Abstract: An energy absorbing beam structure has controlled crush characteristics. The beam is an elongated structure in which at least a portion of the length of the beam is configured so that a cross section taken transverse to the length of the beam defines a first sidewall, a second sidewall, a first hollow flange projecting from the first sidewall and a second hollow flange projecting from the second sidewall together with a front wall extending between the first and second sidewalls. The beam may be configured to define an open or closed tubular structure and may define one or more central lobes. In an impact condition the beam crushes in a reliable and controlled manner so as to absorb a large amount of kinetic energy. Further disclosed are motor vehicles which include the energy absorbing beams as well as roll forming processes for fabricating the beams.

Abstract: The present invention generally provides apparatus for supporting a large area substrate in a plasma reactor. One embodiment, a substrate support for using in a plasma reactor includes an electrically conductive body has a top surface with a plurality of roll-formed indents.

Abstract: Metal sheets, and in particular, metal sheets for roofing of the kind having upstanding flat edges ending with beads, are bent by rolling the flat edges such that they become gradually thinner towards the beads. The sheets will also be bent if the beads are not rolled. Metal sheets having upstanding sides, and ends bent towards or away from the upstanding sides, are also bent by rolling the upstanding sides gradually thinner towards or away from the bent ends for forming beams for automotive components as well as other products.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for controlling a hem profile in roll-forming processes are described. An example roll-forming apparatus includes a first plurality of work rolls to form a first hem on a material and a second plurality of work rolls. One of the second plurality of work rolls is adjustable relative to an opposing work roll and to the first plurality of work rolls to adjustably control a profile of the first hem.

Abstract: This invention provides a rolling method and a rolling apparatus, for flat-rolled metal materials capable of stably producing flat-rolled metal materials not having, or having extremely little, camber. A rolling method for a flat-rolled metal material uses rolling equipment including a rolling mill and at least a pair of pinch rolls for clamping a rolled material on the exit side of the rolling mill having a mechanism in which either one, or both, of Upper and lower roll assemblies have a mechanism for supporting a work roll by split backup rolls split into at least three segments in an axial direction, the split backup roll group having a construction for supporting both a vertical direction load and a rolling direction load acting on the contacting work roll and each of the split backup rolls independently having a load measuring device.

Abstract: Elongated structural components having regions of different thicknesses, especially for use in automobile bodies, are produced by flexible rolling metal strip so as to form along a length thereof rolled-strip segments of different wall thickness. The sheet bars are cut from the rolled strip and have regions of different wall thickness. Each sheet bar is reshaped in at least one hot-forming tool in at least one hot-forming state and the reshaped sheet bar is then rapidly cooled in the hot-forming tool of the last reshaping stage.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a substantially rotationally symmetric rim bed having a wall thickness varying along the longitudinal axis by means of cold forming, wherein the side walls of a substantially cylindrical metal bed having a substantially constant wall thickness are flared radially outwards in a pressing operation, and wherein the wall thickness of the flared side walls is varied along the longitudinal axis by means of flow-spinning, with axial stretching and profiling of the sides. The invention further relates to an apparatus for manufacturing a rim bed by means of cold forming.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide Fe—Al alloys having 12% by weight or less Al, which have excellent properties, such as workability, insulation properties, magnetic permeability, vibration-damping properties, high strength, etc. Such an Fe—Al alloy is produced by the following steps of: (i) subjecting an alloy including 2 to 12% by weight Al and the balance Fe with inevitable impurities to plastic working; (ii) cold rolling the alloy which has been subjected to the plastic working; and (iii) annealing the cold-rolled alloy.

Abstract: A base for a marine hatch including a planar exterior flange running in a plane substantially parallel with a boat hull or deck, an angular leg running generally transverse to the planar exterior flange, the angular leg terminating in a spigot, wherein the spigot is substantially perpendicular to the exterior planar flange, the spigot is operatively positioned so that the spigot runs substantially parallel to a neutral bending axis, and the neutral bending axis passes through or is directly proximate the spigot, and an elevated sealing bead for engaging with a hatch cover, the planar exterior flange and the angular leg being integral with the elevated sealing bead.

