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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6993951 | Bending device for the working rolls of a hot-rolling frame A hot-rolling stand including blocks arranged in the stand windows and having hydraulic piston cylinder units provided as bending devices which are able to transfer bending forces via guide elements onto the chocks of the working rolls. For each block a double-actin... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6589400 | Apparatus for metal coating of bands by electroplating An apparatus for metal coating of bands by electroplating, with a band running through an acidic electrolyte enriched with a metal, the apparatus including at least one insoluble anode extending parallel to the band and divided, in a running direction of ... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6539273 | Method of and apparatus for automatically controlling operation of a continuous casting plant A continuous caster is controlled by a method anticipating the liquidus temperature in the mold of the caster to prevent premature solidification. The temperature in the tundish is measured and based upon the tundish temperature and the resistance time of... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6463996 | Device for resetting guide segments of continuous casting or continuous casting and rolling plant A device for resetting opposite guide segments of a continuous casting or continuous casting and rolling plant in three different positions, and including a hydraulic cylinder connectable with one of the opposite guide segments, and a double-acting piston... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6389666 | Method of and apparatus for descaling of surfaces having oscillation marks of cast billets produced by a continuous casting machine A method of descaling surfaces having oscillation marks of cast billets produced by a continuous casting process an reduced in a hot strip train including an equalizing furnace and a plurality of rolling mill stands, with the cast billets being delivered ... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6368428 | Method of adjusting two shielding elements and an associated assembly A method of adjusting two shielding elements and including transporting a metal strip on a roller table, shielding a cooling medium from the edge regions of the metal strip with adjusting shielding elements, and adjusting the shielding elements asymmetric... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6349581 | Method for controlling the tension between roll stands of mill trains for steel bars, wire or profiles Rolling stock is transported in a transporting device from a front roll stand to a rear roll stand. Between the roll stands, the rolling stock carries out an oscillation transverse to the transporting direction. At least one characteristic property, ampli... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6305205 | Universal rolling mill stand A universal rolling mill stand with horizontal and vertical rolls, adjustably supported in two parallel roll posts is disclosed. The universal rolling mill stand enables a simple construction and operational process if the horizontal rolls are received, w... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6301906 | Method of adjusting two shield elements arranged above a metal strip and a device for effecting the method A method of adjusting a position of two shield elements for a liquid cooling medium and arranged above a metal strip having a strip plane and a strip central plane extending transverse to the strip plane and intersecting the same along the strip central a... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6290901 | Converter A converter including a tiltable body, a mantle ring spaced from the converter body, supportable in support lugs and having a rectangular cross-section with upper and lower flanges, and lamella suspensions and body guides for connecting the mantle ring wi... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6237385 | Method of cooling a rolled stock and a cooling bed for effecting the method A method of cooling a rolled stock and including providing a cooling bed having entrance, middle, and end sections, transporting the rolled stock along the cooling bed in a direction transverse to the rolled stock longitudinal axis, air-cooling of the rol... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6237384 | Method of and installation for shaping a metal strip A method of shaping a metal strip in a hot rolling installation including arranged one after another finishing train, cooling section, and coiler, with the method including providing, in a region between an end of the cooling section and the coiler, rolls... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6227091 | Outer-turn trimmer for wire coils on hook conveyor A hook conveyor moves a succession of coils having outer turns through a trimming station in a transport direction with each coil lying at the station in a plane generally parallel to the direction. A trimming apparatus has a pair of supports flanking the... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6216516 | Reversing compact installation for cold rolling strip-shaped rolling material The invention relates to an installation for cold rolling strip-shaped rolling material, with a reversing stand disposed between two reel-up or unreeling coils or reels, and a second reversing stand in the rolling line of the first reversing stand, with b... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6216515 | Roll stand arrangement for a single wire rolling mill train A roll stand arrangement for a single wire rolling mill train, and including arranged along a main pitch line, a multi-stand finishing block, a multi-stand post finishing block located downstream of the finishing block, and a pitch line change-over unit a... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6202459 | Method of and rolling mill train for producing bar-shaped rolled products A method of rolling a bar-shaped stock to predetermined end height and end width measured transverse to the end height and including providing a rolling will train having a plurality of arranged one after another active rolling mill stands having adjustab... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6202735 | Tundish carriage A tundish carriage for a double-strand continuous caster has a carriage frame displaceable on rails straddling a pair of parallel-wall or funnel-shaped continuous casting billet molds. The frame is of trapezoidal configuration with one relatively long bea... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6196486 | Counterweighted wire-coiling head A coil-laying head for a wire-coiling apparatus has a tubular body centered on and rotatable about an axis, a generally spiral guide tube having an inlet end at the axis and an outlet end opening generally tangentially of the axis at a radial spacing from... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6185970 | Method of and system for controlling a cooling line of a mill train A method of controlling a cooling line of a mill train for rolling steel strips and sheets, with the method including calculating reference temperature conditions in the cooling line based on a preset reference temperature, calculating actual strip temper... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6179237 | Coiling device for wire rod An apparatus for coiling a continuously arriving wire has a main support rotatable about an axis and having mounting formations and a head carried on the support and having mounting formations engaging the support mounting formations. A guide tube is fixe... