METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TEMPORARILY INTERCEPTING COURSE OF LONG PRODUCTS THAT PASS THROUGH BETWEEN DOWNSTREAM AND UPSTREAM PATHS IN ROLLING MILL

• Main Authors: SHORE, T. MICHAEL, PUCHOVSKY, MELICHER
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Korean
• Published: 20.12.2004
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: AUXILIARY OPERATIONS USED IN CONNECTION WITH METAL-WORKINGWITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; CASTING; CASTING OF METALS; CASTING OF OTHER SUBSTANCES BY THE SAME PROCESSES OR DEVICES; MANUFACTURE OF METAL SHEETS, WIRE, RODS, TUBES OR PROFILES,OTHERWISE THAN BY ROLLING; MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVINGMATERIAL; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; POWDER METALLURGY; PUNCHING METAL; ROLLING OF METAL; TRANSPORTING

PURPOSE: To provide a method and apparatus that will make it possible to roll smaller size products while maintaining the mill take in speeds at or above acceptable minimums, without having to reduce the size of the billets being processed, and preferably while continuing to roll at or close to the mill's maximum tonnage rate. CONSTITUTION: In an apparatus for temporarily interrupting the passage of a long product between upstream and downstream paths(22,54), the apparatus comprises a cylindrical drum positioned between the paths; means for delivering the product to the drum; means for rotating the drum in one direction to accumulate the product thereon in a series of windings, and for reversing the direction of rotation of the drum to unwind the accumulated product therefrom; and means for delivering the product unwinding from the drum to the downstream path.