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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6959571 | Rolling mill and method for operating same Hydraulic cylinders are provided in a housing so as to be opposed to work rolls and backup rolls. Before a front end portion of a rollable material is engaged between the work rolls, the working oil pressure of the hydraulic cylinders is set at a high pressure value... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6786071 | Method and device for operating a hot rolling train with at least one edger The invention relates to a method and device for operating a hot rolling train with at least one edger and at least one sensor with which the strip end position is determined by means of a linear recording of the infrared radiation from the rolled strip and whereby ... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6526792 | Method for minimizing thickened ends during the rolling of pipes in a stretch reducing mill The invention relates to a method for minimizing thickened ends during the rolling of tubes in a stretch-reducing mill by means of a change in time of the torque of individual driven roll stands when the tube front end and the tube rear end run through th... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6412322 | Rolling method In continuous rolling of a plurality of steel strips: 1. a table speed corrector corrects speeds of tables, on which a succeeding steel strip is placed, through a main controller so that values of an interval between steel strips, obtained by CCD cameras ... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6230531 | Rolling data collecting method and system The rolling data collecting system according to this invention collects rolling data of a rolled strip to be serially rolled through a tandem rolling mill, using the first rolling data measuring means installed at each roll stand and the second rolling da... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6216504 | Traveling sheet thickness changing method for cold tandem roller Set values of a gauge-alteration-in-rolling amount after the next (i+1)-th stand and subsequent stands are modified, using the rolling results obtained when a leading end of a succeeding material passes through the i-th stand and the gauge results of the ... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6167736 | Tension control system and method for reducing front end and tail end overfill of a continuously hot rolled product A system for controlling front and tail end gauge of a continuous hot rolled product in a rolling mill includes first and second individually driven roll stands arranged successively along said pass line in advance of a group of roll stands. A controller ... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6148653 | Rolling apparatus and a rolling method The present invention aims to provide a rolling system and a rolling method capable of avoiding the occurrence of a pinch fold by effectively preventing the zigzag movement of a rear end portion of a material to be rolled. The rotational speeds (rolling s... | 11/21/2000 |
| 5771732 | Steckel mill A Steckel mill or coiler rolling mill includes at least one reversing stand and drivers and coiler furnaces arranged on the entry side and the exit side of the reversing stand, wherein the reversing stand, the drivers and the coiler furnaces are connected... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5720196 | Hot-rolling method of steel piece joint during continuous hot-rolling A method for continuously hot-rolling steel pieces, includes butt-joining the rear end of the preceding steel piece and the leading end of the succeeding steel piece, then finish-rolling the butt-joined steel pieces by supplying a continuous hot rolling f... | 02/24/1998 |
| 5647236 | Method of rolling light gauge hot mill band on a hot reversing mill The invention provides a method for rolling hot mill band on a hot reversing mill so as to achieve acceptable finishing temperatures for such a light gauge product. The invention also minimizes the threading of a light gauge product through the mill and d... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5377516 | Method and apparatus for bending sheet stock A method and apparatus for use in bending sheet stock to form a selected design is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a controller including a programmable system for calculating the positions and shapes of bends for bending the stock to the selected desi... | 01/03/1995 |
| 5355708 | Straight rod stock processor A straight rod stock processor and method for use thereof which incorporates the employment of a rod stock loader to effect automatic shakeout of a piece of straight rod stock in pulling the same from a pre-load bundle of infeed stock and delivery to a se... | 10/18/1994 |
| 5063767 | Apparatus for controlling time gaps between billets in rolling mills A system and device for enabling the control of time intervals between billets in rolling mills of blocks or billets and/or similar equipments that allow such control is implemented using sensor controlled electronic circuits. The control system relies on... | 11/12/1991 |
| 4998427 | Method for rolling on-gauge head and tail ends of a workpiece A method for making delivery gauge corrections at low mill speeds during threading and tailing out of a workpiece by varying the interstand tension of the workpiece. The tension between the last two stands is used with a desired tension and the delivery A... | 03/12/1991 |
| 4936132 | Continuous hot rolling process for making thin steel strip This invention provides a continuous hot rolling process for making thin strip in which it is possible to roll strips at high rolling speeds required to keep a finisher delivery temperature equal to or higher than an Ar3 transformation temperat... | 06/26/1990 |
| 4909060 | Oil compression compensation system A pre-set fluid actuator for setting the roll gap of a rolling mill having a transducer for detecting actuator movement and an electrohydraulic servovalve for controlling its position, a control system for compensating for the compressibility of the actua... | 03/20/1990 |
| 4736605 | Device for controlling the lifting and pressure movements of strip pressure rolls for hot rolled strip coilers The device serves to control the desired lifting and pressure-containing movements of strip pressure rolls for the reels which serve to store hot rolled strip. These reels have a rotating mandrel. The pressure rolls are actuated by piston and cylinder uni... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4665730 | Method of controlling product tension in a rolling mill In a rolling mill wherein product is rolled continuously in successive first and second blocks at the finishing end of the mill, a pinch roll unit is interposed between the two blocks. The motor speed of the pinch roll unit is employed in combination with... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4512169 | Automatic plate thickness control device A thickness control device and method for maintaining the thickness of the rolled material which is passed between the rollers of a rolling mill, in which the rollers above and below the rolling material are rotated at different speeds VH and V... | 04/23/1985 |
| 4506197 | Method of controlling mill motors speeds in a cold tandem mill This invention concerns a method of controlling mill-motor speed in a cold tandem mill. During unsteady phases of rolling operation such as threading, rolling speed acceleration and/or deceleration, and tail out with respect to the coil being rolled, mill... | 03/19/1985 |
| 4280350 | Wire bending system A system for automatically bending wire into arcuate segments of different selected configurations utilizing a wire bending roll displaceable selectively by a stepping motor which is controlled by a microprocessor to bend a length of wire conforming to da... | 07/28/1981 |
| 4232540 | Controlled variable radius roll forming apparatus A roll forming apparatus for curling a sheet of metal into a curved configuration having a plurality of sheet contours which apparatus automatically and sequentially varies the degree of curvature of a sheet of metal being treated by the apparatus as the ... | 11/11/1980 |
| 4162624 | Tension control method for a rolling mill In the control of the tension of a workpiece which is rolled by a tandem rolling mill, a tension control method for a rolling mill wherein the tension of a workpiece is controlled by a looperless tension control method employing no looper at the threading... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4033164 | Method for rolling tubes Tubular billets are stretch-rolled in that the rolls of locations closer to the entrance have the speeds reduced temporarily from their respective normal operation speed by an amount, which is made dependent upon the mean longitudinal tension in the bille... | 07/05/1977 |
