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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7341096 | Method for processing a continuously cast metal slab or strip, and plate or strip produced in this way The invention relates to a method for processing a continuously cast metal slab or strip, in which the slab or strip is passed between a set of rotating rolls of a rolling mill stand in order to roll the slab or strip. According to the invention, the rolls of the ro... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7310982 | Rolling method and rolling apparatus for flat-rolled metal materials The invention provides a rolling method for a flat-rolled metal material and a rolling apparatus for the method each capable of stably producing a flat-rolled metal material free from camber or having an extremely light camber. The method is a rolling method of a fl... | 12/25/2007 |
| 6922878 | Method and device for rolling a foil of varying thicknesses A method and a device for rolling a metal strip (1) in a rolling train, the rolling train having at least two rolling stands, the metal strip (1) having at least two partial areas (3, 4) of different thicknesses, which are connected to one anoth... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6253587 | Device and method for compressing The invention relates to a device and method for regulating the compressing of metal tubing (20) having inner-lying beam wave guides (8) by means of a roll straightening passage (10a, 10b) comprising a feeding device (36, 36') of the rollers (12-16) with ... | 07/03/2001 |
| 5740686 | Method and apparatus for rolling a metal strip In rolling a metal strip in a roughing line and a finishing line, the rolling process in the roughing line is adjusted as a function of a predicted value for the change in width of the metal strip in the finishing line such that the metal strip has a give... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5520037 | Roll stand adjusting method Rolling schedule computing method for adjusting the desired roll force and desired roll gap of a roll stand, in which before rolling a strip (1) of a prescribed quality from an expected material hardness (MH*) and before a relative desired pass reduction ... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5495735 | System for controlling strip thickness in rolling mills A system for controlling a thickness of a strip being rolled by a rolling mill having more than two rolling stands, in tandem configuration. A subcontrol unit controls a rolling speed and a rolling load of a final rolling stand according to a predetermine... | 03/05/1996 |
| 5054302 | Hardness compensated thickness control method for wet skin-pass rolled sheet A wet skin-pass rolling method for rolling a steel sheet by a mill while adjusting the hardness of said steel sheet through control of the rolling reduction. The method comprises determining an allowable range of reduction ratio from a predetermined desir... | 10/08/1991 |
| 4888993 | Apparatus for measuring reduction ratio of rolled material In an apparatus for determining the reduction ratio of a rolled material by measuring the moving speed of a magnetic mark formed on a strip on the inlet and outlet sides of a rolling mill, a rising of a signal of the logical product of a detection signal ... | 12/26/1989 |
| 4881396 | Rolling mill stand with axially slidable rolls A rolling mill stand with work rolls which are supported as necessary by back-up rolls or by intermediate and back-up rolls. The rolls are axially slidable relative to each other. The bodies of the rolls are provided with alternatingly concavely and conve... | 11/21/1989 |
| 4760723 | Elongation control system An elongation control system for controlling the elongation of a work to be rolled by a rolling mill applied to a continuous thin plate rolling equipment, through control of the rolling load of a press down device in the mill and control of tension on the... | 08/02/1988 |
| 4691546 | Rolling mill control for tandem rolling In a method of operating a tandem rolling mill, the speeds of the mill rolls are kept constant, a signal representing the mass flow of material entering the first stand is compared with a signal representing the desired mass flow of material leaving the l... | 09/08/1987 |
| 4570472 | Method and apparatus for controlling lateral unstable movement and camber of strip being rolled Disclosed is a method and apparatus for controlling lateral unstable movement and camber of a strip being rolled in which the lateral displacement and the camber magnitude of the strip being rolled are directly detected. The lateral unstable movement is c... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4428054 | Automatic control methods and devices for rolling hills In methods of automatically controlling the strip thickness in a rolling mill for producing a rolled product having a desired thickness and devices therefore, either an automatic gauge control (AGC) mode for controlling a deviation of the output thickness... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4244025 | Rolling mill gauge control system An automatic gauge control system for screwdown adjustment of a cold rolling mill using separate feed-forward and feed-backward screwdown adjustments and wherein the feed-backward screwdown adjustment is based on the difference between a short term output... | 01/06/1981 |
| 4240147 | Gauge control method and system for rolling mill The present invention provides a method and a system for controlling strip thickness in rolling mill, especially adapted in the case where material is rolled by a tandem rolling mill. According to the present invention, the change in the strip thickness f... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4173133 | Continuous rolling mill A continuous rolling mill capable of rolling a sheet metal under a reduced rolling force without wrapping it around work rolls wherein, at each of rolling stands, the upper and lower work rolls are rotated at different peripheral speeds in such a way that... | 11/06/1979 |
| 3940598 | Method and apparatus for controlling roll gaps of cold rolling mills In a method of controlling the roll gap of a cold rolling mill of the class wherein the rolling load is first estimated and then the roll gap is calculated, the deformation resistance of the material being rolled is determined in accordance with a constan... | 02/24/1976 |