EP1147831B1 - Eingangsrollenführung - Google Patents

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EP1147831B1
EP1147831B1 EP00303362A EP00303362A EP1147831B1 EP 1147831 B1 EP1147831 B1 EP 1147831B1 EP 00303362 A EP00303362 A EP 00303362A EP 00303362 A EP00303362 A EP 00303362A EP 1147831 B1 EP1147831 B1 EP 1147831B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21B—ROLLING OF METAL
    • B21B39/00—Arrangements for moving, supporting, or positioning work, or controlling its movement, combined with or arranged in, or specially adapted for use in connection with, metal-rolling mills
    • B21B39/14—Guiding, positioning or aligning work
    • B21B39/16—Guiding, positioning or aligning work immediately before entering or after leaving the pass
    • B21B39/165—Guides or guide rollers for rods, bars, rounds, tubes ; Aligning guides
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21B—ROLLING OF METAL
    • B21B2203/00—Auxiliary arrangements, devices or methods in combination with rolling mills or rolling methods
    • B21B2203/18—Rolls or rollers
    • B21B2203/182—Fluid driven rolls or rollers

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  • This invention is concerned with improving the performance of a roller entry guide used in steel mills for the facilitation of the passage of a steel billet from one roll stand to the next roll stand in a multi-stand roll reduction operation.
  • a rod mill may have in excess of 25 stages where a heated metal billet having an initial cross section of 16-20 square inches is reduced to 40 thousandths of an inch in diameter during its passage through the mill.
  • the velocity of the hot steel workpiece increases in direct proportion to the reduction in cross sectional area.
  • the exit speed of a typical rod being reduced, as described above is 400 times the entrance velocity of the billet which may approach 100 meters per second. Because the rod impinges on the next roller entry guide (and on the rollers mounted in the entry guide device) with considerable force and momentum, it is desirable to have the rollers in the entry guide device spinning at a speed equal to or slightly greater than the velocity of the rod entering the roller entry guide.
  • a rod exit speed of 100 meters per second represents about 40 to 45,000 r.p.m. rotational speed of the guide rollers.
  • inlet guide rollers For exit speeds of 150 meters per second, inlet guide rollers must achieve a pre spin velocity of about 60,000 r.p.m.
  • This patent shows a roller entry guide wherein the rollers are provided with a series of scoop-shaped recesses to provide a plurality of reaction surfaces for driving each roller with cooling fluid, usually water.
  • This patent is directed to an assembly for delivering pressurized fluid (usually water) through a guide bracket in such a manner that the pressurized fluid impinges upon the reaction surfaces (scoop-shaped recesses) at the proper angle to drive the rollers to a selected speed before the rod enters the guide.
  • pressurized fluid usually water
  • roller profile and shape is largely dictated by the shape of the work product passing between the rollers in the roller entry guide, thus the roller diameters (internal and external) are generally predetermined by constraints such as standardisation and interchangeability of various rollers.
  • This invention therefore has for its object the provision of a roller inlet guide having rollers which will operate at increased rod inlet speeds without requiring any substantial modification to the roller inlet guide construction.
  • a roller entry guide embodying the present invention has a roller which has no preferential direction of rotation and which provides a greatly increased reaction surface for impingement of the driving fluid thereon.
  • FIG. 1 a steel mill 10 useful in processing steel billets into steel rods is shown in perspective.
  • the steel mill 10 is equipped with a series of reducing stages, all in the same line, so that an incoming rod 12 is successively reduced as it passes through the various reducing mill stands such as the stage shown at 14.
  • Safety covers 16 are provided to protect operating personnel from damage caused by the impact with fractured components etc. which may result from component failures during a reducing operation.
  • the rod enters at the left side of the mill and exits from the right hand end of mill 10.
  • FIGURE 2 shows a typical roller entry guide 18 utilizing the rollers of this invention.
  • a funnel shaped input guide 20 provides the initial guiding mechanism for the rod 12 as it enters the roller entry guide 18.
  • Rod 12 is thus directed into the bore 24 of guide 18.
  • the rod 12 subsequently passes between a pair of driven guide rollers 26 and exits to a pair of reducing rolls, generally tungsten carbide (not shown) that reduce the cross section of the rod 12.
  • Each roller is mounted in a rocker arm 28 which is pivoted in the roller entry guide 18 on pins 30 which have axis in a spaced parallel relationship.
  • the spacing between the rollers (bight) is made to be adjustable by means of a wedge device 32 mounted in entry guide 18 at a point opposite the pivot pins from the rollers 26 in the rocker arms 28.
  • the rocker arms are constantly biased to their final operating position by springs 32 and 34 which tend to keep the rollers 26 at the maximum spacing permitted by wedge 32.
  • Each roller 26 is mounted in the respective rocker arms 28 on a bolt 36 on which are mounted a pair of bearings 38 (see FIGURE 3), which engage the inner cylindrical surface 40 of the guide rollers 26.
  • the rod engaging surface 42 of rollers 26 is contoured to specifications peculiar to the type of rod being reduced, as shown.
  • the sidewalls 44 of rollers 26 are provided with a plurality of spaced somewhat rectilinearly shaped substantially parallelepipedal fluid reaction pockets 46 which form the reaction surfaces used to drive the rollers 26.
  • Each arm 28 is provided with a nozzle 48 which allows the driving fluid to exit therefrom and impinge on rollers 26 at pockets 46.
  • Nozzle 48 is provided with a suitable bore 50 which is connected to a suitable supply of pressurized fluid and which is supplied to guide 18 to cool the guide, and cool and drive rollers 26.
  • rollers 26 Usually only one side of the rollers 26 is driven, but pockets 46 allow unlimited interchangability of rollers because of the shape chosen to react with the impinging fluid stream in either direction of rotation.
  • Bolt 36 is mounted in guide 18 in recess 54 at the head end 56 of bolt 36.
  • the bolt passes through a washer 58 and through the inner race of one of the bearings 38, through a second washer 60 and through a second inner race of bearing 32 to which is clamped nut 62.
  • Nut 62 is engaged by recess 64.
  • nut 62 clamps the whole roller and bearing assembly together and also stabilizes the threaded end of bolt 36 in guide 18.
  • Bearings 38 are provided with a peripheral lips 66 to engage annular recesses 68 on the inner surface of roller 26.
  • the lips 66 and recesses 68 combine with spacer 60 to accurately mount each roller 26 in the guide 18.
  • Previous rollers have been capable of being driven in one direction only, and the repeated impingement of the working surfaces of the rollers 26 causes abrasion and wear which is peculiar to the direction of rotation. Reversal of rotation of the rollers can lead to increased life and diminished operating costs for the reducing mill.
  • the pockets 46 in rollers 26 may be spaced much closer than pockets shown in the prior art entry guides.
  • the addition of the extra pockets in the rollers 26 allows each roller to present more reaction surfaces to the impinging fluid stream and thus achieve a higher rotational velocity for increasing rod entry speeds.
  • Pockets 46 in rollers 26 of this invention relieve the steel mill operators and maintenance personnel of the problem of improper installation of inlet guide rollers of the prior art which were sensitive to the direction of the rotation.

