EP0768124B1 - Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Herstellung von Draht - Google Patents

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EP0768124B1
EP0768124B1 EP19960116446 EP96116446A EP0768124B1 EP 0768124 B1 EP0768124 B1 EP 0768124B1 EP 19960116446 EP19960116446 EP 19960116446 EP 96116446 A EP96116446 A EP 96116446A EP 0768124 B1 EP0768124 B1 EP 0768124B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21B—ROLLING OF METAL
    • B21B1/00—Metal-rolling methods or mills for making semi-finished products of solid or profiled cross-section; Sequence of operations in milling trains; Layout of rolling-mill plant, e.g. grouping of stands; Succession of passes or of sectional pass alternations
    • B21B1/16—Metal-rolling methods or mills for making semi-finished products of solid or profiled cross-section; Sequence of operations in milling trains; Layout of rolling-mill plant, e.g. grouping of stands; Succession of passes or of sectional pass alternations for rolling wire rods, bars, merchant bars, rounds wire or material of like small cross-section
    • B21B1/18—Metal-rolling methods or mills for making semi-finished products of solid or profiled cross-section; Sequence of operations in milling trains; Layout of rolling-mill plant, e.g. grouping of stands; Succession of passes or of sectional pass alternations for rolling wire rods, bars, merchant bars, rounds wire or material of like small cross-section in a continuous process
    • 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
    • B21B13/08—Metal-rolling stands, i.e. an assembly composed of a stand frame, rolls, and accessories with differently-directed roll axes, e.g. for the so-called "universal" rolling process
    • B21B13/12—Metal-rolling stands, i.e. an assembly composed of a stand frame, rolls, and accessories with differently-directed roll axes, e.g. for the so-called "universal" rolling process axes being arranged in different planes
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21B—ROLLING OF METAL
    • B21B2273/00—Path parameters
    • B21B2273/22—Aligning on rolling axis, e.g. of roll calibers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21B—ROLLING OF METAL
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    • B21B31/16—Adjusting or positioning rolls
    • B21B31/18—Adjusting or positioning rolls by moving rolls axially
    • 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
    • B21B31/16—Adjusting or positioning rolls
    • B21B31/20—Adjusting or positioning rolls by moving rolls perpendicularly to roll axis
    • B21B31/22—Adjusting or positioning rolls by moving rolls perpendicularly to roll axis mechanically, e.g. by thrust blocks, inserts for removal
    • B21B31/26—Adjusting eccentrically-mounted roll bearings
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21B—ROLLING OF METAL
    • B21B35/00—Drives for metal-rolling mills, e.g. hydraulic drives
    • B21B35/02—Drives for metal-rolling mills, e.g. hydraulic drives for continuously-operating mills
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21B—ROLLING OF METAL
    • B21B45/00—Devices for surface or other treatment of work, specially combined with or arranged in, or specially adapted for use in connection with, metal-rolling mills
    • B21B45/004—Heating the product
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21B—ROLLING OF METAL
    • B21B45/00—Devices for surface or other treatment of work, specially combined with or arranged in, or specially adapted for use in connection with, metal-rolling mills
    • B21B45/04—Devices for surface or other treatment of work, specially combined with or arranged in, or specially adapted for use in connection with, metal-rolling mills for de-scaling, e.g. by brushing

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  • This invention relates to a method and an apparatus for manufacturing wire, particularly for manufacturing wire with a diameter less than 5.5 mm
  • metal drawing process As conventional methods for manufacturing metal wire, metal drawing process, metal rolling process and combinational process of said two ones have been known.
  • the metal drawing method has been used mainly for manufacturing fine wire, wherein work material is successively drawn trough a plurality of drawing dies, wherein the sizing passes successively decreases.
  • work material is successively rolled by a plurality of roller-couples which are alternately arranged so that the angle between the roller axes of adjacent roller-couples is almost 90°. This process achieves a higher productivity in comparison with the metal drawing process.
  • the two rollers of each roller-couple have grooves on their rolling surfaces, respectively, which form a sizing pass for determining the cross sectional shape of resulting wire.
  • the metal rolling process has a problem that work material (or wire) is sometimes twisted when it is introduced to the downstream roller-couple from the upstream one.
  • the tendency of occurring such twisting is rather high in the case that the shapes of the sizing passes are different between upstream and downstream roller-couples, particularly in the case of a combination of oval-circular sizing passes.
  • the twisting of work material may lead to such trouble as irregular cross section of resulting wire or cutting off of the material.
  • auxiliary roller guides for guiding the introduction of the work material to the roller-couple.
  • the size of the roller guides becomes smaller with decreasing the diameter of resulting wire, and it becomes substantially impossible to use such roller guides when the diameter of the wire is less than 5.5 mm, so that it has been regarded very difficult to produce fine wire with a diameter less than 5.5 mm through the metal rolling process. Therefore, in the process of the prior art for manufacturing such fine wire, first the work material is rolled to the diameter around 5.5 mm, and next drawn by using drawing dies to a designated diameter less than 5.5 mm.
  • This process has a disadvantage that the high productivity of the metal rolling process is reduced because the metal drawing process, whose productivity is rather low, should be combined. Furthermore, the metal drawing process can be applied only for the cold working process, so that for producing wires of work-difficult materials such as high speed tool steel or high alloy steel, stress relief annealing should be performed every designated number of drawing passes, so that the productivity becomes further worse.
  • European Patent Application Publication No. 0 543 479 A1 the features of which constitute the preamble part of independent claim 1 discloses a rolling mill comprising a plurality of roll stands arranged along a mill pass line, each roll stand having at least a first pair of work rolls mounted thereon.
  • An oval-round work sequence is performed by roller-couples being dislocated by 90° each other so that an oval-round working sequence is performed, each roller-couple being supported by a single roller stand.
  • Any odd roller couple (R1, R3, R5, ...) works a round cross-section into an oval cross-section while any subsequent even roller-couple (R2, R4, R5, ...) works the oval cross-section of its preceding odd roller couple into a round cross-section.
  • Any conventional odd roller stand having one (oval-rolling) roller couple might be replaced by a modified roller stand having two roller couples both working in the same direction.
  • An interval "A" between the preceding even (round-rolling) roller-couple stand and the modified roller stand is decreased in order to address a twisting tendency of the wire.
  • European Patent Application Publication No. 0 519 470 A2 discloses a method of and an apparatus for producing wire of 5 mm or smaller diameter, using a continuous rolling mill comprising a plurality of round-grooved four-roll stands arranged one after another, wherein the grooved four-roll is displaced between adjacent roller-quadruple stands by 45° relative to each other around the pass line and the center-to-center distance between adjacent rolling stands measured in the pass line direction is not greater than 50 times the diameter of the rod.
  • the object of this invention is to offer a method and an apparatus for manufacturing wire with a diameter less than 5.5 mm which achieves a high productivity and high quality of wire by further suppressing a twisting tendency of the work material.
  • independent claims 1 and 27 provides a method and an apparatus for manufacturing wire by rolling work material successively with a first roller-couple and a second roller-couple being arranged spaced apart in the feeding direction of the work material.
  • An angular position of rotational axes of the first roller-couple is different from that of the second roller-couple so that the work material is rolled in different directions each other, and shapes and/or positional relations of respective rollers of the first and second roller-couples are formed such that the shape of the cross section of the rolled wire after the first roller-couple is different from that after the second roller-couple.
  • the first and second roller-couples are arranged such that a ratio of L/D, where L.is the center distance between the first and second roller-couples, and D is the wire diameter obtained after rolling the second roller-couple, is less than 30.
  • the shapes and/or positional relations of respective rollers of the first and second roller-couples are formed such that wire obtained after the second roller couple comprises a substantially round or square cross-section and a resulting diameter D of less than 5.5 mm.
  • the work material may be effectively protected from said twisting during rolling without using any roller guides, thereby enabling production of wire with a diameter less than 5.5 mm by a metal rolling process and achieving very high efficiency of production of such fine wire in comparison with conventional method such as metal drawing process.
  • the reduction of area of the work material achieved by each roller-couples is set in a range of 5 - 35%.
  • the reduction of area less than 5% leads to a poor wire productivity, and that exceeding 35% causes excess degree of working which may lead to a generation of faults in the work material or damaging the rollers.
  • the reduction of area is preferably set in a range of 10 - 30%.
  • the apparatus of this invention comprises said first and second roller-couples.
  • At least one of the first and second roller-couples can be constructed so as to comprise two rollers each of which has a groove on the circumferential surface thereof for forming a sizing pass, which determines the cross sectional shape of the wire.
  • the cross section of the wire may be precisely formed in a designated shape.
  • the optimization for the shapes of the sizing passes of the first and the second roller-couples may improve the wire productivity with maintaining high accuracy of dimension and good working condition of the wire since high reduction of area may be achieved for each pass of rolling.
  • the width of the grooves is set to be less than 7 mm for the first roller-couple and less than 6 mm for the second roller-couple.
  • the wire may by produced by using a roller-couple having flat rolling surfaces without grooves.
  • the clearance formed between two rollers is less than 7 mm for the first roller-couple and less than 6 mm for the second roller-couple.
  • the center distance between the first and the second roller-couples, L is set to be less than 50 mm. An adjacent arrangement of the first and the second roller-couples with the center distance L less than 50 mm may effectively protect the work material from said twisting during rolling.
  • the center distance L is preferably set to be as short as possible with a range where no interference occurs between the adjacent roller-couples.
  • the center distance L can be determined according to the outer diameter of each roller.
  • the ratio L/d is preferably set to be less than 1.2, and more preferably less than 1.0.
  • the first and second roller-couples may be arranged alternatingly so that the angle between the rotation axes thereof is almost 90°. More specifically, the first roller-couple can be constructed so as to roll the work material so that the cross sectional dimension of the work material in a direction of rolling reduction, D1, becomes shorter than that in a direction perpendicular to the direction of rolling reduction, D2, and the second roller-couple rolls the work material so that the ratio of the dimensions, D2/D1, is decreased. According to this configuration, a high reduction of area may be achieved for each pass of rolling, whereby the wire productivity improves.
  • the sizing passes may be formed in different shapes between the first and the second roller-couples, whereby the wire productivity improves while a high dimensional accuracy and a good working condition are maintained.
  • the sizing pass may be formed in an oval shape for the first roller-couple and in a circular shape for the second roller-couple. Such configuration of sizing passes achieves high dimensional accuracy and productivity of wire having a circular cross section.
