Abstract: A method for rapidly cooling a product rolled in a rolling mill, for example wire rod fed along a roller conveyor, consists of blasting said product with an air stream in which atomized water is dispersed.

Abstract: A leveling apparatus for leveling a die mounted on die posts on a die base. The die base has first and second die posts on which is mounted a die for adjustable vertical movement. A first motor is operatively connected to the first die post for moving the first die post in a vertical direction. A first vertical position sensor cooperates with the first motor for sensing the vertical position of the first die post. A first servo-feedback device interconnects the first motor and the first vertical position sensor for transmitting a vertical position signal from the first vertical position sensor to the first servo-feedback device. A second motor is operatively connected to the second die post for moving the second die post in a vertical direction. A second vertical position sensor cooperates with the second motor for sensing the vertical position of the second die post.

Abstract: A plurality of processing balls with different outer diameters are prepared at a slidable or rotatable upper stage. One ball, selected from the plurality of prepared balls in correspondence with the inner diameter of a bore of a workpiece, is inserted through the bore while being pressed by a pin.

Abstract: A lubricant is supplied from headers of lubricant supply units onto surfaces of back-up rolls at locations spaced from contact positions between a pair of work rolls and a pair of back-up rolls. The headers each include a lubricant spray nozzle for spraying the lubricant under a pressure not lower than 3 kg/cm.sup.2, a header cover for confining the lubricant sprayed from the lubricant spray nozzle, an oil return line for returning the surplus lubricant, and seal members made of flexible material such as rubber. The work rolls are provided with water wiping plates, and the back-up rolls are also provided with water wiping plates. In a work rolls crossing type mill thus arranged, water films of cooling water deposited on the roll surfaces are removed to prevent the cooling water from mixing into the lubricant. Even if the water films are not totally removed, it is possible to surely plate out the lubricant for reliably lubricating between the work rolls and the back-up rolls.

Abstract: An apparatus for cooling an upper work roll of a rolling mill stand and a strip of metal being rolled has a header to supply a coolant fluid to the work roll and a stripper with a wiper blade that contacts the surface of the work roll between the header and the strip of metal. A fluid cylinder and extension rod cooperate with the stripper to displace the wiper from contact with the upper roll surface and form a gap through which a portion of the coolant fluid flows to contact and cool the strip of metal. A microprocessor and assorted equipment are used to adjust the size of the gap and effect a desired flow of the portion of coolant fluid on to the surface of the strip of metal.

Abstract: A rolled strip extending out of a rolling stand is pushed by a push roll to apply a tension to the strip. The flatness measuring surface of a flatness bar is moved above the pass line to measure flatness values at a plurality of points in the widthwise direction of the rolled strip, based on the applied tension.

Abstract: In cumulative wire-drawing machines comprising a plurality of dies for successively reducing a diameter of a wire and blocks downstream of each one of the dies for pulling the wire through the dies, the speed of the motor driving the blocks can be automatically controlled by a wire accumulation detection device that detects changes in the amount of wire accumulated on the double-block. Specifically in the context of a double-block type machine, the blocks each comprise a lower segment being driven by the motor to pull the wire through the die, an upper segment for providing the wire to a downstream double-block through a downstream die, and a sheave carried on a ring for transferring the wire from the lower segment to the upper segment. The wire accumulation detection device in this case comprises a cam on the ring and a proximity detection device mounted to the housing of the wire-drawing machine that detects the rotation of the ring by detecting a distance to a surface of the cam.

Abstract: A terminal crimping apparatus for performing a crimping operation to crimp a wire barrel end of an electrical terminal on a stripped bare wire end of an electrical conductor, includes a reciprocal ram having a crimping tool cooperable with a crimping anvil and movable between a die open or ready position and a crimping position. The crimping apparatus also includes a device for monitoring the crimped height of the terminal on the conductor during each crimping operation. The monitoring device can be adjusted to accommodate different terminal and conductor configurations. Once calibrated, the monitoring device can be operated in an automatic mode and can be set to automatically stop the terminal crimping apparatus in the event that the crimped height of a terminal and conductor is greater than a selectable and setable high limit or is less than a selectable and setable low limit. The monitoring device operates on the principle that there is a relationship between crimping pressure and desired crimped height.

