EP2109510A1

EP2109510A1 - Method and apparatus for winding up metal strips onto a winding mandrel

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Publication number: EP2109510A1
Application number: EP07818307A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Matthias Kipping; Helmut HÖFER; Matthias Tuschhoff; Peter Sudau; Andreas Kastner; Thomas Holzhauer
Original assignee: SMS Siemag AG
Current assignee: SMS Siemag AG
Priority date: 2006-09-25
Filing date: 2007-09-21
Publication date: 2009-10-21
Anticipated expiration: 2027-09-21
Also published as: BRPI0716770B1; CN101516539A; US20100025514A1; BRPI0716770A2; EP2109510B1; WO2008037395A1; JP2010504216A; CA2664263C; RU2391167C1; CN101516539B; CA2664263A1; KR101071117B1; DE102007045425A1; KR20090031622A

Abstract

The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for winding up metal strips (2) onto a winding mandrel (3), which is arranged in a reeling shaft (1) and to which the metal strip is passed by a driver having a lower and an upper driver roller (5, 6), wherein a table (7) is provided underneath the metal strip (2) for guidance and a pivotable strip diverter and, adjoining the latter almost up to the winding mandrel (3), a pivotable shaft flap (11) are arranged above the metal strip. By measuring the strip tension in the reeling shaft, it is intended to regulate the driver in such a way that the running of the strip makes it possible for the metal strip to be wound up to form a coil with straight edges. To achieve this, the longitudinal tensile force exerted on the metal strip (2) by the driver is determined by means of a strip tension measuring device (13), which dips into the metal strip from above in the reeling shaft (1), and the measuring signal is passed to a driver regulating device (22) to control the running of the strip by the driver. In the case of an apparatus suitable for this purpose, the strip diverter is formed as a strip tension measuring device (13) which dips into the metal strip (2) from above and is provided with a diverter body, which has a rotatably mounted roller arm (16), carrying a roller (17) at its front end, wherein a force measuring means (20) that is connected in signalling terms to the regulating device (22) is arranged between the diverter body and the roller arm (16).

Description

Method and device for winding metal strips on a winding mandrel

The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for winding metal strips on a winding mandrel arranged in a reel shaft to which the metal strip is fed by a driver having a lower and upper drive roller, wherein a table is provided below the metal strip for guidance and above the metal strip pivotable band switch as well as this are next to the winding mandrel then arranged a hinged shaft flap.

A known from DE 195 20 709 A1 driver has a stationary mounted lower roller and an engageable against this upper roller. The engagable upper roller is mounted in an adjustable by means of pressure medium cylinder pivot frame, which is formed of two opposing wings, which are connected in the region of their common pivot axis by a mounted on both sides in the driver frame base. The wings of this driver can be adjusted by pressure cylinders which can be acted upon separately, wherein the base connecting the rockers is designed as a torsion spring.

It can be achieved by introducing different Anstellkräfte at relatively low differential force of the pressure medium cylinder different swing angle of the wings and thus the adjuster upper roller. Because by pivoting the upper roller, the force exerted by the driver pulling force can be influenced on the band and set in this way a train distribution.

From DE 197 04 447 A1 a measuring roller for measuring the flatness of a live rolled strip in a hot strip mill is known. One or more of these metering rollers, which are pressed against the rolled strip from below, may be between the rolling mills of the finishing train and / or in the rolling direction behind the last stand of the finishing train and / or before a capstan and / or between the capstan and the capstan to be ordered. In a measuring roller arranged between the blowing apparatus and the reel, the obtained measured value can be used to pivot the blowing apparatus and in this way the band run can be regulated during winding onto the reel mandrel.

From DE 199 53 524 A1, a loop lifter has become known, which has one due to the prevailing in a metal band longitudinal train on the

Bandwidth present wedging can measure. For this purpose, the loop lifter has a looper roll mounted on both sides in a respective swivel arm. The pivot arms are each divided by a joint in a shaft arm and a roller arm and connected to a Schliegerheberwelle. The joint deflects a restoring force exerted by the metal band on the loop-type pulley roller applied from below against the metal band on the force meter arranged on the pivoting arms. The restoring force corresponds to the longitudinal tension, so that it can be determined from the measured restoring forces. In order to prevent lifting of the roller arm of the dynamometer, the shaft arm and the roller arm are connected to each other via a holding element. Either due to the total longitudinal tension or the determined wedge ratio, the e.g. configured as rolling mills or drivers outlet and inlet directions are readjusted, such as the speed or the employment of the rollers.