  • the apparatus can be constructed so that a plurality of roller-couple units each of which comprises the first and the second roller-couples can be arranged in the feeding direction of the work material, and the work material may be successively rolled by the roller-couple units. According to such configuration, the work material can be rolled successively, so that fine wire may be produced even from work material with a large cross section.
  • the final diameter of the wire produced is preferably set in a range of 1.30 - 5.40 mm for achieving high dimensional accuracy of wire and for suppressing the frequency of faults in the resulting wire, whereby the superiority in wire productivity against the conventional method, such as the metal drawing process, becomes very significant.
  • this invention is particularly advantageous for producing wire of work-difficult iron-based materials, such as high speed tool steels, stainless steels and other high alloy steels, whose efficient production has been regarded to be difficult.
  • this invention can be applied also to any other iron-based material such as soft steels, cold-workable carbon steels, alloy tool steels, and non-iron based metals such as Ni alloy and Ti alloy (for example, Ni-Ti based shape memory alloy), and so on.
  • the rolling temperature of the work material can be chosen arbitrarily according to the variety thereof.
  • a high rolling temperature is preferable for improving wire productivity since the deformation resistance decreases thereby increasing the reduction of area.
  • such high rolling temperature may suppress the increase in the work stress according to the recovery or the recrystarization of the work material during rolling, so that no process annealing for stress relief or for reducing hardness is needed, whereby the advantage in the productivity becomes more significant.
  • the temperature of the material when it is introduced to the first roller-couple is preferably adjusted in a range of 400 - 1300°C.
  • the temperature below 400°C makes the effect of decreasing the deformation resistance insufficient, and that over 1300°C causes oversoftening of the work material which leads to buckling or twisting thereof, so that normal rolling becomes impossible.
  • the temperature of the material can be maintained in the temperature range mentioned above when it is introduced into the first roller-couple of the first unit.
  • high speed tool steels is preferably rolled in a range of 800 - 1150°C.
  • Rolling temperature below 800°C deteriorates not only the deformation resistance of the material but also the ductility, toughness and post-quenching hardness of the material since micro-voids are formed in the texture of the material due to cracking of carbides.
  • temperature over 1150°C causes coarsening of carbides in the texture of the material, which decreases the strength of the wire obtained.
  • the rolling process according to the method of this invention may comprise steps of continuously removing scale formed on work material in feeding by using a scale-removing device arranged on the passage of said work feeding, and heating the work material after the removal of the scale by using a heating device which comprises an electrode contacting with the work material allowing continuous feeding thereof and sending electric current into the work material through the electrode for resistance-heating of the work material.
  • the heated work material is rolled by using a rolling mill so that resulting diameter of wire is less than 5.5 mm. Since the scale formed on the work material is preliminarily removed and then heated by a resistance heating method through the electrode, the contact between the work material and the electrode becomes reliable and stable, and spark generation is suppressed therebetween, so that high quality of fine wire can be produced with a large yield.
  • the heating step may be performed so that the work material in feeding is heated by a heating device which is arranged on the passage of said transportation and comprises an induction heating coil.
  • a heating device which is arranged on the passage of said transportation and comprises an induction heating coil.
  • the distance between the heating device and the rolling mill is preferably set to be less than 4 m.
  • the heated work material tends to be cooled quickly because of its small diameter.
  • work-difficult materials such as high speed tool steels, stainless steels, super alloys, Ti alloys (for example, Ti-Ni based shape memory alloys), and so on, have considerable narrow temperature range suitable for hot-rolling and apt to occur cracks or other faults during rolling if the material is cooled below the optimum temperature range.
  • the distance between the heating device and the rolling mill is more preferably set to be less than 3 m.
  • the apparatus for performing the rolling method mentioned above may comprise the aforementioned rolling mill and following elements:
  • the scale-removing device may comprise a shot-blasting device which removes the scale by blasting a flow of abrasive particles onto the surface of the work material in continuous feeding. According to this construction, the scale on the surface of the work material can be effectively removed.
  • the heating device can be constructed so as to comprise a roller electrode which contacts with the work material and sends electric current into the work material for its resistance-heating and an urging mechanism which urges the roller electrode against the work material.
  • a roller electrode which contacts with the work material and sends electric current into the work material for its resistance-heating
  • an urging mechanism which urges the roller electrode against the work material.
  • the contact between the roller electrode and the work material becomes more reliable.
  • a groove is preferably formed on the circumferential surface of the roller electrode for guiding the feeding of the work material.
  • the urging mechanism may be constructed as a spring mechanism or a pressure cylinder mechanism comprising an air or hydraulic cylinder.
  • the pressure cylinder mechanism comprising an air cylinder is particularly preferable since the urging pressure of the roller electrode against the work material can be adjusted easily.
  • the heating device may be constructed so as to comprise an induction heating coil for heating said work material in continuous feeding which is arranged on the passage of the feeding.
  • the rolling reduction against the work material by each roller-couple can be varied according to the variety of the work material, and the ratio, R1/R2, where R1 and R2 are roller-rotation rates in the first and second roller-couple, respectively, can be adjusted according to the rolling reduction.
  • the rolling reduction and the ratio R1/R2 can be varied according to the torsional rigidity of the work material.
  • the function and effect of this configuration is as follows.
  • the probability of occurrence of the wire twisting specifically depends upon the torsional rigidity of the work material.
  • the work material (A1) when the rolling reduction is increased for the first roller-couple, the work material (A1) is deformed largely in the direction of the compression (or rolling) between the rollers.
  • the resulting shape of the cross section of the work material is to be elongated along the direction perpendicular to said compression and cause a significant twisting torque upon the work material when a secondary rolling is performed in the direction crossing to the primary one.
  • This means that a work material having a low torsional rigidity is apt to be twisted when the rolling reduction is increased for the first roller-couple. Therefore, such twisting of wire may be effectively prevented by adjusting the rolling reduction according to the variety of the work material, particularly to the torsional rigidity thereof.
  • the change in the rolling reduction at the first roller-couple causes a change in the reduction of area achieved thereat, so that the feeding rate of the work material from the first roller-couple, i.e., the feeding rate to the second roller-couple should be also changed. Therefore, by changing the rotation rate of the second roller-couple corresponding to the change in the feeding rate of the work material, i.e., by changing the ratio R1/R2, the rolling may be performed smoothly upon the work material even if the rolling reduction is varied.
  • the resulting wire diameter can be varied in a designated range by changing the rolling reductions in the first and second roller-couples against the work material in a corresponding range. According to this construction, there is no need to substitute current rollers with other ones having different configuration of sizing pass for changing the wire diameter, whereby wires having various diameter can be produced efficiently.
  • the total rolling reduction against said work material by the first and second roller-couples can be varied so that resulting change in the reduction of area of the work material is within 10 %. Even if the rolling reduction is changed at a fixed value of R1/R2, the rolling can be maintained in a excellent condition.
  • the wire diameter can be changed without changing the sizing pass of the roller-couple as long as the change in the reduction of area is within 10%. This contributes significantly for increasing productivity of wires having various diameters.
  • the change in the rolling reduction is preferably maintained within 7%.
  • the total rolling reduction can be varied so that resulting change in the reduction of area of said work material is up to 40 %.
  • the rolling reduction exceeds certain upper limit, the reduction of area at the first roller-couple increases, whereby the increase in the feeding rate of the work material from the first roller-couple, i.e., to the second one becomes no longer negligible.
  • the roller-rotation ratio R1/R2 is changed corresponding to the change in said transportation rate, the rolling can be performed smoothly even the rolling reduction is changes in such wider range.
  • the shapes and/or sizes of sizing passes of the first and the second roller-couples are preferably changed according to the value of said total rolling reduction against said work material for maintaining the cross sectional shape of the resulting wire in a good condition.
  • the first and the second roller-couples can be driven by a common driving means through a first and a second reduction gear systems, respectively, and the inter-stand reduction ratio, Q1/Q2, where Q1 is the reduction gear ratio of said first reduction gear system and Q2 is the reduction gear ratio of said second reduction gear system, may be varied for changing the ratio R1/R2.
  • a common driving means is used for the first and the second roller-couples, so that the construction of the apparatus becomes simple.
  • the inter-stand reduction ratios Q1/Q2 of the roller-couple units can be changed synchronously.
  • the inter-stand reduction ratios for other roller-couple units are also set in corresponding values synchronously. According to this construction, even in the case of using many roller-couple units, the roller reductions and inter-stand reduction ratios may be easily changed corresponding to the torsional rigidity of the work material, and so on.
  • roller-clearance adjusting mechanism which moves the two rollers of each roller-couple relatively to and from each other in the direction of rolling reduction.
  • roller-clearance adjusting mechanism can be constructed so as to comprise bearing portions which rotatively support the shafts of the two rollers, respectively, and a bearing rotation mechanism which rotates each bearing portion around an eccentric axis deviated from a corresponding roller axis in opposite direction, respectively, thereby moving the two rollers relatively to and from each other. This configuration accomplishes a simple and compact mechanism for changing the roller spacing.
  • the bearing rotation mechanism for the first roller-couple can be arranged upstream of the first roller-couple, and that for the second roller-couple can be arranged downstream of the second roller-couple.
  • This configuration is preferable for accomplishing the proximate arrangement of the first and the second roller-couples with a center distant L within 50 mm since no bearing rotation mechanism is located between these roller-couples, so that there is no need to prepare auxiliary roller guides for guiding the work material to the second roller-couple.
  • the bearing rotation mechanism can be constructed so as to comprise first gear portions which are formed on the circumferences of the bearing portions of the two rollers, respectively, second gear portions each of which engages with corresponding first gear portion, and a driving mechanism which rotates the second gear portions synchronously in opposite directions each other.
  • the second gear portions can be specifically constructed as worms which are axially formed on a worm rotating shaft at an designated intervals along the longitudinal direction thereof and whose threads are formed in opposite directions each other.
  • the driving mechanism drives the worm rotating shaft for rotating said worms integrally. This configuration accomplishes a simple and compact construction of the bearing rotation mechanism.
  • the bearing portion comprises bearing casings which are arranged corresponding to both end portions of each roller shaft and each of which has a bearing accommodating hole extending along said roller shaft, a bearing main body which is accommodated in each said bearing accommodating hole.
