Abstract: A plate straightening machine includes upper rolls and an upper frame rotatable from an operating position, at which the upper rolls face downward, to a non-operating position, at which the upper rolls face upward. The plate straightening machine further includes a mounting plate detachably attached to the upper frame so that the mounting plate can be moved toward either side of the path, and at least one upper roll replacing stand disposed on either side of the upper frame in the non-operating position so that the upper roll replacing stand is flush with the upper frame for enabling the mounting plate to be moved between two positions on the upper frame and the upper roll replacing stand, respectively.

Abstract: To accurately place a modular replaceable or changeable deformation tool drawer (200) in position on a frame frame (1), and permit a variety of different operating procedures to be carried out on printed products supplied to the system without requiring substantial adjustment, the operating tools are retained in a box-like deformation tool drawer which can be inserted in the frame, and held in position by a group of clamping elements, such as fluid operated or electromagnetic cylinders and/or pistons, and, in addition, hold-down screws (6) are secured to the frame to hold the drawer in position on the frame and permit fine adjustment thereof with respect to the frame, and hence with respect to a paper web passing therethrough, before securely clamping the drawer by the clamping elements for production operation.

Abstract: A roll for a rolling mill capable of an on-line control of the width thereof. The roll includes a drive roll connected to a mill motor and a hollow driven roll driven by the drive roll while being axially slidable with respect to the drive roll. A screw shaft is screwed to the inside of the hollow driven roll in such a manner that an end-to-end contact of the driven roll with the drive roll is obtained. A clutch is provided for a selective locking of the screw shaft, which is unlocked during a normal rolling process, so that the screw shaft is rotated together with the drive roll and the driven roll by a rotation of the mill motor. When adjusting the roll width, the clutch is operated so that the screw shaft is locked, and as a result, a rotation of the mill motor causes a mutual axial movement of the drive roll and driven roll to thus adjust the roll width. A means is also provided for a centering of the roll at the pass line of the material, after the adjustment of the roll width.

Abstract: A combined, continuously operating high-speed light-section and wire mill composed predominantly of so-called cantilever stands or CL stands with overhung-mounted collars. In the roughing train and in the intermediate train and/or in the finishing train, some rolling mill stands with a modular unti with double-mounted collars are arranged. A CL modular unit of the CL stands with overhung-mounted collars can be exchanged as required against a modular unit with double-mounted collars. The second bearing of the modular unit is arranged in a box stirrup which can be coupled to the gear box of the CL stand. The collar can be assembled and disassembled with an automatically actuated, preferably hydraulically acting quick fixing device which includes piston-cylinder units for clamping and releasing the collar on the shaft in axial and in radial direction. The modular unit is a roll box of sandwich construction with box plates which can be separated from each other.

Abstract: Two-high horizontal cartridge rolling stand (10) which comprises an assembly (12) including rolls, chocks and adjustment means arranged between a first end structure (13) and a second end structure (14) of the stand, the first and second end structures (13-14) being connected together laterally below the rolls by a central stiffening body (15), the first end structure (13) of the stand being permanently connected in a rigid and substantially stable manner to the central body (15), whereas the second end structure (14) of the stand is equipped with releasable fixture means able to provide momentary rigid and substantially stable connection of the second end structure (14) to the central body (15), the first end structure (13) of the stand also constraining the chocks in a direction lengthwise to the rolling rolls.

Abstract: A rolling mill comprising a plurality of roll passes for progressively forming a workpiece to a desired final cross-sectional shape wherein each roll pass comprises a pair of rotatable mountings, the mountings being disposed on opposite sides of a pass line of the mill, each rotatable mounting carrying at least two rolling means of different configuration to form the workpiece to a difference final shape and rotation of the mounting permitting a selected rolling means of each mounting to be disposed, at a rolling position, on opposite sides of said pass line to engage and form the workpiece and wherein the mill has a drive means to rotate at least one rolling means of at least one of said roll passes when disposed in said rolling position.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a window layout and a work roll chock design of a four-high rolling mill stand, including two spaced upright housing posts having windows, in which the housing ports have roll bending devices for the work rolls and the chocks of the work rolls are mounted so as to be horizontally and vertically disposed relative to inner window chock support members, which in turn are connected to outer window blocks affixed to the housings. To effect a roll change of both work rolls as a unit with a roll change device arranged in front of the operator side window, the work roll chocks are provided with roll separator units for holding the rolls apart and stabilizing the unit and a locking device for preventing relative horizontal movement of the work rolls during a roll change.

