Abstract: 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.

Abstract: A rolling system has a die having a row of separate throughgoing passages for producing a plurality of continuously advancing and parallel hot metal strands and a plurality of pinch rollers for pulling the strands out of the die and moving them in a direction along a path. A vertical-roll stand on the path receives the strands and horizontally compresses them. A horizontal-roll stand on the path aligned in the direction with the vertical-roll stand receives the strands and vertically compresses them. The rolls are rotated to draw the strands downstream.

Abstract: A rolling system has a plant producing a plurality of continuously advancing and parallel hot metal strands, a vertical-roll stand receiving the strands, and a horizontal-roll stand. The vertical-roll stand has an upstream row of vertical pairs of rolls and, immediately downstream therefrom in a movement direction of the strands, a downstream row of vertical pairs or rolls with nips offset laterally from the nips of the upstream row. Every other strand passes by the upstream roll pairs and through the nips of the downstream roll pairs and the remaining strands pass through the nips of the upstream roll pairs and by the downstream roll pairs. The horizontal-roll stand is aligned with the vertical-roll stand and has a pair of horizontal rolls forming a plurality of nips aligned in the direction with the vertical-roll stand nips.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: A two-line roll stand has a frame, an upper shaft on the frame, and two lower shafts on the frame spaced horizontally from each other below the upper shaft and forming with the upper shaft an isosceles triangle. Identical drive units each have a pair of rolls and gearing connected to the respective rolls. The lower shafts each carry three drive units and the upper shaft carries at least four of the drive units. The drive units of the lower shafts define a pair of roll lines spaced below and symmetrically flanking the upper shaft. The upper-shaft drive units are aligned on the lines with the rolls of the respective lower-shaft drive units. A single motor has an output directly connected to drive gears on the shafts for synchronously rotating all the shafts and thereby rotating all the rolls via the respective bevel gears and the respective drive units.

Abstract: A two-line roll stand has a frame, an upper shaft on the frame, and two lower shafts on the frame spaced horizontally from each other below the upper shaft and forming with the upper shaft an isosceles triangle. Identical drive units each have a pair of rolls and gearing connected to the respective rolls. The lower shafts each carry three drive units and the upper shaft carries at least four of the drive units. The drive units of the lower shafts define a pair of roll lines spaced below and symmetrically flanking the upper shaft. The upper-shaft drive units are aligned on the lines with the rolls of the respective lower-shaft drive units. A single motor has an output directly connected to drive gears on the shafts for synchronously rotating all the shafts and thereby rotating all the rolls via the respective bevel gears and the respective drive units.

Abstract: A rolling system has a die having a row of separate throughgoing passages for producing a plurality of continuously advancing and parallel hot metal strands and a plurality of pinch rollers for pulling the strands out of the die and moving them in a direction along a path. A vertical-roll stand on the path receives the strands and horizontally compresses them. A horizontal-roll stand on the path aligned in the direction with the vertical-roll stand receives the strands and vertically compresses them. The rolls are rotated to draw the strands downstream.

Abstract: A rolling system has a plant producing a plurality of continuously advancing and parallel hot metal strands, a vertical-roll stand receiving the strands, and a horizontal-roll stand. The vertical-roll stand has an upstream row of vertical pairs of rolls and, immediately downstream therefrom in a movement direction of the strands, a downstream row of vertical pairs or rolls with nips offset laterally from the nips of the upstream row. Every other strand passes by the upstream roll pairs and through the nips of the downstream roll pairs and the remaining strands pass through the nips of the upstream roll pairs and by the downstream roll pairs. The horizontal-roll stand is aligned with the vertical-roll stand and has a pair of horizontal rolls forming a plurality of nips aligned in the direction with the vertical-roll stand nips.

Abstract: Improvements relating to shear machines to cut advancing bars and particularly a rotary knives dividing shears cutting device, wherein one improvement relates to the conversion of a conventional rotary knives shear machine to a planetary rotary knives shear machine, working at a multiple ratio high speed, the other improvement provides planetary rotary knives working at a fractional ratio in order to keep the rotating knives always directed in the same shear direction.

Abstract: A first shear-unit is essentially combined with at least one second shear-unit of the same type in a parallel way or in series, to form one single shear machine, wherein the cutting of an advancing bar is alternately at one or the other shear and for this purpose employing a bar-deviator, which is mounted upstream of these shears.

Abstract: A discharge device for the reception in the axial direction of advancing rolled bars or the like and the discharge of same, this discharge device comprising essentially two rotating drums, opposed to another in a way so as to be rotated on parallel axles between them, substantially on the horizontal plane with an equal number of symmetric arrangements of external radial longitudinal grooves, which form external opposite channels suitable for the reception of the said bars, and in which in the longitudinal lateral opposite horizontal area of said rotating drums is juxtaposed a wall or shell to form a static containing case for the closing of the said channels in the restricted lateral area of each rotating drum, respectively in order to close said drums in the restricted area, wherein the closed channels in the cover section of the restricted area are to receive in opposition, respectively alternately the bars and by the way of the said drums, in order that said bars are respectively rotated into said channels