  • a bearing hole is formed in each bearing main body so that the center of said bearing hole is deviated from the rotation axis of the bearing main body.
  • Each end portion of each roller shaft is rotatively supported in the bearing hole, and the bearing main body has the first gear portion on its circumference and is rotated by the worm engaged with the first gear portion around an eccentric axis deviated from the rotation axis of the roller.
  • the bearing hole of the first roller couple can be formed in the bearing main body deviated from its rotation axis in the downstream, and the bearing hole of said second roller couple can be formed in the bearing main body deviated from its rotation axis in the upstream.
  • each corresponding worm rotating shaft van be arranged in the similar manner. This configuration is preferable for accomplishing the proximate arrangement of the first and the second roller-couples.
  • At least one of said first and second roller-couples can be equipped with a roller thrust adjusting mechanism which moves the two rollers relatively in the thrust direction thereof and hold these two rollers at an arbitrary positions in the thrust direction.
  • the thrust displacement between two rollers of the roller-couple is one of major factor of causing wire twisting during rolling.
  • the distance line (U1, U2) between the inner surfaces of the grooves (161a, 161b) of said two rollers trough the center (O) of the sizing pass (161c) becomes uniform, thereby providing uniform compression against the work material. Therefore; the twisting of the work material becomes to be difficult to occur since the twisting torque against the work material is suppressed.
  • Such adjustment of the two rollers in the trust direction can be performed by using said roller thrust adjusting mechanism, and the thrust displacement in these two rollers can be dissolved by an adjustment of the position of each roller (thrust adjustment, hereinafter).
  • thrust adjustment hereinafter
  • roller displacement in the thrust direction may causes an irregularity of the cross sectional shape of the resulting wire.
  • aforementioned thrust adjustment of the rollers can simultaneously dissolve such problem.
  • even if the surface accuracy of the sizing pass is not very high, a designated reveal of the dimensional accuracy of the wire can be secured by such thrust adjustment.
  • the roller thrust adjusting mechanism can be constructed so as to comprise a fixed bearing portion which is provided for at least one of the two rollers and holds the roller shaft rotatively and movably in its thrust direction, and a roller sliding mechanism which is connected to one end portion of the roller shaft and slides the roller shaft against the bearing portion in the thrust direction.
  • the roller sliding mechanism can comprise a shaft holder to which the end portion of the roller shaft is connected and which is movable integrally with the roller shaft in the thrust direction, adjusting screw mechanism which is connected to the shaft holder directly or indirectly with other member and moves the shaft holder in the thrust direction according to its screwing or unscrewing operation. According to the operation of such adjusting screw mechanism, said thrust adjustment of the rollers can be easily performed.
  • a further specified configuration can be constructed as follows.
  • the bearing portion comprises a bearing main body which has a through hole as a bearing hole in the direction of the roller shaft and rotatively supports the one end portion of the roller shaft in the through hole.
  • the shaft holder is movable in the through hole with the roller shaft in the thrust direction.
  • the shaft holder has a shaft-like protruding portion which extends along the axial direction of the roller shaft in the through hole and the end portion of which protrudes outside from the corresponding opening of the through hole.
  • a female threaded portion is formed on the end portion thereof leading to the opening.
  • a male screw member is screwed on the female threaded portion in a position corresponding to the intermediary part of the shaft-like protruding portion.
  • a stopper is mounted on the shaft-like protruding portion for preventing the male screw member from its relative moving against the shaft-like protruding portion in the axial direction thereof.
  • the adjusting screw mechanism moves the shaft holder and the roller shaft in the thrust direction along with the male screw member according to the rotation of the male screw member.
  • the adjusting screw mechanism becomes compact according to this configuration.
  • Fig.1 presents the main part of one embodiment of the apparatus regarding this invention for manufacturing wire by metal rolling process (“rolling apparatus", hereinafter).
  • a first roller stand (horizontal stand) 12 comprising a first roller-couple 101a,101b is arranged on an unillustrated mill floor so that the roller axes is almost vertical to the mill floor
  • a second roller stand (vertical stand) 14 comprising a second roller-couple 102a,102b is arranged adjacently to the first roller stand 12 on the downstream thereof along the feeding passage of work material A1 so that the roller axes is almost horizontal.
  • These roller stands 12 and 14 construct a roller-couple unit S1.
  • the angle between the roller axes of adjacent roller-couples 101a,101b and 102a,102b is almost 90°.
  • the roller-couples 101a,101b and 102a,102b have rolling surfaces 151a,151b and 152a,152b on respective circumferences, and grooves 161a,161b and 162a,162b for determining the cross sectional shape of resulting wire are formed on respective rolling surfaces 151a,151b and 152a,152b.
  • the width W1 of the grooves 161a,161b is less than 7 mm, and the width W2 of the grooves 162a,162b is less than 6 mm.
  • an oval sizing pass 161c is formed as the combination of the grooves 161a,161b
  • a circular sizing pass 162c is formed as the combination of the grooves 162a,162b.
  • the center distance L between the first and the second stands 12 and 14 is less than 50 mm, and the ratio of L/d, where d is the outer diameter of the rollers 101a,101b and 102a,102b, is less than 1.2.
  • Fig.4 is a cross sectional side view of the first and the second roller stands 12 and 14. These two roller stands 12 and 14 have almost the same configurations except for the direction of the roller axes. Therefore, the detailed description is presented only for the first roller stand 12, and the same portions or the members of the second roller stand 14 are indexed with the same numerals as those for the first one.
  • each bearing casing 24 has a bearing accomodating hole 24a formed along the direction intersecting with the pass line PL.
  • Each bearing accomodating hole 24a rotatively accommodates a bearing main body 26 wherein a through hole 26a as a bearing hole is eccentrically formed.
  • a roller 101a (or 101b: represented by 101a, hereinafter) is integrally mounted.
  • the axis C1 of the roller shaft 28 is located deviating from the axis C2 of the bearing main body 26 at a designated distance.
  • the axes C1 for rollers 101a,101b in opposite direction are to be displaced by the rotation of the corresponding bearing main bodies 26 according to the mechanism described later on.
  • a pair of worm rotating shaft 32 are arranged in a direction crossing over the roller shaft 28.
  • the worm rotating shaft 32 is provided on each side with respect to the first roller-couple 101a,101b (Fig.1), and as shown in Fig.5, worms 34 are integrally mounted thereon corresponding to upper and lower bearing main bodies 26 and engage with the gear portions 26b formed on the circumferences of the corresponding bearing main bodies 26, respectively (see also Fig.8).
  • the direction of threads of the two worms 34 on each worm rotating shaft 32 are opposite each other.
  • the threads of worms 34 corresponding to both end portions of the same roller shaft 28 are formed in the same direction.
  • gears 36,36 are secured so as to rotate integrally with corresponding worm rotating shafts 32, respectively.
  • These gears 36 engage with an adjusting gear 38 which is rotatively mounted on the bearing casing 24.
  • the adjusting gear 38 is rotated by an unillustrated driving means, such as a motor, whereby said two worm rotating shafts 32,32 rotate simultaneously in the same direction.
  • the bearing main bodies 26 rotate around the axis C2 through corresponding worms 34, and the upper and lower roller shafts 28,28 move to or form each other, whereby the clearance between the roller shafts 28,28 i.e, the clearance between the rollers 101a,101b is adjusted.
  • the operation of the rolling apparatus 1 is going to be explained in the following.
  • the work material A1 having a circular cross section with a diameter D0 is introduced to the first roller stand 12 and rolled in the sizing pass 161c so that the shape of the cross section becomes oval as shown in Fig.2 (a).
  • work material A1 is fed to the second roller stand 14 (Fig.1) and rolled in the sizing pass 162c so that the shape of the cross section becomes circular.
  • the cross section of the work material A1 successively decreases with alternately varying the shape thereof as circular - oval - circular as shown in Fig.2 (c).
  • the work material A1 is rolled in the first roller stand 12 so that the cross sectional dimension thereof in a direction of rolling reduction, D1 (corresponding to the short axis of oval), becomes shorter than that in a direction perpendicular to the direction of rolling reduction, D2 (corresponding to the long axis of oval). Then, in the second roller stand 14, since the direction of rolling-compression is changed by 90°, the work material A1 is rolled so that the ratio of the dimensions, D2/D1, is decreased (i.e., (D2/D1) > (D2'/D1'), where D1' and D2' are corresponding dimensions after rolling).
  • the work material A1 from the first stand 12 can be precisely supplied to the second one 14 causing no twisting of itself without any aid of roller guides.
  • the final diameter of produced wire W2 is preferably set in a range of 1.30 - 5.40 mm for achieving high dimensional accuracy of the wire and for suppressing the frequency of the faults in the resulting wire, whereby the superiority in wire productivity to the conventional method such as the metal drawing process becomes very significant.
  • the width W1 of the grooves 161a,161b (Fig.2) is preferably set to be less than 7 mm
  • the width W2 of the grooves 162a,162b is preferably set to be less than 6 mm.
  • the roller spacing can be changed in such way as follows (explained according to an example for the first roller stand 12, representatively).
  • the roller-couple 101a,101b should be replaced with the ones 101a',101b' with wider width of grooves 161a,161b and larger diameter.
  • the distance between the shaft axes is also changed from G1 to G2. According to the construction described above, necessary adjustment can be performed in a very easy operation. That is to say, as shown in Fig.7, the worm rotating shafts 32,32 are rotated in the same direction forwardly or reversely by the driving means through the gears 36 and the adjusting gear 38.
  • roller-couples can be driven independently by corresponding motors for the adjustment of said clearance.
  • the combination of the sizing passes 161c and 162c is not limited to the oval-circular one.
  • Fig.10 presents an example of combination of rhombic and square sizing passes 161c and 162c.
  • the work material is to be rolled into wire A2 having a square cross section.
  • the work material A2 can be rolled successively changing the cross section as square-oval-circular, and so on.
  • the wire A2 rolled in the first roller-couple unit S1 can be further rolled into wire A3 having a smaller diameter by using another similarly constructed roller-couple unit S2 which comprises roller stands 212 and 214 having smaller sizing passes and is arranged adjacently to the first one S1 on the downstream thereof.
  • another similarly constructed roller-couple unit S2 which comprises roller stands 212 and 214 having smaller sizing passes and is arranged adjacently to the first one S1 on the downstream thereof.