Abstract: A rolling mill in which the direction of rolls, in a rolling system for rolling bar steel, can be shifted from horizontal to vertical or from vertical to horizontal. The rolling mill comprises a pair of first shafts removably connected individually, by means of universal joints, to a pair of spindles to which a rotatory force for rolling is transmitted, a second shaft disposed substantially parallel to the first shafts, and a pair of rolls disposed so that the axes thereof extend at right angles to the second shaft, so that the rolls are interchangeable as a whole, whereby the rolling direction can be shifted from horizontal to vertical or from vertical to horizontal. In this case, the first and second shafts are connected to each other by means of a series gear train, and the second shaft includes a pair of bevel gears directed opposite to each other, the bevel gears individually engaging bevel gears on the shafts of the rolls.

Abstract: The rolls of a rolling mill have working rolls which may be quickly changed, with the associated tools. The rolling machine has an angular trunnion, at least on one end of the working roll, supported in a divided clamping part of a driving shaft having a mating fixture. The other end of the working roll may have a circular trunnion or a non-circular trunnion removably supported by a guiding and supporting shaft.

Abstract: A method and an arrangement for automatically aligning horizontal rolls and vertical rolls in a universal rolling mill stand after the stand has been changed to new types of sections in a rolling mill train. The axial geometric configuration of the vertical rolls in the stand serve as a fixed reference value and the horizontal rolls are displaced radially and axially into roll positions which are measured by actual position indicators and from which the geometric roll gap center and the geometric roll center in the stand are determined. For taking into consideration the spring characteristic constants of the stand, the radial spring characteristic for the two horizontal rolls is determined together, the radial spring characteristic for each vertical roll is determined separately and the axial spring characteristic of one of the horizontal rolls is determined separately in accordance with one of the two axial directions.

Abstract: In addition to the usual type of screw-down mechanism, work roll gap is adjusted during work roll change for different diameter work rolls, without removing the back up rolls, by a variable height plate rotatably inserted between the back up roll chocks and the housing, which will minimize the volume of oil contained within the screw-down adjustment rams while maintaining good rigidity for the plate adjustment even during high impact and high vibration hot rolling. A similar effect is provided by containing unused plate height portions entirely within the footprint of the housing where they can be rigidly supported. Further rigidity is obtained with minimizing the volume of fluid within the rams, accomplished by placing the valve stand immediately adjacent to the hydraulic rams for the screw-down and preferably on top of the housing.

Abstract: To substantially increase the periods of time between the changing of rolling segments and to reduce the amount of work connected therewith in a roll stand for a planetary rolling mill, chocks in which stationary support bodies having rolling segments are mounted are provided with a square or octagonal disk shape, and each support body, instead of having one rolling segment as known heretofore, is provided with four or eight rolling segments distributed uniformly on its periphery. A turnable rolling ring is, further, provided at each end of each support body.

Abstract: Adjustable width rolls are preferably used for rolling, for example, insides of H-beams of various sizes without exchanging horizontal rolls of a rolling mill. Each of the adjustable width rolls includes a roll shaft rotatably and axially movably supported relative to the rolling mill, and axially adjustable sleeve roll fixed to the roll shaft, and an axially stationary sleeve roll mounted on the roll shaft to be axially slidable but against rotatable relatively to the roll shaft. The adjustable width roll further includes an axially adjustable roll fixedly supported by the axially adjustable sleeve roll to form substantially one half of a rolling barrel of the adjustable width roll, an axially stationary roll fixedly supported by the axially stationary sleeve roll to form substantially the remaining half of the rolling barrel of the adjustable width roll, and a driving mechanism for driving the roll shaft in axial directions of the roll shaft.

