Patents Assigned to SMS Demag
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Patent number: 6854507Abstract: A system provided in a high-speed continuous casting plant for casting a metallic strand for automatically operating the high-speed continuous casting plant. In the system, the stopping or slide movement, the modification of the steel level, the heat currents through the mold walls, the temperature of the liquid metal and the drawing-off speed are measured over the casting time, supplied to a computer and compared with predetermined limit values for an automatic operating mode.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2004Date of Patent: February 15, 2005Assignee: SMS Demag AGInventors: Fritz-Peter Pleschiutschnigg, Stephan Feldhaus, Lothar Parschat, Michael Vonderbank, Thomas Ulke, Robert Victor Kowalewski, Rolf-Peter Heidemann
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Patent number: 6843958Abstract: A metallurgical furnace provided with a refractory lining and an outer furnace steel jacket, having copper cooling plates, wherein a flow of cooling medium flows through the cooling plates arranged between the furnace steel jacket and the refractory lining. Cooling medium pipes of the copper cooling plate provided for supplying and removing the cooling medium are guided through the furnace steel jacket to the exterior and are gas-tightly welded to the furnace steel jacket. The copper cooling plate is connected free of play in all spatial directions to the furnace steel jacket, in addition to attachment by way of the cooling medium pipes welded to the furnace steel jacket, by at least one fixed-point fastening element that is welded to the furnace steel jacket. The at least one fixed-point fastening element is arranged within at least one of the upper part and the lower part of the copper cooling plate in immediate proximity of the cooling medium pipes.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2000Date of Patent: January 18, 2005Assignee: SMS Demag AGInventors: Elmar Korbik, Franz Reufer, Mary Brandt, Axel Kubbutat
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Patent number: 6843091Abstract: In a straightening machine for straightening sections like rolled beams, wherein tools (11) are arranged on a plurality of mutually parallel driven straightening shafts (8, 9; 21a, 21b, 22a, 22b) disposed above and below the alignment line in the transport direction of the product to be straightened, and of which preferably the upper straightening shafts (2a, 21b) are adjustable for setting the straightening gap, the straightening shafts (2a, 21a, b) are individually adjustable and each have on both sides an adjusting means engaging straightening shaft ends (6, 7; 23a, 23b) whereby in straightening operations at least the adjusting means on the service side (6; 23a) remote from the drive side I is provided with a force (FA) acting opposite to the straightening force (FR) relevant hereto.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2001Date of Patent: January 18, 2005Assignee: SMS Demag AktiengesellschaftInventors: Hans Georg Hartung, Werner Kohlstedde, Markus Willems, Hans-Jürgen Reismann, Manfred Riffelmann, Ulrich Svejkovsky, Stefan Ernst
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Patent number: 6843860Abstract: The invention relates to a method for pickling hot-rolled special steel strips (1) having an austenite, ferrite and/or martensite structure. The inventive method is carried out in a pickling line (7) with pickling sections (8) containing acids and rinsing sections (9) containing rinsing water (15). The aim of the invention is to provide a method that does not require an additional stretch-leveling step for descaling. The costs for pickling are reduced by pickling the hot-rolled special steel strip (1) in the pickling sections (8) with hydrochloric acid (13) and rinsing it in the first rinsing sections (9) with azotic acid (14) or an equivalent substitute pickling medium (14b) and treating it in further rinsing sections (9) with rinsing water (15).Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2001Date of Patent: January 18, 2005Assignee: SMS Demag AktiengesellschaftInventor: Michael Haentjes
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Patent number: 6834825Abstract: The invention relates to a device (12) for winding up and unwinding metal strips, used in particular for cold-rolling. This device has a spindle (21) which is mounted inside a hollow shaft and onto which the strip is wound; for this purpose the spindle is rotated by a motor (20) which actuates the hollow shaft by means of a mechanical transmission. In accordance with a preferred embodiment, the position of the hollow shaft along the axis of rotation may be adjusted by means of hydraulic actuators, in such a way as to compensate for any winding defects in the coil present on the spindle.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2002Date of Patent: December 28, 2004Assignee: SMS Demag Innse SpAInventors: Alberto Pollastrelli, Angelo Coari
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Patent number: 6818175Abstract: The invention relates to a device for producing steel. The invention device comprises a container (1, 101, 201). The metal used is molten, blown and refined in said container which comprises an upper component (5, 205) having at least one opening, a lower component (2, 202) and means for tapping the melt and slag from the container. Electrodes (21) can be charged into the container through said opening. The aim of the invention is to improve said device in such a way that said device can be constructed in a more simple manner in comparison with known devices. A bottom tapping system is provided for tapping the melt and optionally the slag.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2002Date of Patent: November 16, 2004Assignee: SMS Demag AGInventor: Klaus-Jürgen Kühne
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Patent number: 6811827Abstract: In a process of hot dip coating of metal strips, in particular, of a hot rolled steel strip, in which the metal strip is transformed into a continuous strip in an unwinding station with an adjoining welding machine, and then the continuous strip is subjected to a downstream modifying process including primary and secondary prickling and, in the final treatment step; in the hot dip coating section, guiding the continuous strip through a melt bath, a variable coating process with reduced costs becomes possible when the continuous strip, in a first treatment step, is directly transported into a pickling installation. In a suitable installation for effecting the process, the primary pickling installation is located in the entry section which is separated from the hot dip coating section by an entry accumulator.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2002Date of Patent: November 2, 2004Assignee: SMS Demag AGInventors: Rolf Brisberger, Peter de Kock
