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).

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.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for cooling and/or lubricating rollers, in particular the working rollers (2, 3) on a rolling stand and a rolled strip (1), rolled between the above rollers and transported onwards, using water in the form of spray jets (4, 5) as cooling medium and oil, oil/water mix, oil/water mix, oil/air/water mix or grease mixtures as lubricant. In order to improve the lubricating and cooling effects, a combined application of super-cooling the strip and roller surfaces and roller lubrication on the input side of the stand is disclosed, in which both media, water and lubricant, are separately fed to the rollers (2, 3) and the rolled strip and applied to the roller surface at different application points. Separate reservoirs for water and lubricant and separate lines to the spraying bar (11) for water and the spraying bar (12) for the lubricant are provided.

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.

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.

Abstract: A method of X-H rolling of a parallel flange steel structural shape or beam with an H cross section using a compact rolling group. In the first universal mill frame the vertical roll have roll surfaces inclined to one another at an angle up to 10° whereas in the second universal mill frame the vertical rolls have cylindrical roll surfaces which divide the H opening cross section with lateral surfaces of the horizontal roll. The structural shape is rolled in the second universal mill frame to up to 100% of the reduction in the first rolling mill frame.

Abstract: An electric heating type rolling device comprises work rolls for rolling a metal strip, a power supply for generating a pulse current, a pair of upstream contact members which are disposed in a location before the metal strip passes through the work rolls, and a pair of downstream contact members which are disposed opposite to the upstream contact members in a location after the metal strip has been rolled by the work rolls and passed thereby. The contact members are electrically connected to the power supply. Each contact member includes a first contact portion contacting the metal strip, a flat portion which is extended from the first contact portion toward the work rolls while being spaced apart from the metal strip, and a second contact portion which is extended from the flat portion to contact the metal strip.

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.

Abstract: An electric heating type rolling device comprises work rolls for rolling a metal strip, a power supply for generating a pulse current, a pair of upstream contact members which are disposed in a location before the metal strip passes through the work rolls, and a pair of downstream contact members which are disposed opposite to the upstream contact members in a location after the metal strip has been rolled by the work rolls and passed thereby. The contact members are electrically connected to the power supply. Each contact member includes a first contact portion contacting the metal strip, a flat portion which is extended from the first contact portion toward the work rolls while being spaced apart from the metal strip, and a second contact portion which is extended from the flat portion to contact the metal strip.

Abstract: A method for producing ring members, such as rings for rolling bearings, through use of a rolling operation involves warming a ring blank, positioning the warmed ring blank over a mandrel which is rotatable about a first axis, and positioning a forming roll rotatable about a second axis aligned with the first axis so as to form a rolling gap with the mandrel, with a portion of the ring blank being positioned in the rolling gap. The forming roll is driven to rotate in one rotary direction while the mandrel is driven to rotate in a rotary direction opposed to the rotary direction of the forming roll. During rotation of the forming roll and the mandrel, the mandrel is urged towards the forming roll to reduce the size of the rolling gap and thereby reduce the thickness of the ring blank while also increasing its diameter.

Abstract: A heat shield arrangement (12) for a roller table (2) comprising respective upper and lower series of heat shield panels (32,34,36,18) above and below a hot material path (42) along the table. The lower series of panels (18) includes at least one panel that is displaceable to permit a greater radiation loss from a central region of the path (42) than from laterally outer regions to each side of the central region. The upper series of panels includes at least one central panel (34) and at least two laterally outer panels (32,36) on opposite sides of said central panel (34), the outer panels (32,36) being suspended from a primary support structure (26) and said central panel (34) being suspended from an auxiliary support structure (30) displaceable relative to the primary support structure (26) to raise said central panel (34) relative to the outer panels (32,36). By these means a more uniform lateral temperature profile can be obtained even for thick transfer bars.

