Apparatus for handling wire rod from a laying head or laying cone

US6056225A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• SMS Schloemann-Siemag Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Siegfried David · Hilchenbach, DE
• Karl Keller · Hilchenbach, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 4, 1998
• Grant date: May 2, 2000
• Expiry date: Dec 4, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B21C47/146
• WIPO field: Machine tools
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A winding cone in a high speed wire rod rolling mill has a replaceable glide shell which is suspended by a cable and can be dropped into the mounting pockets on opposite sides of the winding cone. By changing the angle of conicity of the glide shell and its length, i.e. by substituting a differently dimensioned glide shell between winding cone and the cooling conveyor, a change in the coiling program can be facilitated.