Device for strip guidance in a hot medium (I)

US9562278B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG · DE

Inventors

• Marc Blumenau · Hagen, DE
• Frank Eisner · Chemnitz, DE
• Christopher Gusek · Iserlohn, DE
• Fred Jindra · Lennestadt, DE
• Rudolf Schoenenberg · Daphne, US
• Bert-Reiner Willeke · Lennestadt, DE
• Tobias Denner · Herzogenrath, DE
• Christian Klatt · Aachen, DE
• Jens Wemhoener · Aachen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 11, 2013
• Grant date: Feb 7, 2017
• Expiry date: Jan 20, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F16C2326/58
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The invention relates to a device for strip guidance in a hot medium, comprising a deflection roller (3, 38) mounted on supporting arms (1, 2, 34, 37, 54, 57) and a carrier device holding the supporting arms (1, 2, 34, 37, 54, 57). The device is characterized in that one of the supporting arms (1, 2, 34, 37, 54, 57) is mounted on the carrier device by means of a floating bearing (5), wherein the floating bearing (5) allows the mounted supporting arm on the carrier device to move parallel to the longitudinal direction of the deflection roller (3, 38), and in that an elastic counter element (12), which acts parallel to the longitudinal direction of the deflection roller (3, 38) upon the supporting arm (1, 2, 34, 37, 54, 57) mounted on the floating bearing (5), is present and counteracts an increasing distance between the supporting arms (1, 2, 34, 37, 54, 57). In this way, the technical problems of offsetting a temperature-induced length change of the deflection roller and avoiding an uncontrolled movement of the system are solved.