Abstract: A circular-shaping device for a rotating part (16), especially an exhaust housing of a turbo engine. It comprises a lower unit (4) comprising two shaping rollers (32) mounted movably along an axis X1 and one shaping roller (38) mounted movably along an axis Y1; an upper unit (8) comprising two shaping rollers (48) mounted movably along an axis X2 and one shaping roller (50) mounted movably along an axis Y2; a turntable (12) disposed between the lower unit (4) and the upper unit (8); blocking means (26, 28) for the rotating part on the turntable (12).

Abstract: There are provided a high-workability high strength steel sheet with excellent workability due to the high elongation and excellent crashworthiness due to the high yield strength, and a method for manufacturing of it. The high manganese steel sheet includes, by weight: carbon (C): 0.2 to 1.5%, manganese (Mn): 10 to 25%, aluminum (Al): 0.01 to 3.0%, phosphorus (P) 0.03% or less, sulfur (S): 0.03% or less, nitrogen (N): 0.040% or less, at least one selected from the group consisting of silicon (Si): 0.02 to 2.5%, titanium (Ti): 0.01 to 0.10% and niobium (Nb): 0.01 to 0.10%, and the balance of Fe and other inevitable impurities. The high manganese steel sheet may be a hot-rolled steel sheet, a cold-rolled steel sheet, or a plated steel sheet, and is suitable for elaborate internal sheets as well as structural members of a car body since it has press workability due to the high elongation and high strain hardening index.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for rolling milling material, especially for hot wide-strip rolling in a finishing train or a continuous casting and rolling plant, in which a lubricant is applied directly to the surface of the working rollers or indirectly to the surface of the support rollers, the lubricant then being transferred to the surface of the working rollers, before the milling material is fed into the roller gap of a roll stand. A highly adhesive lubricant film forms on the surface of the working roller, said lubricant film resulting in a reduction of friction in the roller gap as an intermediate layer between the roller and the milling material. According to the inventive method, the lubricant is applied along the entire length of the milling material such that the lubricating effect comes into play along the entire length of the milling material.

Abstract: A method of and an installation for exchange of roll sets (5, 6) contemplate provision of a number of separate transversely displaceable carriages (9, 10, 11), whereby individual worn-out working roll sets (6) are displaced along a single connection track (14) by a single locomotive (21) in a roll workshop (20), and a new working roll set (6a) is displaced back to an installation position, and wherein during formation of a gap (12) in front of a rolling mill stand (2, 3, 4), a withdrawn backup roll set (5) is transported by a crane in the roll workshop and back.

Abstract: The present invention provides an application method of a Cr-plated mandrel bar repeatedly used in mandrel mill rolling by the Mannesmann tube making process. A regeneration treatment is performed to use the mandrel bar again as a tool of like size when an opening width H of a surface defect generated on the mandrel bar by its use in the mandrel mill rolling is not less than 1.5 mm and a depth of the surface defect is in the range of 0.3 mm to less than 2.0 mm. Alternatively, a downsizing treatment is performed to use the mandrel bar again as a tool of a smaller size when the depth of the surface defect generated on the mandrel bar by its use in the mandrel mill rolling is not less than 2.0 mm. The regeneration treatment or downsizing treatment is performed according to conditions or a configuration of the surface defect to achieve repeated application to the mandrel mill rolling, allowing life-extension of the mandrel bar and improvement of cost performance thereof.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for forming aluminum ingot having shaped ends to avoid alligatoring during rolling.

Abstract: A structure, substrate or other article having a profiled surface comprising a plurality of profiled, in a length direction extending ridges, each ridge having a peak and on opposite sides of the peak a sloping side and an opposite, downwardly directed side, wherein the downwardly directed side comprises an undercutting part which is directed back under the peak of the ridge and wherein the undercutting part extends from a most forward point where the undercutting starts to a valley, wherein 0.1 M?d?0.9 M, wherein M is the distance between the most forward point of the peak and the sloping side or an imaginary extension thereof and d is the largest distance in a plane perpendicular to the length direction between the downwardly directed side and a line drawn perpendicular to the sloping side, or extension thereof, and connecting to the most forward point.

Abstract: A method for producing a composite part is provided. The method includes a first and at least one second part, wherein the first part at least in part is made of a first metal and the second part at least in part is made of another metal that has a lower melting temperature than that of the first metal. Composite parts produced by the method are also provided. The method for producing composite parts which have an improved load-bearing capacity and yet low weight, is achieved by the fact that at least one breakthrough encompassing a breakthrough collar is introduced into the first part and the second part is non-positively and/or positively moulded onto the first part at least in the area of the breakthrough and the breakthrough collar by heating the second part and applying pressure to said second part.

