Abstract: A support assembly for coupling of a large-sized universal joint of the cardan type as incorporated in a drive assembly for rolling mills. The assembly supports the coupling on a drive spindle portion to prevent the coupling from hanging. A locking rod fixed to the center of the coupling extends through a hole of large diameter formed in the center of the spider of the universal joint, with a sufficient radial clearance provided between the rod and the inner periphery of the spider. The piston rod of a hydraulic cylinder disposed within an inner bore of the drive spindle portion operates to slidingly move a rod receiving member within the bore, thereby bringing a recess portion of the rod receiving member into engagement with or disengagement from the free end of the locking rod. The coupling is securely supported on the drive spindle portion by the engagement of the rod receiving member with the locking rod.

Abstract: An apparatus for connecting a cover to a chock in a rolling mill comprising spaced supports on the chock, an arm extending laterally from the cover into the space between the supports, and a pin extending through communicating openings in the supports and the arm. Certain of the openings are dimensioned in relation to the pin to accommodate axial shifting of the cover between a closed position against the chock and an intermediate position from which the cover is free to pivot about the pin to an open position exposing the bearing end. A disengageable retainer is provided for holding the cover in the closed position.

Abstract: The invention relates to a housing for a rolling mill for producing axially bored cylindrical blooms from square bars, the housing being of the kind substantially comprising a pair of cogging rollers having round grooves and associated bearing chocks mounted in the housing, an inlet guide for bearing a square bar to be rolled, an outlet guide for the board, rolled cylindrical bloom, and means for adjustably positioning the inlet guide relative to the rolling axis.

Abstract: Reduction of bars or rods with reducing rolls of large diameter on arbors in which lateral pressure is applied to the reducing rolls to suppress rotation of the rolls relative to the arbor. The pressure is applied by an annular shoe on the arbor. The shoe and an annular fluid activator, on the arbor form, between their facing surfaces, a sealed annular chamber and also an annular gap. The gap is accessible through the peripheries of the activator and shoe. Axial movement of the activator outwardly of the rolls is restricted by a nut on the arbor. Grease is injected into the chamber under high pressure. The shoe and activator operate as a split cylinder impressing tensile stress on the arbor between the side of the shoe remote from the activator and the nut and causing the arbor in this region to elongate and also to impress compressive force on the roll and its axial components. This elongation enlarges the width of the gap.

Abstract: Apparatus for clamping an overhung rolling disc on a drive shaft by compressive stress between plane parallel surfaces, whereby a hydraulically expansible tie-rod is inserted in the hollow drive shaft for producing the compressive stress, the tightening nut of which tie-rod is located opposite the outer end face of the rolling disc for transmitting the compressive force, wherein the tightening nut is seated on a bayonet ring provided with an external screw-thread, the bayonet ring with the tightening nut is supported by a bayonet nut, which is in turn screwed on a threaded end of the tie-rod and a taper sleeve is inserted between the rolling disc and drive shaft, the free outer end face of which taper sleeve is located opposite an end face of the bayonet ring and is constructed for the attachment of extraction claws.

Abstract: Coupling for piping for a roll chock in a rolling mill, which allows quick exchange of rolls and automatic coupling of piping in the roll chock for supplying lubricating oil. In this rolling mill, male and female tubular couplings are secured to a roll chock, and to a mill housing, respectively, so that the male and female tubular couplings may be engaged with or disengaged from each other only by displacing the roll assembly in its axial direction.

Abstract: Two drive assemblies disposed one above the other and each including a telescopic spindle, a universal joint and a coupling member are released from and connected to similarly disposed driven shafts respectively by an apparatus comprising a frame slidable toward or away from the driven shafts in parallel to the extensions of the axes of the driven shafts and upper and lower holding means vertically slidably supported by posts on the front end of the frame and each adapted to hold the opposite sides of the coupling member to support the coupling member in its horizontal position in alignment with the corresponding driven shaft when the coupling is to be released from or connected to the driven shaft. For the replacement of the driven shafts, the upper and lower coupling members as supported in their horizontal position by the holding means are vertically moved in a given ratio relative to each other and thereby brought into alignment with new driven shafts.

Abstract: In roll housings for rolling mills, it is desirable to be able to separate the top and bottom halves of the housing so as to be able to change the rolls. When the top and bottom halves are reassembled, they must be held firmly together to ensure correct operation of the rolling mill. It is proposed to have hydraulically-tensionable tie bars which are fixed in the lower half of the housing, and which grip the top of the upper half of the housing. Hydraulic fluid is applied to produce the tension, and the fluid pressure achieved is maintained throughout rolling operation. Such tie bars will normally be provided at at least four corners of a roll housing, and a single hydraulic circuit will supply fluid to all the bars. In addition, hydraulically operated jacks can be used to pivot the tie bars into and out of position, and these jacks can be operated from the same hydraulic circuit.

