Abstract: A modified cross-section material having a thin part and a thick part in its widthwise direction is manufactured through a plurality of roll stages. Each rolling stage comprises of a set of a convex roll and a flat roll, wherein the convex roll has a convex part. The thin part is formed in accordance with the lengthwise expansion by the convex part of the convex roll, and the thick part is formed in accordance with the lengthwise expansion by a part other than the convex part of the convex roll.

Abstract: A roll block for rolling wire, rods, pipes and flat metal material to be rolled, has a plurality of exchangeable roll stands located closely next to one another in a roll line and each having a plurality of rollers, a plurality of C-shaped frames holding the roll stands and positioned closely next to one another, turning moments transfer components provided in the C-shaped frames for driving the rollers, a number of the C-shaped frames corresponding to a maximum number of the roll stands, a common stand housing located at a drive side of the C-shaped frames and spaced therefrom, intermediate transmissions located at a front side of the common stand housing facing the C-shaped frames in a separately changeable manner, driving motors located at a rear side of the common stand housing remote from the C-shaped frames and coupled to the intermediate transmissions in a separately exchangeable manner, the intermediate transmissions and the C-shaped frames having mutually coupled shafts which bridge a spacing between

Abstract: The inventive relates to a rolling unit (5) for rolling rod-shaped or tubular bodies, such as pipes, hollow sections bars, wires etc. The unit (5) is provided with three or more working rolls (20) which have respective rotation axes (A1, A2, A3) lying in a perpendicular plane to a rolling axis (L) along which the unit (5) is disposed. Advantageously, the rolls (20) are mounted on corresponding swinging arms arranged to oscillate in respective planes, perpendicular to the rotation axes (A1, A2, A3) of the corresponding rolls (20) and containing the rolling axis (L). Such a rolling unit can prevent any uncontrolled thermal expansions induced in the swinging arm by the high temperatures sometimes involved in the process, by keeping the rolls in a symmetrical position with respect to the plane of oscillation of the respective arm.

Abstract: A roll mill and method for rolling wires or rolling stock having a round cross-section and made from high grade steel or other alloyed steel in a high production-light section/wire mill is disclosed. By the invention, the tightest wire tolerances to roll the rolling stock in a temper roll block of the roll mill with a distinctly lower pass reduction compared to the reduction passes performed in the finishing roll block of the wire mill is achieved. The wire mill comprises a break-down train comprising respectively several roll stands or roll units, at least one intermediate train with adjoining or subsequent finishing train, wherein the finishing train is, in particular, configured as the finishing roll block. A temper roll block, comprising at least two stands is disposed downstream of the finishing roll block, and a cooling path 13 and/or a temperature compensation device 14 is, if needed, disposed between the finishing roll block and the temper roll block.

Abstract: Fast rolling block (10) employed in a compact rolling line for long products such as bars, round bars, wire rod and analogous products, the fast rolling block (10) comprising rolling mill stands (11) arranged in sequence with pairs of rolls (13) having alternate axes and installed alternately opposite to each other on a base (14), the base (14) comprising at least one horizontal base plate (15) extending parallel to the horizontal plane containing the rolling axis (12) and comprising also transverse plate elements (17) spaced apart and bearing on their upper edge (20) elements (19) for installation of the rolling mill stands (11), there being included longitudinal connecting elements (16), each transverse plate element (17) having a minimum width ("L") equal to 70% of the width of the horizontal base plate (15), the longitudinal connecting elements (16) extending between one transverse plate element (17) and the adjacent one.

Abstract: A method is presented for hot rolling a Z-section sheet pile from a semi-finished H-beam. The semi-finished H-beam is oriented in such a way that its web is substantially parallel to a rolling plane. A preform of the sheet pile is first rolled in a first plurality of rolling passes to form a preform having two flange/web transition sections substantially parallel to the rolling plane. These two flange/web transition sections connect rough-rolled portions for the sheet pile flanges to a middle section which is oblique to the rolling plane. A final Z-section sheet pile is formed from the preform in a second plurality of rolling passes.

Abstract: In a light section rolling mill, particularly wire rolling mill, for optimizing the product quality and/or output of the finishing train, at least one standard two-stand roughing block or group is arranged in front of and/or following the finishing train. Standard two-stand roughing blocks can be combined into roughing block units having four stands, six stands, eight stands or ten stands, and these units can be arranged in front of and/or following the finishing train.