The invention has for its object to provide a method and an apparatus of the type mentioned in such a way that an improved tensile measurement of a metal strip in the reel shaft can be achieved, which is intended to regulate the blowing apparatus or driver with such an influence on the tape, that a straight edge metal collar can be achieved. This object is achieved with a method according to the invention in that the force exerted by the driver on the metal strip Längszugkraft for controlling the tape run by the driver by means of a reel shaft from above immersed in the metal strip Bandzugmesseinrichtung and the measurement signal is fed to a driver control. As a result of the pivoting in of the strip tension measuring device according to the invention from above onto the metal strip, it is possible in particular to maintain an optimum wrap angle even at the strip end. This would not be possible with a pivoting in of the strip tension measuring device from below, since in this case the wrap angle is severely limited by the band switch required above the metal strip, including the manhole flap, and becomes so small that reliable measurement at the end of the band is no longer possible. However, the measurement at the end of the tape is just important because here the tape guide is particularly difficult due to the no longer present strip tension of the finishing scale of the rolling mill.

According to the invention, it is proposed that the wedging of the tension distribution determined by the strip tension measuring device immersed in the metal strip with a wrap angle in the metal strip is determined from the measured bearing forces of a bearing of the strip tension measuring device.

For this purpose, according to a preferred embodiment of the invention for direct or indirect bearing force measurement, a looping angle generated by a roll of the strip tension measuring device submerged in the metal strip can be used. The wrapping angle ensures the transmission of force from the metal strip to the roll and from there to the dynamometer integrated in the strip tension measuring device.

To actuate the Bandzugmesseinrichtung at least one cylinder is required, according to a proposal of the invention an attacking on a rear-side swivel arm swivel cylinder with stroke control. Alternatively, it may be two swing cylinders. Another way to operate the Bandzugmesseinrichtung is to provide the Bandzugmesseinrichtung in a U-shaped frame, which is engaged by a cylinder in the axis of symmetry of the frame.

It is recommended that the wrap angle is kept approximately constant by controlling the immersion depth of the roll. The wrap angle depends on the stroke of the swivel cylinder or the swivel cylinder and on the diameter of the wound coils. In order to maintain an optimal looping throughout the winding process, the stroke of the at least one pivoting cylinder can be controlled. The setpoint can be calculated during the winding process depending on the current coil diameter, the optimal looping and the geometric data. To record the stroke can be in the swing cylinder a odometer on or grow on the cylinder; Optionally, the swing-in tension measuring device can be equipped with an angle measurement, so that the stroke of the swing cylinder can be calculated. The instantaneous diameter of the coil can be determined from the counted revolutions of the winding mandrel and the thickness of the metal strip. Alternatively, a direct measurement of the coil diameter, e.g. with a laser-optical measuring device.

According to a further advantageous embodiment of the invention, the role of the strip tension measuring device is vorbeschleunigt before swinging on the speed of the metal strip. Since the roller is pivoted onto the belt during the winding process, pre-accelerating can prevent damage to the metal belt due to a later required acceleration process. The drive of the roller can be done mechanically and / or electrically and / or hydraulically.

An apparatus for solving the problem on which the invention is based, in particular for carrying out the method, is inventively characterized in that the band-wedge is designed as a band tension measuring device which can be swiveled from above into the metal band and is provided with a turnout. is provided body having a rotatably mounted, at its front end a roller-bearing roller arm, wherein between the switch body and the roller arm, a force-measuring means is arranged, which is technically connected to a control device of the driver. The strip tension measuring device according to the invention thus simultaneously fulfills the classic band softening function. From the non-operating position, ie the lifted standby position, the entire Bandzugmesseinrichtung pivots counterclockwise downwards into the operating position immersed in the incoming metal strip and leads at the same time activated measurement the metal strip to the subsequent winding mandrel.

The function of the strip tension measuring device as a simultaneous band-pass filter is preferably supported by the fact that at least one front section of the table following the lower roller of the driver below the metal band is designed as a pivoting table. This is pivotable counterclockwise about the axis of the lower driver roller.

According to an advantageous embodiment of the invention, the switch body connects a rear-side pivot arm with a front-side pivot arm of the strip tension measuring device. With only one swivel cylinder, which would be mounted on the rear side and thus on the drive side, the switch body takes on the torsion load as a connection between the swivel arm on the drive side with the swivel arm on the operating side, by a one-sided operation of the belt tension measuring device by only one rear or drive side swivel cylinder would arise.

