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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7594310 | Method and device for producing a mechanical part, in particular a bearing ring and a part produced by said methods A device and method for producing, by molding, a circular-shaped mechanical part made of a metal alloy. The device has a rotatable hollow mold for receiving a predetermined quantity of the metal alloy. The predetermined quantity of the metal alloy is defined by at l... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7357011 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing metal strips The invention concerns a method for producing metal strip (1) in an installation (2), in which a metal strand, especially a thin slab, is brought to a desired temperature and/or is maintained at a desired temperature in a furnace (3, 3a, ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7353577 | System and method for casting toilet bowls The present invention provides an improved system and method for casting toilets. In the disclosed method, at least one of a shell, engine and rim configuration for a toilet is provided, wherein the configuration is selected from a plurality of shell, engine and rim... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7318267 | Strip production equipment Arranged are a twin- or single-roll continuous casting machine supplied with molten metal from a tundish arranged above so as to continuously cast a strip with a predetermined width, a trimmer arranged downstream of the continuous casting machine to trim widthwise e... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7213432 | Hot rolling installation A hot rolling installation should be constructed and able to be operated so that strips of materials, which can be shaped with different levels of difficulty and have a thickness of less than 1 mm, can be rolled. According to the invention, strip speeds of 15 m/sec ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7191628 | Method of continuously hot rolling a heated billet into a plurality of finished products A billet is initially rolled into a process section having at least first and second segments joined by an intermediate web, with the cross-sectional area of the second segment being larger than that of the first segment. The intermediate web is slit to separate the... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7192551 | Inductive heating process control of continuous cast metallic sheets An apparatus for rolling of a powder metallurgical metallic workpiece is provided having a feeding device, a first induction heating apparatus in operable communication with a first RF generator and at least a first hot rolling mill. A process control device monitor... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7143499 | Method and installation for producing metal strips and sheets The invention relates to a method for producing metal strips and sheets involving the following method steps: pouring a strand, which is provided in the form (1) of thin slabs and which is comprised of carbon steel or special steel, into a casting machine ( | 12/05/2006 |
| 7047621 | Method for casting and immediate rolling, and device for the support, guidance and deformation of a metal strand, especially in steel strand A method for casting and rolling preliminary sections, especially H-sections, and a device for the support, guidance and deformation of a metal strand, especially a steel cast strand (1), in a continuous casting installation for preliminary sections with soft... | 05/23/2006 |
| 6931703 | Rail producing method and producing equipment The present invention provides a method and equipment for producing a rail, the method and equipment being capable of lowering a bend at an end of a rail effectively and the truncation amount thereof. The present invention is a method for producing a rail, character... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6832432 | Hot-rolling mill 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 ... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6763561 | Continuous casting and hot rolling apparatus for parallel production of multiple metal shapes A continuous casting and hot rolling apparatus for the parallel production for a multiplicity of rolled shapes, wire and rod of circular, oval and polygonyl cross section in which a continuous caster or flow shaper produces initially a plurality of discreet strands ... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6647604 | Continuous casting and rolling of multiple rods A rolling system has a die having a row of separate throughgoing passages for producing a plurality of continuously advancing and parallel hot metal strands and a plurality of pinch rollers for pulling the strands out of the die and moving them in a direc... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6634073 | Continuous production facilities for wire The present invention relates a train of in-line continuous manufacturing equipment for producing steel wire, considered difficult with a block mill up to now, capable of efficiently carrying out controlled-rolling and slow-cooling by an effective in-line... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6568056 | Hot continuous-rolling system with vertical-roll stand A rolling system has a plant producing a plurality of continuously advancing and parallel hot metal strands, a vertical-roll stand receiving the strands, and a horizontal-roll stand. The vertical-roll stand has an upstream row of vertical pairs of rolls a... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6493914 | Reinforced composite product and apparatus and method for producing same A rebar forming apparatus includes a malleable material supply station for continuously supplying a malleable planar material and a malleable material forming station for forming the malleable material into first and second corresponding shell portions an... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6463652 | Apparatus and methods for manufacturing hot rolled steel sheets A high-quality hot rolled steel sheet is manufactured with a high production efficiency and a low cost, from a long, hot slab, using a combination of continuous casting facilities and a plate reduction press machine.... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6457227 | Device and process for producing a steel strip A device for producing a thin steel strip, comprising at least one or more continuous-casting machines (1) for casting thin steel slabs, a furnace device (7) which is suitable for heating and/or homogenizing a slab, and at least one rolling device for red... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6332255 | Process for producing a hot-rolled product and plant for carrying out the process In a process for producing a hot-rolled product by continuously casting a strand, separating a strand piece from the strand, thermally influencing the strand piece by temperature equalization and/or strand piece heating and hot-rolling the strand piece, c... | 12/25/2001 |