Abstract: A hydraulic fastener for mounting bearing assemblies on the end of a roll in a rolling mill stand. The fastener includes a hydraulic ring cylinder component having a front face directed toward a roll and an inner cylindrical surface adapted to fit onto a reduced diameter end section of the roll. A chamber extends about the circumference of the cylinder component and is open at the front face. A hydraulic ring piston component is slidably received in this chamber and has an inner face. A retaining ring is threadedly mounted in the cylinder component to hold at least a substantial portion of the piston in the chamber. Passageways are provided in the cylinder component for injecting grease into the chamber and into a space formed between the inner face of the piston and an opposing face of the chamber. A split ring is secured on the end section of the roll to retain the cylinder component in place.

Abstract: A tube weld mill comprising a plurality of successively disposed roll stands to form a strip to a desired generally tubular configuration and a weld means to weld together the adjacent edges of the thus formed strip, each roll stand having a pair of co-operating rolls, a drive transmission to transmit a rotary drive from a driving means to each of said rolls, means removably to secure at least one of said roll stands to a base, means to disconnect said drive from the roll stand to permit of removal of a roll stand from the base and replacement by the same or another roll stand and the drive transmission permitting said disconnection to be performed at a fixed location independent of variation in the separation of the axes of rotation of the rolls of the roll stand.

Abstract: A machine which applies tension to a strip of steel which has been passed through a slitter. The machine includes two sets of rollers which engage the slit material to maintain tension. The rollers are slidable in the machine frame to allow for rapid changing of the rollers to accommodate various types of slit material.

Abstract: A rocker mill for reducing the diameter of metal tubes includes a rollstand mounted on a reciprocable sled. The rollstand includes upper and lower roll dies between which the tubes travel as the sled and rollstand are reciprocated. The roll dies are mounted on tapered segments of respective arbors to facilitate removal of the roll dies. The arbors are driven by respective spur gears which are in meshing relationship on one side of the rollstand. One of the spur gears is driven by a pinion gear coaxially attached thereto on the same side of the rollstand as the spur gears. The rollstand is arranged to be slid horizontally from the sled after a plurality of fasteners have been released. A stationary toothed rack which drives the drive gear is spring-biased vertically to raise the rack in order to facilitate the sliding of the rollstand off the sled.

Abstract: A rolling mill wherein the frame or frames for pairs of superimposed rolling tools can be lifted off the base by a crane. Each rolling tool carries a first clutch element receiving torque from a separable discrete second clutch element on a support which is adjacent a properly installed frame. The support is mounted on a reciprocable carriage, together with or independently of a drive for the second clutch elements, and can be moved in the axial direction of the tools toward and away from the adjacent frame. The upper second clutch element of the pair of second clutch elements on the support is movable up and down by a fluid-operated motor toward and away from a position of alignment with the corresponding first clutch element. The second clutch elements have pins which enter registering sockets in the adjacent first clutch elements, or vice versa, and the second clutch elements are axially movably mounted in their bearings on the support and are biased toward the respective first clutch elements.

Abstract: A rolling mill has upper and lower work rolls brought into contact with a material to be rolled. An upper backup roll supports the upper work roll, and a hydraulic jack above the upper backup roll adds a pressurizing load adjusted in accordance with a rolling load to the upper work roll via the upper backup roll. The hydraulic jack includes a cylinder arranged such that its bore faces downward and contains therein a slidable ram. A thrust metal block is disposed on an upper surface of the cylinder in a manner which allows it to move between a first position for the rolling work and a second position for exchanging the rolls, the second portion being spaced apart from the first position in an axial direction of the upper backup roll. A pressurizing screw is arranged to abut on an upper surface of the thrust metal when the thrust metal is at the first position, so as to restrict an upward movement of the thrust metal and thereby determine a position of the upper work roll.

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: A housing structure for a rolling mill stand has two housings spaced apart and secured together with a spacer structure clamped between them by replaceable bolts. The housings support horizontal rolls and optionally vertical rolls and these rolls are supported on the spacer structure when the housings are displaced away from each other and from the spacer structure.