If a driven switch roll is advantageously arranged in the axis of rotation of the strip tension measuring device that is located on the drivably mounted roller, the metal strip can be protected against damage when it is moving from the lower roller of the driver to the next roller of the subsequent coiler shaft to be led. A variant of the invention provides that the strip tension measuring device is arranged with the roller arm to the mandrel pointing integrated into the upper shaft flap. In this arrangement, there is a combination of Bandzugmesseinrichtung and manhole cover. The front roller of the strip tension measuring device would connect to a reaching to the first pressure roller of the winding mandrel shaft flap and the free space to the upper roller of the driver would be filled with a conventional switch.

Further features and details of the invention will become apparent from the claims and the following description of an embodiment of the invention shown in the drawings. Show it:

Fig. 1 is a schematic representation of a side view of a conventional, counting to the prior art reel shaft;

Figure 2 is a schematic representation of a side view of a reel shaft with a swinging from above into the metal strip, while a band softening function fulfilling Bandzugmesseinrichtung located in the lifted off the metal band off-mode position.

FIG. 3 shows the subject of FIG. 2 with the strip tension measuring device pivoted into the measuring or operating position, shortly before the end of a winding process; FIG. and

4 shows a detail of a cross section through a switch roller mounted in the strip tension measuring device.

A reel shaft 1, as shown in FIG. 1 in a conventional construction, adjoins a rolling train or finishing train for winding up the rolled metal strip 2 onto a winding mandrel 3 to form a coil or coil 4 (see FIG. at. The metal strip 2 is fed to the winding mandrel 3 by a blowing apparatus or driver, of which only the upper and lower drive rollers 5, 6 are shown. From the lower drive roller 6 is followed by the winding mandrel 3 below the metal strip 2, a table 7 at. The beginning or the tip of the metal strip 2 fed in this way is received by a first pressure roller 8 assigned to the winding mandrel 3, which is joined by further such rollers distributed over the circumference.

Above the metal strip 2 is a band switch 9, which rests in the waiting position for tape recording on the upper drive roller 5. The belt 9 is pivoted by a cylinder 10, which engages with its piston rod to a pivot arm of the belt switch 9. The reel shaft 1 is closed at the top by a guided from the band switch 9 to the winding mandrel 3 shaft flap 11. For pivoting the shaft flap 11, a cylinder 12 is articulated to this.

In the embodiment of the reel shaft 1 shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the components matching the reel shaft described above are given the same reference numerals. The main difference here is a strip tension measuring device 13 which at the same time fulfills the band softening function. This consists of a rear or drive side

Swivel arm 14 and a front-side pivot arm 14, of which in Fig. 2, the rear / drive side pivot arm can be seen. The two pivot arms 14 are connected to one another by a swivel body 15 receiving a torsional load (see FIG. In addition, it has a roller arm 16, in the front end of which a driven roller 17 is mounted. The roller arm 16 is rotatably supported by a hinge 18. In order to avoid tilting due to gravity, the roller arm 16 is held in position by a retaining element 19.

As soon as the strip tension measuring device 13 pivots from above into the metal strip 2 and into it with its roller 17 to form a wrap around dives supply angle, a force is applied via the roller 17, which acts on the roller arm 16 in a clockwise direction. The rotation of the roller arm clockwise, however, is prevented by a force meter 20, which rather provides for a support of the roller arm 16, determines a force generated in the force axis 21 of the support and as measuring signal to a control device 22 (see Fig. 3). of the driver sends. This can be controlled as a result of the measurement, for example, by pivoting the upper and / or lower drive roller 5, 6 or parallel pivoting both roles or by specifying different closing forces on the drive and operating side that arise on the winding mandrel 3 a straight edge coil 4 can.

The strip tension measuring device 13 is formed at its rear end in the strip running direction, away from the roller 17 with a provided in its axis of rotation switch point 23, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3 as a cross section in the region of the pivot arm 7 through the pin of the switch roller 23. Again, the reel shaft 1 is closed at the top by a pivotable by means of the cylinder 12 shaft flap 11. The table 7, which extends below the metal strip 2 from the lower drive roller 6 to the winding mandrel 3 and guides the metal strip 2, is formed at least at its front end with a pivotable table 24 which can be moved counterclockwise about the axis of the lower driver roller 6.