Abstract: An induction heating device is disclosed for heating a rolling roller by induction heating so as to equalize the diameter of the rolling roller. The device includes an induction heater and a means for moving the induction heater to a portion of the roller surface to be heated, while the distance from the induction heater to the surface is maintained constant. An electric power supply means supplies electric power to the induction heater, and a means is provided for adjusting the quantity of heat to be produced by the induction heater according to the quantity of heat that is required by the portion of the roller to be heated. The heat quantity adjusting means includes a frequency control means for controlling the frequency of electric power supplied to the induction heater, wherein the frequency control means adjusts the frequency of electric power within a predetermined frequency range to a frequency which is suitable to produce the quantity of heat required by the portion of the rolling roller to be heated.

Abstract: Rolling of metallic products to be heated to form wires, rods and seamless pipes, includes rolling of wires or rods as well as rolling of seamless pipes on a same rolling apparatus, and using a part of aggregates of the same rolling apparatus both for rolling of wires or rods and for rolling of pipes.

Abstract: In a process for producing a hot-rolled product by continuously casting a strand, separating a strand piece from the strand, thermally influencing the strand piece by temperature equalization and/or strand piece heating and hot-rolling the strand piece, continuous casting takes place at two or several continuous casters. The strand pieces are rolled in a rolling mill associated with these continuous casters, to which the strand pieces are conducted by diverting the strand pieces into the line of the rolling mill from at least one of the continuous casters whose line does not register with the line of the rolling mill. In order to reach a higher plant availability, thermal influence of the strand pieces to be diverted is effected during the diversion of the strand pieces after their emergence from the continuous caster line and prior to their introduction into the rolling mill line while completely clearing the continuous caster lines and the rolling mill line.

Abstract: Process and apparatus for bending thin-wall thermoplastic tubing utilizing pressure inside the tube portion being bent to thereby maintain the shape of the tube during bending, and applying heat only in the zone of the tube that is stretched by pulling it axially during continuous incremental bending around a rotatable bend die to thereby maintain the original cross-sectional shape of the tubing. The tube inside radius surface is continuously supported during application of bending-induced tensile stress by causing the tube to track or wrap partially around a rotatable bend die in a generally linear (minimum slip) tracking mode.

Abstract: In a method and a device for descaling a metal strip, the metal strip is guided in a transport direction from a first roll stand to a second roll stand. A descaling device is positioned between the first and second roll stands. A descaling liquid is sprayed onto the metal strip from a working distance relative to the metal strip via the descaling device. The metal strip is moved at the location of the descaling device by a forced deflection amount in a direction transverse to the transport direction via an advancing element. A position of the descaling device is adjusted based on the forced deflection amount such that the working distance stays the same.

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).

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for rolling a metal strip (6) in a reverse rolling mill (1) with a coiler located upstream and a coiler located downstream (4,5). The metal strip is wound off the upstream coiler (4) with a strip thickness (d) and at a strip temperature (T) above a set temperature (T*). It is then passed through the reverse rolling mill (1) with a first draught of at most 5% and at a speed (v) before being wound up by the downstream coiler (5). The speed (v) at which the strip is passed through the rolling mill is selected with the aim of ensuring that the strip has reached the set temperature (T*) by the time it is wound up. The strip is then wound off the downstream coiler (5), passed through the reverse rolling mill (1) with a second draught of at least 10% and wound up by the upstream coiler (4).

Abstract: According to the invention, the rear end of a preceding metal piece and a front end of a succeeding metal piece are heated, pressed and joined prior to the finishing hot rolling. An alternating magnetic field running through the metal pieces in the thickness direction thereof is generated in an end region on opposed faces of the respective metal pieces to perform heating. Another alternating magnetic field whose direction is reverse with respect to that of the former alternating magnetic field is partially generated in the end region on the opposed faces of the metal pieces and in either a region where the metal pieces exist or a region outside width ends of the metal pieces. This assures a uniform heating of the end region on the opposed faces of the metal pieces over their full width to reliably join the both metal pieces to each other.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for joining metal pieces wherein the rear end of a preceding metal piece and a front end of a metal piece are heated and then pressed together prior to hot finished rolling. The temperature the ends of the metal pieces are heated to is a temperature range between the solidus and liquidus line temperatures of the metal(s) to be joined.