Abstract: In a tandem mill system, at least one first type rolling mill is arranged in the upstream side and at least one second type rolling mill is arranged in the downstream side. The first type rolling mill is of the so-called work roll crossing mill in which a pair of work rolls are inclined with respect to a pair of back-up rolls supporting the work rolls and simultaneously crossed each other in a horizontal plane to control transverse thickness distribution of a strip. The second type rolling mill is of the so-called HC mill which controls the strip crown and shape by a combination of axial movement of intermediate rolls and work roll bending. Such an arrangement makes it possible to increase a capability of controlling the strip crown and shape, particularly, a capability of correcting the quarter buckle, and eliminate a fear of causing scratches on the strip and roll surfaces, with the result of improved production efficiency.

Abstract: A mill including large-diameter work rolls which are directly driven is disposed in an upstream stage of a hot strip finish rolling mill train, and mills including small-diameter work rolls which are driven by back-up rolls or intermediate rolls are disposed in middle and downstream stages of the hot strip finish rolling mill train, so that a strip can be rolled with strong draft and at a low speed, whereby a small-scale production of hot strips on the order of million tons annual yield can be achieved with a compact structure of equipment.

Abstract: A rolled metal strip which is free of torsion and on which a superior gloss is obtained by a combination of cross rolling and parallel rolling upon cold rolling a metal strip and by rolling the material in a parallel rolling manner in either at least the final stand (in the case of a tandem mill array) or at least the final pass (in the case of a single stand mill such as a reversible mill or the like). If necessary, the metal strip is preliminarily rolled by cross rolling at a rolling reduction rate of over 5% and then cold rolled by either parallel rolling or a combination of cross rolling and parallel rolling.

Abstract: In a system and method for manufacturing thin plate by hot-working, a splicing machine for continuously splicing the front edge of a following plate and the rear edge of a precedent plate is provided in the process precedent to a set of rolling mill stands having non-driven small diameter working rollers. By continuously splicing the plates, most portions of the rolled plates can be rolled under a steady state rolling condition, that is, an after-engaged rolling condition, and the thickness reducing amount of the plates in most portions of the rolled material is substantially increased, which substantially improves the rolling efficiency. Thereby, the diameter of the working rollers can be decreased smaller than the diameter of working roller used in a conventional rolling mill, rolling mill strands can be made small, and it can be realized to attain a small-scale system for manufacturing thin plate by hot working.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method and apparatus for improving rolling mill efficiency by providing modified fixed setup parameters according to the class of the material being rolled through the following steps: (1) divide the products produced by the rolling mill into hardness/rollability classes; (2) empirically establish a set of fixed interstand thicknesses for each class which produce desired operational characteristics, such as constant thermal operation; and (3) vary the entry thickness for a particular product in accordance with the set of fixed interstand thicknesses for its class proportionally based on the desired exit thickness.

Abstract: A modular rolling mill has a plurality of rolling units arranged in succession on a mill pass line, each rolling unit having multiple pairs of mechanically interconnected work rolls. A plurality of gear reduction units is arranged in succession alongside the mill pass line, each gear reduction unit being driven by a drive motor. Couplings detachably connect at least some of the rolling units to two successive gear reduction units, with the remainder of the rolling units being connected to single gear reduction units.

Abstract: Machine to sharpen bars to a point, especially bars to be drawn, which comprises at least one sharpening assembly and at least one assembly for displacement of the bar in relation to the sharpening assembly, the sharpening assembly (31) consisting of two counterpart rolls (11) each of which contains on the plane of positioning of the bar a groove (24) including at least two sections of reduction, means (14-15) being comprised for the circumferential positioning of the rolls (11) at the desired section of reduction, there also being included at least one rolling assembly (27a) upstream of the sharpening assembly (31) and at least one rolling assembly (27b) downstream of the sharpening assembly (31), such rolling assemblies (27) operating on the bar on a plane substantially at a right angle to the plane of reduction.

Abstract: Method and means for maintaining uniform thickness and profile of a metal strip during hot rolling in a multi-stand hot rolling mill, comprising a two-position looper located between adjacent mill stands and movable between a strip threading position above the rolling pass line of the mill and a rolling position substantially in the plane of the rolling pass line, and a thickness and profile gage movable out of operative relationship with the looper when the looper is in a threading position and into operative relationship with the looper when the looper is in a rolling position, the gage adapted to project a measuring X-ray beam from the thickness and profile gage onto the strip during rolling and at an angle to the strip of substantially 90.degree., thereby minimizing measurement error due to variable angularity between the X-ray beam and the strip during rolling.

