EP0143166A1 - Cage de laminoir avec appui des cylindres de travail à l'aide de rouleaux d'appui - Google Patents

Cage de laminoir avec appui des cylindres de travail à l'aide de rouleaux d'appui Download PDF

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EP0143166A1
EP0143166A1 EP84108263A EP84108263A EP0143166A1 EP 0143166 A1 EP0143166 A1 EP 0143166A1 EP 84108263 A EP84108263 A EP 84108263A EP 84108263 A EP84108263 A EP 84108263A EP 0143166 A1 EP0143166 A1 EP 0143166A1
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Wilfried Bald
Erich Stoy
Hans Römmen
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SMS Siemag AG
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21B—ROLLING OF METAL
    • B21B29/00—Counter-pressure devices acting on rolls to inhibit deflection of same under load, e.g. backing rolls ; Roll bending devices, e.g. hydraulic actuators acting on roll shaft ends
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21B—ROLLING OF METAL
    • B21B13/00—Metal-rolling stands, i.e. an assembly composed of a stand frame, rolls, and accessories
    • B21B13/14—Metal-rolling stands, i.e. an assembly composed of a stand frame, rolls, and accessories having counter-pressure devices acting on rolls to inhibit deflection of same under load; Back-up rolls
    • B21B13/145—Lateral support devices for rolls acting mainly in a direction parallel to the movement of the product
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21B—ROLLING OF METAL
    • B21B31/00—Rolling stand structures; Mounting, adjusting, or interchanging rolls, roll mountings, or stand frames
    • B21B31/08—Interchanging rolls, roll mountings, or stand frames, e.g. using C-hooks; Replacing roll chocks on roll shafts