Abstract: A method for improving the running-out of a metal rolled strip (1), the rolled trailing strip end (1a) of which exits out of a respectively last roll stand (2) of a multistand rolling mill (3) at a rolling speed, wherein during rolling between two consecutive roll stands (F1, F2, F3 . . . Fn) the strip tension (a) is adjusted to stabilize the strip position, provides that shortly before the rolled trailing strip end (1a) exits the developing rolling force differences are measured separately for each roll stand (F1, F2, F3 . . . Fn), that from this the pivot value (16) and the pivot direction are derived for forming a corrective value for the adjustment of the rolls (10, 11) and that the adjustment is corrected.

Abstract: A bumper system includes a rollformed tubular beam with bracket mounts welded to a rear surface for mounting to vehicle frame rails. The illustrated beam has a continuous tubular cross section for its entire length, and includes a center section, corner-forming end sections, and mounting sections connecting ends of the center section to the end sections. The center, end and mounting sections can be linear or similarly curved or differently curved. The center, end and mounting sections can be similarly or differently locally annealed as part of being tuned to specific impact loading criteria, including annealing all or part of cross-sectional areas. The annealing can be done in-line with a rollforming process, such as to assist with forming tight radii in the beam for meeting packaging/space-related requirements, or can be part of a secondary process for advantageously affecting impact strengths in selected localized areas.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a magnesium alloy sheet capable of producing a magnesium alloy sheet having excellent plastic workability such as press workability. The method of the present invention includes rolling a magnesium alloy blank with a reduction roll. The rolling includes controlled rolling performed under the following conditions (1) and (2) wherein M (% by mass) is the Al content in a magnesium alloy constituting the blank: (1) the surface temperature Tb (° C.) of the magnesium alloy blank immediately before insertion into the reduction roll satisfies the following expression: 8.33×M+135?Tb?8.33×M+165 wherein 1.0?M?10.0; and (2) the surface temperature Tr of the reduction roll is 150° C. to 180° C.

Abstract: The invention relates to cams for constructed camshafts, said cams formed from at least one profiled sheet metal strip (2) produced by rolling and having a thickness which varies in the longitudinal direction thereof and two end regions (2a). Said profiled sheet metal strip (2) is bent or deformed to form the cam blank (1) in such a way that the end regions (2a) thereof are welded to the end regions (2b) of at least one other bent or deformed metal strip (2). The cam blank (1) has recess (A) for receiving a carrying shaft (11), said recess (A) having an inner contour region which is essentially circular or partially circular. The aim of the invention is to create one such cam in such a way that it requires as little raw material as possible, the usable width of the running surface is as large as possible, and it can be connected to the carrying shaft in an especially simple and cost-effective manner by a non-positive and/or positive joining method.

Abstract: A device for loading the guide surfaces of bearing chocks (LS) supported in the housing windows (SF) of rolling stands with pressure plates (DP) that can be placed on the guide surfaces and that can be loaded by a hydraulic piston (K) supported in the rolling stand housings (ST), wherein devices for measuring the pressure and devices (WM) for measuring the displacement of the piston are assigned to the hydraulic piston (K), and wherein the frictional force is eliminated by adjusting well-defined clearances between the bearing chocks (LS) and the guide surfaces.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of rolling a strip-shaped in-process stock, in particular a metal strip, with which, a metal strip (3) is unwound from a coil (2, 7) held on an unwinding reel (1, 6), is fed into a reversing rolling mill (8), is rolled, and is wound-up onto a winding-up reel (9) to form a coil (10), wherein the metal strip (3) is reversibly conveyed from the unwinding reel (1, 6) to the winding-up reel (9) until a set thickness is reached and, with each passing of the reversing rolling mill (8), is subjected to a reduction of thickness, and wherein an end of the metal strip (3) of a first coil is welded to a beginning of the metal strip (3) of the second coil, and the metal strip (3) of the first coil is temporarily stored in a strip store during a welding process, and finally, the in-process stock consisting of two lengths is reversibly rolled to a final dimension, and an additional length is welded to the end of the in-process stock before the last pass.

Abstract: Provided is a shape detection device capable of detecting meandering of a strip with high accuracy and a method thereof.