  • more than three roller-couple units can be arranged in a series along the work feeding direction. In this case, the plural roller-couples are alternately arranged so that the angle between the roller axes of adjacent roller-couples is almost 90°.
  • Fig.13 presents several example of using two roller-couple units.
  • Fig.13 (a) and (b) are examples of using the same combinations for each units, such as oval-circular or rhombic-rhombic.
  • Fig.13 (c) presents an example of using different combinations such as rectangular-square for the upstream unit S1 and oval-circular for the downstream unit S2.
  • the wire may by produced by using first and second roller-couples 101a,101b and 102a,102b which have flat rolling surfaces 151a,151b and 152a,152b without grooves, respectively.
  • the clearance W1 between two rollers 101a,101b i.e., the clearance between the rolling surfaces 151a,151b
  • the clearance W2 between two rollers 102a,102b i.e., the clearance between the rolling surfaces 152a,152b
  • the work material A1 is deformed to be a rectangular cross sectional one due to the compression between the rollers 101a,101b, and then is deformed between the rollers 102a,102b in a direction perpendicular to the first compression, thereby running out therefrom as a wire A2.
  • the cross section of the work material A1 successively decreases with alternately varying the shape thereof as square - rectangular - square.
  • roller thrust adjusting mechanism 170 is constructed so as to comprise a fixed bearing portion (or a bearing) 30 which holds the roller shaft 28 rotatively and movably in its thrust direction, and a roller sliding mechanism 171 which is connected to one end portion of the roller shaft 28 and slides the roller shaft 28 to the bearing portion 30 in the thrust direction.
  • the roller sliding 171 mechanism comprises a shaft holder 172 to which the end portion of the roller shaft 28 is connected and which is movable integrally with the roller shaft 28 in the thrust direction, and an adjusting screw mechanism 173 which is connected to the shaft holder 172 and moves the shaft holder 172 in the thrust direction according to its screwing or unscrewing operation.
  • the shaft holder 172 comprises a bearing 174, a sleeve 175, a holder main body 176, and so on.
  • the bearing 174 is engaged with an annular groove 28a which is formed on the circumferential surface of one end portion of the roller shaft 28, and held by the sleeve 175 from outside which is provided slidable in the through hole 26a in its axial direction.
  • annular rib 175a is formed protruding from the inner surface of the sleeve 175 on one end portion thereof and engages with the edge portion of the end surface of the bearing 174.
  • a female threaded portion 175b is formed in opposition to the rib 175a with respect to the bearing 174.
  • the holder main body 176 connected with the sleeve 175 from inside by means of the male threaded portion 176a which is formed on its circumferential surface and is screwed in said female threaded portion 175b.
  • the bearing 174 is clumped between the rib 175a and the holder main body 176, thereby prevented from loosening in the thrust direction.
  • the roller shaft 28 is slidable integrally with the shaft holder 172 comprising said portion and members 174 - 176 so as to be able to rotate by means of bearing 174.
  • a shaft-like protruding portion 177 is integrally formed on the end surface of the holder main body 176. This portion 177 extends along the axial direction of the roller shaft 28 in the through hole 26a, and the end portion thereof protrudes outside from the corresponding opening 26b of the through hole 26a.
  • a female threaded portion 26c is formed on the end portion thereof leading to the opening 26b.
  • a male screw member 178 is screwed on the female threaded portion 26c in a position corresponding to the intermediary part of the shaft-like protruding portion 177.
  • the male screw member 178 has a through hole 178a wherein the shaft-like protruding portion 177 is extending in its axial direction, and is rotatably held around the portion 177.
  • These female threaded portion 26c and the male screw member 178 constructs said adjusting screw mechanism 173.
  • the end surface of the male screw member 178 is contacting with the edge portion of corresponding end surface of the holder main body 176.
  • the opposite end surface of the male screw member 178 is contacting with a nut 179 screwed on the male thread 177a formed on the outer surface of the protruding portion 177.
  • These holder main body 176 and nut 179 function as a stopper for preventing the male screw member 178 from its relative movement to the shaft-like protruding portion 177 in the axial direction thereof.
  • a lock nut 180 is screwed on the male screw member 178 and secured toward the bearing main body 26 for preventing the male screw member 178 from loosening.
  • the nut 179 also functions as a lock nut for the male screw member 178.
  • the adjusting screw mechanism 173 is operated in the following manner for the thrust adjustment of the roller 101a.
  • the lock nut 180 is loosened, and subsequently the nut 179 is loosened so as not to occur an excess loosening thereof in the axial direction.
  • the male screw member 178 is rotated so as to move to right on the figure as shown in Fig.17 (b).
  • the male screw member 178 urges the shaft holder 172 and the roller shaft 28 through the nut 179 and moves them integrally to the right.
  • the lock nut 180 and the nut 179 are successively secured in this order, and the operation of the adjustment is to be finished.
  • the male screw member 178 is reversely rotated. As shown in Fig.18, the male screw member 178 urges the shaft holder 172 and the roller shaft 28 through the holder main body 176, and moves them integrally to the left.
  • the lock nut 180 and the nut 179 are successively secured in this order.
  • the work material can be heated rolling in the first roller stand 12.
  • the work material can be heated by a heating device which comprises electrodes 71a,71b contacting with the work material A1 allowing the feeding thereof. Electric current is sent into the work material A1 from the electric power unit 72 through the electrode 71a,71b. The work material is to be heated by its own resistance-heat generation.
  • Fig. 20 presents one of preferable embodiments of hot-rolling line 401 for the wire production.
  • This line 401 comprises an uncoiler 2 for drawing the work material A1, such as of a high speed tool steel or a stainless steel, from the coil thereof.
  • the work material A1 drawn off by the uncoiler 2 is fed to a scale removing device 4 via a roller leveling device 3.
  • the scale-removing device 4 is constructed as a shot-blasting device. As shown in Fig.21, this device 4 removes the scale from the work material A1 by blasting a flow of abrasive particles 114b from rotary nozzles 114a onto the surface of the work material A1.
  • the abrasive particles 114b is collected at the bottom of the housing 114c, elevated by a bucket conveyor 114d, and then mixed with a gas flow from an unillustrated source, such as a blower, and then supplied to the rotary nozzles 114a again.
  • the heating device 5 comprises first and second water cooled roller electrodes 51,52 and 53,54 which contact with the work material A1 and send electric current thereinto for the resistance-heating thereof, corresponding first and second air cylinders 55,56 and 57,58 as urging mechanism which urges said roller electrodes 51,52 and 53,54 against the work material A1, and an electric power unit 59 (Fig.20) as a source of said electric current for heating.
  • first and second water cooled roller electrodes 51,52 and 53,54 which contact with the work material A1 and send electric current thereinto for the resistance-heating thereof, corresponding first and second air cylinders 55,56 and 57,58 as urging mechanism which urges said roller electrodes 51,52 and 53,54 against the work material A1, and an electric power unit 59 (Fig.20) as a source of said electric current for heating.
  • grooves 51a-54a are formed, respectively, for guiding the transportation of the work material A1.
  • the cross sections of grooves 51a-54a are formed in
  • the work material A1 heated by the heating device 5 is rolled by the rolling mill 6 (or the rolling apparatus), cooled in a water-cooling device 7, and then wound in a coil by a coiler 8.
  • the rolling mill 6 a plurality of aforementioned roller-couple units S are arranged along the direction of material feeding.
  • the distance K between the heating device 5 and the rolling mill 6 is set to be less than 4 m, where K is defined as the distance from the second roller electrodes 53,54 and the entrance of the first roller-couple unit S.
  • the operation of the hot rolling line 40 is going to be explained in the following.
  • the work material A1 is removed the scale in the shot-blasting device 4, and resistance-heated between the first and the second roller electrodes 51,52 and 53,54 to a designated temperature.
  • the material temperature can be controlled by the adjustment of the electric current between the electrodes 51,52 and 53,54.
  • the scale is preliminarily removed from the surface of the work material A1 by using the shot-blasting device 4, the contact between the work material A1 and the electrodes 51-54 becomes more reliable, whereby spark generation is suppressed therebetween. Furthermore, since the grooves 51a-54a is formed corresponding to the cross sectional shape of the work material A1, the spark generation due to imperfect contact is prevented more effectively.
  • the radius R of the semicircular cross section of the grooves 51a-54a is preferably in the range of 1.05 ⁇ (D0/2) ⁇ R ⁇ 5.0 ⁇ (D0/2) for preventing the spark generation.
  • the urging pressure from the second roller electrodes 53,54 is preferably set to be lower than that from the first roller electrodes 51,52 for preventing the work material A1 from undesirable deformation due to the friction from the electrodes, such as buckling.
  • the urging pressure can be adjusted by changing the pressure of the air cylinders 55-58.
  • the heating device 5 can be constructed so that at least one of first and second electrodes 51,52 and 53,54 is provided movably in the transportation direction of the work material A1, whereby the interval between the electrodes 51,52 and 53,54 becomes variable during heating of at least one of the tip and the tale end portions of the work material A1. According to this construction, the material yield improves since insufficiently heated part is hardly formed in the tip or the tale end portion of the work material A1.
  • the rollers 51,52 and the rollers 53,54 are rotatively mounted on electrode holders 121 and 131, and driven by motors 122 and 132, respectively.
  • the electrode holders 121 and 131 are reciprocated by air cylinders 123 and 133, respectively, in the feeding direction of the work material A1, or in the reverse direction thereof.
  • the work material A1 from the scale removing device 4 (Fig.20) is fed to the heating device 5 at a rate v.
  • electric current is started to be supplied to the work material A1 when the tip end portion thereof is protruded from the second roller electrodes 53,54 by a length 11.
  • the air cylinder 133 (Fig.23) retracts a rod 133a thereby moving the roller electrodes 53,54 along with the work material A1 at a rate v', and stops the retraction of the rod 133a when the interval between the electrodes 51,52 and 53,54 ("electrode interval', hereinafter) reaches to a value lo, which is sufficient for accomplishing a designated heating efficiency.
  • the electrode interval is fixed to 10
  • the work material A1 is started to be resistance-heated being transported at the rate v.
  • the tip portion of the work material A1 thus passes through the heating device 5, next the part of length 11 without being resistance-heated and following insufficiently heated part of length 12, i.e., l1+l2 in total, are cut off by an unillustrated cutting device, and then the rest of the work material is supplied to the rolling mill 6.
