Abstract: A method of reducing the cross-sectional area of one or more extruded wires as a combined effect of drawing and rolling, by passing the wires through reduction rollers driven at a peripheral speed which exceeds the greatest extrusion speed of any of the wires, thereby avoiding the formation of fins due to the passage of excess material between the rollers. Use of this method makes it unnecessary to track the rotation speed of the rollers with variations in the extrusion speeds.

Abstract: Apparatus for detecting faults in inherent flatness in a moving stretched strip, comprising a deflector roll in the form of a cylinder covered by a thin casing. Cavities are machined in the cylinder and arranged on a helix traced on the roll. Each cavity contains a displacement detector whose moving part in contact with the inner surface of the thin casing moves in the radial direction of the roll under the action of the stresses exerted by the sheet. The detectors have a primary winding and a secondary winding through which passes a core, solid with the moving part of the detector. The apparatus includes an optical encoding system for marking the angular position of the roll and a programming apparatus for sending a pulse of current to the primary windings of the detectors once under load and once not under load. A collector and processor for the emitted signals allow calculation of the values proportional to the tension in the strip, along its width.

Abstract: In an indirect extrusion drawing press comprising a fixed crosspiece to which is fixed a tubular ram which is perforated by an axial orifice for the removal of the wire, a fixed bearing member, a movable crosspiece which is moved by a main jack bearing against the bearing member, a container in which is provided the bore of the billet, and which is interposed between the movable crosspiece and the ram, and a container bottom which is placed on the movable crosspiece along the axis of extrusion and which presses against the container during extrusion, the container being driven towards the ram by the movable crosspiece. A mechanism is provided for fixing the container relative to the movable crosspiece during extrusion so that auxiliary jacks, provided for moving the container independently of the crosspiece, can be used during extrusion to assist the main jack.

Abstract: A press operated by the reverse method comprising a fixed tubular die casing defining a pressing axis, a main jack operative to displace a cross beam supported for displacement along the pressing axis, a displaceable holder disposed between the cross beam and the tubular die casing and having a bore disposed along the pressing axis for receiving a billet to be pressed. The bore has open ends and the holder is capable of fitting over the die casing by axial displacement thereof. A closure member is carried by a slide for closing one end of the bore in the holder; the slide is displaceable on the cross beam transversely with respect to the pressing axis. A support is slidably mounted parallel to the slide and is carried by an auxiliary cross beam which is slidably mounted on the main cross beam for movement parallel to the pressing axis. The support and the slide are simultaneously displaceable under the action of a jack or other suitable device.

Abstract: A cutting device for a direct extrusion press is intended to shear the residue remaining in the press cylinder after extrusion of the useful part of the billet to separate the residue from the extruded product. The device comprises a plane blade which is displaceable in a direction perpendicular to the extrusion axis between operative and inoperative positions and is guided in its displacement by guide means and displaced by drive means both of which are mounted on the slide block of the press.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for the continuous production of bright copper rod from stock discharged from a continuous casting machine in which an oxide layer formed on the stock during its passage from the continuous casting machine in the atmosphere is subjected to an initial breakage and separation operation by discharging a chemically active liquid at a relatively low pressure against the oxide layer followed by descaling the stock after the initiation of the breakage of the layer by projecting jets of liquid at a relatively high pressure against the stock. The stock which is now free from oxide layer is rolled in a rolling mill in the presence of cooling and lubricating liquid which isolates the stock from the outside atmosphere and allows the formation of rod in the stands of the rolling mill. The rod obtained from the rolling mill is cooled by passage through a duct in counterflow with a cooling liquid such that the rod leaves the duct at a temperature below 80.degree. C.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a process for the regulation of the thickness of a flat product such as a strip, sheet or plate, being rolled in a hot tandem rolling mill, and the corresponding regulation device for carrying out the process. Regarding each stand of the rolling mill on which the adjustment is being performed, a constant rolling pressure is maintained, the gap is measured, the deviation between the measured gap and a set value corresponding to a desired thickness of the product is determined, and the necessary correction of the value of the tensile force applied on the product between the stand under consideration and the upstream stand in order to bring the gap back to its set value is determined. Finally, this correction of the tensile force between the stand under consideration and the upstream stand is performed.

Abstract: A universal cassette type stand for a continuous rolling line which can be converted from a universal beam stand having two horizontal rolls and two vertical rolls into a stand having two horizontal rolls for rolling structural shapes. Each horizontal and vertical roll includes two hydraulic tightening jacks each associated with a different chock. Each jack is provided with a servo-valve, a position sensor, and a pressure probe. The supply of each jack is servo-controlled by a regulation loop where the measurement of the tightening is transformed into a position reference depending on the modulus of either the lower or upper part or sides of the stand. The regulation or control loop is such that one of several alternatives for rolling the beam to a desired mode can be accomplished.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing a rolled product from a continuously cast blank provides a continuous casting in a groove in a wheel which groove is closed over part of its length by a metal ribbon and the length of closed groove is adjustable to obtain, for the product being produced, the optimum characteristics of the blank at emergence from the groove for a given wheel speed.

Abstract: A device for restoring the mechanical properties of the metal band used for closing the mould in the wheel of a machine for the continuous casting of liquid metal comprises a plurality of planishing rollers arranged with their axes parallel to the axis of the casting wheel and to bear against opposite faces of the band in a region in which the band is not in contact with the wheel, the rollers being spaced apart in the direction of movement of the band therebetween so that they are not opposite one another.

Abstract: A deflector roll for measuring and checking the flatness of sheet metal under tension and as it passes round the roll comprises a non rotatable inner portion carrying axially spaced radial stress detectors in axially spaced measurement zones spaced by neutral zones, and a continuous rotatable outer envelope to be contacted by the sheet and to transmit the radial stresses to the detecting devices, the envelope having an axially variable flexibility such that it is less flexible in those portions which cover the measurement zones than in those portions which cover the neutral zones.

Abstract: A draw press comprises a die-stock coupled to a slide movable perpendicularly to the axis of the press between two operational positions. In a first position, the die-stock is placed on the axis of the press, and in a second position the die-stock is spaced laterally from the axis in a changing device. The latter includes a table contiguous with a bed of the press and a movable carriage for supporting a replacement die-stock, spaced laterally from the axis of the press, and movable on the table in a direction parallel to the axis between a rest position and a position for coupling the replacement die-stock to the slide. The disengagement of the die-stock in position on the slide is caused by movement of the carriage from the rest position to the coupling position. The die-stock changing device includes means for sliding the disengaged die-stock along the carriage and means for fixing the die-stocks relative to the carriage.

Abstract: In a process of hot continuous rolling of an aluminium alloy blank formed by a continuous casting grooved wheel wherein the blank from the wheel is fed at the normal temperature for hot rolling between the cylinders of a train of two-cylinder stands, at least at the first stand the thickness H of the blank is reduced by a value .DELTA.H satisfying the relationship (h/a ).ltoreq. C, where h = H - (.DELTA.H/2), a = .sqroot.R.DELTA. H, R is the radius of the rolling cylinders and C is a constant depending on the alloy.