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Patent number: 6810943Abstract: A continuous casting installation for producing thin slabs includes a laterally adjustable mold in which an immersion nozzle protrudes. In the mold there is opposite a larger crowned cross section on the charging side a cross section on the strand outlet side which is small and identically crowned in the central region. The installation further has pairs of supporting and guiding rollers which follow the mold and have a caliber adapted to the emerging crowned strand. The broad-face parts have planar-surface central parts which are arranged parallel to one another along their widths and taper toward one another in the casting direction of the strand. The broad-face parts also have planar side surfaces arranged so that they taper conically toward each other in the direction of the narrow faces. The planar-surface central plate is connected to the planar-surface side surfaces by transitional parts.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2000Date of Patent: November 2, 2004Assignee: SMS Demag AGInventor: Werner Rahmfeld
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Patent number: 6810942Abstract: The invention relates to a device for the continuous casting of metals, especially steel, for use in a solidified-bending method. Said device comprises, downstream of the continuous casting mold, a straight strand guide (1) and a bending device (3) that releases the cast strand path (2a) so that the cold strand (5) can be introduced. The object of the invention is to utilize the height of the device that has so far not been used for supporting the strand or to reduce the height of the entire installation. To this end, the bending device (3) comprises a folding segment (9) that is pivoted on the fixed side (1a) and that is provided with a row of rollers (10) that limit the bending path (3c) in the operational position. The bending device further comprises on the loose side (1b) a loose element (11) that can be swiveled into the operational position (3b) or that can be swiveled out from this position.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2003Date of Patent: November 2, 2004Assignee: SMS Demag AGInventors: Karl Rittner, Günter Kneppe, Jürgen Müller
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Patent number: 6811396Abstract: The aim of the invention is to develop a hot rolling unit, comprising at least one continuous casting unit (1) with a post-arranged furnace (4), followed by a roughing stand (5) and, over a strip edge guide, a soaking furnace (15) and finishing train, such that downtime is reduced to a minimum level and even during said downtime, as well as in planned cases of withdrawal of pre-strip material, the pre-strip (14), behind the roughing stand in the soaking furnace, can be separated off from the normal rolling cycle.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2003Date of Patent: November 2, 2004Assignee: SMS Demag AGInventors: Peter Sudau, Klaus Bäumer, Karl-Friedrich Müller
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Patent number: 6800327Abstract: A method and an apparatus for coating metal strip, particularly cold-rolled steel strip, with a coating metal which is in the molten state. The metal strip is heated and annealed in a heating furnace and subsequently the required strip temperature and surface properties are adjusted in a cooling zone. The strip is conducted through a coating container and, following the coating container in strip pulling direction, the coating metal thickness and the solidification process are controlled by a gas-operated stripping device. The operating gas for the stripping device is preheated in a partial area of the cooling zone of the heating furnace.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2002Date of Patent: October 5, 2004Assignee: SMS Demag AktiengesellschaftInventors: Werner Bechem, Holger Behrens, Rolf Brisberger
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Patent number: 6801563Abstract: A scrap charging apparatus for an electric arc furnace includes a scrap holding bunker having diverging side walls extending between end walls separated by a scrap discharge opening supplying scrap from a fall space in the bunker to a scrap discharge chute. The end wall remote to the scrap discharged opening of the chute slopes at an acute angle to organized scrap entering the discharged opening. A throat opening for scrap passing into the scrap discharge chute is controlled by a pivotal scrap jam relief gate moveable between a scrap metering position, a relief position and a scrap compacting position.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2001Date of Patent: October 5, 2004Assignee: SMS Demag, Inc.Inventor: Michael J. Stercho
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Patent number: 6792839Abstract: A rotating shearing device for cropping fast-running rolling stock, in particular wire, includes two axially cutting annular knives which rotate about their axes at the same rotational speed. The two axially cutting annular knives include end cutting edges directed toward one another which converge to the clearance required for separating running stock during the cutting operation and lie in planes which are arranged at an acute angle to one another and intersect one another in a line. The rolling stock is guided toward the shearing device by a front guide and guided away from the shearing device by a rear guide. The front guide is pivotable to change in the relative position between the rolling stock and the cutting body so that the rolling stock may be guided either through the space between the annular knives which is free for the cut-free passage of the rolling stock or into the wedge-shaped cutting region of the annular knives.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2001Date of Patent: September 21, 2004Assignee: SMS Demag AGInventor: Günter Panzer