Abstract: A bumper system includes a rollformed tubular beam with bracket mounts welded to a rear surface for mounting to vehicle frame rails. The illustrated beam has a continuous tubular cross section for its entire length, and includes a center section, corner-forming end sections, and mounting sections connecting ends of the center section to the end sections. The center, end and mounting sections can be linear or similarly curved or differently curved. The center, end and mounting sections can be similarly or differently locally annealed as part of being tuned to specific impact loading criteria, including annealing all or part of cross-sectional areas. The annealing can be done in-line with a rollforming process, such as to assist with forming tight radii in the beam for meeting packaging/space-related requirements, or can be part of a secondary process for advantageously affecting impact strengths in selected localized areas.

Abstract: The invention provides a rolling method for a flat-rolled metal material and a rolling apparatus for the method each capable of stably producing a flat-rolled metal material free from camber or having an extremely light camber. The method is a rolling method of a flat-rolled metal material executed by using a rolling mill including at least work rolls and backup rolls. The apparatus is a rolling mill for this method. A rolling direction force acting on roll chocks on the operator side and the driving, side of the work roll is measured, the difference of the rolling direction force between the operator side and the driving side is calculated and a left-right swivelling component of roll gap of the rolling mill is controlled on the basis of this difference.

Abstract: A master control system for a rolling mill, especially a mill train, having at least one rolling stand driven by means of a drive system, and the master control system having an automation device for the open-loop and/or closed-loop control of the rolling stand. The master control system also has a commissioning computer for the commissioning of the drive system and of the automation device.

Abstract: A steel sheet for a magnetic shield comprising less than 0.005% by weight of C and 0.0003 to 0.01% by weight of B, and having a thickness of 0.05 to 0.5 mm and an anhysteresis magnetic permeability of 7500 or more.

Abstract: A method of X-H rolling of a parallel flange steel structural shape or beam with an H cross section using a compact rolling group. In the first universal mill frame the vertical roll have roll surfaces inclined to one another at an angle up to 10° whereas in the second universal mill frame the vertical rolls have cylindrical roll surfaces which divide the H opening cross section with lateral surfaces of the horizontal roll. The structural shape is rolled in the second universal mill frame to up to 100% of the reduction in the first rolling mill frame.

Abstract: A method and a device for the production of curved spring strip sections. A spring strip runs through a bending unit formed from three separate support points and a reverse bending unit, arranged in series, and formed from a fourth support point. Bent and reverse-bent spring strip sections are separated off from the spring strip in a separator unit. In order to achieve a compact construction for the device, the third support point of the bending unit and the fourth support point of the reverse bending unit are adjustable in position relative to the spring strip, by a controller with pre-set programs.

Abstract: A new configuration and operating method therefore improves conventional continuous pickling and cold-rolling systems in response to increasing demands for high-propertied steel plates. The continuous pickling and cold-rolling equipment system comprises a uncoiling apparatus, a joining apparatus, an accumulating looper, a cleaning section, a pickling section, a cold rolling mill, a cutting apparatus, and a coiling apparatus. This configuration and associated operation method realize a rolling line having a substantially infinite number of mill stands enabling continuous or endless cold rolling without additional mill stands. Thereby, production of cold rolled steel strip with a large total reduction ratio for high-grade steel strips effectively using a small number of mill stands becomes practicable. At least one of the embodiments clearly shows acceptable productivity that can stand comparison with a typical conventional cold rolling system.

Abstract: A method for measuring and displaying the flatness of a rolled steel sheet is disclosed that includes the steps of measuring tension in the sheet at a plurality of locations on the surface of the sheet and determining a plurality of tension ranges into which the sensed tension level can fall. A color is associated with each of the tension ranges, and a representation of the sheet is produced that is made up of a plurality of regions, each region having a color corresponding to tension range into which the tension sensed at the corresponding location on the surface of the sheet falls. A device for carrying out this method is also disclosed.

Abstract: This invention proposes a high-strength hot rolled steel sheet having excellent anti-die-galling property and anti-fatigue property, in which the steel sheet has a composition comprising C: not less than 0.02 mass % but not more than 0.2 mass %, Si: not less than 0.2 mass % but not more than 1.2 mass %, Mn: not less than 1.0 mass % but not more than 3.0 mass %, Mo: not less than 0.1 mass % but not more than 1.0 mass %, Al: not less than 0.01 mass % but not more than 0.1 mass %, P: not more than 0.03 mass % and S: not more than 0.01 mass % and the remainder being substantially Fe and inevitable impurities, and has a steel microstructure containing not less than 55 vol % of ferrite and not less than 10 vol % but not more than 40 vol % of martensite provided that a total of both is not less than 95 vol %, and a ratio ds/dc of an average crystal grain size ds of the ferrite in a surface layer portion of the steel sheet to an average crystal grain size dc of the ferrite in a center portion of the steel sheet is 0.