Abstract: A process for rolling a metal strip, in particular a steel strip, using a cold-rolling train, which is followed by an annealing section and a temper pass section, the outflow thickness, i.e., the setpoint thickness of the metal strip at the outflow from the cold-rolling train being determined as a function of the setpoint hardness and the setpoint thickness of the metal strip at the outflow from the temper pass section.

Abstract: A rolling mill has roughing, intermediate and finishing roll stands on a first side of a billet reheating furnace, and a breakdown mill on an opposite second side of the furnace. Billets are heated to an elevated rolling temperature in the furnace and are then ejected to the second side of the furnace for rolling in the breakdown mill before being directed back through the furnace for continued rolling into finished products at the first side of the furnace in the roughing, intermediate and finishing roll stands.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for joining metal pieces using induction heating. Metal pieces to be joined are placed end-to-end with a gap between them and induction heated in the thickness portion. To maximize speed and even heating edge-to-edge of the ends, members of a magnetic substance are provided in a gap between the inductor and the piece to be heated, thereby enhancing local heating effect by increasing magnetic flux density. Once heated, the ends are pressed together end-to-end for joining.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a thin cold rolled inner shield steel sheet for use in a braun tube is disclosed. With this method, a steel sheet with superior magnetic field shielding properties can be manufactured by carrying two steps of cold rolling without adding an expensive alloy element, and without using a special decarburizing facility such as OCA. The method includes the following steps. There is prepared a steel slab composed of, in wt %, 0.0025% or less of C, 0.05-0.25% of Mn, 0.05-0.15% of Si, 0.015 or less of Al, and a balance of Fe and other impurity elements. Then a hot rolling is carried out on the steel slab at a temperature of 910° C. or above. Then a first cold rolling is carried out, and a first annealing is carried out at above a recrystallization temperature. Then a second cold rolling is carried out at a reduction ratio of 25-45%.

Abstract: The present invention is a method and apparatus for the production of thin metal strip by the hot rolling process. Significant improvements in the finished products can be made by the arrangement of the apparatus and the method of the present invention. The apparatus of the present invention is a metal processing line having a roughing reversing mill stand and a finishing reversing mill stand, each with different sized working rolls. A heating furnace precedes each mill stand. The apparatus in the present invention has the advantages of producing desired thin metal strip in the thickness range of about 0.4 to about 1.2 mm at temperatures appropriate for the specific metal being rolled.

Abstract: A crimping press having a motor, a gear and first guides, at which a crimping ram is guided, arranged at a frame. A shaft driven by the gear has an eccentric spigot at one end and a resolver for the detection of the rotary angle coupled on at the other end. The crimping ram includes a sliding member guided in the first guides and a tool holder with force sensor and retaining fork. The sliding member stands in loose connection with the eccentric spigot, wherein the rotational movement of the eccentric spigot is translated into a linear movement of the sliding member. The tool holder usually actuates a tool which, together with an anvil belonging to the tool, produces the crimped connection. For calibration of the force sensor, a crimping simulator is used in place of the tool. For input of operational data and commands to a control, an operating terminal has a rotary knob and a keyboard. A display is provided for visualization of data.

Abstract: To ensure optimum temperature conditions for a strip (9, 9') in reverse rolling, two or several strips (9, 9') are rolled alternately, wherein during the rolling of one of the strips (9) in at least one rolling pass the other strip (9') or the other strips remain in a waiting position wound into a coil (12).

Abstract: A control system for controlling a rod mill wherein a general-purpose motor can be used together with servomotors in controlling the operational sequence of processes, wherein the time required for going through all the processes can be reduced, and wherein the control system can function without imparting any extra load on a controller incorporated therein.

Abstract: A hot rolling train with a walking beam furnace, a reversing stand following the walking beam furnace and possibly shears and/or descaling devices, as well as a subsequent hot strip finish-rolling train for manufacturing thin, austenitically rolled hot strip is retrofitted with an equalizing furnace provided between the reversing stand and the hot strip finish-rolling train, wherein the equalizing furnace has a number of receiving locations for strips to be heated for equalizing the strip in order to ensure a total heating time for each preliminary strip which is a multiple of the rolling time and the hot strip finish-rolling train.