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Patent number: 6793006Abstract: The invention relates to a method for automatically opening a high-speed continuous casting plant According to said method the stopping or slide movement, the modification of the steel level, the heat currents through the mold walls, the temperature of the liquid metal and the drawing-off speed are measured over the casting time, supplied to a computer and compared with predetermined limit values for an automatic operating mode.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2002Date of Patent: September 21, 2004Assignee: SMS Demag AGInventors: Fritz-Peter Pleschiutschnigg, Stephan Feldhaus, Lothar Parschat, Michael Vonderbank, Thomas Ulke, Robert Victor Kowalewski, Rolf-Peter Heidemann
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Patent number: 6782726Abstract: The invention relates to a hot rolling mill, with at least one flatness measuring roller, pertaining to at least one rolling bed, arranged before and/or after one of the stands, which influences the settings of at least one of the stands. The aim of the invention is to improve the arrangement of the roller bed working rollers and the flatness measuring roller, such that the flatness measuring roller may be, optionally, either brought into operation, or be withdrawn into a protected position, whereby, in this case, the gap in the rolling bed thus formed can be closed. Said aim is achieved, whereby the flatness measuring roller may be stored, away from its working position, behind a screen and that the rolling bed is completed with at least one retractable working roller.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2002Date of Patent: August 31, 2004Assignee: SMS Demag AGInventors: Jürgen Armenat, Martin Braun, Reinhard Irle
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Patent number: 6779587Abstract: A method and a device for adjusting one or more roll segments (1) in a continuous casting installation for metals, especially for steel materials, the rolls (1a) of which adjusted in the segment upper frame (2) and the segment lower frame (3) on frame cross members (5) by pairs (4) of hydraulic piston-cylinder units in a position-and/or pressure-controlled manner, wherein an operation for guiding and/or pressing the casting strands (6) is switched from a position-controlled to a pressure-controlled operation when pressure within the respective pair (4) of piston-cylinder units reaches a predetermined maximum value, whereby an improved reaction is effected by operating the piston-cylinder unit of every roll segment (1) in the case of overload, in subsequent steps at a reduced pressure or in a pressureless switching mode until the switching mode is reached in which the segment upper frame (2) can be opened to some extent.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2003Date of Patent: August 24, 2004Assignee: SMS Demag AGInventors: Axel Weyer, Horst von Wyl, Wolfgang Schmitz, Dieter Böttger, Axel Selke, Peter Schmidt
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Patent number: 6776215Abstract: For a further development a device for continuous casting of metal, in particular steel, with a metal mold with mold walls (1,18) and a mold cooling device and which can remove high thermal flows and can be subjected to thermal loads and, thereble, is suitable for use at high speeds, at least one mold wall (1,18) of the mold of this device should include a steel wall (2) and a support mesh (3) for this wall and the device further should be provided with magnetic field generator (3.2) for generating a magnetic field (3.1) acting on the mold steel wall (2) via the support mesh (3) for attracting the mold steel wall (2) to the support mesh (3), with the mold cooling device comprising spray cooling means.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2002Date of Patent: August 17, 2004Assignee: SMS Demag AGInventors: Joachim Schwellenbach, Michael Vonderbank, Fritz-Peter Pleschiutschnigg
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Patent number: 6776075Abstract: A high-speed shear for transversely cutting a rolled ship having a small thickness and including at least one blade provided on one of two oppositely located drums, and a controllable device for displacing the two drums between a cutting position, in which the strip is cut, and an open run-through position in which the strip can be freely advanced between the two drums, with the two drums being synchronized in their open cutting position by respective tooth elements provided on the two drums and engaging each other, and with the tooth elements being so formed that they insure synchronization in the open position of the drums when they engaged each other with, a large tooth backlash and engaged each other substantially backlash-free in the cutting position of the drums.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2000Date of Patent: August 17, 2004Assignee: SMS Demag AGInventors: Horst Grafe, Volker Loth, Jürgen Merz
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Patent number: 6776217Abstract: In a method for continuous casting bars, billets, and slabs from a melt in dimensional ranges of approximately 20 to 150 mm thickness and approximately 600 to 3500 mm width by means of an oscillating, water-cooled casting mold in cooperation with a submerged-entry nozzle and by employing casting powder for formation of casting slag, local temperatures and local heat flux densities of a casting mold wall in a meniscus area of the melt critical for the surface quality of a slab are measured. The working temperature of the casting mold wall in the meniscus area is maintained by adjusting the operating parameters important for the working temperature within a predetermined temperature range (&Dgr;T).Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2000Date of Patent: August 17, 2004Assignee: SMS Demag AGInventors: Hans Streubel, Uwe Plociennik
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Patent number: 6763561Abstract: A continuous casting and hot rolling apparatus for the parallel production for a multiplicity of rolled shapes, wire and rod of circular, oval and polygonyl cross section in which a continuous caster or flow shaper produces initially a plurality of discreet strands which continuously are fed to a hot rolling line and then can be diverted, if desired to a universal rolling unit in which pairs of strands are rolled alternately in vertical and horizontal rolls. The unit may be driven by a common motor and can have drive shafts for the respective stands located at the vertices of an isosceles triangle.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2002Date of Patent: July 20, 2004Assignee: SMS Demag AktiengesellschaftInventor: Ferruccio Sclippa