Patents Assigned to SMS GROUP GMBH
  • Patent number: 10449582
    Abstract: To increase the load-carrying capacity or rolling capacity of a roll assembly in a rolling mill, throttle elements are used, which shut off the lateral flow of the lubricating film in a partial region between the roll neck and the bearing surface of the roll neck bearing assembly, thereby bringing about an increase in pressure in the lubricating film. At least one throttle element is embodied as an annular segment, forming an angular shut-off region for the lubricant in the annular gap. The invention makes it possible for existing installations to be easily retrofitted, without the need for structural modifications. In the case of new installations, the same load-carrying capacity as before can be provided while the dimensions of the installation space are reduced. The load-carrying capacity of the bearing assembly can be flexibly adjusted based on the dimensions of the shut-off region for the flow of lubricant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: SMS GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Johannes Alken, Ralf Seidel
  • Patent number: 10434552
    Abstract: A method for producing a metallic strip by continuous casting-rolling, wherein a slab is cast in a casting machine and then sent to a finishing mill located downstream, relative to the transport direction of the strip. In the event that the transport of the slab or strip comes to a complete or substantially complete standstill, the following steps are carried out: (a) cutting through the strip at a first point; (b) cutting through the strip at a second point that is 0.1-5.0 m upstream from the first point; (c) removing the cut-out piece of strip to create a gap in the strip; (d) conveying new strip material into the area of the gap from the area located upstream of the first point; and (e) cutting off pieces of the new strip material conveyed from upstream according to step (d) and removing the pieces from the transport line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: SMS GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Runkel, Christian Mengel
  • Publication number: 20190299277
    Abstract: A casting nozzle for feeding molten metal into a moving casting mold of a caterpillar casting machine, including an elongated housing body having a slot-like outlet side (A), wherein multiple flow passages are formed in the housing body along its longitudinal direction (x) and over its width direction (B), through which passages molten metal can be channeled in the direction of the outlet side (A) and can be fed from there into the moving casting mold, wherein the housing body is of an at least two-part design in the direction of its height and has at least one upper shell and at least one lower shell, wherein the upper shell and the lower shell are spaced apart from one another by separating webs and the individual flow passages extend between the separating webs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2017
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: SMS group GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastian BÖCKING, Guido FICK
  • Patent number: 10406574
    Abstract: A strip deflector has a base body formed with a tip, a compressed-air chamber, and a nozzle for emitting compressed air. A compressed-air source in flow communication with the compressed-air chamber feeds compressed air to the compressed-air chamber and the nozzle. This nozzle has a first nozzle subpassage in flow communication with the compressed-air chamber and a second nozzle subpassage downstream of the first nozzle subpassage in a flow direction. The first nozzle subpassage is formed by a flank closer to the tip of the base body and an opposite flank remote from the tip of the base body, and, at a transition from the first nozzle subpassage to the second nozzle subpassage, the flank closer to the tip of the base body is bent away toward the tip of the base body so as to form a first separation edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: SMS GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Denker, Kerstin Spill, Johannes Alken
  • Publication number: 20190270160
    Abstract: A method and a device for producing a continuous strip-shaped composite material. The device has at least one first casting machine, using which a continuous strand is produced, in particular from steel, at least one rolling stand, which is arranged in line with the first casting machine and downstream thereof. A fully solidified slab of the strand produced using the first casting machine can be hot rolled, and at least one second casting machine, using which a further continuous strand is produced from metal. Between the casting machines, on the one hand, and the rolling stand, on the other hand, a merging unit is arranged, by means of which the slabs can be moved in the direction toward each other in the hot state. The rolling stand is designed as a roll-cladding unit, by which a composite formed from the merged slabs can be hot rolled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Applicant: SMS group GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas RUNKEL
  • Patent number: 10399142
