Abstract: The disclosure pertains to an arrangement for cooling a heated workpiece, such as, strip or slab as it issues from a rolling mill or continuous slab caster. The longitudinally moving workpiece is caused to pass between a number of coolant discharge headers arranged above and below the workpiece in which, during its cooling, the coolig rates of the upper and lower surfaces of the workpiece differ. The effective discharge of the headers is varied to equalize the cooling rates of the upper and lower surfaces of the workpiece to symmetrically cool the workpiece.

Abstract: An arrangement for controlling the temperature of an arbor-sleeve type roll employed in a rolling process such as in a briquetting machine by transporting temperature control medium to the extremities of the working surface of a removable sleeve by providing in the arbor a system of passageways extending radially and terminating at a point beneath the outer surface of the arbor and by providing in the sleeve a system of interconnecting axially extending passageways. Both of these systems are joined by manifold ring assemblies mounted externally of the roll and which include an expandable bellows which compensate for thermal variation of the roll during the briquetting process. Two other rings, also mounted externally, are connected to the opposite sides of the arbor and sleeve, thereby preventing relative movement between the arbor and sleeve and still permitting the quick removal and replacement of the sleeve.

Abstract: A strip contacting device used between stands of a rolling mill for simultaneously performing combined modes of operation, such as a shapemeter/looper or a shapemeter/tensiometer. It consists of a frame with a pivotal arm connected to a piston cylinder assembly, whereby a desired mode can be carried out by using a shapemeter roller and allowing the arm to either float or assume a fixed position relative to the passline of the mill.

Abstract: An apparatus for distributing a controlled flow of water onto passing hot strips in proportion to the varying width of strips as they issue from a hot strip rolling mill.