Abstract: A method for cooling of profiled rolled material hot rolled in roll stands, especially rails on a cooling bed by natural convection or by forced air cooling, which includes conveying the rails across the cooling bed with the rail heads oriented downwards. The apparatus for effecting the method includes a cooling bed having support elements which support the rails in a suspended state with the rail heads oriented downwards.

Abstract: A rolling mill material handling system includes a cooling bed and an associated laying head and cooling conveyor. Hot rolled products may be cut into segments which are shifted laterally onto the cooling bed. Alternatively, the hot rolled products may be directed longitudinally in undivided lengths past the cooling bed to the laying head where they are formed into rings and deposited on the cooling conveyor.

Abstract: A light-section wire mill includes a breaking-down train with a plurality of roll stands, at least one intermediate mill, and a finishing block arranged downstream of the intermediate mill for rolling a single-wire or a multi-wire rolling stock having a circular cross-section and made of a high-grade steel. A temper pass block with at least two roll stand units is arranged downstream of the finishing block. The wire mill further includes a cooling and temperature equalizing apparatus located between the finishing block and the temper pass block.

Abstract: A light-section wire mill includes a breaking-down train with a plurality of roll stands, at least one intermediate mill, and a finishing block arranged downstream of the intermediate mill for rolling a single-wire or a multi-wire rolling stock having a circular cross-section and made of a high-grade steel. A temper pass block with at least two roll stand units is arranged downstream of the finishing block. The wire mill further includes a cooling and temperature equalizing apparatus located between the finishing block and the temper pass block.

Abstract: A rolling mill for wire or bar steel with a continuous light section steel or wire train, comprising a single or multi-line breakdown train with pilot stands, at least one single intermediate train comprising a cooling distance with subsequent soaking distance and a group of intermediate stands located downstream of said breakdown train as well as a finishing train downstream of said intermediate train with a single line group of finishing stands is disclosed, for overcoming unequal temperature distributions across the bar length and cross-section to compensate for varying finishing velocities because of cross-sectional differences caused by unavoidable longitudinal pull between the stands of the breakdown train. Specifically, a first soaking or compensation distance 10 with 180.degree. loop of the rolled stock guided through the horizontal loop former is located between the pilot stand and the group of intermediate stands and a second compensation or soaking distance with 180.degree.

Abstract: A process for obtaining steel strip coils with characteristics of a cold-rolled product, directly in a hot-rolling line, comprises subsequently to steps of casting and thickness reduction at a temperature of more than 1100.degree. C. upon solidification, induction heating of the product and a further step of hot rolling, above point Ar.sub.3, a step of cooling and temperature control in a range of between 600.degree. and 250.degree. C., thus lower than said point Ar.sub.3, as well as one or more passes of cold-rolling in series, with final coiling of the obtained product. Also a preferred plant is described for putting into practice such a process.

Abstract: An apparatus for cooling extruded profile sections comprises nozzles which are arranged above and below an exit path of the extruded profile section and which are formed as air nozzles arranged transversely of the pressing and exit direction of the extruded profile section and having slit-shaped nozzle openings. The air nozzles arranged beneath the exit path have a smaller nozzle slit width than the air nozzles arranged above the exit path and blowing onto the extruded profile section from above; the distance of the lower air nozzles from the extruded profile section is less than the distance of the upper air nozzles from the extruded profile section; and the air nozzles arranged beneath the extruded profile section are offset with respect to the air nozzles arranged above the extruded profile section in each case by half the pitch, measured in the pressing and transport direction of the extruded profile section.

Abstract: In an upsetting press for reducing the width of rolling stock, particularly for reducing the slab width in hot-rolled wide strip roughing mills with tool carriers, which are disposed on either side of the slab edge and accommodate pressing tools, in order to improve the pressing process, the upsetting press has, in the region between the pressing tools, at least one height-adjustable retaining roll above and at least one below the slab, that driver rolls are disposed in the inlet and outlet regions of the upsetting press above and below the slab and the retaining rolls and driver rolls are provided with internal cooling.