Abstract: A furnace coiler capable of facilitating maintenance work and improving the yield and the productivity of the associated rolling system has a housing having an upper housing portion), a lower housing portion and a bottom housing portion. The bottom housing portion can be moved together with movable table rollers relative to the lower housing portion to opening the housing for maintenance work.

Abstract: A plurality of finishing mills for finish rolling a rolled material are arranged in a row to construct a finishing mill group, 1st to 3rd surface coolers for cooling the surfaces of the rolled material are provided on the entrance side of the 1st to 3rd finishing mills of the fishing mill group, and the range of cooling of the rolled material by the surface coolers are set to be a range of 0.3 to 1.5 m toward the upstream side from a position separated by 1.5 m or less from the center of the work rolls of each of the finishing mills toward the entrance side of each of the finishing mills.

Abstract: A process for producing plated steel sheet comprises the steps of heating a steel slab containing not more than 0.5 wt % C to the temperature range not lower than the transformation point Ac.sub.3, and jetting high-pressure water to the surface of a steel sheet at a discharge pressure of 300 kgf/cm.sup.2 or more at least once during hot rough rolling and hot finish rolling, thereby removing a layer of iron oxide on the surface of the steel sheet. The steel sheet is thereafter coiled while keeping a finishing delivery temperature of the steel sheet in the range of 500-800.degree. C., reducing the layer of iron oxide on the surface of the steel sheet at 50-98 % in an annealing furnace with the temperature of the steel sheet held in the range of 750-900.degree. C., and plating the steel sheet. With the process of the invention, plated steel plates having superior workability and plating adhesion can be produced at low cost, even when cold rolling and pickling are omitted from the production steps.

Abstract: Rolling method for thin flat products, used in the production of flat rolled products with a final thickness in the range of 0.6-1.5 mm or more, up to 2.0-3.0 mm, in a plant suitable to work thicknesses of up to 25.4 mm, the method being applied to slabs with a thickness of between 50 and 90 mm if arriving directly from the continuous casting machine or on slabs with a greater thickness, of between 80 and 200-250 mm, if fed from a furnace to accumulate and heat the slabs (22), the method comprising at least a first heat treatment, a roughing or pre-finishing pass, a temperature equalisation treatment and a finishing pass in a finishing train (19) comprising at least three reduction passes, the finishing pass being followed by a step of cooling and coiling the flat finished product, the product at the outlet of the roughing or pre-finishing pass being in the austenitic state .gamma.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing thin hot-rolled steel strip with a final thickness of <1 mm from strip-cast feedstock in sequential steps, including surface descaling a cast feedstock, rolling the feedstock in six passes in a tandem Steckel roll line, coiling and uncoiling the feedstock after its first and second passage through the tandem Steckel roll line in furnaces arranged on the entry and exit sides of the tandem Steckel roll line. After a third passage through the Steckel roll line, the feedstock is coiled up in an exit-side coiling device having two furnaces one atop the other, which serves as a storage device for the roughed strip. Simultaneously with the coiling of the first strip, a second strip is uncoiled from the storage device. The cropped front end of the second strip is welded to the cropped rear end of the already uncoiled roughed strip.

Abstract: A double blank detector apparatus and method of operation determines the condition of when one blank, no blanks or more than two blanks are about to be fed into a press. An indicator bar advances relative to the number of blank sheets of material being detected and interrupts an infra-red light beam when only blank of material has been detected. Under this preferred condition, a signal is produced which allows a press located adjacent to the double blank detector to continue its stamping operation. Alternatively, if either a no blank or a double blank condition is sensed, then the indicator bar advances accordingly, thus not interrupting the infra-red light beam. During this condition, a signal is produced indicative of the situation thus notifying the operator that there is a problem and stopping the press from cycling.

