With Core Inside Coil Patents (Class 72/148)
  • Patent number: 10906078
    Abstract: An apparatus for winding up a metal strip into a coil. A frame in which a second counter-bending roller is mounted in a rotatable manner. The frame is movable with the aid of a second setting device between a coiler shaft position and a roller bed position. In the roller bed position, the second counter-bending roller alongside a first counter-bending roller acts as the roller bed roller of a roller bed which is arranged above the coiling device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: SMS group GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Cramer, Thomas Holzhauer, Andreas Kastner, Heinz-Adolf Müller, Christian Mengel, Janina Weber
  • Patent number: 10646908
    Abstract: A machine for winding coils comprising at least one support frame, a belt having a closed-ring configuration installed on the support frame so as to substantially surround it peripherally, and a platform on which the at least one support frame is positioned. The platform is provided with support elements configured to selectively support the at least one support frame in a distanced position with respect to the platform. Actuation members are associated with at least some of said support elements, and are able to be selectively activated to take at least some of said support elements to a first operating position constraining the support frame to the platform, and to a second non-operating position of non-interference with said support frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: DANIELI & C. OFFICINE MECCANICHE S.P.A.
    Inventors: Andrea Bigoni, Daniel Polito
  • Patent number: 10526154
    Abstract: The invention relates to a winding machine for winding material webs, in particular foils or films, wherein the winding machine comprises a feeder system with a first belt feeder which, during the winding of the material web around a winding core in a first direction, wraps itself at least partially around the material web. The feeder system comprises a second belt feeder which is suitable for winding the material web in a second direction around the winding core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: TRUETZSCHLER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Hachmann, Manfred Penkert
  • Patent number: 10406578
    Abstract: A coiler device (1), provided with a chute roller (50), has: pinch rollers (10a, 10b) that lead a metal sheet carried in along a path line (L1) to a coil-up line (L2) that is curved from the path line (L1); a mandrel (20) that coils the metal sheet and is disposed ahead of the coil-up line (L2); and a chute roller (50) that exposes at least the leading end of the metal sheet to the coil-up line (L2) when being wound to the mandrel (20), and suppresses curving of the metal sheet toward a surface of the metal sheet facing the chute roller (50).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignees: PRIMETALS TECHNOLOGIES JAPAN, LTD., JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Matsumoto, Masahiro Kuchi, Yuji Kanko, Takayuki Endo, Takao Uchiyama, Tsutomu Sugiyama, Takeshi Chiba
  • Patent number: 9958820
    Abstract: In a front/back reversing unit, a base metal sheet having rollers attached thereon is engaged with a rotation spindle fixed to a fitting such that the base metal sheet is rotatable in a horizontal direction. When an operation of rolling up a print target medium is started and if winding tension with respect to the print target medium to be wrapped around a winding shaft becomes unbalanced, the front/back reversing unit rotates in accordance with the winding tension so as to balance the winding tension. Then, when the winding tension applied to the print target medium becomes balanced, the front/back reversing unit is returned to its original position by an elastic member, and the roller of the front/back reversing unit and the winding shaft become substantially parallel to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Numazu, Yasuhiro Tsuyuki
  • Patent number: 9932187
    Abstract: A winding device suitable for winding at least one strip on a mandrel. According to one embodiment the winding device includes a pressure assembly configured to press a strip against the surface of the mandrel when winding the strip. The pressure assembly comprises a first pressure unit which is coupled to and rotates together with the mandrel from a first winding position to a second winding position while the first pressure unit presses on the strip. The pressure assembly further comprises a second pressure unit that is attached to the first pressure unit, and that is configured for pressing on the strip when the first pressure unit reaches the second winding position, allowing forward movement of the strip in the winding direction when the mandrel rotates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: FAGOR, S. COOP.
