Abstract: A rolling mill for strip and foil material, comprises a roll stand and a coiler for rolled material downstream of the roll stand. An endless belt is trained about the material on the coiler, and an air cushion conveyor is provided for introducing the material between the coiler and the endless belt. The air cushion conveyor and the endless belt are both mounted on the same frame, which frame is mounted for swinging movement between an operative position in which the air cushion conveyor is disposed adjacent the path of the material and the endless belt is trained about the material on the coiler, on the one hand, and on the other hand an inoperative position in which the frame is swung away from the material and the coiler. The pivotal axis about which the frame swings is adjacent that end of the air cushion conveyor which is remote from the endless belt. That axis is disposed beneath the material as the material passes from the roll stand to the coiler.

Abstract: A method of and device for controlling the planeness of band-shaped material, according to which the band to be rolled is, in a continuous manner, passed into the roller gap of and between two rollers while the temperature of the band being rolled is measured over the width thereof directly behind the roller gap. The thus ascertained or measured values are used for creating pulses to control the bending of the rollers and/or the cooling of the rollers.