  • the air cylinder 123 starts to move the first roller electrodes 51,52 in the direction of work feeding at the rate v', and when the electrode interval reaches to 12, the cylinder 123 stops moving electrodes 51,52. Then, the electric current supply to the work material is interrupted, and the tale end portion of the work material A1 with a length l1+l2 is cut off by a cutting device.
  • the cutting length of respective tip and tale portions of the work material A1 is l0+l1 if the electrode interval is fixed, the cutting length becomes l1+l2 which is much shorter than the aforementioned one according to the construction described above whereby improving the yield of the work material A1 improves.
  • the work material A1 can be heated by means of an induction heating device.
  • the scale removing device 4 and resistance-heating device 5 in Fig.20 is substituted with an induction heating device 44 as shown in Fig.25.
  • the induction heating device 44 is formed in a tunnel-like configuration having an entrance 44a and an exit 44b, and comprises an induction heating coil 44c.
  • the work material A1 entered therein from the entrance 44a is continuously heated by the induction heating coil 44c and runs out from the exit 44b. In this case, if the distance from the exit 44b to the rolling mill 6 is set to be less than 4 m, the cooling of the work material A1 can be effectively suppressed.
  • roller couples 101,102 of the unit S1 and the roller-couples 201,202 of the stand S2 is driven by a motor 252 as said common driving means through a distributor 250 and reduction gear mechanisms 253-256 each of which corresponds to each said roller-couple.
  • the rotation of the motor 252 is reduced at each reduction gear mechanism 253-256 according to a designated reduction ratio and transmitted to corresponding roller couple 101,102,201,202 through the distributor 250.
  • Fig.27 schematically presents the reduction gear mechanisms 253,254 for the upstream roller stand S1.
  • the reduction gear mechanism 253 comprises plural gears J1-J3 (tooth numbers are N1-N3, respectively) which are secured on a driving shaft 300 driven by the motor 252, and plural gears K1-K3 (tooth numbers are M1-M3, respectively) which are secured on a transmitting shaft 301 for the roller-couple 101 and engage directly or indirectly through other gears with said gears J1-J3, respectively.
  • one of the gears K1-K3 is to be engages with corresponding one of the gears J1-J3.
  • the rotation of the motor 252 is thus reduced according to the reduction gear ratio Q1 which is determined as the tooth number ratio of the engaging. gears (N1/M1 in Fig.27), whereby the rotation rate R1 of the roller-couple 101 is to be determined to a corresponding value.
  • the reduction gear mechanism 254 comprises plural gears J4-J6 (tooth numbers are N4-N6, respectively) which are secured on a driving shaft 302 driven by the motor 252, and plural gears K4-K6 (tooth numbers are M4-M6, respectively) which are secured on a transmitting shaft 303 for the roller-couple 102 and engage directly or indirectly through other gears with said gears J4-J6, respectively. According to a relative sliding between the driving shaft 302 and transmitting shaft 303, one of the gears K4-K6 is to be engaged with corresponding one of the gears J4-J6.
  • the rotation of the motor 252 is thus reduced according to the reduction gear ratio Q2 which is determined by the tooth number ratio of the engaging gears (N4/M4 in Fig.27), whereby the rotation rate R2 of the roller-couple 102 is to be determined to a corresponding value.
  • the reduction mechanisms 255,256 has almost the same construction as those of said mechanisms 253,254, except for the reduction ratios.
  • the former one 255 comprises gears J7-J9 on a driving shaft 304 and gears K7-K9 on a transmitting shaft 305
  • the latter one 256 comprises gears J10-J12 on a driving shaft 306 and gears K10-K12 on a transmitting shaft 307.
  • the inter-stand reduction ratio Q1/Q2 i.e., the ratio of the roller rotation rate R1/R2 between the first and the second roller-couples 101 and 102 can be selected from designated plural values according to the torsional rigidity of the work material A1.
  • the rotation rate is lower for the first roller-couple 101 than for the second one 102, so that Q1>Q2. Therefore, the inter-stand reduction ratio Q1/Q2 decreases with decreasing the rotation rate R2 of the second one 102.
  • the inter-stand reduction ratio Q1/Q2 can be changed, for example, by changing the reduction gear ratio Q2 for the second roller-couple 102 (N4/M4 ⁇ N5/M5, for example) while fixing the reduction gear ratio Q1 for the first roller-couple 101 to a designated value (N1/M1, for example). Furthermore, as shown in Fig.29, when the inter-stand reduction ratio Q1/Q2 of the roller-couple unit S1 is changed to Q1'/Q2', the ratio Q3/Q4 of the roller-couple unit S2 is synchronously changed to Q3'/Q4'.
  • the inter-stand reduction ratios are set to designated values for the first and the second roller-couple units S1 and S2, respectively.
  • the probability of occurrence of wire twisting specifically depends upon the torsional rigidity of the work material. For example, as is shown in Fig.30 (a), when the rolling reduction is increased for the first roller-couple 101 and 201 of the units S1 and S2, the work material A1 is deformed largely in the direction of the rolling compression.
  • the resulting shape of the cross section of the work material A1 is to be elongated along the direction perpendicular to said compression, so that a significant twisting torque is applied upon the work material A1 when a secondary rolling is performed by the second roller-couples 102 and 202 in the direction crossing to the primary one.
  • Such twisting can be effectively suppressed by decreasing the rolling reduction for the work material having a low torsional rigidity as shown in Fig.30 (b).
  • the decrease in the rolling reduction at the first roller-couple causes a decrease in the reduction of area achieved thereat, so that the feeding rate of the work material A1 from the first roller-couple, i.e., that to the second roller-couple should be also decreased. Therefore, under an assumption that the rotation rate for the first roller couple is constant, the inter-stand reduction ratios Q1/Q2 and Q3/Q4 are to be set in a smaller values for a work material A1 having smaller torsional rigidity.
  • the rolling reduction against the work material A1 varies according to the change in roller clearance.
  • Fig.31 presents an example for the unit S1, where the roller clearance of the roller-couple 101a,101b of the first stand 12 increases in the order of (a), (b), (c).
  • the rolling reduction P1 for the working material A1 decreases in this order with decreasing the axial ratio of the oval cross section of the work material A1 after rolling.
  • the rolling reduction P2 in the second stand 14 for rolling the work material A1 in a circular cross section should be decreased in this order and the roller clearance of the roller-couple 102a,102b should be correspondingly increased in the order of (a), (b), (c), whereby the diameter D of the wire from the unit S1 increases in the order of (a), (b), (c).
  • different size of wire diameter D is easily obtained by changing the rolling reduction of each roller-couple without changing the configuration of the sizing pass.
  • the rolling reduction P1 when the rolling reduction P1 is increased for the first roller-couple 101 and 201 in the units S1 and S2, the work material A1 is deformed largely in the direction of the compression (or rolling) between the rollers, so that the transportation rate of the work material A1 from the first roller-couple, i.e., that to the second roller-couple should be also decreased.
  • the diameter D of the wire produced can be easily changed only by changing the roller clearance, i.e., by changing the rolling reduction at a fixed rotation rates of the first and the second roller-couples.
  • the rotation rate of the second roller-couple can be increased with the increase in the feeding rate of the work material A1 for the second roller-couple for maintaining the rolling condition in a optimum state.
  • Such change in the rotation rate of roller-couples can be performed by varying the inter-stand reduction ratios Q1/Q2 and Q3/Q4.
  • the configurations, i.e., the shapes and/or sizes of sizing passes of the first and the second roller-couples are preferably changed according to the value of said total rolling reduction against said work material A1.
  • the total rolling reduction in each roller-couple unit can be varied so that resulting change in the reduction of area of said work material A1 is up to 40 %.

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  1. Verfahren zum Herstellen von Draht, welches die Schritte aufweist:
    Walzen eines Werkstücks (A1) nacheinander mit einem ersten Walzenpaar (12; 212; 101, 201) und einem zweiten Walzenpaar (14; 214; 102, 202) einer Walzstraße (6), wobei das erste und das zweite Walzenpaar so angeordnet sind, daß sie in einer Zuführungsrichtung des Werkstücks beabstandet sind und das Werkstück jeweils in unterschiedlichen Richtungen derart walzen, daß sich die Gestalt des Querschnitts des gewalzten Drahts nach dem ersten Walzenpaar von der nach dem zweiten Walzenpaar unterscheidet; und
    Variieren eines resultierenden Drahtdurchmessers D in einem gewünschten Bereich durch Ändern der Walzreduktionen in dem ersten und dem zweiten Walzenpaar an dem Werkstück in einem entsprechenden Bereich,
       wobei das Verfahren gekennzeichnet ist durch einen Schritt eines
       Einstellens eines Verhältnisses von L/D auf weniger als 30, wobei L der Mittenabstand zwischen dem ersten und dem zweiten Walzenpaar ist und D der nach Walzen durch das zweite Walzenpaar erhaltene Drahtdurchmesser ist; so, daß
       ein nach dem zweiten Walzenpaar erhaltener Draht einen resultierenden Durchmesser von weniger als 5,5 mm aufweist.
  2. Verfahren gemäß Anspruch 1, welches, bevor das Werkstück durch Verwenden der Walzstraße (6) gewalzt wird, den Schritt aufweist eines
       Erwärmens des Werkstücks in kontinuierlicher Zuführung durch Verwenden einer Heizvorrichtung (44), welche auf dem Weg der Zuführung angeordnet ist und eine Induktionsheizspule zum kontinuierlichen Erwärmen des Werkstücks aufweist.
  3. Verfahren gemäß Anspruch 1, welches, bevor das Werkstück durch Verwenden der Walzstraße (6) gewalzt wird, die Schritte aufweist eines
       kontinuierlichen Entfernens von auf dem Werkstück ausgebildetem Zunder in kontinuierlicher Zuführung durch Verwenden einer Entzunderungsvorrichtung (4), welche auf dem Weg der Zuführung des Werkstücks angeordnet ist; und
       Erwärmens des Werkstücks nach dem Entfernen des Zunders durch Verwenden einer Heizvorrichtung (71a, 71b; 72; 5), welche eine das Werkstück berührende Elektrode (71a, 71b; 51, 52, 53, 54) aufweist, die eine kontinuierliche Zuführung hiervon erlaubt, und zum Widerstandsheizen des Werkstücks elektrischen Strom durch die Elektrode in das Werkstück schickt.
