Abstract: A rolling line for wire and light sections in which the horizonal and vertical rolls are provided in a common stand, one upstream of the other and the axis planes are spaced in the rolling direction, the spacing is adjustable and the spacing can be set for a particular rolling operation. The grooves of the upstream pair of rolls can deform the original section of the workpiece of an intermediate shape which is restored by the downstream pair of rolls with a reduced dimension.

Abstract: A method of operating a mill for wire or fine sections in which control of the rolling gap is limited only to selected stands of a multiple stand intermediate line of the mill for changeover of the product to be rolled, for example, as the composition or diameter.

Abstract: A rolling train for the continuous rolling of strand shaped products has at each rolling location a pair of fixed stations which are closely spaced and have rails such that a mill stand at one station can be displaced away from the rolling line and be replaced at that location by a mill stand at the other station. The mill stands can be connected to the respective control and operating media sources by lines which are unreeled as the mill stand is moved away from the operating position or reeled up as the mill stand is moved into an operating position.

Abstract: A rolling mill line for rolling wire and light sections in which the rolling stands of the prerolling and intermediate rolling stages have alternating horizontal and vertical grooved roll pairs. The oval grooves of rolls of one pair are converted by round section grooves of a pair immediately downstream thereof and axially spaced therefrom into a circular section and one or the other of the two grooves can by axial transverse shifting, be brought into or out of the rolling line.

Abstract: An apparatus for repositioning the web of a rolled structural shape such as an H-beam or I-beam in which the web spans between two flanges. The horizontal rolls of the mill stand are individually adjusted by computer based upon a measurement of the web profile upstream of the mill stand along a conveyor for the workpiece so that the rolling gap is located centrally between the upper and lower flange edges notwithstanding the fact that the web may have originally been off-center.

Abstract: A drawing apparatus is assembled from modular units utilizing modular path-forming members and holder modules which can carry the drawing die and drawing carriages shiftable on the guide modules. The drives for the carriages are individual linear motors whose stationary components are the modular path-forming members disposed end-to-end.

Abstract: A drawing apparatus for drawing metal and articles has at last one drawing carriage and a linear motor complex which determines the pattern of movement of that carriage and hence of the drawing operation.

Abstract: A metal-stretching grip head has a row of parallel upper plates wholly to one side of a plane and having front ends and rear ends and a row of parallel lower plates wholly to an opposite side of the plane and having front ends forming at the plane with the front ends of the upper plates a mouth slot extending along the plane and open forwardly on the plane. The lower plates also have rear ends juxtaposed across the plane with the upper-plate rear ends. A one-piece C-section metal bar is snugly received in the mouth slot. Rigid structure separate from the plates and bar fixes the plates relative to one another.

Abstract: Seamless tubing of a nonferrous material is made by continuously and concomitantly advancing a tubular workpiece of the nonferrous material along an axis through a rolling station, radially squeezing the workpiece in the station between external rolls and an internal mandrel to radially reduce a wall thickness of the workpiece and increase an axial length of the workpiece so that the workpiece is heated, and spraying a liquid coolant against the workpiece in and upstream of the station to maintain the workpiece at a temperature below a recrystallization temperature of the material.