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 a device for the guidance of rolling material in a rolling mill stand of a shape mill, for lateral guidance of the flanges of steel sections in a flange edging stand, every lateral flange guide is constructed so as to include multiple parts, preferably three parts, and a center flange guide piece is arranged in the area of a stand window of the rolling mill stand and in the area of the roll chocks arranged in the stand window, respectively, so as to be exchangeable and/or displaceable, while the two outer flange guide elements are arranged on the stand side.

Abstract: An apparatus consistently imparts a desired cast characteristic and a desired helix characteristic to drawn wire. A set of interchangeable rollers imparts the cast characteristic to the wire in a first plane, and a helix control assembly imparts helix control by shifting the wire leaving the rollers into a second plane. The helix control assembly includes a rotatable sheave and a movable block. The plane in which the sheave resides and to which the wire is shifted is manually controlled by a handwheel. The rollers and the helix control assembly are supported by a common support. The rollers may be mounted in respective universal base plates, a selected one of which is received in an opening in the frame, thereby greatly reducing tooling and maintenance costs and providing improved flexibility in production. Moreover, the rollers include movable rollers interspersed with fixed rollers, wherein the movable rollers may be individually adjusted on either side of the center line of the fixed rollers.

Abstract: This invention concerns a device (10) to replace rolls (11) and/or apparatus (12) on rolling stands (25-26) having rolls (11) supported at one end, which device is able to cooperate with static support stand means (25-48) and is moved by crane or bridge crane means, possibly with a rotatable turret (33), and comprises frame means (110) with hook means (23), jaw means (16) with means (20) to engage rolls, and actuation means (17), such device comprising also means (22) to engage apparatus, the reciprocal positioning of parts (11-12-13) when engaged by such device (10) being substantially the same as the reciprocal positioning of such parts (11-12-13) when fitted to the rolling unit (25-26).

Abstract: A universal rolling mill stand with adjustable sets of horizontal rolls and vertical rolls guided in window-type recesses of the roll housings. Each roll housing is formed by a pair of housing posts with cross-members connected by means of transverse supports. The bearing chocks of the set of horizontal rolls are vertically movable between the housing posts of the respective pair of housing posts and the bearing chocks of the set of vertical rolls are moved horizontally between outwardly cantilevering attachments of the pairs of housing posts. The upper cross-members connecting the pairs of housing posts can be raised and swung horizontally. A frame-type cage having plate-like wall members is connectible to lifting devices. The outer surfaces of the wall members of the cage are guided on guide surfaces of the housing posts of pairs of housing posts which face each other. The cage is vertically and horizontally movable with the mill stand and can be installed and removed from the rolling mill stand.

Abstract: A roll device with roll rings clamped axially between a shaft collar and an adjustable ring stop. The ring stop comprises a ring which is fixed to the shaft and which can be designed, for example, as a threaded nut, and an adjusting support ring. The ring fixed to the shaft and the adjusting ring interact via sawtooth-shaped end faces.

Abstract: A rolling mill provided with a pair of rolls rotatable in a roll housing and in a first mode of operation drivably connected to respective drive gears of a main frame and gear housing, the drive gears meshing with respective pinions which mesh together, the main frame and gear housing being capable of being located in either one of two positions angularly spaced at 180 degrees, and the drive gears and pinions are capable of being re-adjusted in position whereby in a second mode of operation the drive gears can be brought into mutually meshing positions and the pinions can be moved apart to become the gears with which the rolls are drivably connected.

Abstract: An adjusting mechanism for a universal stand, particularly for a finishing stand in a group of compact roll stands and a method for operating the adjusting mechanism. The adjusting mechanism includes two hydraulic control cylinders for at least one horizontal roll which is usually the top roll. The at least one horizontal roll and the two vertical rolls are provided with hydraulic fine adjustments and each roll having a hydraulic fine adjustment is provided with an electromechanic coarse adjustment which can be operated independently of the fine adjustment. The electromechanic coarse adjustments as well as the hydraulic fine adjustments are monitored with respect to position of displacement pickups. The fine adjustments are additionally monitored by means of pressure pickups or rolling force pickups. The hydraulic fine adjustments are set up for the adjustment and opening of the rolls under pressure.