Abstract: The invention relates to control in the manufacture of hot strip by means of a multi-stand hot-strip rolling mill, especially a wide-strip rolling mill, which has a higher-order process control system with a sampling plan with the initial and final dimensions, with material data, rolling temperatures, etc., and a guidance system for setpoint control of lower-order decoupled individual regulators for the variable functional parameters of the individual roll stands, e.g. roll adjustment, rotational speed, torque, etc., with the setpoints of the individual regulators being determined by means of a computation process using model equations with convergent parameter adjustment to the actual parameters, in such fashion that a working point control that can be determined in advance is provided and section control and regulation are accomplished by changing the load distribution on the individual stands in such fashion that the working points lie in the previously determined tolerance range of a shape control line.

Abstract: The sheet profile of a strip on the outlet side of a final stand coincides with a desired value without deforming the shape of the strip, by using a hot strip finish rolling mill having a number of rolling stands disposed sequentially. The rolling mill employs feedback control of upstream stands to reduce the error between a sheet profile measured by a sheet profile meter disposed at the outlet side of a selected stand and a desired sheet profile. The selected stand is the stand where the sheet thickness of the strip is at the percentage sheet crown critical sheet thickness. The sheet profile measured by the sheet profile meter is used to control the downstream stands using feed-forward control to make the sheet profile on the outlet side of the final stand coincide with the desired sheet profile.

Abstract: A setting means sets variables for expressing the process model, a target thickness value of the rolled material, a target interstand tension value of the rolled material, variables for responses of the thickness and the interstand tension and variables for adjusting the responses of a control system for controlling the thickness and the interstand tension. A control gain arithmetic means obtains control gains as numeric values by substituting the set variables into predetermined control gain operation expressions. A control arithmetic means calculates the speed command values and the roll gap command values for causing the thickness to follow up the target thickness and the interstand tension to follow up the target interstand tension while reducing an interaction between the thickness and the interstand tension by use of the calculated control gains.

Abstract: A sheet-metal strip provided with mutually staggered cuts is conveyed continuously at a first speed through a first conveying apparatus (23) and at a second speed, increased as related to the first speed, through a second conveying apparatus (24). Thereby, the strip section (21) freely traveling between the first and second conveying apparatus (23, 24) is stretched with the formation of a three-dimensional expanded grid structure. The process permits a continuous, rapid production of expanded grids of high precision and uniformity, especially with regard to mesh width and grid height.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a compact rolling plant and method for using it to manufacture hot rolled metal strip. The rolling mill and method are capable of rolling both thick and thin slabs with minimum delays between slabs. The complete rolling of a bar or a strip below a critical transformation temperature range may be done at any speed without heat losses in unrolled portions of the strip or bar.

Abstract: The present invention has an aim of providing a rolling mill and an operation method thereof for remarkably extending a roll life, optimizing a driving source and saving maintenance in the rolling mill. An optimum ratio for the number of driving rotations between driving rolls can be obtained by arranging rolls of predetermined shapes in a plurality of roll stands and adjusting the rolling reduction so as to obtain a required shape, then gripping the material to be formed with a clamping device, drawing the same for a required length without driving any of the rolls and determining the number of rotations or the like of each of the rolls. The driving force between each of driving rolls can be matched and optimized by driving each of the driving rolls at the optimum ratio for the number of driving rotations, which can remarkably extend the roll life, optimize the driving source and save maintenance in the rolling mill.

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: In a rolling mill comprising upper and lower work rolls crossed each other to perform strip crown control, a straight line connecting the center of an operation side screwdown screw and the center of a drive side screwdown screw is inclined relative to a line perpendicular to the rolling direction. A cross angle .theta. to be controlled is changed in opposite plus and minus directions about the straight line connecting both the screwdown centers. A large extent of strip crown control can be achieved with a smaller cross deviation than usual in the prior art, thereby permitting omission of an equalizer beam. Further, change in the extent by which strip crown is varied upon control with respect to the cross angle becomes substantially linear and hence control is more easily conducted. Since the cross angle 2.theta. between the two work rolls is larger than 2.degree., the transition temperature is not changed and uniformity in quality can be ensured.