  4. Verfahren gemäß Anspruch 2 oder 3, welches weiter einen Schritt eines Haltens der Temperatur des Drahts auf einem gewünschten Wert aufweist, bevor derselbe in der Walzstraße (6) gewalzt wird, indem ein Abstand zwischen der Heizvorrichtung (5; 44) und der Walzstraße (6) auf weniger als 4 m eingestellt wird.
  5. Verfahren gemäß einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 4, wobei die Walzreduktion an dem Werkstück durch jedes Walzenpaar gemäß der Art des Werkstücks varriert wird und das Verhältnis R1/R2, wobei R1 und R2 Walzendrehzahlen des ersten bzw. des zweiten Walzenpaares sind, gemäß der Walzreduktion eingestellt wird.
  6. Verfahren gemäß Anspruch 5, wobei die Walzreduktion und das Verhältnis R1/R2 gemäß dem Torsionswiderstand des Werkstücks variiert werden.
  7. Verfahren gemäß einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 6, wobei das Verhältnis R1/R2, wobei R1 und R2 Walzendrehzahlen in dem ersten bzw. dem zweiten Walzenpaar sind, auf einem gewünschten Wert festgelegt wird; und
       wobei die Gesamtwalzreduktion an dem Werkstück durch das erste und das zweite Walzenpaar so variiert wird, daß die resultierende Änderung in der Flächenreduktion des Werkstücks innerhalb von 10 % liegt.
  8. Verfahren gemäß einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 7, wobei die Gesamtwalzreduktion an dem werkstück durch das erste und das zweite Walzenpaar so variiert wird, daß die resultierende Änderung in der Flächenreduktion des Werkstücks innerhalb von 40 % liegt; und
       wobei das Verhältnis R1/R2, wobei R1 und R2 Walzendrehzahlen in dem ersten bzw. dem zweiten Walzenpaar sind, gemäß dem Wert der Gesamtwalzreduktion an dem Werkstück variiert wird.
  9. Verfahren gemäß Anspruch 8, wobei Formen und/oder Größen eines Bemessungswegs des ersten und des zweiten Walzenpaares gemäß dem Wert der Gesamtwalzreduktion an dem Werkstück geändert werden.
  10. Verfahren gemäß einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 9,
       wobei jedes des ersten und des zweiten Walzenpaares zwei Walzen (101a, 101b, 102a, 102b; 101a', 101b') aufweist, welche Rillen (161a, 161b, 162a, 162b) auf der Umfangsoberfläche hiervon aufweisen, um einen Bemessungsweg (161c, 162c) auszubilden, welcher eine Querschnittsform des Drahts bestimmt; wobei das Verfahren weiter Schritte aufweist eines:
    Festlegens der Breite der Rillen (161a, 161b) auf weniger als 7 mm für das erste Walzenpaar;
    Festlegens der Breite der Rillen (162a, 162b) auf weniger als 6 mm für das zweite Walzenpaar; und
    Festlegens des Mittenabstands (L) zwischen dem ersten und dem zweiten Walzenpaar auf weniger als 50 mm.
  11. Verfahren gemäß einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 9, welches weiter Schritte aufweist eines:
    Festlegens eines Zwischenraums zwischen zwei Walzen (101a, 101b) auf weniger als 7 mm für das erste Walzenpaar;
    Festlegens eines Zwischenraums zwischen zwei Walzen (102a, 102b) auf weniger als 6 mm für das zweite Walzenpaar; und
    Festlegens des Mittenabstands (L) zwischen dem ersten und dem zweiten Walzenpaar auf weniger als 50 mm.
  12. Verfahren gemäß Anspruch 10 oder 11, wobei das erste und das zweite Walzenpaar zum Herstellen von Draht abwechselnd derart angeordnet sind, daß der Winkel zwischen den Rotationsachsen hiervon etwa 90° beträgt;
       wobei das Werkstück durch das erste Walzenpaar (12; 212; 101, 102) derart gewalzt wird, daß die Querschnittsdimension D1 des Werkstücks in einer Richtung einer Walzreduktion geringer wird als in einer Richtung D2 senkrecht zu dieser Richtung der Walzreduktion;
       und wobei das Werkstück durch das zweite Walzenpaar (14; 214; 102, 202) derart gewalzt wird, daß das Verhältnis der Dimensionen D2/D1 verringert wird.
  13. Verfahren gemäß einem der Ansprüche 10 bis 12, welches weiter einen Schritt eines Bewegens zweier Walzen (101a, 101b, 102a, 102b) jedes Walzenpaares (12, 14) relativ aufeinander zu und voneinander weg in der Richtung einer Walzreduktion durch jeweilige Walzenzwischenraum-Einstellmechanismen (26, 32, 34, 36, 38), die sowohl das erste als auch das zweite Walzenpaar begleiten, aufweist;
       wobei jeder Walzenzwischenraum-Einstellmechanismus aufweist:
    Lagerabschnitte (26), welche die Wellen der zwei Walzen jeweils unterstützen;
    und einen Lagerdrehmechanismus (32, 34, 36, 38), welcher jeden der Lagerabschnitte (26) um eine von einer entsprechenden Walzenachse (C1) abweichende exzentrische Achse (C2) jeweils in entgegengesetzte Richtung dreht, wodurch die zwei Walzen relativ aufeinander zu und voneinander weg bewegt werden.
  14. Verfahren gemäß Anspruch 13, wobei der Lagerdrehmechanismus (32, 34, 36, 38) für das erste Walzenpaar (12) stromaufwärts des ersten Walzenpaares angeordnet ist und der Lagerdrehmechanismus für das zweite Walzenpaar (14) stromabwärts des zweiten Walzenpaares angeordnet ist.
  15. Verfahren gemäß Anspruch 14, wobei der Lagerdrehmechanismus (32, 34, 36, 38) aufweist:
    erste Zahnradabschnitte (26b), welche jeweils auf den Umfängen der Lagerabschnitte (26) der zwei Walzen angeordnet sind;
    zweite Zahnradabschnitte (34), die jeweils in den entsprechenden ersten Zahnradabschnitt (26b) eingreifen;
    und wobei ein Antriebsmechanismus (36, 38) die zweiten Zahnradabschnitte (34) synchron in einander entgegengesetzten Richtungen dreht.
  16. Verfahren gemäß Anspruch 15, wobei die zweiten Zahnradabschnitte Schnecken (34) sind, welche axial auf einer Schneckendrehwelle (32) mit einem bestimmten Abstand entlang der Längsrichtung hiervon angeordnet sind und deren Windungen in einander entgegengesetzten Richtungen ausgebildet sind;
       und wobei die Schnecken (34) durch Antreiben der Schneckendrehwelle (32) mittels des Antriebsmechanismus (36, 38) gemeinsam angetrieben werden.
  17. Verfahren gemäß Anspruch 16, wobei der Lagerabschnitt aufweist:
    Lagergehäuse (24), welche entsprechend beiden Endabschnitten einer Walzenwelle (28) angeordnet sind und von welchen jedes ein Lageraufnahmeloch (24a) aufweist, welches sich entlang der Walzenwelle (28) erstreckt;
    Lagerhauptkörper (26), von welchen jeder in dem Lageraufnahmeloch (24a) aufgenommen wird;
       wobei ein Lagerloch (26a) in jedem der Lagerhauptkörper (26) derart ausgebildet ist, daß die Mitte des Lagerlochs (26a) vom der Rotationsachse (C2) des Lagerhauptkörpers (26) ausgerückt ist und jeder Endabschnitt der Walzenwelle (28) in dem Lagerloch (26a) drehbar unterstützt ist;
       und wobei der Lagerhauptkörper (26) einen ersten Zahnradabschnitt (26a) auf seinem Umfang aufweist und durch die in den ersten Zahnradabschnitt (26a) eingreifenden Schnecke (32) um eine von der Rotationsachse (C1) der Walze versetzte, exzentrische Achse (C2) gedreht wird.
  18. Verfahren gemäß Anspruch 17, wobei das Lagerloch (26a) des ersten Walzenpaares (12) in dem von seiner Rotationsachse abweichenden Lagerhauptkörper (26) stromabwärts ausgebildet ist und das Lagerloch (26a) des zweiten Walzenpaares (14) in dem von seiner Rotationsachse abweichenden Lagerhauptkörper (26) stromaufwärts ausgebildet ist.
  19. Verfahren gemäß einem der Ansprüche 10-18, welches weiter Schritte eines Bewegens der zwei Walzen (101a, 101b, 102a, 102b) relativ in der Schubrichtung hiervon und eines Haltens der zwei Walzen in beliebigen Positionen in der Schubrichtung mittels eines Walzenschubeinstellmechanismus (170), mit welchem wenigstens eines des ersten und des zweiten Walzenpaares (12, 14) ausgerüstet ist, aufweist.
  20. Verfahren gemäß Anspruch 19, wobei der Walzenschubeinstellmechanismus (170) aufweist:
    einen feststehenden Lagerabschnitt (30), welcher für wenigstens eine der zwei Walzen vorgesehen ist und die Walzenwelle (28) drehbar und in ihrer Schubrichtung beweglich hält;
    und einen Walzenschiebemechanismus (171), welcher mit einem Endabschnitt der Walzenwelle (28) verbunden ist und die Walzenwelle in der Schubrichtung gegen den Lagerabschnitt (30) schiebt.
  21. Verfahren gemäß Anspruch 20, wobei der Walzenschiebemechanismus (171) aufweist:
    einen Wellenhalter (172), mit welchem der Endabschnitt der Walzenwelle (28) verbunden ist und welcher zusammen mit der Walzenwelle in der Schubrichtung beweglich ist;
    einen Einstellschraubmechanismus (173), welcher mit dem Wellenhalter direkt oder indirekt mit einem anderen Bauteil verbunden ist und den Wellenhalter (172) in der Schubrichtung gemäß seiner Tätigkeit eines Hinein- oder Herausdrehens bewegt.