Abstract: A roll stand comprises a frame, a pair of upper guide members spaced apart on the frame along an upper axis and a pair of lower guide members spaced apart on the frame along a lower axis parallel to the upper axis. Guide formations between the members and the frame prevent the members from moving axially relative to the frame and permit the members to move vertically in the frame. Respective upper and lower journal blocks on the members are prevented from moving vertically relative to the respective members by respective guide formations between the blocks and the members but can move axially on the members. An upper roller is carried between the upper journal blocks, axially coupled thereto, and rotatable thereon about the upper axis and a lower roller is carried between the lower journal blocks, axially coupled thereto, and rotatable thereon about the lower axis.

Abstract: Universal rolling stand with horizontal rolling rings supported as cantilevers on the mill stand, to the front of which stand is fitted a universal device (13) that forms a compact unit, pre-assembled and pre-positioned, comprising horizontal rolling rings (12), means (30) to secure the horizontal rings, vertical rolling rings (23) and equipment (33) to guide the rolled stock.

Abstract: Rolling stand which can be converted into a four-high stand or universal stand, comprising two coordinated pairs of roll standards (13) mounted on a base plate (11), said roll standards being able to support a universal stand roll assembly (24) or a four-high stand roll assembly (25), said roll standards being longitudinaly movable and able to be reciprocally positioned at least in their working position on said base plate (11), each pair of roll standards permanently bearing two main standardized housings (14) together with their associated devices (15) for adjusting the distance between the centers of the rolls, said devices (15) cooperating with supports (16) comprised in said roll standards (13), said main housings (14) supporting horizontal axis rolls (35), either the vertical axis rolls (28) belonging to an universal stand roll assembly (24) or the horizontal axis rolls (36) of a four-high roll assembly (25) being located within the interspace comprised between two main housings (14) of each pair of rol

Abstract: A roll assembly for a rolling-mill stand has a pair of axis-defining, coaxial, and axially spaced journals, respective roll supports carried in the journals and rotatable therein about the axis, and a roll ring engaged between the supports. The roll supports are each formed with a pair of radially spaced and separate annular surfaces both centered on the axis and the surfaces of one support are directed at least generally axially toward the other roll support. At least one of the surfaces of each pair is substantially frustoconical and forms with the axis a different angle from the other of the surfaces of the pair. One of the supports is formed at the axis with an axially extending passage and the roll ring is formed with generally axially oppositely directed pairs of annular surfaces respectively complementary to and flatly engaging the annular surfaces of the roll supports.

Abstract: A roll stand has a stationary frame having a drive side and a service side, upper and lower working rolls having axially opposite ends at the sides, respective pairs of upper and lower journal blocks coupled with the ends of the rolls at the sides and a drive connected to the working-roll ends at the drive side for oppositely rotating the working rolls. Respective upper and lower pusher bodies are provided adjacent the journal blocks in the frame and respective upper and lower guides in the frame support the bodies for displacement of same only axially in the frame. Respective pairs of formations at least one of which is vertically elongated couple each of the bodies to the respective block for joint axial displacement while permitting relative vertical nonaxial displacement between the bodies and the respective blocks.

Abstract: A roll device is made with roll rings clamped axially between a shaft collar and an adjustable ring stop. The ring stop comprises a ring which is fixed to the shaft and which can be designed, for example, as a threaded nut, and an adjusting ring. The ring fixed to the shaft and the adjusting ring interact via sawtooth-shaped end faces.

Abstract: The rolling mill comprises a plurality of working rolls and supporting rolls or a plurality of working rolls, intermediate rolls and supporting rolls. The intermediate rolls with their mounts and the slender working rolls ussed with them in six-high operation are exchangeable with or replaceable by larger thicker working rolls for two-high operation. No contact can occur between the body of a working roll and the body of the adjacent supporting roll during use as a two-high mill. In two-high operation the mount of a working roll is provided with a spacer piece engaging against the mounting member of the adjacent supporting roll. The mounts of the thicker working rolls used in two-high operation can be fitted into the guide pieces which act as guides for the mounting pieces of the intermediate rolls when the rolling mill is used as a six-high mill.

