US3618347A - Method of operating a hot strip-finishing train when a leading end of strip to be rolled has been stuck - Google Patents

Method of operating a hot strip-finishing train when a leading end of strip to be rolled has been stuck Download PDF

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US3618347A
US3618347A US15338A US3618347DA US3618347A US 3618347 A US3618347 A US 3618347A US 15338 A US15338 A US 15338A US 3618347D A US3618347D A US 3618347DA US 3618347 A US3618347 A US 3618347A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21B—ROLLING OF METAL
    • B21B33/00—Safety devices not otherwise provided for; Breaker blocks; Devices for freeing jammed rolls for handling cobbles; Overload safety devices
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
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    • 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
    • B21B1/22—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 plates, strips, bands or sheets of indefinite length
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  • the rolling operation may be suddenly interrupted when the hot strip enters the train because the leading end of the stock has been stuck in a nip between the rolls of a rolling mill stand or in a strip guide which precedes a stand.
  • This defect which is described as sticking, occurs more or less often, depending on the care of the operators, and results in considerable damage to the rolls.
  • the remaining strip section is returned by the reversed roller bed and possibly by the scale breaker and leaves the hot strip-finishing train.
  • the nip between these rolls is opened to avoid a long time of contact between these working rolls and the stock. It is not essential to open the nip between the rolls of the rolling mill stands which precede the point where sticking has occurred because these stands remain in operation so that the surfaces with which the Working rolls contact the stock change continually and hot cracks cannot occur.
  • the cut-off strip section may be removed from the hot strip-finishing train in a simple manner, e.g., by means of a crane.
  • the nips between the rolls of all stands having rolls in contact with the strip are opened at least immediately after the strip has been severed.
  • hot stripfinishing trains comprising a substantial number of stands the stretching of the cut-off strip section by the working rolls which continue to rotate may result in an undesirably large accumulation of stock before the point where sticking has occurred so that the removal of the strip section becomes rather difiicult.
  • the nips between the rolls concerned are opened to avoid such stretching of the cut-off strip section.
  • the process according to the invention comprises in such case a severing of the strip before the first rolling mill stand by flying shears.
  • the strip is severed between the first two stands so that the cut-off strip section is short and a substantial accumulation of rolled stock before the point where sticking has occurred is avoided.
  • the roll-driving means of the first stand are stopped whereas the drive means of the second stand and the other drive means which precede the point where sticking has occurred continue to operate.
  • the nip between the rolls of the first stand is opened and the roller bed and the scale breaker are reversed to return the remaining strip so that it leaves the hot strip-finishing train.
  • the cut-off strip section which is condensed before the point where sticking has occurred may now be removed in a simple manner from the rollingmill train.
  • the invention provides also an apparatus which serves to carry out the process and which is characterized in that two electric control units are respectively associated with a forward group and a rear group of rolling mill stands and guides, one of said electric control units is responsive to sticking within the forward group by automatically initiating the operation of the shear-driving means, the
  • the other electric control unit is responsive to sticking in the rear group by stopping the drive means of the first rolling mill stand and initiating the reversal of the roller bed and the scale breaker and the operation of the drive means for opening the nip between the rolls at least of the first rolling mill stand and the rolling mill stand has associated with it a switching device which is responsive to an overloading of its roll-driving motor, a timer is associated with every two succeeding rolling mill stands and set to the normal transit time of the leading end of the strip between said two stands, and the two control units are responsive to the operation of any of the overload switching devices and any of the timers.
  • the timer which is associated with two adjacent rolling mill stands senses the transit time of the leading end of the strip between said two rolling mill trains and gives a response when the normal transit time is exceeded, and the switching device which is associated with a motor and responsive to an overloading thereof, will respond to sticking because the same results in a longer than normal transit time and/or an overloading of the motor and in this case will initiate the operation of the corresponding control unit, which in the case of sticking in the forward group of rolling mill stands will automatically initiate the operation of the shear-driving means, the reversal of the roller bed and the operation of the drive means for opening the nip between the rolls at least of any stand where sticking has occurred.
  • the corresponding other control unit stops the drive means of the first rolling mill stand in order to cause the strip to be torn apart, reverses the direction of movement of the roller bed and of the scale breaker so that the remaining strip section is returned, and initiates the operation of the drive means for opening the nips between the rolls at least of the first rolling mill stand and of any rolling mill stand Where sticking has occurred.
  • relatively adjustable adjusting wedges arranged in pairs are provided to open the nips between the rolls.
  • the nip between them must be opened quickly. This cannot be accomplished with the usual housing screws.
  • the provision of adjusting wedges according to the invention permits of opening the nips between the rolls within a sufficiently short time in a simple manner.
  • the accompanying drawing is a diagrammatic view showing by way of example a hot strip-finishing train provided with the apparatus according to the invention.
  • the hot strip-finishing train comprises six rolling mill stands 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, each of which is preceded by a guide 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, or 16, furthermore, and is provided at its receiving end with a roller bed 7, shears 8 and a scale breaker 9.
  • Motors 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 serve to drive the rolling mill stands.
  • Motors 27, 28 and 29 serve to drive the roller bed 7, shears 8 and scale breaker 9.