Abstract: An apparatus for cooling thin-webbed H-beam steel includes means for forcibly spray cooling the flanges of the H-beam in intermediate and final hot rolling zones. The cooling is based upon tracking information with respect to predetermined positions along the length of the H-beam. A plurality of flow quantity control blocks are disposed in parallel with each having a three way valve having a water supply side port, a nozzle side port, and a water drain port. A plurality of on-off valves connect the nozzle side port to nozzles in a nozzle group to select nozzles based upon the flange width of the H-beam. A variable throttle mechanism maintains pressure loss at the water drain side equal to pressure loss at the nozzle side. Switching of the three way valve of one flow quantity control block can be carried out without affecting other flow quantity control blocks.

Abstract: A water box is used to cool hot rolled products in a rolling mill. The water box includes a base structure supporting a removable manifold, and a plurality of nozzles removably mounted on and in fluid communication with the manifold. The nozzles are lined with inserts which may be replaced when worn. The manifold is reversible end to end, as are the nozzles, thus enabling the water box to be used on either of two parallel rolling lines.

Abstract: A system for processing steel strips in a hot strip mill includes an apparatus and method for minimizing oxide growth on steel strips and reducing wear on work rolls in the finishing mill. In order to reduce oxide build up, steel strips are sprayed with coolant at selected locations throughout the finishing mill and the surface temperature of the strips is controlled to be within the range of an upper limit (T.sub.u) and a lower limit (T.sub.L) where oxide growth is minimized. Accordingly, wear on the work rolls due to abrasive contact with the steel strips is reduced.

Abstract: A rolling mill comprising an actuator for controlling shapes or conditions of work roll surfaces during rolling and a flatness meter for detecting broadwise flatness of rolled strip to generate an output signal whereby the actuator is operated so as to control the flatness of strip, the output signal being analyzed into a plurality of evaluation indexes. Each of the evaluation indexes is converted by a membership function into a fuzzy quantity having one of a predetermined number of values. These fuzzy quantities are subjected to fuzzy reasoning consisting of a plurality of control rules to set the control value of the actuator.

Abstract: One or more spray bars having a plurality of spray nozzles for cooling a rolling mill roll are provided with an apparatus to cause at least one spray bar to undergo a translational, rotational, and/or pivotal movement sufficient to change the spray-angle and/or spray-distance affected by nozzles thereon to thereby control the cooling rate effected by the nozzles so moved. The spray bar can be automatically controlled by providing a means for monitoring the roll condition and/or workpiece condition and means responsive thereto for moving the spray bar as necessary to change and adjust individual cooling rates effected by the nozzles and correct for any undesired result so monitored. A unique spray bar has nozzles arranged in a curved alignment so that each effects a different spray-angle and/or spray-distance. Like apparatus and comparable methods can be utilized to cool a hot rolled product.

Abstract: A thin-webbed H-beam steel having a web thinner that flanges is produced by forcibly water cooling the outer surface of the flanges during an intermediate hot rolling prior to a final hot rolling by cooling to less than 700.degree. C., interrupting the cooling to return the temperature to greater than 700.degree. C., and repeating the cooling and interrupting in order to refine the microstructure of the surface of the flanges to a predetermined depth from the surface; final-hot rolling the intermediate-hot rolled H-beam steel; and forcibly water cooling the flanges of the final-hot rolled H-beam steel in a manner such that the web does not wave during this forcible water cooling, and such that upon completion of the forcible water cooling, thermal stress, generated in the web during air cooling to room temperature, does not exceed the buckling strength of the web.