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  • the invention relates to a roll stand with two work rolls, two intermediate rolls and two support rolls (six-high roll stand), in which at least the axes of the support rolls and those of the intermediate rolls lie essentially one above the other in the same vertical plane, in which the intermediate rolls between the support rolls and the work rolls are arranged axially displaceable, and in which the chocks of the work rolls and the intermediate rolls are held laterally by them form-fitting axially leading guide pieces, of which the guide pieces provided for the chocks of the work rolls on the stand window, having adjusting means, and those for the chocks of the Intermediate roller effective guide pieces within the soffit of the stator window are each vertically displaceable and optionally acted upon by pretensioning means, and finally the work rolls additionally against the support rolls and the intermediate wa Vertical axis having pin axes can be adjusted and can be supported essentially in this level by support rollers which can be adjusted against them from support bridges connected to the stands.
  • the optimal diameter of the work rolls depends on a number of factors. For example, work rolls with a larger diameter are used for the skin pass than for the usual reduction, and with decreasing strip thickness and increasing strength of the rolling stock expediently also reduced the diameter of the work rolls. With increasing slenderness of the work rolls, however, the necessity of their support arises not only in the vertical direction by intermediate or backup rolls, but also according to "Production of Cold-Rolled Strip, Part 1, Verlag Stahleisen mbH, Düsseldorf, 1970, pages 309 to 314, also in essentially horizontal direction by horizontal adjustment, by hydraulic cushions and / or by intermediate rollers supported by further rollers or pressure rollers.
  • a certain spread of the work roll diameter is provided in practically all roll stands in order to be able to rework new work rolls introduced with the maximum diameter in accordance with the wear occurring in the company; in general, differences between the original, largest and the minimum permissible diameter of, for example, 50 mm are provided. Such differences can be taken into account within the roll stand without major modifications to the same.
  • the invention is therefore based on the object to provide a rolling stand of the type described, which can be converted in terms of the diameter of its effective work rolls into diameter ranges in which the work rolls require lateral support within considerably shorter times, which are in the range of normal work roll change times .
  • the stand windows each have an extension on both sides in the height ranges of the work rolls, in which horizontal adjustment devices are provided, in that the adjustment stamps of these horizontal adjustment devices are connected to the blocks having the adjustment means, by the support roller arrangement on the support bridges retractable and can be lifted by at least 50 mm from the work rolls, and by the support roller arrangement with the Hori upstream of them on the drive and the operating side zontalanstell devices with the blocks carried by them combined into a detachable, pull-out cassette as a whole and are interchangeable with a horizontal adjusting device with upstream blocks cassette.
  • cassettes are expediently designed such that they can be inserted horizontally into stand recesses and recesses in the support bridges, the cassettes each consisting of two lateral cheeks which connect the parts of the support roller arrangement which extend from stand to stand. These cassettes also expediently have the same. Guide plates with so that the work roll installation is completely released after pulling out the cassettes.
  • the support roller arrangement can then be moved into the working position, and even when using thick work rolls for long periods, it is not absolutely necessary, but only advisable, to replace the cassette with one that does not contain a support roller arrangement, and also that The cassette can be exchanged easily, unhindered and quickly.
  • the support bridges in the number of hydraulic cylinders corresponding to the support rollers and that of the two bearing arms of the horizontal intermediate roller, the piston rods of which have recesses into which projections of the elements adjusting the support rollers and the intermediate roller can be inserted horizontally . It is hereby achieved that the support roller arrangement can be removed easily and in a few simple steps, while the hydraulic cylinders equipped with hydraulic connections and adjusting these remain within the support bridges.
  • the replacement of the work rolls is further simplified if the drive spindles of a comb roll stand provided on the drive side of the stand or corresponding separate drives are connected to the pins of the support rolls or else of the intermediate rolls.
  • Such a backup roll or intermediate roll drive which is maintained regardless of the diameter of the work roll used, further reduces changeover times.
  • the work rolls can also be driven if necessary.
  • the guide elements guiding the chocks of at least the intermediate rolls in the axial direction of the mutually supporting surfaces of the guide pieces and the chocks are formed symmetrically with respect to a horizontal plane, and the axes of the roller journals supported by the chocks are arranged offset from this horizontal plane.
  • a chock can be picked up by the guide pieces in both a first and a second position rotated by 180 °, the offset of the axes pointing in different directions, so that the same chocks and intermediate rolls for two work rolls different diameters can be used and storage is simplified.
  • FIG. 1 shows a top view of a stand 1 shown broken off, in the stand window 2 of which the chocks of support rolls 3 and 4 are held displaceably in a central vertical section through a roll stand.
  • Recessing recesses 5 of the stator in the height range of the work rolls form extensions of the stator window, in which horizontal adjustment devices 6 are provided, the adjustment stamps of which are connected to a carrier 7 of a block 8.
  • adjusting means not shown in the figure, which are expediently designed as hydraulic cylinders, vertically provided guide pieces 9 and 10 are supported on the block between their guide surfaces horizontally displaceable chocks 11 and 12 of the work rolls 13 and 14 lead small diameter.
  • displaceable guide pieces 15 and 16 for example subjected to bending forces, are vertically displaceable, the end faces of which form a horizontal guide guide the chocks 17 and 18 of intermediate rolls 19 and 20.
  • Sufficiently rigid support bridges 21 and 22 are provided between the stands, in which the essential parts of the support roller arrangement are provided within a cassette 23.
  • hydraulic cylinders 24 and 25 are provided in the support bridges, whose pistons 26 are arranged on freely projecting piston rods 57, the free ends of which have a recess in the form of an annular groove 39.
  • fork rams 27 the free ends of which are equipped with a continuous undercut horizontal slot 28 so that the protruding claws engage in the groove of the piston rods.
  • the fork plungers 27 At its opposite end, as can be seen in detail from FIG. 3, the fork plungers 27 have forks 29, the outer sides of which have grooves or transverse strips which are guided along profile strips 30 each arranged between two forks.
  • On the bolt penetrating the fork support rollers 32 are mounted.
  • the inner partition walls of the cassette are equipped with guide plates 31 for the rolling stock which can be pivoted along swivel bars.
  • FIG. 4 which shows a top view of the support bridge 21, in the broken-open part, two hydraulic cylinders 25 are provided in the support bridge on both sides of the row of hydraulic cylinders 24, the piston rods of which can be connected to fork stems 40, the forks of which have pivot pins 41 the bearing arms 33 are pivotable, the free ends of the bearings from horizontal intermediate Have rollers 34.
  • the bearing arms can be pivoted between guide pieces 9 and 10 and guide plates 11.
  • the guide pieces 9 and 10 and the guide plates in this case have bolts 42 and 43, which are surrounded by stones, which are essentially longitudinally displaceable in scenes 46 and 47 of the bearing arm.
  • the bearing 45 is held for the journal of the horizontal intermediate roller 34.
  • FIG. 3 - are to be replaced by work rolls 35 of larger diameter, as shown in section in FIGS. 2 and 3, the pistons are first of all 26 all hydraulic cylinders 24 and 25 retracted into their extreme left position, the extended position of the cassette 23.
  • the forks 29 are taken along and both the support rollers 32 and, via the bearing arms 33, the horizontal intermediate rolls 34 are withdrawn from the supported work roll.
  • both the work rolls and the vertical intermediate rolls can be moved out of the stand and replaced by a second set of work rolls 35 of larger diameter with associated backup rolls.
  • the work rolls are each held in their chocks in such a way that their operating position also results when the guide pieces 9 and 10 are in the middle position.
  • the guide pieces are equipped with grooves 49 and the chocks with guide strips 48.
  • the chocks are therefore at least in the areas guided between the guide pieces adapted to these, and the adaptation to the respective work roll diameter is carried out by appropriate Exposing the axis of the bearings of the work rolls from the central plane penetrating the guide strips 48 of the chocks.
  • the intermediate rolls can be provided essentially continuously with the same diameter; only with work rolls of extremely large diameters can it prove advantageous to use them in connection with intermediate rolls of smaller diameters.
  • the position of the intermediate rolls changes according to the distance between them, which corresponds to the roll gap, increased by twice the diameter of the work rolls. With the use of larger work rolls, even if intermediate rolls of the same diameter are still used, they must be stored in chocks whose bearing axes are further apart from one another in accordance with the increase in the diameter of the work rolls.
  • Pushing the roller set in and out is very simple due to the guide pieces which guide the chocks horizontally, so that no greater difficulties arise here than with a normal work roll and intermediate roll change. Operation can be resumed immediately after the work and intermediate rolls have been replaced, the pistons 26 of the hydraulic cylinders 24 and 25 remaining in their extended position shown on the extreme left, and the horizontal intermediate rolls of the pressure roller arrangement also being clearly lifted from work rolls of larger diameter.
  • the pivot angle of both the bearing arms 33 and the guide plates 31 is also determined automatically. This can be achieved by the shape and arrangement of the scenes 46 and 47, by means of which the bearing arms 33 are guided from the inclined working position into the practically horizontal retracted position. By appropriate shaping of the opposite backdrop, the optimal adjustment of the guide plate can also be brought about and when the guide pieces 9, 10 are moved vertically, they are transferred to the bearing arms 33 and the guide plates 31. Another possibility arises from the stronger extension of the support roller arrangement when using work rolls of smaller diameter. Here, too, an adaptation to the work roll diameter can be achieved by appropriately guiding the links 46, 47.
  • the intermediate rolls can be kept largely independent of the work roll change; only with work rolls of extremely large diameters it may be advisable to use intermediate rolls of smaller diameters.
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 in front of the block 8 shows spray bars 50 shown cut with guide pieces 9 and 10, which may optionally be designed to be pivotable with the movement of the guide pieces, while between the guide pieces the piston rod 51 of a hydraulic cylinder serving to balance the work rolls and acting between the guide pieces can be seen.