    Inventors: Imanol Mugica Irastorza, Oscar Gonzalez Mora, Daniel Garcia Chueca
  • Patent number: 9346133
    Abstract: Apparatus for welding continuous strips (1a,1b) wound on a support ring (113), comprising at least means (2) for feeding the strips (1a,1b) to be wound on the support ring (113), an assembly (100) for winding said strips, an assembly (200) for applying radial pressure onto the strips, comprising a first circular jaw (211) and a second circular jaw (212), which are arranged opposite each other and spaced in the longitudinal direction (X-X) by an amount corresponding to the width of the finished seal, and an assembly (300) for welding one (1a) of said strips (1a,1b), said pressing assembly (200) and said welding assembly (300) being coaxial, wherein said welding assembly (300) comprises a first electrode (310) and a second electrode (320) which are arranged inside the jaws (211,212) of the pressing assembly so as to face each other and have a diameter smaller than that of the said jaws (211,212).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: GSKET S.r.l.
    Inventor: Gian Piero Barozzi
  • Patent number: 9299971
    Abstract: A system for the automated coiling of a jelly roll electrode assembly for controlled assembly and tensioning of jelly roll assembly is provided. The system includes: a shuttle, and a mandrel to which electrodes are welded; a base, mateable with the shuttle and on which the battery head assembly is mounted for welding to the mandrel; and a coiling device. The coiling device has an upper spool, a lower spool, holding a separator strip and a platform between the two holding the base. The separator strip is threaded through a passage in the mandrel separating positive and negative portions. Rotating the mandrel coils the positive electrode, the separator strip and the negative electrode to coil around the mandrel. The coiling device may include a feedback loop braking one or both spools and allowing the coiling tension to be programmed to a desired level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph J. Viavattine, Paul B. Aamodt, Sandeep Saurkar, Dona M. Suardini, Brent J. Torgerson
  • Patent number: 9248482
    Abstract: A magnesium hot rolling mill system including a rolling mill having at least two work rolls for rolling of magnesium sheet or plate, a hot coiler positioned on either side of the rolling mill for heating and maintaining a desired temperature of the magnesium sheet or plate, active thermal roller tables, a mill drive system for independently driving the work rolls for asymmetrical rolling of the magnesium sheet and a warm coil loading and payoff station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Fata Hunter, Inc.
    Inventors: Roberto Passoni, Christopher A. Romanowski
  • Patent number: 8387431
    Abstract: A device for coiling thin metal strip, especially hot-rolled or cold-rolled thin steel strip, includes a drivable coiler mandrel which can be adjusted in diameter by expandable segments and can be adjusted to a coil inside diameter and to a diameter for detaching the finished coil. The device further includes an expansion adapter which can be inserted into the open eye of the coil and is mounted on a holder with a guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: SMS Siemag Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Klaus Bäumer, Klaus Ginsberg, Matthias Tuschhoff
  • Patent number: 8388785
    Abstract: A method for effecting a repair and/or strengthening of a pipe. The method comprises cleaning an affected area of a surface of the pipe to provide a cleaned surface of the pipe surface for an area requiring repair; applying a continuous strip around the pipe from a portion prior to the effected area and allowing the continuous strip to extend to a portion after the affected area. The continuous strip forms a spiral sleeve spaced from the pipe surface to provide an annular chamber between the pipe surface and the spiral sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Merit Technologies SDN BHD
    Inventor: Jeffrey Richard De Jong
  • Patent number: 8386066
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for suppressing the influence of roll eccentricities on the run-out thickness of a rolled stock, which runs through a rolling stand, roll eccentricities being identified by using a process model and taken into consideration in the determination of a correction signal for at least one final control element, preferably a final control element for the adjustment position, of the rolling stand, wherein the measured tensile force upstream of the rolling stand is fed to the process model to identify the roll eccentricities. According to the invention, variations in tensile force are fed back in a targeted manner to reduce the effects of periodic roll eccentricities on the rolled stock, whereas all other sources of variation are eliminated. A process model of the rolling nip and the rolls, preferably based on the observer principle, produces reliable data on the roll eccentricity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Josef Hofbauer, Martin Niemann, Bernhard Weisshaar, Dietrich Wohld
  • Patent number: 8322179
    Abstract: In a reel furnace having a strip reeling device, the strip reeling device comprising a reel shaft, a reel drum supported on the reel shaft and at least one stirrup clamp, the reel shaft passing through a furnace wall delimiting the inner space of the reel furnace and being supported rotatably in supporting bearings outside the reel furnace, the reel drum and the at least one stirrup clamp being positioned with respect to one another by means of a connection element, and a gap for receiving a strip head being set between the reel drum and the at least one stirrup clamp. The useful life of the reel drum is appreciably increased and a strip thickness-dependent setting of the entry gap for the hot-rolled strip is ensured when the reel drum is designed as a closed body and the connection element is designed as an actuating device for fixing a specific gap width between the reel drum and the stirrup clamp and for clamping a strip head which has entered the gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Vai Metals Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Oliver Grieshofer, Herbert Hinterleitner, Michael Jesche, Thomas Kierner, Friedrich Moser, Wolfgang Peitl, Guenter Thaller, Peter Wimmer