Abstract: A cooling system for cooling a metal strip moving horizontally along a roller conveyor has a plurality of water boxes (4) arranged between the rollers (1,2,3) of the roller conveyor and each having upwardly directed outlet ducts (6) from which cooling water is projected onto the underside of the metal strip. The ducts (6) are parallel to each other and uniformly spaced across the width of the strip. To improve cooling, particularly its uniformity, the outlet ducts (6) are all shaped and oriented so as to project the cooling water with a component of motion opposite to the direction of movement of the metal strip, and each water box (4) is shaped and located relative to the next preceding roller (1,2,3) in the direction of movement of the metal strip so that during operation the water projected from each water box also cools said next preceding roller.

Abstract: Cylinder for rubber mixing mill, consisting of a hollow cylinder 1 and two flange-journals 2, 3 and driven by a hydraulic motor 21 with a hollow shaft. The hollow cylinder has longitudinal channels 4 provided with solid rods 8 fastened in the two flanges. The temperature regulation of the cylinder is provided by a crossed dual circuit. The temperature regulating fluid circulates in longitudinal channels 4 then cools the inner wall 19 of the hollow cylinder before being evacuated along the axis of the cylinder.

Abstract: A method for automatically adjusting soluble oil flow rates to control physical properties of continuously rolled rod including a nozzle for spraying the rod with fluid, a tank for providing the fluid to the nozzle, a valve means in series with the tank for regulating the fluid flow to the nozzle, a controller means connected to and for controlling the valve to ensure that the fluid flow reaches a desired predetermined rate, a computer means connected to and providing said controller with the desired predetermined fluid flow rate, a flowmeter in series with the valve means for measuring the actual fluid flow rate to the nozzle and providing this information to the controller means so that, if necessary, the valve means may be adjusted to achieve the desired predetermined fluid flow rate and an historical data generating means for automatically adjusting said desired predetermined fluid flow rate in accordance with actual measurements of at least one physical property of the rod whose value depends upon the ac

Abstract: A compact rolling mill for rolling sections includes rolling stands such as universal rolling stands and two-high rolling stands arranged along several rolling lines. Provided in the rolling lines are longitudinal conveyors for transporting the rolling stock along these rolling lines and cross conveyors for transporting the rolling stock between the rolling lines. At least two universal rolling stands are combined with one two-high edging stand to define a universal tandem compact group which together with further universal stands and two-high rolling stands may be displaced from one rolling position to another rolling position in a same rolling line or in a different rolling line. The drive unit is directly coupled to the stands along the outermost rolling line while the other remaining stands are indirectly connected to the drive unit transversely across the other rolling lines via other rolling stands.

Abstract: Method and system for high-speed rolling at about 120 to 140 meters per second and more for rolled stock having a round section and a diameter of 5.5 to 6.5/7 mm. or equivalent, the high-speed rolling being carried out with a system comprising at least one rolling assembly (11) and a coil-forming headstock (12), the rolling assembly (11) including a plurality of pairs of rolls with their axes placed alternately at about 90.degree.

Abstract: A method for cooling and lubricating rolls and/or the rolled material in cold rolling of metal strips in a rolling mill stand. The method includes supplying emulsifiers as necessary and emulsions which contain at least one oil phase. The emulsion is prepared immediately in front of the rolls of the rolling mill stand or immediately in front of the strip inlet into the rolling gap formed by the work rolls by separately supplying the media which form the emulsion. Subsequently, the emulsion is collected behind the rolling mill stand and the emulsion is broken up and the liquid phases are separately processed and reused for forming the initial emulsion.

Abstract: A method and system for suppressing necking and hunting of a hot rolled strip in a hot rolling line includes holding of the strip temperature at the outlet of a finishing mill at a temperature immediately above a transformation temperature. Air cooling of the strip is performed from the transformation start point to the transformation end point. The transformation end point, rapid cooling by water cooling is performed thereafter.

Abstract: An arrangement for cooling in a controlled manner a rolled wire from rolling temperatures. The arrangement includes a cooling unit arranged following a finishing stand, a coiling unit for the wire and a cooling and conveying system for the spread-out wire coils. A pivotable and/or displaceable coil placement unit is arranged between the coiling unit and the cooling and conveying system.