    Abstract: A strand casting installation in which a conicity of a die is set during a casting procedure by measuring temperature values along a centric measuring path running in a casting direction along an adjustably disposed die wall; measuring temperature values along a peripheral measuring path running in a casting direction along the adjustably disposed die wall, wherein the peripheral measuring path runs between the centric measuring path and a lateral periphery of the die wall, and a spacing of the peripheral measuring path from the lateral periphery of the die wall is smaller than a spacing of the centric measuring path from the other lateral periphery of the die wall; determining a centric temperature distribution curve along the centric measuring path from the temperature values measured along the centric measuring path; determining a peripheral temperature distribution curve along the peripheral measuring path from the temperature values measured along the peripheral measuring path; determining a first area u
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: SMS GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Dirk Lieftucht, Artemy Krasilnikov, Felix Max Fanghänel
  • Patent number: 10384248
    Abstract: An aluminum hot strip rolling mill including a multi-stand tandem finishing rolling train (2), at least one winding reel (8) arranged downstream, in the rolling direction, of the multi-stand tandem finishing rolling train, a cooling section (4) provided in the outlet region of the aluminum hot strip rolling mill, and at least one trimmer (6) paired with the multi-stand tandem finishing rolling train and arranged downstream, in the rolling direction, in the rolling direction, of the multi-stand tandem rolling mill train.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: SMS GROUP GMBH
    Inventor: Michael Breuer
  • Patent number: 10343201
    Abstract: A method and an installation for continuously shaping longitudinally slotted pipes from a flat material minimizes or avoids markings in the material by evenly introducing into the roll stand the rolling forces of at least two rolls acting successively on the flat material and/or by allowing the two successively acting rolls to align freely relative to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: SMS group GmbH
    Inventor: Axel Rossbach
  • Publication number: 20190201969
    Abstract: In a ring-rolling machine having a mandrel roll and a related radial roll, the mandrel roll can be handled in operationally reliable and structurally simple manner if an axial bearing of the mandrel roll is opened by way of an opening drive that does not rotate along with the mandrel roll and/or is closed by inserting the mandrel roll into the axial bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Applicant: SMS group GmbH
    Inventors: Felix RODERMUND-GEBHART, Dirk KALKHOFF
  • Publication number: 20190153580
    Abstract: A component for a hot dip coating system, which comes into direct contact with an immersion bath of liquid metal during operation of the hot dip coating system, having a metallic base body, wherein at least one portion of a surface of the base body is provided with a three-layered coating, which includes a corrosion-resistant bonding layer arranged directly on the surface portion, a barrier layer arranged on the bonding layer, and a ceramic surface layer arranged on the barrier layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: SMS Group GmbH
    Inventors: Lutz KÜMMEL, Jegor BERGEN, Wolfram UNTERBERG, Nicolas BRENDEL, Thorsten STOLTENHOFF
  • Patent number: 10293400
    Abstract: A method for setting a conicity of a die of a strand casting installation during a casting procedure, including the steps of: measuring temperature values along a centric measuring path running in a casting direction along an adjustably disposed die wall; measuring temperature values along a peripheral measuring path running in a casting direction along the adjustably disposed die wall, wherein the peripheral measuring path runs between the centric measuring path and a lateral periphery of the die wall, and a spacing of the peripheral measuring path from the lateral periphery of the die wall is smaller than a spacing of the centric measuring path from the other lateral periphery of the die wall; determining a centric temperature distribution curve along the centric measuring path from the temperature values measured along the centric measuring path; determining a peripheral temperature distribution curve along the peripheral measuring path from the temperature values measured along the peripheral measuring pa
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: SMS GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Dirk Lieftucht, Artemy Krasilnikov, Felix Max Fanghänel
  • Patent number: 10286434
    Abstract: A method for determining the rolling or guiding gap of the roll stands or guide stands in a multi-stand rolling mill positions a comparison scale at at least one stand, preferably at the first and the last stand, and subsequently the rolling or guiding gap of the respective stand is determined. In this method, a camera is arranged at one of the input or output sides and a transmitter for a reference device, a reference transducer and/or a reference scale is arranged at the other of the input or output sides before the comparison scale is positioned, such that adjustment operations at the camera can subsequently be avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: SMS group GmbH
    Inventor: Mark Haverkamp
  • Publication number: 20190099792