Abstract: The roll forming machine includes a base, a motor drive, a power transmission connected to the motor drive, a rafted roll form assembly including a raft plate and a plurality of vertically aligned power rotated longitudinally spaced pairs of complemental rolls, arranged in a set to successively and operatively receive and feed there between elongated strips of stock, and a gear train including a plurality of gears and a drive gear interconnecting the set of rolls. The transmission includes a drive shaft connected to a gear reduction box having a power rotated sleeve aligned with the drive gear of the gear train. In order to change the rafted roll form assembly including the raft plate and the set of complemental rolls carried by the raft plate to another roll form assembly for making another metal part, a quick disconnect structure is provided which includes a drive clutch on the drive gear of the gear train of the raft assembly.

Abstract: A top roll exchanging apparatus for a rim shape forming machine. The top roll exchanging apparatus includes a movable bearing device for supporting a top roll shaft and a top roll loading/unloading arm provided on an extension of the top roll shaft. The movable bearing device is movable between an engaging position wherein the movable bearing device rotatably supports the top roll shaft and a waiting position wherein the movable bearing device is spaced from the extension of the top roll shaft. The top roll loading/unloading arm is movable toward and away from the top roll shaft and is rotatable about a mid-portion thereof. A top roll is exchanged by removing the movable bearing device from the engaging position, moving the top roll loading/unloading arm to load and unload top rolls and finally returning the movable bearing device to its original position.

Abstract: In a beam mill stand having lower horizontal roll chocks, supported by screw-ups, upper horizontal roll chocks suspended on hooks from balance beams and urged downward by screw-downs, and vertical roll chocks supported by and moveable in transverse guide ways, in order to facilitate changing of the rolls as an interlocked stack, there are resilient support mechanisms in the upper horizontal roll chocks which are restrained by the hooks on the balance beams. With the mill stand inoperative, when the beams are lowered the resilient support mechanisms are released and extend to engage the vertical roll chocks to support the upper horizontal roll chocks resiliently. An interlocking mechanism in the vertical rolls is operated by the resilient support mechanism so that the vertical and lower horizontal roll chocks are locked against lateral movement.

Abstract: A roll for a mill includes a roll shaft having a tapered portion disposed intermediate opposite ends thereof. The tapered portion has an outer peripheral surface tapering axially of the roll shaft. A ring of a wear-resistant material is disposed around the tapered portion of the roll shaft. A tubular sleeve having an inner peripheral surface tapering axially thereof is press-fitted between the tapered portion of the roll shaft and the ring to retain the ring in place on the roll shaft for rotation therewith. The sleeve includes an inner groove formed in the inner peripheral surface thereof and a passageway formed therethrough. The passageway is communicated with the inner groove so that pressurized oil is supplied through the passageway into the inner groove.

Abstract: A continuous rolling mill for producing seamless tubes, operating on the restrained mandrel principle, has a stand-less structure which includes a load-bearing box-type framework wherein there are formed seats for accommodating working rolls and their chocks. The structure has reduced bulk in the axial direction and weight.

Abstract: A method of aligning the horizontal and vertical rolls of a beam mill stand. First the upper horizontal roll is brought to a datum position, and then the vertical rolls are brought into contact with the opposite flanks of upper horizontal roll, to establish datum positions for the vertical rolls. The vertical rolls are then withdrawn from their datum positions, and the lower horizontal roll is brought into contact with the upper horizontal roll to establish a datum position for the second horizontal roll. The vertical rolls are brought into contact with the flanks of the upper and lower horizontal rolls. The initial inter-roll spacing of the vertical rolls at first contact is compared with the inter-roll spacing of the vertical rolls at the second contact to determine if there is any axial misalignment of the horizontal work rolls.

Abstract: A roll forming machine for the production of metal siding for installation on a building. A metal strip is progressively shaped by upper and lower roll sets spaced along the roll machine to shape the strip edges. An auxiliary roll set assembly is detachably mounted on the roll forming machine frame and includes upper and lower roll sets which shape a central portion of the metal strip. Side plate members of the auxiliary roll set assembly rest on the roll machine frame members with frame cross members assuring alignment of the interchangeable assembly. Fasteners removably couple the assembly to the roll forming machine frame.

