Abstract: A hot-rolling stand including blocks arranged in the stand windows and having hydraulic piston cylinder units provided as bending devices which are able to transfer bending forces via guide elements onto the chocks of the working rolls. For each block a double-acting hydraulic piston cylinder unit is provided whose two ends are connected with the guide elements. The guide elements have guide that engage both sides of the free ends of noses of the working roll chocks so as to permit axial movement of the working rolls.

Abstract: An apparatus for metal coating of bands by electroplating, with a band running through an acidic electrolyte enriched with a metal, the apparatus including at least one insoluble anode extending parallel to the band and divided, in a running direction of the band, in a plurality of separate anode strips insulated from each other, an arrangement for feeding current to each separate anode strip for precipitating the metal from the electrolyte, with the current flowing from a respective anode strip to the band which forms a cathode, whereby the metal is precipitated onto a band surface, and elements for supplying each anode strip with protective current the voltage of which is so selected that formation of cathode regions on anode strips, which are not supplied with the precipitation current, is prevented.

Abstract: A continuous caster is controlled by a method anticipating the liquidus temperature in the mold of the caster to prevent premature solidification. The temperature in the tundish is measured and based upon the tundish temperature and the resistance time of the molten metal in the tundish, an equivalent liquidus temperature window is defined and the speed of the continuous caster is controlled to maintain this window of operation of the tundish.

Abstract: A device for resetting opposite guide segments of a continuous casting or continuous casting and rolling plant in three different positions, and including a hydraulic cylinder connectable with one of the opposite guide segments, and a double-acting piston connectable with another of the opposite guide segments and displaceable in the hydraulic cylinder between three positions corresponding to the three different positions of the guide segments, with the three positions of the piston in they hydraulic cylinder being defined by stop surfaces at least one of which is located inside the hydraulic cylinder and at least one of which is located outside of the hydraulic cylinder.

Abstract: A method of adjusting two shielding elements and including transporting a metal strip on a roller table, shielding a cooling medium from the edge regions of the metal strip with adjusting shielding elements, and adjusting the shielding elements asymmetrically with respect to the central axis of the roller table so that the temperature profile behind the shielding elements, as seen in a transporting direction of the strip, approximate to a nominal temperature profile; and an assembly for effecting the method.

Abstract: Rolling stock is transported in a transporting device from a front roll stand to a rear roll stand. Between the roll stands, the rolling stock carries out an oscillation transverse to the transporting direction. At least one characteristic property, amplitude or frequency, of the oscillation is determined quantitatively and, from this determination, a tension or compression, existing in the rolling stock between the roll stands is determined. One of the roll stands is readjusted in such a manner, that a desired tension is built up in the rolling stock between the roll stands.

Abstract: A universal rolling mill stand with horizontal and vertical rolls, adjustably supported in two parallel roll posts is disclosed. The universal rolling mill stand enables a simple construction and operational process if the horizontal rolls are received, without the help of installation pieces in bearings disposed in the roll posts 3, operator side roll post with the bearings face away from the drive elements and can be moved away in rolling axis direction of the horizontal rolls, from the other roll post. Vertical rolls, supported in adapters, are slid into guide frames solidly connected with the roll posts.

Abstract: A method of adjusting a position of two shield elements for a liquid cooling medium and arranged above a metal strip having a strip plane and a strip central plane extending transverse to the strip plane and intersecting the same along the strip central axis, with the two shield elements being located opposite each other with respect to the strip central plane and having each an adjustable component identical to the adjustable component of another of the two shield elements and adjustable transverse to the strip central plane, and with the method including providing an adjusting element connectable with the two shield elements for adjusting the same, and adjusting the adjusting element in the strip central plane; and a device for effecting the method.

Abstract: A converter including a tiltable body, a mantle ring spaced from the converter body, supportable in support lugs and having a rectangular cross-section with upper and lower flanges, and lamella suspensions and body guides for connecting the mantle ring with the converter body, with the lamella suspension including a lamella pair having one of its opposite ends releasably secured to a first attachment bracket connected to the lower flange of the mantle ring, and having another of its opposite ends releasably secured to the second attachment bracket connected with the converter body, and with the body guide including two walls secured to the mantle ring, and a guide element displaceable backlash-free between the two guide walls in a circumferential direction and releasably connected to a third attachment bracket secured to the converter body.

Abstract: A method of shaping a metal strip in a hot rolling installation including arranged one after another finishing train, cooling section, and coiler, with the method including providing, in a region between an end of the cooling section and the coiler, rolls for reducing a strip thickness, and reducing the thickness of the strip after the strip leaves the cooling section; and an installation for effecting the method.