    Abstract: An extruder and tube extruder or metal extrusion press that has a press frame, which is composed of a cylinder bar and a counter bar connected to said cylinder bar, in which a movable block receiver holder that bears a block receiver and a movable plunger traverse are provided. A main cylinder or pressing cylinder is arranged in the cylinder bar. The cylinder receiving in its cylinder housing a pressing piston provided with a pressing plunger, and in which an equalization container is arranged in the cylinder housing. The container supplying hydraulic oil to the pressing piston by a slide plate provided on a central linkage. A filling valve that has a lid-like valve cone is formed in the transition from the equalization container to the cylinder housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Applicant: SMS group GmbH
    Inventor: Uwe MUSCHALIK
  • Publication number: 20190101161
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for mounting a bearing 200 on a roll neck and for removing the bearing from the roll neck of a roll. Known devices of this type have a first and a second piston/cylinder unit. They also have a stop ring 130, fixed in the axial direction A at the end of the roll neck 320 remote from the body, which actsas a stop for the inner piston 110 of the first piston/cylinder unit. In addition, the known devices have a nut 150 which can be screwed onto an external thread of the inner piston to secure the bearing 200 in the axial direction, in particular during a rolling operation. As an alternative to the known prior art, the present invention provides that an annular cylinder 120 serves both as a cylinder for the first piston/cylinder unit and as a cylinder for the second piston/cylinder unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2017
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Applicant: SMS Group GmbH
    Inventors: Daniel Knie, Andrej Tucak
  • Patent number: 10239103
    Abstract: A method for material testing of an elongated work piece drawn through a drawing die arrangement, wherein the drawing die arrangement includes a drawing tool that acts on the elongated work piece, forming it in a forming region, carries out the material testing in the forming region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignees: SMS group GmbH, Steffen Sigloch
    Inventors: Steffen Sigloch, Thomas Winterfeldt
  • Patent number: 10215510
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for processing heated material (1), wherein the material is guided along a conveying path and is covered and protected against heat loss in the region of the conveying path by at least one reflector element (2), wherein the reflector element (2) is cooled by means of a liquid. According to the invention, in order to guarantee efficient cooling of the reflector without costly measures, the liquid is glycol or comprises glycol or the liquid is alcohol or comprises alcohol or the liquid is thermal oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: SMS Group GmbH
    Inventors: Juergen Seidel, Peter Sudau, Denis Anders, Johannes Alken, Matthias Kipping
  • Publication number: 20190039107
    Abstract: A method for controlling a roller line, preferably a cold roller line, which has one or more roller stands each with two working rollers, which form a roller gap, through which a roller band is transportable. One or both working rollers can shift relative to the other, so that the roller gap is adjustable. The method includes making available a reference speed, which is a parameter for controlling the roller line, measurement of speed of the roller band before the inlet into the roller gap, measurement of the thickness of the roller band before the inlet into the roller gap, and adjustment of the roller gap of one or more roller frames in the roller line on the basis of measured speed and thickness before the inlet into the roller gap as well as the reference speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Applicant: SMS group GmbH
    Inventors: Jörn SIEGHART, Andreas GRAMER
  • Patent number: 10197533
    Abstract: A measuring device that is able to function even in rough environments, for example under great heat or in environments in which water or steam is found, as is the case in rolling mills, among other environments, has a housing, a central measuring device that passes through the housing in a straight line, and a measuring coil that is disposed in the housing and encloses the measuring opening. The device has a coil carrier that is disposed in the housing radially outside of the measuring coil and carries the measuring coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: SMS group GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Nerzak, Hermann Josef Klingen, Guido Sonnenschein, Thomas Daube, Eduard Stecklein
  • Patent number: 10183319
    Abstract: The invention relates to a drawing die arrangement having a drawing tool that acts on an elongated workpiece, and having a drawing tool support on which the drawing tool is mounted, counteracting the drawing tool, in which support a measurement device that measures the mass distribution of the workpiece material is disposed on the drawing tool, wherein a coupling medium circulated between the measurement device and the drawing tool is provided. Furthermore, the invention relates to a workpiece guide and to a drawing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: SMS group GmbH
    Inventors: Patrick Lutterbach, Enver Yurdusever, Ali Zafari, Thomas Cmiel
  • Patent number: 10174846
    Abstract: In the machining of a stationary workpiece by means of a rotating tool head, the risk of damages to the workpiece by the chips can be minimized and the removal of the chips can be simplified if a chip collector and a stationary nozzle for fluid are respectively provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: SMS group GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Zabel, Edmund Plaetzmueller