  22. Verfahren gemäß Anspruch 21, wobei der Lagerabschnitt einen Lagerhauptkörper (26) aufweist, welcher ein Durchgangsloch als ein Lagerloch (26a) in der Richtung der Walzenwelle (28) aufweist und den einen Endabschnitt der Walzenwelle in dem Durchgangsloch drehbar unterstützt;
       wobei der Wellenhalter (172) in dem Durchgangsloch (26a) mit der Walzenwelle (28) in der Schubrichtung beweglich ist;
       wobei der Wellenhalter (172) einen wellenartig hervorstehenden Abschnitt (177) aufweist, welcher sich entlang der axialen Richtung der Walzenwelle (28) in dem Durchgangsloch (26a) erstreckt und dessen Endabschnitt außerhalb von der entsprechenden Öffnung (26b) des Durchgangslochs aus hervorsteht;
       wobei auf der Innenseite des Durchgangslochs (26a) ein Muttergewindeabschnitt (26c) auf dem Endabschnitt hiervon ausgebildet ist, welcher zu der Öffnung (26b) führt;
       wobei ein Schraubengewindebauteil (178) in einer Position auf den Muttergewindeabschnitt (26c) geschraubt ist, die dem Teil des des wellenartig hervorstehenden Abschnitts (177) dazwischen entspricht;
       wobei ein Stopper (179) auf dem wellenartig hervorstehenden Abschnitt (177) montiert ist, um eine Relativbewegung des Schraubengewindebauteils (178) gegenüber dem wellenartig hervorstehenden Abschnitt in der axialen Richtung hiervon zu verhindern;
       und wobei der Einstellschraubmechanismus (173) den Wellenhalter (172) und die Walzenwelle (28) in der Schubrichtung zusammen mit dem Schraubengewindebauteil (178) gemäß der Drehung des Schraubengewindebauteils bewegt.
  23. Verfahren gemäß einem der Ansprüche 3 bis 22, wobei der Schritt eines kontinuierlichen Entfernens von auf dem Werkstück ausgebildetem Zunder einen Schritt eines Aufstrahlens eines Stroms von abrasiven Teilchen auf die Oberfläche des Werkstücks in kontinuierlicher Zuführung mittels einer Abstrahlvorrichtung (4) beinhaltet.
  24. Verfahren gemäß einem der Ansprüche 2 bis 23, wobei der Schritt eines Erwärmens des Werkstücks Schritte aufweist eines:
    Berührens des Werkstücks mit einer Rollenelektrode (51-54) und Schickens von elektrischem Strom in das Werkstück zum Zwecke des Widerstandsheizens desselben; und
    Drängens der Rollenelektrode gegen das Werkstück mittels eines Drängmechanismus (55-58).
  25. Verfahren gemäß einem der Ansprüche 5, 6, 8 oder 9, welches weiter einen Schritt eines Antreibens des ersten (12; 101, 102) und des zweiten (14; 201, 202) Walzenpaares durch eine gemeinsame Antriebseinrichtung (252) durch ein erstes (253, 255) bzw. ein zweites (254, 256) Untersetzungsgetriebesystem aufweist;
       wobei das Reduktionsverhältnis zwischen Ständern Q1/Q2, wobei Q1 das Untersetzungsverhältnis des ersten Untersetzungsgetriebesystems ist und Q2 das Untersetzungsverhältnis des zweiten Untersetzungsgetriebesystems ist, variiert wird, um das Verhältnis R1/R2 zu ändern.
  26. Verfahren gemäß Anspruch 25, welches weiter Schritte aufweist eines
       Walzens des Werkstücks nacheinander durch eine Mehrzahl von walzenpaareinheiten (S), von denen jede ein erstes und ein zweites Walzenpaar aufweist, wobei die Walzenpaareinheiten in der Zuführungsrichtung des Werkstücks angeordnet sind;
       Änderns der Reduktionsverhältnisse zwischen Ständern Q1/Q2 der Walzenpaareinheiten in synchroner Weise; und
       wenn das Reduktionsverhältnis zwischen Ständern für eine der Walzenpaareinheiten auf einen gewünschten Wert festgelegt ist, ebenfalls Einstellens der Reduktionsverhältnisse zwischen Ständern für andere Walzenpaareinheiten auf entsprechende Werte in synchroner Weise.
  27. Vorrichtung zum Herstellen von Draht, welches aufweist:
    ein erstes Walzenpaar (12; 212; 101, 201) und ein zweites Walzenpaar (14; 214; 102, 202) einer Walzstraße (6) zum Walzen eines Werkstücks (A1) nacheinander, wobei das erste und das zweite Walzenpaar in einer Zuführungrichtung des Werkstücks beabstandet angeordnet sind, wobei eine Winkellage von Rotationsachsen des ersten Walzenpaares sich von der des zweiten Walzenpaares unterscheidet und wobei Formen und/oder Lagebeziehungen der jeweiligen Walzen des ersten und des zweiten Walzenpaares derart ausgebildet sind, daß sich die Gestalt des Querschnitts des gewalzten Drahts nach dem ersten Walzenpaar von der nach dem zweiten Walzenpaar unterscheidet; wobei
       Walzreduktionen in dem ersten und dem zweiten Walzenpaar an dem Werkstück in einem Bereich änderbar sind, der einer Variation eines resultierenden Drahtdurchmessers D entspricht;
        dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß
       Formen und/oder Lagebeziehungen jeweiliger Walzen des ersten und des zweiten Walzenpaares derart ausgebildet sind, daß ein nach dem zweiten Walzenpaar erhaltener Draht einen im Wesentlichen runden oder quadratischen Querschnitt und einen resultierenden Durchmesser von weniger als 5,5 mm aufweist; und
       das erste und das zweite Walzenpaar derart angeordnet sind, daß ein Verhältnis von L/D, wobei L der Mittenabstand zwischen dem ersten und dem zweiten Walzenpaar ist und D der nach Walzen durch das zweite Walzenpaar erhaltene Drahtdurchmesser ist, weniger als 30 beträgt.
  28. Vorrichtung gemäß Anspruch 27, welche weiter eine Heizvorrichtung (44) aufweist, welche vor der Walzstraße auf dem Weg der Zuführung des Werkstücks angeordnet ist und eine Induktionsheizspule zum kontinuierlichen Erwärmen des Werkstücks aufweist.
  29. Vorrichtung gemäß Anspruch 27, welche weiter aufweist:
    eine Entzunderungsvorrichtung (4), welche vor der Walzstraße auf dem Weg der Zuführung des Werkstücks zum kontinuierlichen Entfernen von auf dem Werkstück ausgebildetem Zunder in kontinuierlicher Zuführung angeordnet ist; und
    eine Heizvorrichtung (71a, 71b; 72; 5), welche eine das Werkstück berührende Elektrode (71a, 71b; 51, 52, 53, 54) aufweist, die eine kontinuierliche Zuführung hiervon erlaubt und zum Widerstandsheizen des Werkstücks elektrischen Strom durch die Elektrode in das Werkstück schickt, wobei die Heizvorrichtung zwischen der Entzunderungsvorrichtung (4) und der Walzstraße (6) angeordnet ist.
  30. Vorrichtung gemäß Anspruch 28 oder 29, wobei der Abstand zwischen der Heizvorrichtung (5; 44) und der Walzstraße (6) weniger als 4 m beträgt.
  31. Vorrichtung gemäß einem der Ansprüche 27 bis 30, wobei eine Walzreduktion an dem Werkstück durch jedes Walzenpaar gemäß der Art des Werkstücks varrierbar ist und das Verhältnis R1/R2, wobei R1 und R2 Walzendrehzahlen des ersten bzw. des zweiten Walzenpaares sind, gemäß der Walzreduktion einstellbar ist.
  32. Vorrichtung gemäß Anspruch 31, wobei die Walzreduktion und das Verhältnis R1/R2 gemäß dem Torsionswiderstand des Werkstücks variierbar bzw. einstellbar sind.
  33. Vorrichtung gemäß einem der Ansprüche 27 bis 32, wobei das Verhältnis R1/R2, wobei R1 und R2 Walzendrehzahlen in dem ersten bzw. dem zweiten Walzenpaar sind, auf einem gewünschten Wert festgelegt ist; und
       wobei die Gesamtwalzreduktion an dem Werkstück durch das erste und das zweite Walzenpaar so variierbar ist, daß die resultierende Änderung in der Flächenreduktion des Werkstücks innerhalb von 10 % liegt.
  34. Vorrichtung gemäß einem der Ansprüche 27 bis 33, wobei die Gesamtwalzreduktion an dem Werkstück durch das erste und das zweite Walzenpaar so variierbar ist, daß die resultierende Änderung in der Flächenreduktion des Werkstücks innerhalb von 40 % liegt; und
       wobei das Verhältnis R1/R2, wobei R1 und R2 Walzendrehzahlen in dem ersten bzw. dem zweiten Walzenpaares sind, gemäß dem Wert der Gesamtwalzreduktion an dem Werkstück variierbar ist.
  35. Vorrichtung gemäß Anspruch 34, wobei Formen und/oder Größen eines Bemessungswegs des ersten und des zweiten Walzenpaares gemäß dem Wert der Gesamtwalzreduktion an dem Werkstück änderbar ist.
  36. Vorrichtung gemäß einem der Ansprüche 27 bis 35,
       wobei jedes des ersten und des zweiten Walzenpaares zwei Walzen (101a, 101b, 102a, 102b; 101a', 101b') aufweist, welche Rillen (161a, 161b, 162a, 162b) auf der Umfangsoberfläche hiervon aufweisen, um einen Bemessungsweg (161c, 162c) auszubilden, welcher eine Querschnittsform des Drahts bestimmt;
       wobei die Breite der Rillen (161a, 161b) für das erste Walzenpaar weniger als 7 mm beträgt;
       wobei die Breite der Rillen (162a, 162b) für das zweite Walzenpaar weniger als 6 mm beträgt; und
       wobei der Mittenabstand (L) zwischen dem ersten und dem zweiten Walzenpaar weniger als 50 mm beträgt.
  37. Vorrichtung gemäß einem der Ansprüche 27 bis 35,
       wobei ein Zwischenraum zwischen zwei Walzen (101a, 101b) für das erste Walzenpaar weniger als 7 mm beträgt;
       wobei ein Zwischenraum zwischen zwei Walzen (102a, 102b) für das zweite Walzenpaar weniger als 6 mm beträgt; und
       und wobei der Mittenabstand (L) zwischen dem ersten und dem zweiten Walzenpaar weniger als 50 mm beträgt.