  • Patent number: 8307683
    Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a coil spring. In the apparatus, a body is provided and a pair of machining units are disposed on the body to oppose each other at one end thereof. In each of the machining units, a mandrel is disposed in an upper central part of the body. The mandrel is rotatably configured to wind a coil spring material around an outer circumference thereof. A first motor is disposed at the other end of the machining unit to provide a driving force for rotating the mandrel. Also, a guide roller part is disposed movable along a length direction of the mandrel to guide the coil spring material to be wound around the mandrel. Two coil spring materials produced from a furnace are wound around the mandrels, respectively to produce two coil springs through one process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Daewon Kang Up Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chan Gi Jung
  • Patent number: 8261589
    Abstract: A method for coiling thin metal strip, especially hot-rolled or cold-rolled thin steel strip, on a coiler mandrel, which is adjusted in diameter, in which, at the beginning, the inner windings of the coil are coiled on the adjusted coiler mandrel diameter, and, after the final winding of the coil, the coiler mandrel is pulled out, or the coil is taken off, wherein one or more profile grooves are pressed into one inner winding or into several adjacent inner windings on the circumference during rotation of the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: SMS Siemag Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Klaus Bäumer, Klaus Ginsberg, Matthias Tuschhoff
  • Patent number: 8256256
    Abstract: A coiler furnace having a heat-insulated enclosure delimiting a furnace interior, a strip coiling device includes a coiler drum having a slotted receiving opening for the hot-rolled strip in the furnace interior, A controlled rotational drive for a coiler shaft is located outside the furnace interior. An inlet and outlet opening to the enclosure for a hot-rolled strip. A strip guiding device between a roller table and the coiler drum. In order to avoid any winding errors, a feeding shield extends through the enclosure of the coiler furnace and is coupled to a displacement drive arranged outside the furnace interior. The displacement drive can be displaced between an insertion position and a withdrawal position of the shield. The feeding shield, in the insertion position, interacts with the strip guiding device to form a feed funnel, mounted upstream the slotted receiving opening on the coiler drum for the hot-rolled strip together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Vai Metals Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Micheal Jesche, Wolfgang Peitl
  • Patent number: 8220305
    Abstract: A device and method for guiding a metal strip in the vicinity of a coiler. The device includes a support frame, which at its first end is rotatably supported about a second axis of rotation relative to a fixed structure and supports a guide table and at its second end, i.e., the end that lies opposite the first end, is rotatably connected with a swivel frame about a first axis of rotation. The swivel arm supports a first guide table at its end that lies opposite the first axis of rotation. Both the support frame and the swivel frame are controlled by their own associated actuators and are suitably positioned according to the desired operating position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: SMS Siemag Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Reinhard Böcking
  • Patent number: 8047040
    Abstract: A wire winding apparatus for winding a wire on a bobbin includes a forming device forming the wire having a rounded cross section to have a polygonal cross section and a winding device winding the wire formed by the forming device on the bobbin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobutaka Kanoh, Hisashi Kato, Tetsuya Morita, Akinori Hoshino
  • Patent number: 7942029
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for expanding the use of a coiling and uncoiling station (coilbox) located between the roughing train and the finishing train for rolled strip material in hot-rolling mills. The use of said coilbox is expanded by impinging the coil that is to be uncoiled with a pressing force (F) which acts in the direction of the roller table (4) and/or placing the coil in a depression of the roller table in order to process smaller coil weights in a spikeless coilbox, and/or by combining, in a chronological and weight-related manner, the active transfer and passive transfer of a coil from a first coiling station to a second coiling station in order to increase the throughput especially at average coil weights in a spikeless coilbox, and/or by supplying heat to the strip upstream or downstream of the spikeless coilbox and/or thermally insulating the strip or the coilbox in order to variably increase and homogenize the strip temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: SMS Siemag Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Klaus Bäumer, Benhard Ehls, Matthias Beuter, Thomas Runkel, Matthias Krüger, Peter Schmitz
  • Patent number: 7823431
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed for temporarily interrupting the passage of a long product between upstream and downstream paths in a rolling mill. Product passing along the upstream path is delivered onto a cylindrical drum. The drum is rotated in one direction to accumulate the product thereon in a series of windings. The direction of drum rotation is then reversed to unwind and deliver the accumulated product to the downstream path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Industry, Inc.