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Claims (4)

  1. Eingangsrollenführung (18) für ein Walzwerk (10) für stangenförmiges Material, umfassend: einen Grundkörper mit einem in diesem ausgebildeten Durchgang (24) zum Führen eines Stangenmaterials (12), während dieses durch diesen hindurchgeht; ein Paar von Schwenkarmen (28), die auf dem Cnimdkörper auf einander gegenüberliegenden Seiten des Durchgangs (24) für das Stangenmaterial gehalten sind; ein Paar von Rollenführungselementen (26), die auf den Schwenkarmen (28) an den Enden davon angebracht sind, um mit dem genannten Stangenmaterial (12) zusammenzuwirken, während dieses durch die Führung (18) hindurchgeht; und Mittel (48), um einen Strom von Fluid mit hoher Geschwindigkeit auf die Rollenführungselemente (26) auf eine solche Weise zu leiten, daß eine Drehung der Rollenführungselemente erzeugt wird; dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Rollenführungselemente (26) umgedreht werden können, wobei jedes der genannten Rollenführungselemente (26) eine Anzahl von Fluidreaktionstaschen (46) aufweist, die in einem Ring auf jedem Rollenführungselement angeordnet sind, wobei jede der genannten Taschen (46) im wesentlichen in der Form eines Parallelepipeds ausgebildet ist.
  2. Eingangsrollenführung (18) nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß jedes Rollenführungselement (22) im wesentlichen ringförmig ausgebildet ist, wobei es eine innenliegende Öffnung mit einer solchen Form aufweist, daß ein Lagermittel (38) aufnehmbar ist; wobei jedes Rollenführungselement (26) ein äußeres Oberflächenprofil (42) aufweist, das dazu geeignet ist, um mit dem Stangenmaterial (12) zusammenzuwirken; wobei jedes Rollenführungselement (26) ein Paar von gegenüberliegenden, ebenen ringförmigen Oberflächen (44) aufweist, die sich zwischen der innenliegenden Öffnung und dem äußeren Oberflächenprofil (42) erstrecken; und wobei gleichmäßig beabstandete, im wesentlichen rechteckförmig gestaltete Fluidreaktionstaschen (46) an einem konstanten Durchmesser auf zumindest einer von dem Paar von ringförmigen Oberflächen (44) ausgebildet sind.
  3. Eingangsrollenführung (18) nach Anspruch 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß gleichmäßig beabstandate Fluidreaktionstaschen (46) an einem konstanten Durchmesser auf jeder von dem Paar von ringförmigen Oberflächen (44) des Rollenführungselements (26) ausgebildet sind.
  4. Umdrehbare Eingangsrollenführung (18) nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß jede Fluidreaktionstasche (46) Ecken aufweist, die leicht abgerundet sind.
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US09/032,782 US6151946A (en) 1998-03-02 1998-03-02 Roller entry guide for rod mills
DE2000609453 DE60009453T2 (de) 2000-04-20 2000-04-20 Eingangsrollenführung
AT00303362T ATE262989T1 (de) 2000-04-20 2000-04-20 Eingangsrollenführung
CA002306361A CA2306361C (en) 1998-03-02 2000-04-20 Improved roller entry guide for rod mills
JP2000131003A JP3345601B2 (ja) 1998-03-02 2000-04-28 ロッドミル用の改良したローラ入口ガイド

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US09/032,782 US6151946A (en) 1998-03-02 1998-03-02 Roller entry guide for rod mills
CA002306361A CA2306361C (en) 1998-03-02 2000-04-20 Improved roller entry guide for rod mills
JP2000131003A JP3345601B2 (ja) 1998-03-02 2000-04-28 ロッドミル用の改良したローラ入口ガイド
US10/109,787 US6659698B2 (en) 2002-03-28 2002-03-28 Torque resistant grommet

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