Patents Assigned to Mill Design & Consulting Services, LLC
  • Method and apparatus for controlling strip edge relief in a cluster rolling mill
    Patent number: 6220071
    Abstract: Strip edge relief is adjusted in a twenty-high cluster rolling mill by a set of double-tapered intermediate rolls in contact with the work roll. Rolling forces bend the work roll ends toward the tapered sections of the intermediate rolls to provide strip edge relief. Hydraulic actuators rotatably contact journals on the intermediate rolls and exert bending forces bending forces which bend the intermediate rolls so as to bending in the work rolls. This adjusts the strip edge relief.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Assignee: Mill Design & Consulting Services, LLC
    Inventor: Robert C. Verbickas