Abstract: A machine for producing hot-rolled steel strip from input stock of continuously cast strip in sequential work steps. The input stock is thereby in a continuous casting machine with a cast-rolling device at a casting speed of 4 to 8 m/min and a solidification thickness of 90 to 125 mm. An oscillating continuous casting mold is used, which has concavity between the casting level and the mold exit. A strand guide device has concavity and/or centering and guiding elements to guide and center the slab in the area of its narrow sides in the strand guide stand. A cooling and insulating line is located between the continuous casting machine and the equalizing furnace for the strip-type input stock. Furthermore, a cross-transfer furnace 45 m in length and approximately 5 to 20 m wide is arranged after the continuous casting machine and in front of the roughing train.

Abstract: A method and hot rolling apparatus for producing a hot rolled steel sheet include a roughing rolling mill to roughing roll a heated slab into a sheet bar, at least one solenoid-type induction heater arranged for re-heating the sheet bar over its entire width, and a finish rolling mill arranged to finish roll the re-heated sheet bar into a hot rolled steel sheet having a predetermined thickness. An initial temperature before rolling is set to be low, and re-heating of the sheet bar is carried out around the middle of the hot rolling apparatus. The thermal energy required for rolling is thereby reduced as a whole without damaging the quality of the resulting hot rolled steel sheet. A descaling apparatus is provided prior to the finish rolling mill to remove oxide scales on surfaces of the sheet bar, whereby the resulting hot rolled steel sheet is free of scale flaws and exhibits superior surface properties.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for controlling the lateral temperature control of hot material on a roller table of a hot roller mill employs adjustable heat-insulating panels below the hot material path, between the rollers of the roller table. Between each successive pair of rollers a number of the heat-insulating panels are arranged side by side, as a group spanning the width of the table. At least away from the entry end of the table, the panels of each group can be displaced selectively to allow a greater loss of heat from a central region of the hot material between its side edges than in the side edge regions themselves. The selective displacement of the panels can be preprogrammed to be determined by the characteristics of the hot material entering the roller table.

Abstract: According to the invention, the rear end of a preceding metal piece and a front end of a succeeding metal piece are heated, pressed and joined prior to the finishing hot rolling. An alternating magnetic field running through the metal pieces in the thickness direction thereof is generated in an end region on opposed faces of the respective metal pieces to perform heating. Another alternating magnetic field whose direction is reverse with respect to that of the former alternating magnetic field is partially generated in the end region on the opposed faces of the metal pieces and in either a region where the metal pieces exist or a region outside width ends of the metal pieces. This assures a uniform heating of the end region on the opposed faces of the metal pieces over their full width to reliably join the both metal pieces to each other.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for TWB forming with adaptive control of movable punch and/or die segments in a manner to maintain a holding force at the weld line by the punch and die segments during at least initial forming of the blank in a manner to control and limit movement of the weld line. A tailor welded metal blank having a weld line is positioned between a punch and a die with the weld line spanning a cavity defined between the punch and the die. One or more individual segments of the punch and of the die are moved in a manner to engage opposite side regions of the weld line to apply a holding force to the weld line. Relative movement of the punch and/or die segments is adaptively controlled during at least initial deformation of the blank by the punch in a manner to maintain the holding force applied to weld line at a selected holding force value to retain the weld line in a plane defined by the punch and die segments, thereby reducing weld line movement.

Abstract: A hot metallic workpiece is advanced between side guides extending along opposite lateral sides of a driven roller table for guiding the hot metallic workpiece to a hot mill. Each of the side guides takes the form of a beam section including an elongated horizontal workpiece guide joined to an elongated horizontal back section by web sections horizontally separated one from another and forming a plurality of utility pockets. The elongated horizontal guide has window openings at the pass line communicating with corresponding situated utility pockets each containing a burner to direct hot products of combustion toward the side of a workpiece while advance by the roller table toward a hot mill. A burner carrier supports a group of spaced apart burners with the burners of each group connected to discrete utility lines.

