Abstract: A wire-rod and the like, hot-rolling machine wherein the two rollers are fitted on respective frustoconical end portions of as many counter-rotating supporting shafts, via interposition of corresponding centering and coupling bushings having a frustoconical internal profile, each of which is fitted on the end portion of a respective supporting shaft, between the supporting shaft and the corresponding roller, and is structured so as to mesh on the supporting shaft so as to be angularly integral to said supporting shaft, and so as to be inserted/wedged between the supporting shaft and the roller thus to center the roller on the supporting shaft and moreover make the roller angularly integral to the body of the supporting shaft.

Abstract: Wire-rod hot-rolling machine (1) which comprises a plurality of roller-provided rolling units (2) which are arranged one after the other along the wire-rod feeding paths (p); the roller-provided rolling unit (2) being formed by a plurality of rolling-mills assemblies (3) each of which is provided with a pair of opposite, counter-rotating rolling mill rollers (4), which are arranged parallel and adjacent each other; said rolling-mills assemblies (3) being arranged one beside the other, coplanar to a corresponding reference plane locally perpendicular to the feeding paths (p), each at the feeding path (p) of a respective wire rod (b), and are oriented so that the rotation axes (R) of the rolling mill rollers (4) of the various rolling-mills assemblies (3) are locally parallel to one another while intersecting the lying plane of the feeding paths (p) of the wire rods with an inclination angle (3) greater than 5° and smaller than 85°.

Abstract: A hot-rolling machine for wire rods includes a number of rolling units arranged one after another along a wire-rod feeding path to plastically deform a high-temperature wire rod moving along the path. Each rolling unit includes a rolling stand arranged on the wire-rod feeding path and two counter-rotating milling rollers are arranged one beside the other, parallel and tangent to one another to form a rolling groove through which the wire rod is forced to pass. A mechanical gear reduction unit is arranged beside the rolling stand to drive simultaneously the two rolls about the respective longitudinal axes. The mechanical gear reduction unit forms, with one rolling stand, a single sectional elementary module structured for being aligned with similar sectional elementary modules, along the wire-rod feeding path and for being mechanically coupled to an immediately adjacent sectional elementary module to form a catenary of rolling units reciprocally connected to transmit torque in cascade from one another.