Abstract: A hook conveyor moves a succession of coils having outer turns through a trimming station in a transport direction with each coil lying at the station in a plane generally parallel to the direction. A trimming apparatus has a pair of supports flanking the conveyor at the station and each movable between outer and inner positions, respective guides on the supports defining respective vertical guide planes generally parallel to the direction, and respective shears movable on the guides long the respective guide planes. Respective actuators displace the shears along the respective planes and, in the inner positions of the respective supports, cut the outer turns from a coil in the station. Respective separating wedges are displaceable on the guides generally radially of the coil in the station to separate the respective outer turns from the coil.

Abstract: The invention relates to an installation for cold rolling strip-shaped rolling material, with a reversing stand disposed between two reel-up or unreeling coils or reels, and a second reversing stand in the rolling line of the first reversing stand, with both stands capable of being adjusted corresponding to consecutive passes for performing the rolling process, and to a method of cold rolling.

Abstract: A roll stand arrangement for a single wire rolling mill train, and including arranged along a main pitch line, a multi-stand finishing block, a multi-stand post finishing block located downstream of the finishing block, and a pitch line change-over unit arranged between the finishing block and the post finishing block for advancing a wire strand from the finishing block to the post finishing block directly or through a looping pitch line in which there are provided a cooling zone, a wire looper, and a looping table.

Abstract: A method of rolling a bar-shaped stock to predetermined end height and end width measured transverse to the end height and including providing a rolling will train having a plurality of arranged one after another active rolling mill stands having adjustable roll rips and forming rolling mill stand pairs, providing a respective plurality of hydraulic cylinder units for adjusting the roll rips of respective rolling mil stands, rolling the bar-shaped stock through the rolling mill stands, and compensating at least a fraction, individually for each of the plurality of rolling mill stands, of rolling force-caused spring-offs of the respective rolling mill stands by controlling operations of respective hydraulic cylinder units.

Abstract: A tundish carriage for a double-strand continuous caster has a carriage frame displaceable on rails straddling a pair of parallel-wall or funnel-shaped continuous casting billet molds. The frame is of trapezoidal configuration with one relatively long beam and one relatively short beam connected by transverse beams at vertices provided with bolsters riding on the rails and with units for raising and lowering the trough for receiving the molten metal. The casting tubes extend downwardly from the trough and can be individually aligned with the respective molds without affecting the position of the other casting tube, utilizing an adjusting device at each bolster connecting a transverse beam with the longer of the longitudinal beams.

Abstract: A coil-laying head for a wire-coiling apparatus has a tubular body centered on and rotatable about an axis, a generally spiral guide tube having an inlet end at the axis and an outlet end opening generally tangentially of the axis at a radial spacing from the axis, and a helicoidal mounting plate having an inner edge fixed to the body and an outer edge secured to the tube. A helicoidal counterweight plate is fixed to the tubular body diametrally opposite the mounting plate and has radial and axial dimensions, at least one of which varies such that any section of the counterweight plate counterbalances a corresponding diametrally opposite section of the guide tube and mounting plate. The counterweight plate has a resonant frequency and the body has a nominal maximum rotation speed that is less than the resonant frequency.

Abstract: A method of controlling a cooling line of a mill train for rolling steel strips and sheets, with the method including calculating reference temperature conditions in the cooling line based on a preset reference temperature, calculating actual strip temperature conditions in the cooling line dependent on actual adjusted process parameters of the cooling line and specific process conditions of a strip, and controlling individually the process parameters of the cooling line by comparing the calculated actual temperature conditions with the reference temperature conditions; and a system for effecting the method.

Abstract: An apparatus for coiling a continuously arriving wire has a main support rotatable about an axis and having mounting formations and a head carried on the support and having mounting formations engaging the support mounting formations. A guide tube is fixed on the head and has an intake end aligned with the axis and closely juxtaposed with the main support and an outlet end axially spaced from the intake end and opening tangentially offset from the axis. A releasable fastener engaged between the support and the head presses the head mounting formations against the support mounting formations.

Abstract: A position detector used with a roll stand having a fixed frame member and a roll-carrying member movable in a direction relative to the frame member, has first and second sleeves telescoping in the direction adjacent the members, a mount securing one of the sleeves to one of the members, and a fixed-length but elastically bendable link rod extending in the direction and having one end fixed to the other of the members and an opposite end fixed to the other of the sleeves. Thus on relative movement of the fixed and movable members the sleeves slide in the direction in each other. A sensor rod having one end fixed in the first sleeve extends in the direction into the second sleeve. A position sensor in the second sleeve juxtaposed with the sensor rod determines a position of the members relative to each other in the direction.

Abstract: A broad side element for slab mold and including a cast plate having opposite inner and outer surfaces and a plurality of grooves provided on the inner surface for forming cooling channels and having each an undercut, and a plurality of inserts receivable in the undercuts of respective cooling channel-forming grooves for formlockingly covering the respective grooves, with the broad side element having upper and lower regions, and with at least the upper region having a middle portion and two side portions located on opposite sides of the middle portion.