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 rolling stand includes a roller-carrier substantially in the form of a ring-shaped body having the rollers journalled on its interior; the roller-carrier is slidable along a longitudinal rolling axis L between an operative position occupied during the rolling process, where it is locked inside an outer structure of the rolling stand, and a non-operative position where it is removed from the structure. Provided within the rolling stand are guide means for guiding the roller-carrier movement along the axis L and means of locking the roller-carrier in the operative position.

Abstract: In controlling the passage of rolled stock under little longitudinal tensile stress through a continuous rolling mill by secondary-controlled hydrostatic drives for the individual rolling stands, the rotary speeds of the hydromotors associated with the drives are controlled by adjusting their displacement volumes. To obtain a rational and dependable control method, at the beginning of the passage of the stock, all but one of the rotary speed controls for the hydromotors belonging to the stands through which the stock has passed and the stand through which the stock passes next as the passage of the stock through the stands proceeds are consecutively interrupted during the consecutive passing of the stock through the rolling stands and, therefore, at any time only the hydromotor of one of the stands, the guiding stand, is operated with an adjustable displacement volume for controlling the rotary speed at least as long as the stock passes through all the stands.

Abstract: Long products are hot rolled and sized by being subjected to progressively diminishing area reductions in a succession of at least three mechanically interconnected two roll passes driven by a common mill drive. The area reductions are achieved by imparting a first cross sectional configuration to the products rolled in the first roll pass, and by imparting a different second cross sectional configuration to the products being rolled in each of the second and third roll passes. A wide range of product sizes is accommodated by selectively adjusting the speeds at which each of the roll passes is driven by the common mill drive in order to vary the drive speed ratios between successive roll passes.

Abstract: A method of hot roll forming compound metal channel sections from a bar blank using multiple shaped rollers and progressive roller sets. An inside U-shaped channel section is hot roll formed by rolling opposing channel section towards one another while maintaining support and spacing therebetween.

Abstract: In a master speed regulator system for a multi-stand rolling mill, a control system and method for switching a pivot stand via a bumpless transfer back and forth from the second stand to the last stand depending on the phases of the mill and while the mill is operating. A microprocessor is used for recalculating the master speed reference B1, the integral values for the master speed reference integral controller, and the outputs for the tension/automatic gauge integral controllers for the new pivot state based on conditions of the previous pivot state.

Abstract: A method for controlling edge drop in a cold rolling operation adaptable to tandem cold rolling mill stands by shifting a pair of vertically disposed single-end-tapered work rolls along the widthwise direction of a steel strip. The work rolls have tapered end portions that are disposed on the two widthwise ends of the steel strip.

Abstract: In a continuous hot strip rolling system in which bars are joined between a roughing train and a finishing train for continuous rolling, the roughing train includes two two-high twin-roll arranged stands each having two pairs of work rolls. The four two-high mills provided by the two twin-roll arranged stands including four pairs of work rolls are disposed close to each other so as to provide a tandem rolling in which a material to be rolled is rolled simultaneously by the two adjacent mills. A slab having a thickness of 200 to 240 mm is rolled by the two twin-roll arranged stands to obtain a bar of about 80 mm. A width press is provided near the entrance of the No. 1 stand. A descaling device is provided at the entrance of each of the two stands. The descaling device has a nozzle which is movable in the direction transverse to the direction of travel of the material to be rolled. A non-driven roll edger is provided at the exit of each of the two stands.

Abstract: A system and method for monitoring a rolling mill which includes a data acquisition module that continually acquires, from mill instrumentation computers, time domain data relating to finished product gauge, entering product gauge, separating forces occurring at each roll stand in the mill, and RPMs of each roll in the roll stands over a calculated data acquisition time period. A monitoring CPU transforms the acquired data into the frequency domain in response to the rolls operating at an approximately constant speed over the data acquisition time period. A frequency spectrum correlation analysis is performed with the frequency domain data in order to identify the specific contributions to frequency amplitudes occurring in the finished product gauge frequency domain data. A determination is then made as to whether the identified frequency amplitudes exceed predetermined thresholds which correspond to a predetermined warning level and a maximum tolerance level of the finished product.