Abstract: A spring for longitudinally extending a drive shaft is disposed between a drive shaft member and a driven shaft member which are axially extensibly connected together as by a spline connection. The end surface of a driven shaft element adapted to be loosely fitted in a coupling connected to the driven shaft member has a cylindrical body fixed thereto coaxially with the center hole therein. The inner bottom of the coupling is provided at its center with a fitting hole of large diameter and a number of taper rollers are disposed in an annular space which is defined between the cylindrical body and the fitting hole as a result of the fitting between the coupling and the driven shaft element, thereby automatically bringing the axes of the coupling the driven shaft element into alignment with each other and eliminating the problem of rotational vibration due to the loose fit between the coupling and the driven shaft element.

Abstract: A drive mechanism which itself has the function of mounting a driven coupling on and dismounting it from a roll neck. The drive mechanism comprises a drive shaft section comprising inner and outer shafts coupled together in such a manner as to be only axially slidable, an extensible operating mechanism disposed between the inner and outer shafts for extending and collapsing the drive shaft section to mount the coupling on and dismount it from the neck of a working roll, a spring disposed between the inner and outer shafts and acting in a direction in which it reduces the length of the drive shaft section, and fixing device for fixing the drive shaft section to a drive universal joint when the drive shaft section is reduced in length.

Abstract: A device, for selecting sets of rolls for twenty-high rolling mill, comprising a flat board, whereupon eccentric disks are mounted in full conformity with the positioning of the backup rolls of a rolling mill, dimensions of said disks corresponding to the dimensions of the backup rolls of the rolling mill. Secured on the board is a vertical guide member, for displacement of disks corresponding to the working roll and second intermediate idle roll, and a horizontal bar corresponding to the passline of rolling mill, with respect to which the position of the working roll is determined. In addition, there are other disks which are installed on the board in compliance with the positioning in the rolling mill of the first intermediate and second intermediate drive rolls, thus forming a two-dimensional model of the roll arrangement in the rolling mill.

Abstract: In a four-high rolling mill stand where the work rolls are offset from the perpendicular axial plane of the back-up rolls, they are supported on one side by intermediate rolls and support rollers, and on the other side by hydraulic piston/cylinder units. The work roll bearings are attached to the piston/cylinder units through a sliding guide arrangement, so that they can be slid up and down, from side to side, and the work rolls can also be moved towards and away from the roll gap by actuation of the piston/cylinder units.

Abstract: The disclosure is directed to improvement in stretch reducing mills utilized in the manufacture of seamless and welded tubing. The stretch reducing mill is well known in its generalities, and the disclosure is directed to improvements in the construction of such mills in the interest of increasing the efficiency of operation and performance of the mill. The disclosure is directed in part to the construction of a multi-stand stretch reducing mill with improved arrangements for removably securing the individual mill stands in position. This includes a heavy, massive structural beam from which all of the individual mill stands are suspended and which additionally serves, when the mill is ready for operation, as a means for holding the mill stands in position. In the latter capacity, the beam contributes both in terms of its great weight and in terms of distributing clamping forces to the individual mill stands from a limited number of clamps.

Abstract: A driven roller assembly to be used for a continuously cast strand has a drive unit detachably connected to one end of the roller, and a holding means journaled on a strand guide stand and movable perpendicularly to the roller axis supports the drive unit, the roller being removable from the strand guide stand independently of the drive unit.

Abstract: The disclosure is directed to structural features of piercing and reeling mills to facilitate and expedite the changing of mill rolls, as is necessary from time to time for accommodation of new work sizes and/or for refurbishing of the rolls. The new mill construction includes a cap member which is removably secured to the upright members of the mill frame structure and forms, in effect, an integral part of the mill structure during normal operation. To effect changing of the mill rolls, provision is made for moving the cap to a laterally offset position, while still supported on the basic mill structure, to permit access to the mill rolls by means of an overhead crane. In the new mill structure, provision for releasing and lateral offset movement of the mill cap is self-contained within the mill structure, so that the plant crane is not required to be utilized in removing the mill cap, as heretofore.

Abstract: A straightening machine for straightening elongated workpieces at high speed comprises a plurality of stands or frames mounted on a machine bed displaceable with respect to each other in the direction of the movement of the workpieces. Each stand comprises a cage provided with a set of four straightening rolls rotatable about the axis. Each cage is mounted on a cage holder on a guide adjustable in radial direction with respect to the workpiece axis and the guides on the plurality of stands are located in parallel planes normal to the workpiece axis, with the guides on successive stands extending normal to each other as viewed in the direction of movement of the workpiece through the machine.

Abstract: The disclosure is directed to improvement in piercing and reeling mills, to facilitate the changing of mandrel plugs and mill shoes. In piercing and reeling operations, mandrel plugs are supported at the ends of elongated mandrel bars, and workpieces are driven over the mandrel plugs while being rotated, to effect piercing and enlarging, in the case of piercing mills, and to achieve roundness, in the case of reeling mills. In each case, after processing a finite length of tubing, and while the workpiece remains on the mandrel, the mandrel is retracted, first stripping off the just-used mandrel plug, and then withdrawing the mandrel from the processed workpiece. A multi-position magazine is provided for retaining a circulating supply of mandrel plugs such that, after each operation, the used mandrel plug may be returned to the magazine for cooling, and a new plug may be brought quickly into working position ready for the next operation.

