Process for producing thin-hot rolled strip

US6023835A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Mannesmann AG · DE

Inventors

• Werner Kircher · Ratingen, DE
• Peter Jollet · Düsseldorf, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 22, 1998
• Grant date: Feb 15, 2000
• Expiry date: Jul 22, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T29/49991
• WIPO field: Machine tools
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The invention relates to a process for producing thin hot-rolled steel strip with a final thickness of <1 mm from strip-cast feedstock in sequential steps, including surface descaling a cast feedstock, rolling the feedstock in six passes in a tandem Steckel roll line, coiling and uncoiling the feedstock after its first and second passage through the tandem Steckel roll line in furnaces arranged on the entry and exit sides of the tandem Steckel roll line. After a third passage through the Steckel roll line, the feedstock is coiled up in an exit-side coiling device having two furnaces one atop the other, which serves as a storage device for the roughed strip. Simultaneously with the coiling of the first strip, a second strip is uncoiled from the storage device. The cropped front end of the second strip is welded to the cropped rear end of the already uncoiled roughed strip. After passing through a second roughed strip storage device, the roughed strip that has been welded into an endless strip is fed to the finishing train, where it is reduced to the desired finished strip thickness.