Furnace installation as intermediate storage downstream of a thin-slab casting installation

US5823766A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Mannesmann AG · DE

Inventors

• Peter Wilhelm Seiler · Oberhausen, DE
• Stanislaw Pawlowski · Mülheim an der Ruhr, DE
• Eugeniusz Kania · Neheim, DE
• Horst Wolfgang Mathejka · Dortmund, DE
• Werner Kircher · Ratingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 12, 1995
• Grant date: Oct 20, 1998
• Expiry date: Sep 12, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B21B1/46
• WIPO field: Materials, metallurgy
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A furnace installation as an intermediate storage between a mandrel-free coiling mechanism for strip-shaped cast billet, which is arranged downstream of a thin slab casting installation, and an uncoiling mechanism communicating with a downstream rolling mill, and a system for transporting the coiled bundles through the furnace installation. The furnace installation includes an integral coiling mechanism on the charging side. At least one transporting device for transporting the bundles is provided outside and below the furnace installation and is movable along the furnace installation. The transporting device penetrates into the furnace installation by lifting/lowering supports for the bundle to be transported. The uncoiling mechanism is likewise integrated in the furnace installation at a distance from the coiling mechanism which allows a plurality of bundles arranged adjacent to one another to be picked up. The uncoiling mechanism communicates with the coiling mechanism via the transporting device.