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6173596 | Position detector for roll of rolling stand A position detector used with a roll stand having a fixed frame member and a roll-carrying member movable in a direction relative to the frame member, has first and second sleeves telescoping in the direction adjacent the members, a mount securing one of ... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6173756 | Broad side element for a slab mold A broad side element for slab mold and including a cast plate having opposite inner and outer surfaces and a plurality of grooves provided on the inner surface for forming cooling channels and having each an undercut, and a plurality of inserts receivable... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6164110 | Method of operating a rolling mill stand of a rolling mill train A method of operating a rolling mill stand of a rolling mill train and including upper and lower rolls having opposite roll edges, with the method including, rolling, in the rolling stand, a first metal strip having a first strip width, thereafter, after ... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6158683 | Apparatus for forming rolled wire-rod coil Successive rolled wire rod turns from a substantially horizontal conveyor are collected in an upright coiling chamber and are guided onto the coil on a support plate in this chamber by a plurality of angularly spaced arms swingably mounted outside the cha... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6149858 | Apparatus for producing steel utilizing an electrical steel making furnace vessel A method of and an apparatus for the production of steel utilizing a single vessel for the electric arc smelting of scrap, directly reduced iron or pig iron in solid form, and for the oxygen blowing of the resulting melt through an oxygen lance introduced... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6145580 | Continuous-casting mold with small side adjustment A continuous-casting mold having two broad-side walls carrying the mold-forming plates which are preferably of copper and clamp the narrow side wall members between them. The entire assembly is received in an outer frame which is shape stable and hence ri... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6128938 | Method of rolling wire having at least a first and a second rolling strand A method of rolling rod in which at least first and second strands are jointly rolled in a mill line having at least one final multistrand stand operating at a rolling speed which is variable as a result of predictable rolling events. Downstream of this s... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6119323 | Apparatus for the descaling of rolled metal stock Structural shapes are descaled with water or air jets from a distributor beam in the form of a tube bundle extending across the path of the structural shape and rotatable to juxtapose a selected nozzle array with the structural shape. The nozzle arrays on... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6082924 | Clamping joint between a spindle head and a roll stub A clamping joint between a universal joint spindle and a stub or wobbler of a rolling mill roll is formed by providing wedge members between the juxtaposed surfaces of the coupling box and roll stub and by bracing the wedge members by springs in the coupl... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6062371 | Method of and apparatus for the braking and delivering of rolled products An apparatus for braking the travel on oncoming rolled products and depositing the rolled products on a cooling bed or other collector as a support frame extending in the direction of travel of the rolled workpieces and an array of profile braked members ... | 05/16/2000 |
| 5992001 | Method and apparatus for connecting billets A continuously cast strand is cut into elongated billets having ends and the billets are run through a rolling stand. after cutting the strand into billets and before rolling the billets one of the billets is engaged in the rolling stand and a trailing en... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5987954 | Eccentric-journal mount for rolling-frame support shafts A rolling apparatus has a frame and a first eccentric journal sleeve mounted on the frame, defining a first axis, and having axially inner and outer ends. A first shaft journaled in the sleeve has respective inner and outer ends at the first-sleeve inner ... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5983481 | Method of making forged steel bar A steel bar is made by first producing a continuously cast forgeable steel strand of generally square cross section with flat beveled corners at a temperature above a transformation temperature. This strand is then cut into billets which are passed throug... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5927634 | Coiling steel rod A method of coiling steel rod arriving continuously comprises the steps of rotating about an upright axis a coiling basket defining a space centered on the axis and defined by an annular inner wall, an annular outer wall, and a floor between the walls, an... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5907967 | Wire rod cooling In the continuous rolling of wire from a heated billet in a continuous wire-rod mill in which the rolled product passes through the rolling stand of a roughing line and an intermediate line, the finish rolling is effected in at least one finish rolling li... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5904893 | Plate cooler for metallurgical furnaces, blast furnaces, direct reduction reactors and gassing units provided with a refractory lining particularly for the iron and steel industry A plate cooler is provided for metallurgical furnaces lined with a refractory lining, comprising cast copper or a low-alloy copper alloy with coolant ducts arranged in its interior. The coolant ducts are prefabricated, comprising copper pipe sockets, copp... | 05/18/1999 |
| 5897071 | Wire-coiling system Wires are coiled by rotating about a main axis a curved laying tube having an upstream end opening generally at the axis and directed axially upstream and a downstream end opening radially offset from the axis and directed generally tangentially and feedi... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5874813 | Control method, especially for load balancing of a plurality of electromotor drives A load-balancing method for a multiplicity of controlled drives, especially individual electric motors of the rolls of a leveling machine for metal strip, in which all of the motors have speed and current-control circuits and are interconnected by a super... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5857370 | Method of and apparatus for the trimming of leading and/or end portions of rolled products A method of and an apparatus for the cropping of leading or trailing end portions of rolled workpieces in which downstream of the rotary shear, a diverter is provided and upstream of the shear there is a rocker guiding the workpiece to the shear and havin... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5855134 | Wire roll stand A wire roll stand with roll rings mounted in a cantilevered manner onto roll shafts, wherein the roll rings can be axially clamped through spacer rings against an end of the respective roll shaft. The roll shafts are adjustable by eccentric bushings mount... | 01/05/1999 |