Abstract: Making method of hot-rolled steel sheet comprises rough rolling a slab into a rough bar, heating the rough bar, guiding the rough bar with side guides and finish rolling the rough bar. The apparatus comprises a rough rolling mill, a heating device for heating the rough bar, side guides for guiding the rough bar and a finish rolling mill.

Abstract: A method of controlling a terminal press attaching device by providing a elevating crimper for crimping terminals onto exposed conductors of the cables, setting an anvil opposite to the crimper, and elevating the drive means including a servo motor. More specifically, the crimp height for press attached terminals is monitored, a detected height and the predetermined set value are compared to control said drive means such that the detected height is made equal to the set value. Thus, the crimp height of the terminal to be attached (or the crimper height) is automatically and easily adjusted.

Abstract: A hot strip mill for reducing metal strip product as the metal strip product is moved through the mill along a pass line includes at least one coiler furnace on one side of the pass line. Each coiler furnace has a coiling unit selectively receiving a strip product from the pass line and at least one drive motor coupled to the coiling unit for rotatably driving the coiling unit. Each drive motor is positioned on the same side of the pass line as the coiler furnace. The drive motor can be easily mounted on a drive motor support above a roller table for the hot strip mill. The drive motor support may be formed as a thermal barrier between the drive motor and the roller table. The present arrangement avoids redesign of the motor room of an existing mill.

Abstract: An apparatus for guiding hot-rolled strips through an inductor, arranged between two adjacent roll stands, of an induction heating device, in particular within a finishing mill behind a strip-casting installation or thin-slab casting installation. The apparatus guides the strip between the roll stands under controlled tension over at least two guide rollers arranged on both sides of the inductor in a plane of travel of the strip which extends centrally through the inductor space between the induction coils. A tension-measurement roller is provided for regulating the tension of the strip and is arranged in front of the inductor and the first guide roller.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming structural members from a substrate heats a middle portion of the substrate in combination with edge guide rolls for laterally displacing mass of the substrate. Top and bottom rolls shape the structural member into the desired shape. The entire substrate is annealed. Thereafter, additional roll passes can be used for improving the shape of the substrate to the desired shape.

Abstract: A strip mill using movable coiling furnaces that are in a first position horizontally aligned with the pass line eliminates the need to deflect the strip into the furnaces. In a second position the movable furnaces are displaced from the pass line to allow strip to pass without obstruction. The roller table is also movable to permit the furnaces to align with the pass line but may be aligned with the pass line when the furnaces are displaced.

Abstract: A method of producing a hot rolling wide strip in a rolling mill train, in which the strip leaving the breakdown train is treated in a roller hearth furnace, which is located downstream of the breakdown train and upstream of the cropping shears, to equalize the temperature along the entire strip length and, after leaving the roller hearth furnace is delivered at a constant velocity to the first stand of the finishing train, and is further finish-rolled in the finishing train operating at a constant velocity.

Abstract: A machine for cold bending a thick walled tube is provided which includes a rotatable bend die around which the tube is bent and a pressure die which engages an outer side wall of the tube tangential to the bend. The pressure die has a pinch-type tube groove with multiple radiuses which receives the tube and substantially prevents relative movement between the pressure die and the outer side wall of the tube. The machine also includes a pressure die boost system which linearly advances the pressure die in a forward direction as the bend die is rotated. The boost system includes a linear actuator and an electro-hydraulic control system which automatically drives the linear actuator in accordance with a pre-programmed profile of pressure and flow parameters. The linear actuator has a hydraulic cylinder with a piston, a pusher coupling the piston to the pressure die, and ports in the cylinder on opposite sides of the piston.

Abstract: A coiler furnace for a hot strip includes a strip inlet opening, at least one coiler formed by a coiler mandrel, a strip outlet opening different from the strip inlet opening and a heat-insulating furnace wall surrounding the coiler on all sides. A coiler mandrel is movable by an adjustment device into a coiling start position at the strip inlet opening for the purpose of seizing the beginning of the hot strip as well as into an uncoiling position in which a coil wound on the coiler mandrel is pressed against a pressing roller arranged, or to be arranged, stationarily at the coiler furnace.