Abstract: Rolling stand with multiple rolls supported as cantilevers for high-speed rolling, which comprises a motor unit (16-15) that actuates at least one common shaft (22a) which transmits motion to a plurality of pairs of rolls (11-12) with their axes placed alternately substantially at a right angle to each other (11a, 12a, 11b, 12b . . . 11n, 12n), the stand including from six to ten pairs of rolls (11-12), the rolled stock being kept under traction between one pair of rolls (11-12) and the next pair (11-12), cooling chamber means (13) followed by temperature equalization chamber means (14) being included between the pair of rolls (12) which processes round sections and the pair of rolls (11) which processes oval sections, the length of the cooling chamber means (13) being at least a function of the rolling speed of the pair of rolls (12) positioned upstream of that cooling chamber means (13), the cooling chamber means (13) being progressively longer in the direction of feed of the rolled stock.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for performing forming operations on steels, metals, and alloys having low deformability and/or high resistance to deformation at room temperature, wherein the thickness of the stock material is small. In the method, stock material is heated by continuous rapid heating, to a temperature of at least 400.degree. C. and at most the AC-1 temperature of the alloy, and the heated material is subjected to a two-stage or multistage forming operation wherein the overall reduction in cross section is substantial. The apparatus includes a heating device of the electrical induction or direct contact type, followed by a temperature equalization and guide device and a multi-stand roll forming mill which may have cooling devices between each stand.

Abstract: In a bar steel rolling mill with a water-cooling segment upstream of a finishing train for thermomechanical finish rolling, respectively, one group of stands of an intermediate train or of intermediate trains, which is adjusted for rolling a larger finish cross-section than the smallest possible finish cross-section, is transferred to a stand location of the finish train, which has a water-cooling segment directly upstream of it. The finishing train for the smallest possible finished cross-section no longer needs to be refurbished to the larger finish cross-section, rather it is simply replaced by a group of stands from one or several intermediate trains, and rapid change devices are utilized for moving the strands and are all connected with each other by a pair of rails extending parallel to the rolling line up to at least one stand location of the finish train.

Abstract: Coolant containment apparatus for a rolling mill in which aqueous coolant liquid is sprayed onto the upper and lower work roll surfaces by upper and lower spray heads only on the exit side of the mill, including an enclosure maintained at subatmospheric pressure and surrounding the upper spray head and adjacent upper work roll and backup roll surfaces, upper and lower air dam members extending along the edges of the enclosure above and below the spray head to define narrow air gaps at the roll surfaces, slippers connected to ends of the dam members and in rubbing contact with the rolls to maintain the gap widths constant, and seal members mounted on the roll supports at the ends of the mill and cooperating with the enclosure to confine the enclosure interior.

Abstract: A microalloyed, fully killed steel has a composition, in weight percent, of from about 0.20 to about 0.45 percent carbon, from about 0.90 to about 1.70 percent manganese, from about 0.10 to about 0.35 percent silicon, from about 0.01 to about 0.04 percent aluminum, from about 0.05 to about 0.20 percent vanadium, from about 0.008 to about 0.024 percent nitrogen, balance iron. The steel is particularly useful when hot rolled to a railway joint bar section, and air cooled. The resulting joint bar meets AREA specifications in the as-rolled condition, without the need for a reheat and oil quench heat treatment after rolling.

Abstract: A system for processing steel strips in a hot strip mill includes an apparatus and method for removing the oxide layer in the finishing mill process such that the final thickness of the oxide layer is much less than previously possible. In order to reduce the thickness of the oxide layer, the invention provides for the removal of oxide scales from the surface of the steel strips at a distance in front of the working rolls of the finishing mill that minimizes the time the strip is exposed to ambient conditions after it is descaled and before it is received between the pair of working rolls. By minimizing this exposure time, the thickness of the oxide layers in the finished strips is substantially reduced.