    Inventors: T. Michael Shore, Melicher Puchovsky
  • Publication number: 20100263423
    Abstract: A method for coiling thin metal strip, especially hot-rolled or cold-rolled thin steel strip, on a coiler mandrel, which is adjusted in diameter, in which, at the beginning, the inner windings of the coil are coiled on the adjusted coiler mandrel diameter, and, after the final winding of the coil, the coiler mandrel is pulled out, or the coil is taken off, wherein one or more profile grooves are pressed into one inner winding or into several adjacent inner windings on the circumference during rotation of the coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: Klaus Bäumer, Klaus Ginsberg, Matthias Tuschhoff
  • Patent number: 7814772
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a coiler drum to be used in a coiler furnace and a coiler drum. The method comprises the step of forming a trinickel aluminide containing surface layer onto a coiler drum body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Metso Minerals, Inc.
    Inventors: Osmo Mikkola, Timo Norvasto, Pirjo Virtanen
  • Publication number: 20100212386
    Abstract: The invention concerns a device for guiding a metal strip 200 in the vicinity of a coiler and a method for operating a device of this type. The device of the invention comprises a support frame 160, which at its first end is rotatably supported about a second axis of rotation D2 relative to a fixed structure 400 and supports a guide table 120 and at its second end, i.e., the end that lies opposite the first end, is rotatably connected with a swivel frame 140 about a first axis of rotation. The swivel arm supports a first guide table at its end that lies opposite the first axis of rotation D1. Both the support frame 160 and the swivel frame 140 are controlled by their own associated actuators and are suitably positioned according to the desired operating position. It is advantageous that the device of the invention can be adjusted in an especially universal way, i.e., that it can be moved into many different operating positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2007
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Inventor: Reinhard Böcking
  • Publication number: 20090158800
    Abstract: A coil forming method, a coil forming die assembly and a coil manufactured by the coil forming method are disclosed. The coil forming method comprises conducting preliminary forming work on a coil under a linear state before conducting bending work on the coil. The preliminary forming work including conducting compression work on the coil under the linear state to compress the coil in a region covering a rounded corner portion formed when bending work is conducted to decrease a dimension of the coil in a widthwise direction. The dimension of the coil is decreased in the widthwise direction by the nearly same dimension as that of the coil bulged in the widthwise direction when bending work is conducted in the absence of the preliminary forming work. This prevents the occurrence of bulging of the coil during bending work with an increase in lamination factor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masahiro TAKADA
  • Publication number: 20090139291
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a coiler drum to be used in a coiler furnace and a coiler drum. The method comprises the step of forming a trinickel aluminide containing surface layer onto a coiler drum body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2007
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Applicant: METSO LOKOMO STEELS OY
    Inventors: Osmo Mikkola, Timo Norvasto, Pirjo Virtanen
  • Patent number: 7540178
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rolling plant (100) and to a method for its operation. Known rolling plants (100) typically comprise a reversing stand (110) for rolling a metal strip (200) in a plurality of rolling operations until the metal strip has reached the desired thickness. The reversing stand (110) is typically assigned at least one reversing reel device (130), which has a reel mandrel (132), for temporarily storing the metal strip (200) after individual rolling operations. The known rolling plants (100) also have a sensor device for determining the thickness of the metal strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2009
    Assignee: SMS Demag AG
    Inventors: Martin Peter, Ulrich Patzelt, Hans-Peter Richter
  • Patent number: 7454938
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for winding a band into a coil on a chuck driven into rotation around its axis, by means of a winding assembly including a roll (3) for applying the band (1), by an internal face (11), to the chuck (2) means (62) for pushing the roll (3) towards the chuck (2) and a bending plate (4) having a curved face (40) for guiding the band (1) along the external face (20) of the chuck (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: Siemens Vai Metals Technologies SAS
    Inventors: Francis Morel, Christelle Vidal, Vincent Philippaux, Jean Perret
  • Patent number: 7454937