Abstract: A process of producing an article having a surface provided with an optical diffraction grating such that the surface generates visible color when illuminated with diffuse white light. The process involves deforming a starting material to produce the article having the surface and, during the deforming step, impressing a diffraction relief pattern on the surface by a tool provided with a bearing surface having a corresponding surface relief pattern of parallel lines that contacts the surface of the article under pressure. While the diffraction relief patter is being impressed, the surface is caused to slide in a direction of movement relative to the bearing surface of the tool. The invention also relates to the article.

Abstract: Metal sheets, and in particular, metal sheets for roofing of the kind having upstanding flat edges ending with beads, are bent by rolling the flat edges such that they become gradually thinner towards the beads. The sheets will also be bent if the beads are not rolled.

Abstract: There are disclosed a rolling mill capable of keeping a uniform plate of thickness distribution and manufacturing a good-quality plate, and a rolling method. The rolling mill comprises working rolls movable in roll axis directions, profile-measuring means for measuring the profile of each of the working rolls, profile-estimating means for estimating the profile thereof, and a grinder for grinding each of the working rolls. The rolling mill also comprises instructing means for sending a command of grinding to the grinder at a time when the measured profile value or the estimated profile value regarding each of the working rolls reaches a given value.

Abstract: A method and system for furnace pacing in a mill are disclosed herein. Billets are extracted from a furnace and provided in an alternating fashion to two or more strands of a multistrand stand. The timing of the extraction of each of the billets from the furnace, i.e., the furnace time, is based at least in part on a prediction of the rolling times of a previously extracted billets at the strands of the multistrand stand and a desired gap between the billets. Likewise, the actual rolling time of each billet is measured and compared with the predicted rolling time of the billet to generate a correction factor associated with the billet. The furnace time of a subsequent billet intended for a same strand as a previously extracted billet is adjusted by the correction factor associated with the previously extracted billet to regulate the gaps between billets at each strand of the multistrand stand, thereby increasing the productivity of the mill while reducing the potential for collisions between billets.

Abstract: A method of producing a metal-coated steel strip includes the steps of forming a metal coating on a steel strip and conditioning the surface of the metal-coated steel strip by smoothing the surface of the strip. The method is characterised in that the conditioning step produces residual stress of no more than 100 MPa in the strip.

Abstract: A steel sheet for magnetic shields is provided containing 0.15% by weight or less of C and having a thickness of 0.05-0.5 mm and an anhysteretic magnetic permeability of 7500 or higher.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling the dimensions of an elongated material rolled in a rolling mill comprising at least two mill stands arranged after each other, each of said stands comprising two spaced rolls, said elongated material being fed between the rolls of each stand by rotating the rolls, wherein the material is subjected to stresses in the longitudinal direction thereof during the rolling operation. A rear portion of said material is subjected to an additional tension substantially in the longitudinal direction of the material when a rear end of the material is in the vicinity of a first stand and has not yet passed said stand.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the manufacturing of strips of stainless steel, comprising cold rolling of a strip which in a foregoing process has been manufactured through casting a melt to form a cast strip and/or has been hot rolled. The cold rolling is performed in a rolling mill line (B), which comprises, in the initial part of the line, at least two initial cold rolling mills (11-13) in series, after said initial cold rolling mills at least one annealing furnace (18) and at least one pickling section (26, 27), and in a terminating part of the line, at least one more cold rolling mill (32). The patent specification discloses various modes of operation, including passing the strip once or twice through the line.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the production of tailored blanks by the hot rolling of a strip and to an apparatus for the performance of said process. To obtain tailored blanks to be cut to length from the rolled strip, the hot strip is cooled or heated in portions, so that with a substantially constant rolling force the strip undergoes a differential decrease in thickness in the individual portions, which have been given a differential yield stress value by the differential temperature adjustment.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for minimizing thickened ends during the rolling of tubes in a stretch-reducing mill by means of a change in time of the torque of individual driven roll stands when the tube front end and the tube rear end run through the stretch-reducing mill, so that the tube ends are rolled with higher roll speeds than the steady-state speeds. At the same time, lower roll speeds than the steady-state roll speeds are set between the steady-state and the increased roll speeds.

