Abstract: The device of this invention is to prevent the buckling of steel sheets and positional discrepancy between steel sheets by grasping and butting the front and rear ends of sheets by means of clamping means on a joining device carrier. For this purpose, a pair of joining device carrier 3 are moved on rails 8 mounted at both sides of rolls 9 for conveying steel. The rear end of the preceding steel sheet 1 and the front end of the following steel sheet 2 are grasped by the clamping means 4 and 5 on the joining device carrier, respectively. The clamping means 5 is moved close to the clamping means 4 by using a movable frame so that the steel sheets 1, 2 are butted together.

Abstract: A four high mill of a paired-roll-crossing type comprises upper and lower equalizer beams held in contact, respectively, with the uppermost and lowermost surfaces of upper and lower backup roll bearing cases and made movable upwardly and downwardly within a housing, roll-crossing devices mounted in the housing to turn the bearing cases that contain upper and lower work chocks about a common vertical axis on the same horizontal plane so that upper and lower pairs of rolls can cross each other, and devices for separately setting the left and right roll gaps between upper and lower work rolls. The mill further comprises work roll-bending devices mounted at both ends of the work rolls.