Abstract: The apparatus for support of a roll in a rolling mill comprises a single supporting member having a longitudinally-extending elliptically-cross sectioned shell-like cavity extending over the entire length of the roll and engaging the roll so it rests in the shell-like cavity and a plurality of crescent-shaped plastic blocking pieces spaced from each other transversely along the supporting member in the shell-like cavity to divide it into a plurality of pressurized chambers to which a plurality of pressurized medium lines are connected. Each of the blocking pieces are provided with a plurality of openings for a lubricant and can be provided with compression springs to urge the blocking piece toward the roll.

Abstract: Multipurpose cooling line to process equally well either steel with a low content of carbon, or equivalent, or steel with a high content of carbon, or equivalent, the line including a roller conveyor (12) downstream of a coil-winder machine (11) to wind wire rod, the roller conveyor (12) comprising forced draught means (13) and an insulation hood (14) and being dimensioned to cool steel coils (15) having a high content of carbon, the terminal portion of the roller conveyor (12) including a first delivery station (28) and a second successive, neighbouring delivery station (29), the first delivery station (28) cooperating with a first pit (18) containing a first coil collection unit (23), while the second delivery station (29) cooperates with a second delivery pit (21) containing a second coil collection unit (22), the first delivery station (21) being located within the insulation hood (14), while the second delivery station (29) is located outside, and on the same axis as, the hood (14 ).

Abstract: A strip mill has the strip deflectors, the strip guide tables, the spray devices for cooling the working rolls and the strip lifters all disposed in the region of the working rolls in a readily accessible structural unit which also forms the guide rails upon which the journal blocks for the working rolls are guided for withdrawal of the working rolls from the mill stand. The unit is connected with our integrated in the working roll bending blocks and parts of the unit are connected with the latter by an inclined groove and rib arrangement.

Abstract: Mandrel rod (1) for pipe rolling mills, in which hollow billet (5) is rolled on mandrel rod (1), consists of two pipes (2, 3) lying inside one another. Annular gap (4) between pipes (2, 3) is filled with a thermosetting plastic, whose coefficient of expansion is selected large enough so that the thermosetting plastic completely fills annular gap (4), even with temperature differences, between pipes (2, 3).

Abstract: A method and apparatus for automatically adjusting soluble oil flow rates to control physical properties of continuously rolled rod including a nozzle for spraying the rod with fluid, a tank for providing the fluid to the nozzle, a valve means in series with the tank for regulating the fluid flow to the nozzle, a controller means connected to and for controlling the valve to ensure that the fluid flow reaches a desired predetermined rate, a computer means connected to and providing said controller with the desired predetermined fluid flow rate, a flowmeter in series with the valve means for measuring the actual fluid flow rate to the nozzle and providing this information to the controller means so that, if necessary, the valve means may be adjusted to achieve the desired predetermined fluid flow rate and an historical data generating means for automatically adjusting said desired predetermined fluid flow rate in accordance with actual measurements of at least one physical property of the rod whose value depen

Abstract: A heating bath including molten metal is situated at an entry into a hot roll mill such that the metal stock entering the hot roll mill passes through the heating bath to acquire heat therefrom. A cooling bath including molten metal is situated at an exit from the hot roll mill such that the metal stock exiting from the hot roll mill passes through the cooling bath delivering heat thereto. The molten metal in each of the baths is caused to flow counter to the direction of passing of the metal stock therethrough to form within each bath a hotter fraction and a cooler fraction of the molten metal. The molten metal is circulated between the heating bath and the cooling bath so that a hottest fraction of the molten metal in the cooling bath is transferred to the heating bath and a coolest fraction of the molten metal in the heating bath is transferred to the cooling bath.

Abstract: The device serves to cool rolls (10, 12), especially in continuous strip casting and in rolling metals. The rolls are covered by hoods, each of which extends from the vicinity of roll nip (26) over a portion of roll surface (28). Spray devices are also provided for supplying a cooling medium (56) to parts of the roll surface. Liquid cooling medium (56) is collected and carried away in the lower part of hood (30). Hoods (30) are sealed off from the corresponding rolls (10, 12). A plurality of spray devices (32) in hood (30) serves to supply an at least partly liquid cooling medium (56) and extends axially over the entire length of the roll. Devices for removing liquid cooling medium (56) from roll surface (28) conduct the latter into a drain or suction device. Spray devices (32) and devices for removing cooling medium (56) are arranged individually or alternately in groups, with removal devices provided at both ends to remove cooling medium (56).