    Abstract: An expandable and contractible coiler mandrel for coiling metal strip, including: a rotatably supported coiler mandrel shaft with a wedge surface on its outer circumference; cooperating segments, which have an outer circumference with a coiling surface for the strip, and which have an opposing wedge surface cooperating with the wedge surface of the mandrel shaft in their end region facing away from the coiling surface; a mechanism for shifting the segments relative to an axial direction of the mandrel shaft; and a supply system for conveying lubricant to coiler mandrel regions that require lubrication. The supply system is connected with a lubricant pump having an actuating element for pumping, such that the pump is connected with the shifting mechanism or with the mandrel shaft, and the actuating element is connected with the other of the mandrel shaft or the shifting mechanism whereby pumping occurs only when the shifting mechanism is actuated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: SMS Demag AG
    Inventors: Ulrich Patzelt, Franz Nosolik
  • Patent number: 7424987
    Abstract: Coiling device (10) and relative coiling method for rolled or drawn long products, comprising a mandrel (11), arranged cantilevered and rotatable with respect to a central longitudinal axis (X), and on which the long products are wound in adjacent and superimposed spirals (33), in order to form a compact coil (31) having the geometric shape of a circular ring with lateral flanks substantially orthogonal, or very angled, with respect to the central longitudinal axis (X). The mandrel (11) comprises a flange (12) substantially orthogonal, or very angled, with respect to the central longitudinal axis (X) which defines a first lateral flank of the coil (31). The mandrel (11) also comprises first arm elements (13) which define the cylindrical surface of the core that forms the coil (31), and second arm elements (14), opposite the flange (12), which define a second flank of the coil. The first and the second arm elements (13,14) are mobile between a first coil-forming position and a second coil-removal position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2008
    Assignee: Danieli & C. Officine Meccaniche SpA
    Inventors: Giuseppe Bordignon, Ivan Paiaro, Andrea De Luca, Rolando Paolone
  • Publication number: 20080184757
    Abstract: A multi-groove feed system for a dual point coiling apparatus includes a single set, or a reduced number of sets, of multi-groove feed rolls and multi-groove wire guides, or multi-groove guides, associated with a moveable feed frame to run the entire size or configuration range of wire, or other material, of a dual point coiling machine without the need, or to minimize the need with a reduced number of sets, to change the feed tooling to accommodate a range of sizes or configurations of wire or other material to be coiled. The multi-groove feed rolls are each provided with a plurality of grooves of different sizes or configurations and the multi-groove wire guides, or multi-groove guides, are each provided with a plurality of corresponding apertures or passages of different sizes or configurations that correspond to a plurality of sizes or configurations or wire or other material be coiled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2007
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Inventor: Ralph Napiany
  • Patent number: 7401485
    Abstract: Steel strip issues continuously from a downstream end of a rolling line and can be wound up there on a coiler. An inspection table downstream of the rolling line has a surface aligned with the downstream end and the strip emerging therefrom. The coiler is below a plane of the table surface. During normal rolling the strip is deflected downward to the coiler and reeled up. For inspection of the strip, the strip is cut transversely to produce a new leading end and is fed starting at this end toward the table without substantial deflection. Then the strip is cut again upstream of the new leading end to form a strip sample separate from the strip emerging from the rolling line, which sample is fed to the table and arrested and inspected while strip emerging from the line is deflected back down to the coiler to continue coiling it up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2008
    Assignee: SMS Demag Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Martin Peter, Rudolf Hofheinz, Alfons Baumhoff
  • Patent number: 7293446
    Abstract: The invention relates to a coil box, which is mounted between a roughing rolling train and a finishing rolling train, for metal pre-strips, in particular steel strips, which are hot wound to form coils and are protected against further cooling in the vicinity of a winding and/or unwinding station (6) by means of heat-shield devices (7) on the front faces (5a; 5b) of the coils. The aim of the invention is to universally configure said coil box. To achieve this, the heat-shield devices (7) are configured from lateral walls (8; 8b) that can be pivoted to rest against the front faces (5a; 5b) of the coils and a pair of opposing heat-shield devices (7) can be aligned in parallel to different coil widths (5c).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2007
    Assignee: SMS Demag AG
    Inventors: Barbara Ladda-Zunk, Waldemar Michel, Bernhard Ehls, Matthias Beuter
  • Patent number: 7257977
    Abstract: A system and the relevant thermo-electromechanical process with two superimposed devices (A) able to coil and uncoil a pre-strip (a) by reversing their positions, provided with outer (4) and inner (7) burners to respectively equalize and optimize the temperature along the whole pre-strip by means of special algorithms of the control software, suited to also control the speed, acceleration and deceleration, both in the coiling and uncoiling step, of the chuck (6) up to the advanced stop during coiling to let a segment of tail (c) of the pre-strip out of the device (A). A particular structure of the chuck (6)is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Inventor: Giovanni Arvedi