Abstract: A device for axial displacement for a roll in a rolling stand. The roll is mounted in a chock which is guided in a roll housing. The chock is adjustably guided in the rolling stand. The roll is axially displaced by a hydraulic piston-cylinder assemblies acting on the rolling stand and connected to the support member of the roll bearing. The roll bearing is axially slidingly guided in the chock. The chock has a guide for a sliding carriage which is provided with a coupling device for the roll neck. The hydraulic piston-cylinder assemblies are articulated to this sliding carriage.

Abstract: Actuator device for axially shifting rolls which can be powered rolls journaled by way of radial bearings in holding elements in a rolling mill frame, uses hydraulic cylinders. At the drive side, the journal portions of the working rolls are respectively stepped to provide a centering roll portion, onto which respectively, an axial bearing is mounted to be positively held in position. At the housing of this bearing is attached a hydraulic cylinder which carries out the adjustment/control operation. The respective locking after mounting a new roll, for example, is achieved by a spindle head which is slipped on and which transmits the motive power of a driving spindle by way of the locking function performed by this spindle.

Abstract: A working roll shift type rolling mill has a housing including upper and lower working rolls having working roll chocks, and upper and lower reinforcing rolls having reinforcing roll chocks. Hydraulic rams mounted between the upper and lower working roll chocks apply a vertical force to the vertically facing portions of the respective chocks. The working roll chocks are immovably mounted on their respective working rolls so that they can be moved together. Each of the hydraulic rams has one end mounted in one of the upper or lower working roll chocks and the other end engaging the horizontal wall surfaces of the upper and lower working roll chocks that are vertically adjacent to each other. The working roll chocks and reinforcing roll chocks have flat side surfaces. The housing of the rolling mill includes windows each having a flat side wall such that the working roll chocks and the reinforcing roll chocks may be lifted and lowered within the housing.

Abstract: A plurality of roll-journaling insert bodies for the upper rolls and for the lower rolls raisable and lowerable are mounted on and offset form a stand gate by feet insertable in a plurality of supporting members and, on lowering, lock successively against a motion in the direction of the roll axes and jointly are removable from the rolling-mill stand with the rolls in the axial direction. The supporting members are in the form of a plurality of supporting beams provided with a plurality of passages for the continuous unhindered passage of an item to be rolled through the rolling mill. The raising and lowering devices for the roll-journaling insert bodies can be hydraulic cylinders mounted in the supporting bars. The supporting beams are provided with continuously running grooves for the feet of the structural members.

Abstract: A universal rolling stand has horizontally oriented rolls mounted in upper and lower roll mounts, as well as vertically oriented rolls mounted in roll mounts such that the respective axes of all rolls extend in a common plane. A biparted center frame in the stand has a plane of partitioning coinciding with the common plane. Tie rods releasably interconnect the two frame halves; slide structure on the frame halves permit therein separation in opposite directions upon release of the tie rods; and the upper and lower roll mounts are releasably mounted to the frame halves by means of additional tie rods. Upper and lower roll mounts are independently supportable upon release from the frame halves. The roll mounts can be placed on rails underneath.

Abstract: The roller is held on a mounting sleeve through axially and radially biased spacer sleeves and conical elements; the mounting sleeve has an internal conical surface clamped against a conical surface of the drive pin, clamping being achieved by a hydraulic clamping head coaxially with a tie rod, and the tension of the tie rod is maintained by a bayonet lock locking the clamping head to the mounting sleeve.

Abstract: A mounting and handling arrangement for a hydraulic force applying system used to adjust and maintain a passline in a rolling mill stand comprises a hydraulic device having a manifold member extending through the top of a housing and connected to a piston cylinder assembly. Manifold member carries a position transducer along with its electrical components and hydraulic line connections communicating with internal passages for delivering hydraulic fluid to the piston cylinder assembly. Cradle assembly comprising a plate and brace members receive and support the hydraulic force assembly for its insertion and removal from the roll stand.