Abstract: Arrangement including the use of at least two novel dual work roll supporting devices for supporting new or refinished work rolls on one device and a used work roll and mounted chock assemblies on another device, in the same relative relationship to permit removal of the chock assemblies as units from the used work rolls and mounting of the chock assemblies on new or refinished work rolls without requiring disengagement of the top and bottom work roll chocks.

Abstract: A work roll assembly for a cantilever-type rolling mill includes a work roll shaft which is drivable from one end and which has a locating spigot extending axially outward of the shaft at its other end. The annular work roll to be mounted to said shaft has an axial recess to receive the spigot. A hydraulic device is provided to urge the roll into engagement with the shaft so as to axially locate the work roll. The locating spigot is expandable in a radial direction to engage the cylindrical inner surface of the work roll recess so as to radially locate the roll to the shaft.

Abstract: A roll assembly for reducing rod and the like in which the rolls are secured against rotation on their arbor by force applied to the sides of the rolls in the direction of the axis of the arbor. The force is applied by an hydraulic nut or annulus having a cavity which is sealed pressure tight by a deformable membrane. An annular shoe is interposed between the membrane and the rolls. The cavity is supplied with fluid under pressure and is deflected exerting force on the shoe which is transmitted to the roll.

Abstract: A latch ring, chock and drive pod retainer assembly ideally suited for use with a finishing stand roll having a chock located at each of its ends, a drive pod at one of its ends, and a circumferal groove formed at each of its ends. The latch ring assembly is employed for retaining the chocks and the drive pod on their respective ends of the roll. The latch ring assembly includes a plurality of latching arms pivotally mounted within a generally toroidal shaped housing, the latching arms being movable between a latched position, in which the latching arms engage the circumferal groove of the roll, and an unlatched position, in which the latching arms are retracted within the assembly housing to a position in which they are out of engagement with the finishing roll circumferal groove.

Abstract: Apparatus for rapidly changing the straightening rollers of a roller straightening machine for rolled bars or profiles comprises a linearly and pivotally displaceable support device provided with rotatable transfer shafts which can be moved in line with the roller axes of the machine; withdrawal bayonet rings which are axially displaceable on the transfer shafts and which are lockingly engageable with bayonet rings secured to the straightening rollers are arranged to pull the rollers onto the transfer shafts, and vice versa.

Abstract: A rolling mill frame has a stand which is pivotal, preferably about a lower horizontal shaft, in order that the roll set together with accessory devices can be removed from the frame in a lateral direction without regard to the width of the window opening in the stand, for the purpose of interchange with a new roll set together with accessory devices thereof.

Abstract: A rolling mill stand for hot or cold rolling rod and flats has a C-shaped housing and a bolt connecting the protruding ends of the housing. The work rolls are mounted in cantilever fashion and are carried in chocks which are restrained by the housing. The chocks are pivoted to the housing about pivot pins, the axes of which are parallel to the axes of the work rolls and are displaced from the plane through the roll axes. Pivoting of the chocks about the pivot pins in order to vary the separation of the work rolls does not affect the shape of the roll gap.

Abstract: A hydraulically operable device for stretching a hollow roll arbor to slightly reduce the arbor diameter in order to fit rolling sleeves around the arbor. The device includes a rod which is inserted into the hollow arbor and a hydraulically operable piston and cylinder arrangement at one end of the rod to apply a load through the rod to the arbor. A circular split collett extends around the piston and cylinder arrangement and engages at one end in a reaction block which reacts in response to the applied hydraulic pressure and at its other end with the roll arbor. The collett is held to the reaction block and to the arbor by annular rings, so that when a load is applied to the rod, the arbor is stretched longitudinally.

Abstract: Alternative tandem arrangements of rolling mill stands are formed by supporting a plurality of separate and independently operable rolling mill stand assemblies upon one or more pedestals extending along a given passline. In one disclosed embodiment, a single pedestal extends along the passline and includes an angularly-shaped plate extending parallel to the passline and including inclined surfaces for carrying rolling mill assemblies at spaced locations. Auxiliary adapter pedestals are disclosed to position a rolling mill stand such that the rotational axes of its rolls are inclined in a different relation to the horizontal than when the mill stand is supported directly by the angularly-shaped plate on the pedestal. In a second embodiment, a plurality of side-by-side pedestals extend along a passline. Each pedestal defines a separate rolling mill support surface with the support surfaces of adjacent pedestals lying in intersecting support planes. An improved rolling mill stand assembly is disclosed.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for plastic working of material, comprising a lower portion carrying a lower tool and upstanding bars, an upper portion in the form of a carriage mounted on the bars for gliding movement along said bars and carrying an upper tool intended for co-action with the lower tool, cylinder and ram means for displacing the carriage along the bars, and expander sleeves for fixing the carriage to the bars in an optional position of displacement.