  • Patent number: 7237414
    Abstract: A coiler drum of a reversing rolling mill includes a work portion that engages a strip of metal being processed in the reversing rolling mill. The work portion includes an inner base surface and engaging strips that extend radially outward from the base surface. When the metal strip is engaged by the work portion, the metal strip does not contact the inner base surface, which has a surface area greater than 35 percent of the work surface. The engaging strips can be formed on the coiler drum by using weld overlays, inserts into slots, or by casting the engaging strips onto the coiler drum at the time the coiler drum is cast. The engaging strips may be laterally offset from one another and have a length less than 50 percent of the axial length of the work portion. The engaging strips may also be formed from a different material than the material of the work surface of the coiler drum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: IPSCO Steel, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Acquaviva, Andrew P. Goodman
  • Patent number: 7191627
    Abstract: A method for coiling thin metal strip on a coiler mandrel, which is adjusted in diameter, in which, at the beginning, the inner windings of the coil are coiled on the adjusted coiler mandrel diameter, and, after the final winding of the coil, the coiler mandrel is pulled out, or the coil is taken off. One or more profile grooves are pressed into one inner winding or into several adjacent inner windings on the circumference during rotation of the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignee: SMS Demag AG
    Inventors: Klaus Bäumer, Klaus Ginsberg, Matthias Tuschhoff
  • Patent number: 7155950
    Abstract: The invention relates to a damper construction (2) of a furnace coiler (1) which can especially be used in Steckel mills (1). A hot rolled strip is respectively coiled onto, and uncoiled off, a drum inside the furnace in a reversing manner, by means of a back and forth transport movement, and is optionally heated. Guiding flaps (6, 6?) are mounted on the displaceable damper (2) of the furnace coiler, for inserting and guiding the rolled strip. In order to improve maintenance work, the dampers (2) and the furnace coiler (1) are embodied as separate components. The dampers (2) are arranged on an element (4?) pertaining to a displaceable roller rack (4), said element being located beneath the furnace coiler (1). Each damper (2) is divided into at least two elements (2?, 2?) which can be hinged together, the two hinged elements being connected by means of a hinge bearing (7) in a pivoting manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: SMS Demag AG
    Inventors: Werner Dommel, Wolfgang Fuchs, Andreas Bohn
  • Patent number: 7121130
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an installation for hot-rolling strips using a reversible Steckel rolling frame (8), each side of which is equipped with a respective furnace coiler (9, 10) and a driving mechanism (17,18), provided between the furnace coiler (9, 10) and Steckel rolling frame (8). The aim of the invention is to crop particularly thin, hot strips. To achieve this, the strip is cropped during the reversible rolling process by a single pair of flying cropping shears (20), positioned between one of the driving mechanisms (17) and the Steckel rolling frame (8). The cropping shears comprise in particular a drum blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Assignee: SMS Demag AG
    Inventors: Hartmut Kirstein, Heiko Reichel
  • Patent number: 7089771
    Abstract: In a method and a strip treatment installation, in particular a strip rolling mill train or a strip rolling stand, to avoid strip stickers, as the material is being wound up the distribution of the radial pressure exerted by the strip on the coiler drum or a winding reel is measured over the strip width, then the measured values are used to produce a reproduction of the actual local stress distribution in the strip, and this reproduction is used as a template for a set curve for controlling the strip tensile stress distribution, on the basis of which actuators of the strip treatment installation are adjusted with a view to achieving a uniform compressive stress distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: BFI VDeh—Institut fur angewandte Forschung GmbH
    Inventors: Gert Mucke, Paul-Dieter Putz, Eberhard Neuschutz
  • Patent number: 7059161
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and device for measuring and influencing the strip flatness in the coiler shaft of a hot-strip mill, whereby the coiler shaft has, between a driver and a coiler, moving and stationary strip guides as well as a flatness measuring roll (13). The hot strip (1) is supplied via the coiler shaft to a coiler, which is provided with a coiler mandrel (5), pressure rolls (6) and with deflecting shells (7), over a roller table (2) and the driving rolls (3, 4) of the driver. The flatness measuring roll (13) is displaced out of a working position, in which the hot strip is guided around the flatness measuring roll (13) while maintaining an approximately constant contact angle ?, and into a lowered position. In addition, a strip guide (14), which can swivel inward and protects the flatness measuring roll (13), is placed inside the coiler shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: SMS Demag AG
