Apparatus for the manufacture of hot rolled steel strip

US5065811A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• SMS Schloemann-Siemag Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Heinrich Scholz · Mettmann, DE
• Rudolf Guse · Ratingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 17, 1990
• Grant date: Nov 19, 1991
• Expiry date: Dec 17, 2010

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B21B2201/18
• WIPO field: Machine tools
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A manufacturing line for making hot rolled steel strip including a mold for the continuous casting of steel strip, a strip guidance device located downstream from the mold for the diversion of the cast strip into a horizontal plane, a crosscutting device, a temperature equalization furnace, and a rolling mill. To reduce capital costs, energy consumption and space requirements, and to avoid metallurgical errors in processing, a curved temperature equalization furnace surrounds the strip guidance device. A straight temperature equalization furnace horizontally adjoins the curved temperature equalization furnace, and includes a means for crosscutting the strip prior to its exit from the temperature equalization environment for subsequent rolling.