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EP84108263A 1983-10-03 1984-07-13 Cage de laminoir avec appui des cylindres de travail à l'aide de rouleaux d'appui Expired EP0143166B1 (fr)

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AT84108263T ATE33950T1 (de) 1983-10-03 1984-07-13 Walzgeruest mit mittels stuetzrollen abstuetzbarer arbeitswalzen.

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DE3335857A DE3335857A1 (de) 1983-10-03 1983-10-03 Walzgeruest mit mittels stuetzrollen abstuetzbarer arbeitswalzen
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WO2001021334A1 (fr) * 1999-09-17 2001-03-29 Sundwig Gmbh Cage de laminoir
EP4011513A1 (fr) * 2020-12-09 2022-06-15 ANDRITZ Metals Germany GmbH Cage de laminoir

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EP0154896A3 (en) * 1984-03-13 1987-07-22 Sms Schloemann-Siemag Aktiengesellschaft Six-high mill six-high mill
WO2001021334A1 (fr) * 1999-09-17 2001-03-29 Sundwig Gmbh Cage de laminoir
EP4011513A1 (fr) * 2020-12-09 2022-06-15 ANDRITZ Metals Germany GmbH Cage de laminoir

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EP0143166B1 (fr) 1988-05-04
JPS6076209A (ja) 1985-04-30
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KR850004021A (ko) 1985-07-01
DE3335857A1 (de) 1985-04-18

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