  38. Vorrichtung gemäß Anspruch 36 oder 37, wobei das erste und das zweite Walzenpaar zum Herstellen von Draht abwechselnd derart angeordnet sind, daß der Winkel zwischen den Rotationsachsen hiervon nahezu 90° beträgt;
       wobei Formen und/oder Größen des ersten Walzenpaares (12; 212; 101, 102) derart ausgebildet sind, daß die Querschnittsdimension des Werkstücks in einer Richtung einer Walzreduktion D1 weniger wird als in einer Richtung D2 senkrecht zu dieser Richtung einer Walzreduktion;
       und wobei Formen und/oder Größen des zweiten Walzenpaares (14; 214; 102, 202) derart ausgebildet sind, daß das Verhältnis der Dimensionen D2/D1 verringert wird.
  39. Vorrichtung gemäß einem der Ansprüche 36 bis 38, wobei sowohl das erste als auch das zweite Walzenpaar von einem Walzenzwischenraum-Einstellmechanismus (26, 32, 34, 36, 38) zum Bewegen zweier Walzen (101a, 101b, 102a, 102b) jedes Walzenpaares (12, 14) relativ aufeinander zu und voneinander weg in der Richtung einer Walzreduktion begleitet wird;
       und wobei jeder Walzenzwischenraum-Einstellmechanismus aufweist:
    Lagerabschnitte (26), welche die Wellen der zwei Walzen jeweils unterstützen;
    und einen Lagerdrehmechanismus (32, 34, 36, 38), welcher jeden der Lagerabschnitte (26) um eine von einer entsprechenden Walzenachse (C1) abweichende exzentrische Achse (C2) jeweils in entgegengesetzte Richtung dreht, wodurch die zwei Walzen relativ aufeinander zu und voneinander weg bewegt werden.
  40. Vorrichtung gemäß Anspruch 39, wobei der Lagerdrehmechanismus (32, 34, 36, 38) für das erste Walzenpaar (12) stromaufwärts des ersten Walzenpaares angeordnet ist und der Lagerdrehmechanismus für das zweite Walzenpaar (14) stromabwärts des zweiten Walzenpaares angeordnet ist.
  41. Vorrichtung gemäß Anspruch 40, wobei der Lagerdrehmechanismus (32, 34, 36, 38) aufweist:
    erste Zahnradabschnitte (26b), welche jeweils auf den Umfängen der Lagerabschnitte (26) der zwei Walzen angeordnet sind;
    zweite Zahnradabschnitte (34), die jeweils mit dem entsprechenden ersten Zahnradabschnitt (26b) eingreifen;
    und einen Antriebsmechanismus (36, 38), welcher die zweiten Zahnradabschnitte (34) synchron in einander entgegengesetzten Richtungen dreht.
  42. Vorrichtung gemäß Anspruch 41, wobei die zweiten Zahnradabschnitte Schnecken (34) sind, welche axial auf einer Schneckendrehwelle (32) mit einem bestimmten Abstand entlang der Längsrichtung hiervon angeordnet sind und deren Windungen in einander entgegengesetzten Richtungen ausgebildet sind;
       und wobei der Antriebsmechanismus (36, 38) die Schneckendrehwelle (32) antreibt, wodurch die Schnecken (34) gemeinsam angetrieben werden.
  43. Vorrichtung gemäß Anspruch 42, wobei der Lagerabschnitt aufweist:
    Lagergehäuse (24), welche entsprechend beiden Endabschnitten einer Walzenwelle (28) angeordnet sind und von welchen jedes ein Lageraufnahmeloch (24a) aufweist, welches sich entlang der Walzenwelle (28) erstreckt;
    Lagerhauptkörper (26), von welchen jeder in dem Lageraufnahmeloch (24a) aufgenommen ist;
       wobei ein Lagerloch (26a) in jedem der Lagerhauptkörper (26) derart ausgebildet ist, daß die Mitte des Lagerlochs (26a) von der Rotationsachse (C2) des Lagerhauptkörpers (26) ausgerückt ist und jeder Endabschnitt der Walzenwelle (28) in dem Lagerloch (26a) drehbar unterstützt ist;
       und wobei der Lagerhauptkörper (26) einen ersten Zahnradabschnitt (26a) auf seinem Umfang aufweist und durch die in den ersten Zahnradabschnitt (26a) eingreifenden Schnecke (32) um eine von der Rotationsachse (C1) der Rolle versetzte, exzentrische Achse (C2) gedreht wird.
  44. Vorrichtung gemäß Anspruch 43, wobei das Lagerloch (26a) des ersten Walzenpaares (12) in dem von seiner Rotationsachse abweichenden Lagerhauptkörper (26) stromabwärts ausgebildet ist und das Lagerloch (26a) des zweiten Walzenpaares (14) in dem von seiner Rotationsachse abweichenden Lagerhauptkörper (26) stromaufwärts ausgebildet ist.
  45. Vorrichtung gemäß einem der Ansprüche 36 bis 44, wobei wenigstens eines des ersten und des zweiten Walzenpaares (12, 14) mit einem Walzenschubeinstellmechanismus (170) ausgerüstet ist, welcher die zwei Walzen (101a, 101b, 102a, 102b) relativ in der Schubrichtung hiervon bewegt und die zwei Walzen in beliebigen Positionen in der Schubrichtung hält.
  46. Vorrichtung gemäß Anspruch 45, wobei der Walzenschubeinstellmechanismus (170) aufweist:
    einen feststehenden Lagerabschnitt (30), welcher für wenigstens eine der zwei Walzen vorgesehen ist und die Walzenwelle (28) drehbar und beweglich in ihrer Schubrichtung hält;
    und einen Walzenschiebemechanismus (171), welcher mit einem Endabschnitt der Walzenwelle (28) verbunden ist und die Walzenwelle in der Schubrichtung gegen den Lagerabschnitt (30) schiebt.
  47. Vorrichtung gemäß Anspruch 46, wobei der Walzenschiebemechanismus (171) aufweist:
    einen Wellenhalter (172), mit welchem der Endabschnitt der Walzenwelle (28) verbunden ist und welcher zusammen mit der Walzenwelle in der Schubrichtung beweglich ist;
    einen Einstellschraubmechanismus (173), welcher . mit dem Wellenhalter direkt oder indirekt mit einem anderen Bauteil verbunden ist und den Wellenhalter (172) in der Schubrichtung gemäß seiner Tätigkeit eines Hinein- oder Herausdrehens bewegt.
  48. Vorrichtung gemäß Anspruch 47, wobei der Lagerabschnitt einen Lagerhauptkörper (26) aufweist, welcher ein Durchgangsloch als ein Lagerloch (26a) in der Richtung der Walzenwelle (28) aufweist und den einen Endabschnitt der Walzenwelle in dem Durchgangsloch drehbar unterstützt;
       wobei der Wellenhalter (172) in dem Durchgangsloch (26a) mit der Walzenwelle (28) in der Schubrichtung beweglich ist;
       wobei der Wellenhalter (172) einen wellenartig hervorstehenden Abschnitt (177) aufweist, welcher sich entlang der axialen Richtung der Walzenwelle (28) in dem Durchgangsloch (26a) erstreckt und dessen Endabschnitt außerhalb von der entsprechenden Öffnung (26b) des Durchgangslochs hervorsteht;
       wobei auf der Innenseite des Durchgangslochs (26a) ein Muttergewindeabschnitt (26c) auf dem Endabschnitt hiervon ausgebildet ist, welcher zu der Öffnung (26b) führt;
       wobei ein Schraubengewindebauteil (178) in einer Position auf den Muttergewindeabschnitt (26c) geschraubt ist, die dem Teil des des wellenartig hervorstehenden Abschnitts (177) dazwischen entspricht;
       wobei ein Stopper (179) auf dem wellenartig hervorstehenden Abschnitt (177) montiert ist, um eine Relativbewegung des Schraubengewindebauteils (178) gegenüber dem wellenartig hervorstehenden Abschnitt in der axialen Richtung hiervon zu verhindern;
       und wobei der Einstellschraubmechanismus (173) den Wellenhalter (172) und die Walzenwelle (28) in der Schubrichtung zusammen mit dem Schraubengewindebauteil (178) gemäß der Drehung des Schraubengewindebauteils bewegt.
  49. Vorrichtung gemäß einem der Ansprüche 29 bis 48, wobei die Entzunderungsvorrichtung eine Abstrahlvorrichtung (4) zum Entfernen des Zunders durch Aufstrahlen eines Stroms von abrasiven Teilchen auf die Oberfläche des Werkstücks in kontinuierlicher Zuführung aufweist.
  50. Vorrichtung gemäß einem der Ansprüche 29 bis 49, wobei die Heizvorrichtung (5) aufweist:
    eine Rollenelektrode (51-54) zum Vorsehen eines Kontakts mit dem Werkstück und Schicken von elektrischem Strom in das Werkstück zum Zwecke des Widerstandsheizens desselben; und
    einen Drängmechanismus (55-58) zum Drängen der Rollenelektrode gegen das Werkstück.
  51. Vorrichtung gemäß einem der Ansprüche 31, 32, 34 oder 35, wobei das erste (12; 101, 102) und das zweite (14; 201, 202) Walzenpaar durch eine gemeinsame Antriebseinrichtung (252) durch ein erstes (253, 255) bzw. ein zweites (254, 256) Untersetzungsgetriebesystem angetrieben werden;
       und wobei das Reduktionsverhältnis zwischen Ständern Q1/Q2, wobei Q1 das Untersetzungsverhältnis des ersten Untersetzungsgetriebesystems ist und Q2 das Untersetzungsverhältnis des zweiten Untersetzungsgetriebesystems ist, variiert wird, um das Verhältnis R1/R2 zu ändern.
  52. Vorrichtung gemäß Anspruch 51, wobei durch eine Mehrzahl von Walzenpaareinheiten (S), von denen jede ein erstes und ein zweites Walzenpaar aufweist, in der Zuführungsrichtung des Werkstücks angeordnet sind und das Werkstück nacheinander durch die Mehrzahl von Walzenpaareinheiten gewalzt wird;
       wobei die Reduktionsverhältnisse zwischen Ständern Q1/Q2 der Walzenpaareinheiten in synchroner Weise geändert werden;
       und wobei, wenn das Reduktionsverhältnis zwischen Ständern für eine der Walzenpaareinheiten auf einen gewünschten Wert festgelegt ist, die Reduktionsverhältnisse zwischen Ständern für andere Walzenpaareinheiten auf entsprechende Werte in synchroner Weise eingestellt werden.
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