| 6282767 | Method to roll strip and plate and rolling line which performs such method Method line to roll strip and plate starting from thin slabs produced by continuous casting, whereby the cast product is subjected to at least one descaling operation followed by a roughing operation and by a finishing operation before being wound in coil... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6257812 | Hot rolled plate joining apparatus There is provided a rolled plate joining apparatus equipped with a truck that can travel reversibly in the rolling direction, tailing end pinch rolls that are mounted on the truck and can be moved vertically with the tailing end of a preceding rolled plat... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6240617 | Large unit weight hot rolling process and rolling apparatus therefor A sheet bar having a thickness of 20 to 50 mm, as continuously cast by a sheet bar caster, is passed as it is through a first sheet bar twister and is then wound in an up-end state into an up-end sheet bar coil. Then, this up-end sheet bar coil is rewound... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6209187 | Rolling train A rolling train with a hot-rolling group, furnaces arranged upstream of the hot-rolling group and at least two continuous casting machines as well as cutting shears in front of and possibly behind the furnaces, wherein a furnace having a great length is p... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6071362 | Method and plant for rolling hot-rolled wide strip from continuously cast slabs A method and a plant for rolling hot-rolled wide strip from continuously cast thin slabs or slabs of medium thickness of about 40 to 100 mm, wherein the cast slab strand is divided into sections, is subjected to a temperature treatment in a continuous fur... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6038757 | Method of operating a roll stand arrangement A method of operating a roll stand arrangement including one or more edging/roughing stands followed by a compact rolling group arranged transversely offset relative to the edging/roughing stands and connected to the edging/roughing stands through connect... | 03/21/2000 |
| 6018855 | Movable insulated conveyor for the continuous casting of slabs Movable insulated conveyor for the continuous casting of slabs, billets, blooms or other products, which is installed in line with a continuous casting plant (13) comprising at least two casting lines (11a-11b), at least one shears (14) and a first statio... | 02/01/2000 |
| 5992502 | Method of producing metallic bar stock For producing metallic bar stock there is first of all fabricated a primary product of substantially regularly round or angular cross-section, and this primary product is then deformed in cross-section to the final dimension corresponding to the bar stock... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5991991 | High-speed thin-slabbing plant A machine for producing hot-rolled steel strip from input stock of continuously cast strip in sequential work steps. The input stock is thereby in a continuous casting machine with a cast-rolling device at a casting speed of 4 to 8 m/min and a solidificat... | 11/30/1999 |
| 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 |
| 5964275 | Apparatus for the production of a strip, a pre-strip or a slab There is disclosed an arrangement and for alternatively producing a hot-rolled strip, a hot-formed pre-strip or an unformed slab, of steel by the continuous casting method. In order to obtain a high product quality for strips as thin as possible and to en... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5946783 | High-capacity wire rolling mill A high-capacity wire rolling mill including a wire train and/or rod steel train for concrete reinforcing steel and simple carbon steels, further including a continuous casting plant or a continuous casting wheel for high production, a direct interconnecti... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5943753 | Plant for producing a hot-rolled product There is disclosed a plant for producing a hot-rolled product from a cast strand comprising two or several continuous casters and a rolling mill associated therewith and respective guide sections for transporting a strand piece separated from the cast str... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5924184 | Method for the continuous rolling of plate and/or strip and the relative continuous rolling line Method and relative line for the continuous rolling of plate and/or strip, starting from at least two lines for the continuous casting of thin slabs (11) of between 60 and 120 mm thick, the pre-slabs being continuously cast within a limited range of thick... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5881441 | Device for making semi-finished products An apparatus and a process for making semi-finished products in the form of ti metal bars having a width-gauge ratio of over 60 and a maximum sheet metal gauge tolerance of 2%. A metal profile is fed continuously and upwardly through a pool of melt materi... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5862582 | Method for making hollow workpieces A method for making hollow workpieces such as beverage containers with a circular die in which an aluminum alloy is strip cast whereby the alloy is solidified rapidly without substantial precipitation. Thereafter, the aluminum alloy is formed into a cup w... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5829117 | Hot saw cutting type continuous rolling method and apparatus thereof A hot saw cutting type continuous rolling method comprises casting two strand billets continuously; cutting the billets to predetermined length by hot saws; directly feeding billet portions obtained by cutting onto a rolling line via a line connecting dev... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5771560 | Method for the continuous casting of long products and relative continuous casting line Method and continuous casting line for the continuous casting advantageously, but not only, of long products such as billets or blooms, whereby the solidification of the cast product (16) is completed at a position downstream of the outlet of the mould (1... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5769149 | Plant for producing hot-rolled steel strip A plant for producing hot-rolled steel strip in a production line includes a continuous slab casting plant, transverse cutting shears, a continuous furnace and a hot-rolling train. The continuous furnace includes a first stationary section and a second se... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5666707 | Conventional or continuous rolling process A railroad rail produced by rolling a substantially round bloom, together with a process and system for manufacturing the same. The round bloom may be produced by continuous casting methods. The bloom is initially rolled into a substantially rectangular s... | 09/16/1997 |
| 5634510 | Integrated manufacturing system The integrated manufacturing system is formed by the combination of a continuous casting apparatus and hot rolling mills. The continuous casting apparatus is formed by confronting wide side mold walls and confronting narrow side mold walls. The narrow sid... | 06/03/1997 |
