Abstract: An installation for handling the conveyance of a blank from a cutting machine to a stacking device has at least one cyclically operable conveyor programmed to convey the blank from the cutting machine to a position above the stacking device and to stop in this position before releasing the blank. A carriage supporting a gripping arm is connected to the conveyor for pulling the blank out of the cutting machine and for moving the pull-out blank to the stacking device with the conveyor.

Abstract: A device for wiping moisture off opposite sides of a rolled metal strip comprises at least two wiping rolls disposed at the opposite metal strip sides transversely to the direction of conveyance of the metal and pressed thereagainst by rollers grouped in pairs and regularly distributed along the rolls for support thereof. To obtain a uniform pressure of the rolls against the opposite metal strip sides across its entire width, jacks press the supporting rollers against the rolls and the pressure is controlled as a function of the width of the rolled metal strip and the position thereof so that the pressure applied by the rolls on the opposite sides of the rolled metal strip is limited to the portion of the rolls in contact with the rolled metal strip.

Abstract: A device for supporting and cooling a continuous casting emerging from a discharge end of a mold comprises a member having a support surface and mounted below the mold at the discharge end thereof in such a manner that one of the faces of the emerging continuous casting comes into contact with the support surface of the member and glides therealong, the member defining cavities spaced along the support surface, spraying heads positioned in the cavities to project jets of a cooling fluid onto the face of the emerging continuous casing in contact with the support surface of the member. To permit atomization of the cooling fluid, the device also comprises an atomizing chamber for the cooling fluid affixed to the member at a distance from the cavities, the member defining conduits connecting the atomizing chamber to the spraying heads, the conduits having outlet ends at the cavities and the spraying heads being mounted on the outlet ends of the conduits.