    Inventors: Jürgen Armenat, Klaus-Jürgen Grosshardt, Martin Braun
  • Patent number: 6823579
    Abstract: The present invention comprises a portable platform (10) for use in gasket manufacture, comprising a shaft connected to a motor and can receive at least one mandrel, and a surface to receive at least one molding tool, the mandrel being activated by the motor to turn in relation to the platform (10) and to the tool, and to move gasket-forming elements, such as metallic or non-metallic strips, among others, to be processed by the tool. Moreover, as much the mandrel as with the tool are replaceable respectively between mandrels and tools with different characteristics. Thus, the same platform (10) may produce different types of gaskets, and, consequently, speed up and facilitate the gasket replacement process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2004
    Assignee: Manegro Administracao E Participacoes LTDA.
    Inventor: José Carlos Carvalho Veiga
  • Patent number: 6810706
    Abstract: The invention provides apparatus and methods for coiling and uncoiling a metal strip in which the angular position of a coiler is measured and an actuator is provided for a moveable roll, the moveable roll position being varied as a function of the coiler. The present invention aims to avoid tension variations in the metal which cause width and thickness variations in rolling operations for instance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2004
    Assignee: VAI Industries (UK) Limited
    Inventors: Michael Clark, Anthony Marples
  • Patent number: 6718810
    Abstract: The object of the invention is a method and an apparatus for bringing elongated metallic scrap into a more compact form by bending the metallic scrap to be brought into a shape requiring less space substantially around a bending member (6a, 6b) comprised by a forming member (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Assignee: Savonlinnan PR-Urakointi Oy
    Inventor: Pentti Räsänen
  • Publication number: 20040007035
    Abstract: The invention provides apparatus and methods for coiling and uncoiling a metal strip in which the angular position of a coiler is measured and an actuator is provided for a moveable roll, the moveable roll position being varied as a function of the coiler. The present invention aims to avoid tension variations in the metal which cause width and thickness variations in rolling operations for instance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2003
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventors: Michael Clark, Anthony Marples
  • Patent number: 6604398
    Abstract: The installation includes an in-line arrangement of a metal pickler, a reeling arrangement installed on the coiling side of the metal pickler, and a cold-rolling mill. The method includes ones of the following alternative sequences of work steps: (a) the strip leaving the metal pickler bypasses the reeling arrangement and is introduced into the cold-rolling mill for a first reduction pass and rolled out over the course of several deformation passes; or (b) the strip leaving the metal pickler is wound on the reeling arrangement into a coil; after the coil is switched to the uncoiling position, the strip is fed into the cold-rolling mill and rolled out over the course of several deformation passes; or (c) the strip leaving the metal pickler is wound as hot-rolled strip on the reeling arrangement to obtain the finished strip; or (d) pre-pickled, hot-rolled strips are sent to the reeling arrangement and then uncoiled from the uncoiler into the cold-rolling mill and rolled in several deformation passes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2003
    Assignee: SMS Demag AG
    Inventor: Manfred Hansen
  • Patent number: 6604396
    Abstract: A wire condenser element bending method and a wire condenser element bending apparatus bend two wire condenser elements by pressing the wire condenser elements against a bending roller to form two scroll wire condensers simultaneously. Inner edge parts of the wire condenser elements are held by holding devices at diametrically opposite positions on the outer circumference of the bending roller. Pressure rollers press the two wire condenser elements against the bending roller while the bending roller is rotated to form two scroll wire condensers simultaneously. Each wire condenser element serves as a separator for separating layers of the other wire condenser element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2003
    Assignee: Sanoh Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Norio Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 6588245
    Abstract: Roll gap control is provided using a first roll position detector that detects a first position of a first roll, a second roll position detector that detects a first position of a second roll and a third roll position detector that detects a first position of the third roll. A processor determines a second position of the first roll based on the first position of the second roll and the first position of the third roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: General Electric Co.
