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Method and installation for the continuous production of hot-rolled, thin flat products

US6527882B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Assignees

SMS DEMAG LLC · DE
Salzgitter AG · DE

Inventors

Harald Wehage · Ilsenburg, DE
Ulrich Skoda-Dopp · Duisburg, DE
Horst Jacobi · Erkrath, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 15, 2000
Grant date	Mar 4, 2003
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 15, 2020

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB21B2273/08
WIPO fieldMachine tools
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A method and an installation for the endless production of hot-rolled, flat products from thin cast strip. The installation includes a casting machine for producing cast strip, a device for cooling the cast strip under inert gas, a single-stand roughing train, a multi-stand finishing train, a device for cooling, heating or maintaining the temperature of the hot-rolled strip, according to choice, between the roughing train and the finishing train, shears for separating the hot-rolled strip from coil to coil, a delivery roller table with devices for cooling the hot-rolled strip and with coiling machines arranged downstream of the finishing train for coiling up the finished strip.

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