FIG. 3, which shows the operating position shortly before the end of a reeling operation for winding the metal strip 2 into a finished coil 4, clearly shows on the one hand the angle of wrap formed by the metal strip 2 due to the dipping roll 17 of the strip tension measuring device 13. On the other hand, dashed lines indicate various measuring signals 25 or control signals 26, which enter the control device 22 or depart from it to pivot means of the upper and lower drive rollers 5, 6 (see the dashed lines 26). The parameters which are essential for determining and optionally maintaining an optimum wrap angle during the entire winding process are described, for example, by tion of the stroke of the swivel cylinder or the swivel cylinder 10 of the pulley tension measuring device 13, wherein the / the cylinder are equipped with a displacement meter, determined by an angle measurement of the strip tension measuring device 13 and the current diameter of the coil 4. This diameter can be determined from the counted revolutions of the mandrel 3 (cf the dotted line 25 emanating therefrom) and the strip thickness. Optionally, a direct measurement of the diameter of the coil 4 is possible, as with an indicated laser-optical measuring means 27.

In any case, it is possible to provide a measurement signal from the strip tension measurement in the flute shaft of a driver control. As an alternative to the illustrated embodiment, in the combination strip tension measuring device / band switch, this can also be achieved by the combination strip tension measuring device / shaft cap. The strip tension measuring device 13 shown in FIGS. 2 and 3 would then be arranged with its roller 17 to the winding mandrel 3 in an integrated manner in the shaft flap 11, ie, mirrored over the line AA of FIG. The space then free from the upper drive roller 5 to the strip tension measuring device 13 could then be filled or bridged in this option with a conventional band switch 9 (see FIG.

LIST OF REFERENCE NUMBERS

1 reel shaft

2 metal band

3 mandrel

4 bunch / coil

5 upper driver role

6 lower driver role

7 table (control table)

8 pressure roller

9 band switch

10 cylinders

11 shaft flap

12 cylinders

13 strip tension measuring device

14 swivel arm

15 switch body

16 roller arm

17 roll

18 joint

19 holding element

20 dynamometers

21 power axle

22 driver control device

23 switch roll

24 swivel table

25 measurement signal

26 measuring signal

27 laser-optical measuring device

Claims

claims:

Method for winding metal strips (2) onto a winding mandrel (3) arranged in a flute shaft (1), to which the metal strip is fed by a driver having a lower and upper drive roller (5, 6), wherein a guide is provided Table (7) below the metal strip (2) is provided and above the metal strip a band switch and this up to the winding mandrel then a pivotable shaft flap (11) are arranged, characterized in that the driver on the metal strip (2) exerted longitudinal tensile force for controlling the tape run by the driver by means of a Bandzugmess- device (13) immersed in the reel shaft (1) from above into the metal strip (2) and the measuring signal of a driver

Control device (22) is supplied.

2. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the wedging of the tension distribution from the measured bearing forces of a storage of the strip tension measuring device (13) is determined.

3. The method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that for direct or indirect bearing force measurement of a of the pivoting of the Bandzugmesseinrichtung (13) in the metal strip (2) dipping roller (17) generated wrap angle is used.

4. The method according to claim 3, characterized in that the wrap angle for regulating the depth of immersion of the roller (17) is held approximately constant.

5. The method according to claim 3 or 4, characterized in that the roller (17) is vorbeschleunigt before swinging on the speed of the metal strip (2).

6. Apparatus for winding metal strips (2) onto a winding mandrel (3) arranged in a reel shaft (1) to which the metal strip is fed by a driver having a lower and upper drive roller (5, 6), a table ( 7) below the metal strip (2) is provided and above the metal strip a band switch and this up to the winding mandrel then a pivotable shaft flap (11) are arranged, in particular for performing the

A method according to claim 1, characterized in that the band switch is formed as from above in the metal strip (2) swivel Bandzugmesseinrichtung (13) and with a turnout (15) is provided, a rotatably mounted, at its front

17 has a roller bearing roller (16), wherein between the switch body (15) and the roller arm (16) a force-measuring means (20) is arranged, which is technically connected to a control device (22) of the driver.

7. The device according to claim 6, characterized in that the switch body (15) connects a rear-side pivot arm (14) with a front-side pivot arm (14) of the strip tension measuring device (13).

8. Apparatus according to claim 7, characterized by at least one on the rear side pivot arm (14) acting pivoting cylinder (10) with stroke control.

9. Device according to one of claims 6 to 8, characterized in that in the roller arm (16) mounted roller (17) is drivable.

10. Device according to one of claims 6 to 9, characterized in that in the of the roller arm (16) remote rotation axis of the Bandzug- measuring device (13) a driven switch roller (23) is arranged.

11. Device according to one of claims 6 to 10, characterized in that at least one front portion of the lower driver roller (6) below the metal strip (2) subsequent table (7) is designed as a pivoting table (24).

12. Device according to one of claims 6 to 11, characterized in that the Bandzugmesseinrichtung (13) with the roller arm (16) for winding mandrel (3) facing the upper shaft flap (11) is arranged integrated.