Abstract: A rolling block for rolling metallic bars or wires, has a plurality of rolling frames arranged on successive frame spots and each having three rollers arranged in a star-like manner and radially adjustable with respect to a longitudinal axis of a rolling product, a drive for driving the rollers and including separately regulatable motors, the rolling frames including less rolling frames than the frame spots, a first one of the rolling frames which is provided with a drawing pass being located at a first frame spot provided at an inlet side and having a separate front one of the motors, all of the rolling frames provided with finishing passes being located at last frame spots at an outlet side and driven by at least one rear motor, and all remaining rolling frames provided with drawing passes being located at frame spots which immediately follow the first frame spots or at frame spots immediately preceding the rolling frames with finishing passes and driven jointly by at least one central motor.

Abstract: In a method of controlled rod or wire rolling of alloy steel, for example austenitic steel, in a rolling mill comprising a plurality of roll blocks (1, 2, 3) each having a plurality of roll stands, the temperature of the alloy steel being rolled in brought to a predetermined value in its passage between the blocks (1, 2, 3) by positive cooling by a cooler (6, 7) and/or positive heating by a heater (10, 11). Rolling at a specified temperature, or a specified temperature differential between the surface and the core, of the alloy steel being rolled is thus made possible.

Abstract: An apparatus for conveying tubular or bar-shaped rolled stock is provided having a collecting device which collects pieces of tube or bars from a cooling bed in closely spaced pockets, a transverse conveying device having the same pocket spacing as the collecting device which picks the collected pieces from the collecting device and transports them to and deposits them on a longitudinal conveyor, by means of which the pieces of rolled stock are fed to a cutting device which has a clamping device also provided with the same pocket spacing as the collecting device and which cuts the stock into portions of predetermined length.

Abstract: The invention concerns a tube release roll mill with four or more driven rolls, which in pairs form a pass opening. The diagonally positioned identically constructed rolls have an enlarged working surface width. A certain roll pair spacing is also provided, as well as an enlarged angle of attack of the rolls, which together result in the wall thickness of the tube bloom being more uniform, the development of fewer surface defects, and a quieter operation of the roll mill.

Abstract: A rolling line for billets, bars, wire rod or the like, e.g. a roughing line has one or more rolling stands each having three or more driven rolls which are adjustable towards and away from the work material by a worm drive and a screw. The rolls are brought progressively closer together before each pass of the work material, whose cross section is thereby reduced with corresponding elongation. The direction of rotation of the rolls is reversed between each pass, unless two stands for rolling in opposite directions are provided in which case it is possible for the stands to be continuously driven but alternately operative. The work material is turned about its axis through half a roll pitch angle between each pass.

Abstract: In the reduction of the cross section of wire, rods or bars by rolling, the work material is placed under longitudinal compression in a roughing block and/or in an intermediate block and is only under tension in a finishing block. By this means, the ends of the work material are thinned prior to entry into the finishing block, instead of being thickened as they would be if the work material were under tension in the roughing and/or finishing block. Compensation for this end thinning is effected in the finishing block due to the rolling under tension, so that wastage due to cropped thickened ends is avoided.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for cooling wire rod and wire in which wire rod and wire leaving the last roll block of a finishing mill is delivered to a first portion of a cooling path for the cooling of wire or wire which slopes downwardly from a likewise inclined finishing block at an angle .alpha. of at least 3.degree. so that the wire rod or wire is subject to little or no compressive stress due to the friction between the wire rod or wire and the tube through which the latter passes in order to be subjected to cooling liquid. The wire rod or wire can be placed under tension if the angle of slope .alpha. is sufficiently large and, in an extreme case the first portion of the cooling path can decent vertically. A loop layer receives the wire rod or wire from the first portion and deposits the wire rod or wire in overlapping loops on conveying means where the wire rod or wire is air-cooled.

Abstract: A cooling conveyor arrangement for rolled wire or wire rod which has left a water cooler has a loop-forming device which deposits the wire in overlapping loops on an air-cooling conveyor. To obtain a shorter cooling path, which is desirable for high-grade steels to reduce the rate of cooling, the loops fall onto a conveyor portion and are carried by a conveyor portion to a coil-forming station where the loops are collected. To obtain a longer cooling path a removable conveyor portion is switched into place so that the loops are carried along a conveyor portion to an opening where they fall onto a conveyor portion. A conveyor portion is swung into alignment with the portion carrying the loops to feed the loops to the coil-forming station.

Abstract: In the rolling of wire or rod in a rolling line having a roughing or intermediate block whose rolling stands have non-adjustable rolls except for those at the exit end of the block, the rolls of the non-adjustable stands can be re-used at least once in the same stand location after being re-conditioned by reconditioning all the rolls defining a first series of sizing passes so as to form a second series of sizing passes whose individual sizes are larger than those of the first series. The change in dimensions of a given sizing pass as a result of reconditioning is less than the difference between the dimensions of that sizing pass after reconditioning (i.e. of the second series ) and the dimensions of the immediately preceding sizing pass before reconditioning (i.e. of the first series). Thus, after a second or subsequent reconditioning the rolls of a given stand are transferred to the immediately preceding stand for re-use to define the first series of sizing passes.

Abstract: A rolling mill and method for single strand rolling of bar sections is provided having a plurality of successive in-line roughing roll stands on a pass line in which the last two roughing roll stands are radially adjustable transverse to the pass line to produce a rough bar having a cross section substantially the same at its finished section and a plurality of successive in-line finishing roll stands receiving the rough bar and rolling the same to finish condition.

Abstract: A rolling mill for rolling wire or rod product having a plurality of roll stands arranged one after the other, each having at least three driven rollers and in which the distance between at least two adjoining successive stands forming a group is not substantially greater than the roller diameter of the stands and the last sizing pass of each group of stands has a regular cross section in relation to the first sizing pass of the next following group.

Abstract: A rolling block for rolling a bar-shaped article having several rolling units mounted on a common frame, each rolling unit having three or more rollers journalled to respective pivotable elements and defining a sizing pass. For replacing the rollers, the pivotable elements can be swung about respective drive shafts from which the rollers are driven via step-up transmissions within the pivotable elements. The pivotable elements can be locked in their operative positions by hydraulically actuable coupling means and all the pivotable elements with the respective rollers therein can be fine-adjusted in the radial direction of the rollers.

Abstract: Means are provided for adjusting the rotational speed of at least the first pass of a plurality of successive rolling mill passes by measuring the cross section of the work-material being fed to said first pass and adjusting the drive for at least said first pass responsive to said measurement so as to feed to the last pass of the successive passes a cross section which permits at least said last pass to operate at a rotational speed independent of the cross section of the feed material.

Abstract: In a rolling mill train for producing wire, a billet is passed from a furnace to a single-core roughing train and then into a distributor for directing the rolled material into a number of heat-insulated storage channels. At the opposite end of each channel an intermediate train is arranged immediately followed in rectilinear alignment by a finishing train so that the rolled material passes in a straight line directly from the storage channel through the intermediate and finishing train for forming the finished wire.