    Inventor: Barra O'Fathaigh
  • Patent number: 6502445
    Abstract: A coiling machine for hot rolled stock with a thickness of between 0.5 and more than 5 mm, arranged downstream of a rolling train and a shears assembly (11). The coiling machine comprises a turntable assembly (12) rotating around an axis of rotation (13) orthogonal to the axis of feed of the rolled stock and lying on a plane substantially parallel to the plane of feed (14) of the rolled stock wherein the turntable assembly (12) supports two coiling mandrels (15a, 15b) arranged diametrically opposite each other and with an axis parallel to the axis of rotation (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2003
    Assignee: Danieli & C. Officine Meccaniche SpA
    Inventors: Fausto Drigani, Giacinto Dal Pan, Cesare Galletti
  • Publication number: 20020046588
    Abstract: The invention provides apparatus and methods for coiling and uncoiling a metal strip in which the angular position of a coiler is measured and an actuator is provided for a moveable roll, the moveable roll position being varied as a function of the coiler. The present invention aims to avoid tension variations in the metal which cause width and thickness variations in rolling operations for instance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2001
    Publication date: April 25, 2002
    Inventors: Michael Clark, Anthony Marples
  • Patent number: 6301946
    Abstract: In order to prevent a preceding strip from being oversupplied on a delivery side of a coiling pinch rolls and to prevent a leading end of the following material from being over supplied on an entrance side of the coiling pinch rolls, to provide a strip coiling method in which a strip sent from a rolling mill is cut to a predetermined length by a strip shear (102), and a cut strip is coiled by a mandrel (107) of a coiler (104) via a coiling pinch rolls (105) disposed on a delivery side of a strip shear (102), characterized in that after a tail end of the strip coiled by the mandrel (107) via the coiling pinch rolls (105) is cut by the strip shear (102), a circumferential speed of the coiling pinch rolls (105) is higher than a transfer speed of the following material immediately after the cutting operation and lower than a coiling speed of the strip coiled by the mandrel (107).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: Kawasaki Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Taichi Kukizaki, Yasuo Ichii, Toshio Imazeki, Satoshi Shibuya, Kiyoshi Ueda, Itaru Hishinuma, Hideyuki Nikaidoh
  • Patent number: 6293132
    Abstract: Carousel winding reel (10) for thin or very thin strip/sheet, up to 0.5 mm, hot rolled and leaving in a continuous strip from a rolling train at speeds of 20 meters per second and more, the reel (10) comprising a pair of mandrels (11a, 11b) arranged with their respective axes parallel to each other (12a, 12b) and associated with a structure (13) able to rotate around a longitudinal axis (14) substantially between the axes (12a, 12b), the rotatable structure (13) including a front body side (28a) and a rear body side (28b), the mandrels (11a, 11b) including alternatively a position of winding and a stand by position, the drive means of the mandrels are motors (15a, 15b), the motors including a rotor (115) and stator (215), the body sides (28a, 28b) including the seatings (29) of the main bearings (18) of the rotor (115), the stator (215) being connected to at least one body side by anti-torsion means (27).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2001
    Assignee: Danieli & C. Officine Meccaniche SpA
    Inventors: Fausto Drigani, Cesare Galletti