Patent · US Expired

Hot-rolling mill

US6832432B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

SMS Schloemann-Siemag Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Wilfried Bald · Hilchenbach, DE
Dieter Rosenthal · Niederfischbach, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 27, 2002
Grant date	Dec 21, 2004
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 27, 2022

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY10T29/5184
WIPO fieldMachine tools
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A hot-rolling mill for flat products with at least two continuous casting units, wherein the continuous casting units are followed by a shear each and a tunnel furnace with transfer car each, a common breaking-down train, a finishing train, a cooling stretch and at least one reeling device. A connecting device is arranged between the tunnel furnaces and the breaking-down train for connecting the continuously cast slabs which have been cut into the desired coil weights.

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