Rolling lines

US4408476A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• KOCKS Technik GmbH & Co KG · DE

Inventors

• Hans Brauer · Mögglingen, DE
• Werner Demny · Düsseldorf, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 20, 1981
• Grant date: Oct 11, 1983
• Expiry date: Jul 20, 2001

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P70/10
• WIPO field: Machine tools
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A rolling line for billets, bars, wire rod or the like, e.g. a roughing line has one or more rolling stands each having three or more driven rolls which are adjustable towards and away from the work material by a worm drive and a screw. The rolls are brought progressively closer together before each pass of the work material, whose cross section is thereby reduced with corresponding elongation. The direction of rotation of the rolls is reversed between each pass, unless two stands for rolling in opposite directions are provided in which case it is possible for the stands to be continuously driven but alternately operative. The work material is turned about its axis through half a roll pitch angle between each pass.