Abstract: In this invention, a reversing roughing mill and a reversing finishing mill are disposed at such a distance that a material can reach the finishing mill only in the final pass of roughing, can thus prevent damage to and surface deterioration of finishing rolls in the roughing pass, can reduce the heat loss of the material located between the roughing mill and finishing mill and can produce a strip having excellent surface quality.In the present invention, a continuous casting plant and a hot rolling plant are connected to each other by a furnace having reheating and soaking functions and a heat retaining box for accumulating slabs is disposed adjacent to this furnace.

Abstract: A stretch-reducing mill comprises a plurality of rolling stands laid side-by-side between an input stand and an output stand. A first group of stands adjacent to one another is next to the input stand and a second group of stands adjacent to one another is next to the output stand. The first group of stands is operated through a differential drive with two motors; the second group of stands is driven by independent single motors.

Abstract: A workpiece is advanced through a succession of universal roll stands each having a pair of rotatably positively driven horizontal rolls engaging horizontal surfaces of the workpiece and a pair of idling vertical rolls engaging vertical surfaces of the workpiece and normally only rotationally entrained by engagement with the advancing workpiece. The roll stand is controlled by detecting the peripheral speeds of the vertical rolls and generating outputs corresponding thereto and then comparing the outputs to set points and generating error signals corresponding to the difference. The peripheral speed and position of the horizontal rolls are detected to establish same as operating characteristics. Finally the peripheral speeds of the vertical rolls are varied in accordance with the respective differences by varying at least one of the operating characteristics.

Abstract: A worn, one-piece rail heated to a plastic state is initially deformed by a multi-stage rolling action to a slab constituted by flattened base and head extensions of an undeformed web portion of the rail. The slab is then edged in stages to effect thicknening of its intermediate portion and formation of a billet without any lapping, seaming or folding.

Abstract: A rolling mill train, particularly a rolling mill train in a section mill with at least one group of rolling mill stands including n stands in a group. The rolling mill stands have at least horizontal guide members which are arranged at least on the middle stands spaced closely together in the pitch line. Every other rolling mill stand of the group of stands is constructed so as to be displaceable from the pitch line by at least the width of the guide member for the purpose of exchanging the guide members and/or the rolls. The adjacent rolling mill stands may be arranged stationary in the pitch line. Also disclosed is a method for controlling the exchange of the stands in the rolling mill train.

Abstract: In the fabrication of H-piles, I-beams, channels, tees, angles, double-tee structural shapes and similar rolling stock, a first structural shape segment or web is joined to at least one second structural shape segment or flange which may be bent outwardly. After the edging passes, during finishing, the flange or flanges are bent inwardly when the shape or stock is subjected to a final bending pass. A new bending method uses the principle of a three-roll bending process. An alternative bending solution includes a bending process with backup rolls for the first structural shape segment or web which do not touch the inner surfaces of the flanges or second structural shape segments.

Abstract: A continuous mill plant for rolling steel plates having one or a plurality of rolling mills. The ratio of maximum rolling speed to minimum rolling speed of the plant is at least 3.0 but no more than 10.0 at the continuous rated output of an electric motor for driving the rolling mill.

Abstract: A method of stably effecting a rolling of a steel strip with deformed section by use of a continuous hot strip mill, said method comprising the steps of:providing an excess metal portion along each of opposite sides of a meterial to be rolled for simultaneously obtaining one or a plurality of deformed section portions; andproviding, on a roll for effecting said rolling and at a position corresponding to each of the excess metal portions, a hold portion constituted by a tilted surface placed in a contact-and-rolling relation to each of said excess metal portions so that a self-aligning function occurs in a rolled material itself.

Abstract: A cold-rolled strip manufacturing apparatus, in which a continuous cold reduction mill and a continuous annealing furnace are directly linked together, has a tension-leveller-type scale breaker for elongating hot-rolled breakdown by 2 to 7 percent, a scale scrubbing brush unit and an immersion-type continuous pickling tank installed upstream of the continuous cold reduction mill.Descaling of the hot-rolled strip coil is carried out by breaking the mill scale formed on its surface by causing the running strip to elongate and then the broken scale is removed from the surface. The percent elongation given to the strip is feedforward controlled on the basis of the manufacturing conditions of the hot-rolled strip coil and/or the properties and quantity of the mill scale formed. In another descaling method, the percent elongation given to the strip is feedback controlled on the basis of the condition of scale breaking and removing that is detected during the period in which the mill scale is broken and removed.

