between the two sections so that it can move to the second path and feed the product into the second or is fixedly mounted at the beginning of the second (finish-rolling) section in which case a transporting device is provided which transports the coils from the take-up coiler to the pay-out coiler.