  • a pair of adjusting wedges 41, 42, 43, 44, 45 or 46 serve to open the nips between the rolls of each of stands 1 to 6.
  • the first three mill stands 1, 2, 3 provided with the guides 12, 13, 14 are associated with a control unit A, which is connected by leads to switching devices associated with the drive motors 27, 28 and with drive means 31, 32, 33 controlling the position of adjusting wedges 41, 42, 43.
  • a control unit B is associated with the group of rolling mill stands 4, 5, 6 provided with the guides 15 and 16 and is connected by suitable leads to the switching devices associated with the drive motors 27, 29, a motor-protecting switch 51 associated with the motor 21, and drive means 34, 35, 36 controlling the position of the adjusting wedges 44, 45, 46.
  • the transit time of the leading end of the strip between two adjacent stands is longer than normal. These transit times are sensed in this case by means of the ammeters 61, 62, 63 or 64.
  • a timer 10, 20 or 30 initiates the operation of the control unit A, which by means of the corresponding leads initiates the operation of the motor 28 for driving the shears 8, the reversal of the drive motor 27 driving the roller bed 7, so that the latter is reversed too, and the operation of the drive means serving to open the nips between those rolling mill stand rolls which engage the stock.
  • the shears 8 sever the strip and the cut-off strip section continues to move to the point where sticking has occurred because the roll-driving means are not stopped.
  • the positioning drive means operate the adjusting wedges to open the nips between the rolls of the stands concerned at a sufficiently high speed. Because the direction of travel on the roller bed has been reversed, the remaining strip section leaves the rolling mill train and the cut-off strip section, which is condensed between the point where sticking has occurred and the stand immediately preceding that point can be removed in a simple manner from the rolling mill train.
  • the strip When the leading end of the strip has been stuck in any of the rear rolling mill stands 4, 5 and 6 or in the guide 15 or 16, the strip is not severed by the shears 8 because the cut-off strip section would be too long and an excessive amount of stock would be accumulated before the point where sticking has occurred.
  • the strip is now torn apart between the two stands 1 and 2.
  • a timer 40 or 50 is triggered by an ammeter 64, 65 or 66 to operate the control unit B.
  • the control unit B When sticking has occurred in one of stands 4, 5 or 6, the control unit B is operated by the corresponding motor-protecting switch 54, 55 or 56 or the corresponding current-time limiting switch 74, 75 or 76.
  • the control unit B When the control unit B has been operated by one of the timers or one of the overload switching devices, the control unit B initiates the reversal of the roller bed 7 and of the scale breaker 9 and by the motor-protecting switch 51 de-energizes the drive means of the first frame 1. The continued operation of the drive means of the remaining stands which precede the point where sticking has occurred causes the strip to be torn between the first two stands 1 and 2. Immediately after the tearing of the strip, all nips between the working rolls engaging the stock are opened by the position-controlling drive means, which have been energized by the control units A and B and which operate the adjusting wedges. In this case, the control unit B delivers by a suitable lead to control unit A the control signal to energize the position-controlling drive means 31, 32, 33. When the severed strip section has left the stand which immediately precedes the point where sticking has occurred, said strip section may be removed from the hot strip-finishing train, which is now ready for operation again because the reversed roller bed has removed also the remaining strip section from the
  • a hot strip-finishing train which comprises at least first, second, third and fourth rolling mill stands arranged one behind the other, guides respectively preceding each of said stands, and a roller bed, shears, and a scale breaker preceding the guide which precedes said first stand, said roller bed being operable in forward and reverse directions, each of said stands comprising two working rolls forming a nip between them, and roll-driving means for driving said rolls in a normal sense of rotation,
  • sequence of operations to be deformed when a lead-- ing end of strip to be rolled has been stuck in one of said stands or guides, said sequence of operations comprising severing said strip before said second stand so that a strip section is cut off,
  • a hot strip-finishing train which comprises at least first, second, third and fourth rolling mill stands arranged one behind the other, each of said stands comprising two working rolls forming a nip between them and roll-driving means for driving said rolls in a normal sense of rotation,
  • roller bed a roller bed, shears, and a scale breaker preceding said first group of stands and guides, said roller bed being operable in forward and reverse directions,
  • sensing means arranged to deliver a signal when a leading end of strip has been stuck in one of said stands or guides
  • each of said rolling mill stands comprise position control means operable to open said nip
  • said stands and guides form first and second groups of stands and guides
  • said scale breaker is operable'in forward and reverse directions
  • a plurality of switching devices are respectively associated with each of said roll-driving means and arranged to deliver a signal in response to an overloading thereof
  • a plurality of timers are arranged to sense the transit time of the leading end of said strip between every two adjacent ones of said stands and to deliver a signal when said transit time exceeds a predetermined value
  • switching devices and timers are arranged in first and second sensing means groups respectively associated with said first and second groups of stands and guides,
  • first and second electric control units are arranged to receive any of said signals from said first and second sensing means groups, respectively, and to give predetermined responses upon receipt of any of said signals,
  • said response of said first electric control unit comprising initiating the operation of said shears, initiating the operation of said roller bed in said reverse direction, and initiating the operation in a nip-opening sense of the position control means of all stands other than those which succeed any stand which is associated with a switching device having delivered such signal or the preceding one of any two adjacent stands associated with a timer which has delivered such signal,
  • said response of said second electric control unit comprising stopping said roll-dri'ving means of said first stand, initiating the operation of said roller bed and scale breaker in said reverse sense, and initiating the operation in a nip-opening sense of said position control means of said first stand and of any stand assorelatively displaceable adjusting wedges.

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