Abstract: A tandem rolling mill is operated such that roll stands of an upstream stage of the mill adjacent to a strip inlet thereof are positioned relative to each other to effect a strip crown control or an edge drop control, while roll stands of a downstream stage of the mill adjacent to a strip outlet thereof are operated to axially shift the downstream stage work rolls cyclically to distribute roll wear and thermal crown in the axial direction thereof.

Abstract: A hot profile-steel workpiece having a flange width dimension, a web height dimension, and a web thickness dimension is rolled in a roll train including a reversible univerial rolling stand and a flange-compacting roll stand unstream therefrom. According to the invention one of the height, width, or thickness dimensions of the incoming workpiece is reduced upstream of the flange-engaging compacting roll stand. Normally the web height dimension is reduced in a roll stand immediately upstream of the universal and flange-compacting stands. Furthermore the workpiece has a web with extra-thick parts and these extra-thick parts are rolled out by horizontal rolls of a roll stand that engage this web. The flange-compacting roll stand engages the faces of the flanges. With this system it is possible to make the web of the incoming workpiece either shorter or taller, that is it can either be compacted or rolled out.

Abstract: Method of controlling a strip crown in a planetary mill line, comprising the steps of rolling a slab by using a shaped feeding roll or rolls before passing between planetary rolls to shape a slab profile in the direction of the width of the slab having a flat or curved central portion, opposite side end thicker than the central portion and side portions thinner than the central portion between the central portion and the opposite side ends and subsequently rolling the slab having such a shaped slab providing a planetary rolled strip having a substantially flat strip crown having a uniform thickness over the width of the strip.

Abstract: A series of thermomechanical workings such as temperature-controlled torsional strains are applied to a specimen of steel at strain and temperature levels and interpass times selected to simulate rolling mill conditions. The measured stress values are compared with the temperatures of the steel during the working periods during which the respective values were obtained. Thermomechanical working schedules are repeated at selected varying starting and terminating temperatures thereby to obtain a series of possible rolling schedules. These simulations are selected so that a varying number of reduction passes in the sequence occur at steel temperatures below temperature A.sub.r3. The value of a selected parameter of the worked steel, e.g. yield strength, is measured at ambient temperature.

Abstract: The rolling mill for mechanical descaling of hot rolled steel is constructed according to the slidable roll process with reducing rolls so that a unform operation with different and/or changing shape steel strips can obtained. This is attained when the rolling mill has at least two rolls slidable in opposite directions whose body surfaces are constructed with S-shape contours positioned inversely to each other so that these contours compliment each other flawlessly in one certain axial relative position. When sliding the rolls in opposite directions in one case the contour is decreased in the center region of the steel strip and when slid in the opposite directions in the other case the contour is increased in the center region. Thus the rolls can be adjusted to fit a gently convex steel strip profile by axially sliding the rolls in opposite directions as also rolled strips with a thickness centrally reduced in comparison to that of the edge regions can by appropriate sliding of the rolls opposite each other.

Abstract: A roll forming machine comprising unitary upright members mounted on a support platform for housing a plurality of pairs of upper and lower rollers. Upper rollers are coupled with bearings mounted in vertically adjustable guide blocks to allow adjustment of the spacing between the rollers. A drive chain is coupled with the rollers and its serpentine winding reduces the resulting torsional forces exerted on the machine during forming operations.

Abstract: A multi-stand hot strip rolling mill has a pinch roll assembly downstream of the last stand and before the coiler and a shapemeter roll is located between the last stand and the pinch roll assembly so as to engage with the strip.

Abstract: In rolling mill equipment provided with a roll bending mechanism for removing an unacceptable shape of a plate in width direction of the plate and a crown of a plate in the form of an uneven configuration at both edges with respect to a center line of the plate, there is disclosed a method for controlling a shape of a plate in an attempt to avoid producing abnormal shape in said width direction.

Abstract: A method to roll multiple sections starting from a single round section, comprising the steps of: (a) passing the single round section between the rolls of a rolling mill to obtain a single bar including two substantially elliptical, united, twin sections, the major axes of the elliptical sections being inclined by an angle ranging between 5.degree. and 30.degree. in relation to an axis normal to the axes of the rolling rolls; and (b) passing the single bar including two substantially elliptical, united, twin sections between the rolls of a rolling mill to obtain twin-strand round sections.