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Cooling unit of a laminar cooling device

US11745237B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

SMS group GmbH · DE

Inventors

Johannes Alken · Siegen, DE
Henning Berg · Kreuztal, DE
Jens Kiessling-Romanus · Siegen, DE
August Sprock · Dressendorf, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Feb 7, 2019
Grant date	Sep 5, 2023
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 24, 2040

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG05D7/0652
WIPO fieldControl
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A cooling group for a laminar cooling device, including at least one cooling unit arranged above and below a strip to be cooled in order to supply the strip with a cooling liquid, including a central inlet via which cooling liquid is supplied, a distributing tube supplied with cooling liquid by the central inlet, and a number of supplying units supplied with cooling liquid from the distributing tube. Each supplying unit has a number of cooling nozzles via which cooling liquid is discharged onto the strip. In order to minimize the influence of the number of supplying units which are switched on or switched off, and thus have as little expenditure as possible, a volumetric flow rate regulating valve is arranged in or in front of the central inlet. The regulating valve is used to conduct a defined volume of cooling liquid through the central inlet per unit of time.

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