Abstract: A method of detecting spray header valve and nozzle malfunctions, in a spray header including plural nozzles each having its own control valve, by supplying the spray header with liquid at a constant pressure head through a conduit while opening and closing the nozzle valves one at a time, and measuring the flow rate through the conduit each time one of the valves is open and when all the valves are closed. In response to detection of a malfunction at a particular nozzle, the valves of one or more adjacent nozzles are adjusted so that the adjacent-nozzle flow rates compensate for the malfunction, for example to maintain a desired cooling pattern across a surface being cooled by the spray header notwithstanding the malfunction at the particular nozzle.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for use in dropping metal rod stock which is continuously formed in succeeding loops into a coil, where the loops are in spaced apart overlapping relationship moving on a conveyor where the apparatus comprises pinching means disposed on either side of a horizontal conveyor adjacent the drop-off end thereof and spaced a distance apart which is less than the width of the loops, the pinching means including movable means engaging the loops whereby the loops are compressed in one direction and elongated in the other as the loops pass through the pinching means and held in a generally horizontal plane after exiting the conveyor, and dropped vertically from engagement with the movable means to a collection device.

Abstract: A spray system for use in a rolling mill comprises a carriage assembly mounted on linear bearings for movement along an X-axis parallel to an horizontal line passing through the bite of two superposed work rolls, two spray manifolds mounted on the carriage assembly along a Y-axis parallel to a vertical centerline passing through the work rolls, each manifold containing at least one spray nozzle for setting a predetermined spray pattern on each work roll, a carriage traverse mechanism for adjusting the traverse position of the carriage assembly along the X-axis, and two manifold lift mechanisms mounted on the carriage assembly to independently adjust the position of each spray manifold along the Y-axis.

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: A rolling mill stand with work rolls which are supported as necessary by back-up rolls or by intermediate and back-up rolls. The rolls are axially slidable relative to each other. The bodies of the rolls are provided with alternatingly concavely and convexly shaped contours in such a way that the rolls supplement each other in at least one axial position of the rolls so that no gap exists between the rolls. Corrections of the roll gap between a pair of rolls can be carried out by relative axial displacement of the rolls. The contours of the rolls have in the neutral position thereof, in addition to a maximum inclination in the middle, maximum inclinations of the circumferential lines on both sides of the middle of the circumferential surfaces of the rolls in longitudinal direction of the rolls in which roll gap profile changes are to be effected.

Abstract: The invention relates to apparatus and accompanying methods for use therein for forming a material (504), which has high strength and good workability, by rapidly deforming a suitable base metal (501) having a banded structure, such as illustratively a previously cold worked plain low carbon steel alloy, in order to generate a high rate of change in its internal energy which depresses the transformation temperatures of the base metal and thereby induces an allotropic phase transformation to occur therein. This rapid deformation can be produced through rolling, extrusion or forging and causes an extremely high heating rate to occur at each surface of the base metal. Prior to being deformed, the base metal is maintained at a fairly low temperature, e.g. at or near room temperature. The tooling, preferably rolls, that is used to provide the deformation is maintained at a modestly elevated temperature.

Abstract: A rolling mill run-in table has at least two parallel paths extending alongside the receiving end of a cooling bed. First and second slide members extend respectively along each path on the side thereof closest to the cooling bed. First and second unitary lift assemblies extend respectively along the opposite side of each path. Each lift assembly has a side channel opening laterally towards the cooling bed. An underlying operating mechanism alternately adjusts the left assemblies between lowermost positions at which their side channels are closed by the adjacent slide members and aligned with the respective paths to confine product lengths moving axially therealong, and elevated positions at which the side channels are above the receiving paths and clear of the adjacent slide members to accommodate lateral discharge of the product lengths onto the receiving end of the cooling bed.