Abstract: A method for controlling flatness of a strip (1) of rolled material rolled to a first flatness target and coiled and that is subsequently uncoiled, and a system which employs the method. Measurements of the flatness of the strip (1) during rolling are compared to both the first flatness target and to a second flatness target, a Mill Flatness Target 2. A flatness target for each of one or more subsequent processes, a Post Rolling Flatness Target (PRFT) and a measured flatness error is used to adapt a control signal for a mill stand (5) to control and regulate the flatness of subsequent production of rolled material of the same specification. The adaption may be made using different statistical techniques including fuzzy logic and neuro-fuzzy logic control methods. In the preferred embodiment, flatness measurements after decoiling are also fed forward to at least one subsequent process 12 and used to adapt control signals to regulate flatness of the current strip in the subsequent process 12.

Abstract: The invention aims at a method of producing a metal strip on a continuous treatment line comprising a de-scaling station coupled with a cold rolling section. According to the invention, in order to adapt to a change in the production constraints, such as a spool change, the rolling speed is caused to vary on a very wide range down to less than 1 m/min and the cold rolling operation is done between working rolls the diameter of which is so small that, on said whole wide speed variation range, the rolling strength to be applied remains compatible with the product thickness adjustment possibilities, taking the characteristics thereof into account.

Abstract: Rolling of metallic products to be heated to form wires, rods and seamless pipes, includes rolling of wires or rods as well as rolling of seamless pipes on a same rolling apparatus, and using a part of aggregates of the same rolling apparatus both for rolling of wires or rods and for rolling of pipes.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for reducing crop losses during slab and ingot rolling concerns the formation of a slab ingot having a specially configured or shaped butt end and optionally a head end as well. A special shape is formed by machining, forging or preferably by casting. The special shape at the butt end is imparted during casting by a specially shaped bottom block or starter block. The special shape of the bottom block is imparted to the cast ingot butt end. The specially shaped butt end of a slab shaped ingot is generally rectangular in shape and has longitudinally outwardly extending, enlarged portions, which slope downwardly toward a depressed central valley region. The lateral sides of the enlarged end portions and the depressed valley region carry transversely extending, tapered or curved edges. A similar shape may be imparted to the head end of the ingot at the conclusion of a casting run through the use of a specially shaped hot top mold or by way of machining or forging the cast head end.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for rolling a metal band in a continuous line installation with coupling of the pickling and cold rolling processes. According to the invention, the composition of the pickling fluid is determined to allow the running of the band in the bath at a minimum speed of a few metres per minute, and similar running speeds are maintained in the pickling and rolling sections, during the operating phases, whereas the rolling conditions are determined in order to maintain the requested quality of the band at a minimum rolling speed that may be as low as 1 metre per minute.

Abstract: The present invention eliminates the need to stop the operation of a line even when trouble arises before, during, or after an operation of joining metal blocks in hot rolling. According to a specific solving means of the present invention, when a succeeding metal block is to be subjected to hot finish rolling in succession to a preceding metal block after the leading end of the succeeding metal block is joined to a tail end 10B of the preceding metal block on the inlet side of a finish rolling mill 26, it is determined before and after joining whether or not endless rolling is impossible. When it is impossible, joining is aborted, and the succeeding metal block 12 is temporarily stopped, is fed again after the tail end 10B of the preceding metal block moves out of the finish rolling mill 26, and is finish-rolled under the conditions set for batch rolling.

Abstract: In continuous rolling of a plurality of steel strips: 1. a table speed corrector corrects speeds of tables, on which a succeeding steel strip is placed, through a main controller so that values of an interval between steel strips, obtained by CCD cameras before the preceding steel strip is rolled, are set to a first set value preset as an interval so the preceding and succeeding steel strips do not come into collision with each other due to a reduction in speed when the preceding steel strip is caught; 2. the table speed corrector corrects speeds of the tables, on which the succeeding steel strip is placed, through the main controller so that values of an interval between steel strips, obtained by CCD cameras when the preceding steel strip is being rolled, are set to a second value preset as an interval at which the succeeding steel strip is caught by the rolling mill 1 at the same time at which the trailing end of the preceding steel strip has passed therethrough; and 3.