US3645122A - Rolling mills - Google Patents
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- B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
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- B21B29/00—Counter-pressure devices acting on rolls to inhibit deflection of same under load, e.g. backing rolls ; Roll bending devices, e.g. hydraulic actuators acting on roll shaft ends
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- This invention relates to improvements in and relating to rolling mills in which means are provided for imparting to the rolling mill rolls bending moments for the purpose of compensating deflections of the rolls. These deflections are mainly, though not exclusively, the result of forces to which the rolls are subjected during rolling, and which tend to separate the rolls from each other at their center portions.
- mill rolls whose deflection is to be compensated, are provided for this purpose with extensions projecting beyond the conventional bearing chocks which support the rolls in the mill housings, and with special outboard bearings mounted on these extensions. It is to these outboard bearings that deflection-compensating bending moments are applied.
- the known means provided for this purpose generally include one or more hydraulic pressure units, the hydraulic forces produced therein being transmitted either directly or indirectly to the outboard bearings, whereby the required compensating bending moments are obtained.
- the fulcra for the roll deflections are situated in the centers of the bearing chocks.
- the roll-deflecting forces and their reactions are balanced within the equipment provided for that purpose, but the design evolved for this purpose was cumbersome and therefore difficult to accommodate in the space available in a rolling mill. Moreover, it complicated roll changing.
- means for the deflection of a rolling mill roll supported by hearing chocks in the mill housings and having extensions beyond said bearing chocks comprise inner and outer outboard bearings on said extensions, the inner outboard bearings being nearer to said bearing chocks than the outer outboard bearings, a carrier arranged longitudinally of said roll and its extensions, arms pivoted at each end of said carrier and extending longitudinally with respect to said carrier, hydraulic pressure units arranged between said carrier and the free ends of said arms, said units subjecting said arms to bending moments about their pivots, links pivoted to said arms at points outside the pivots for said arms on said carrier, said links being attached to said outer outboard bearings so as to transmit said bending moments to said outboard bearings and said roll extensions, and struts secured to said carrier at its ends and extending to said inner outboard bearings so that the reaction of the bending forces is transmitted through said struts from said carrier to said inner outboard bearings.
- the links pivoted to the arms and attached to the outer outboard bearings are so connected to the latter that links and outboard bearings can slide relative to each other in the direction of the axis of the rolling mill roll to which the roll-bending equipment is applied.
- the struts which extend from the carrier to the inner outboard bearings preferably abut against the latter without being attached to them.
- the roll-deflection means consisting of carrier, hydraulic units, arms, links and struts, can be moved relatively to the inner and outer outboard bearings and also relative to the other parts of the mill in the direction of the axis of the mill roll. In this way, the roll-deflection means can be readily moved in or out of the mill as an independent unit.
- roll-deflection means are preferably provided for each of the rolls of a mill and to both its working rolls and backing rolls, so that the means are duplicated with respect to the upper and lower rolls.
- the carrier of the roll-deflection equipment according to the invention is preferably supported on the mill housings by such means as hydraulic balancing cylinders which are preferably pivoted so as to allow a certain freedom of movement of the equipment relative to the rolling mill.
- the carrier may be box shaped, with the arms arranged inside the box.
- the arms may be of triangular shape.
- an arm pivoted at one end of the carrier may be sandwiched between two arms pivoted at the opposite end of that carrier.
- the arrangement of pivoted arms in roll-deflection equipment for rolling mills is known in itself.
- FIG. 1 is a front elevation, partly in section, of a four-high rolling mill, incorporating roll-deflection equipment according to the present invention.
- FIG. 2 is a side elevation of part of the rolling mill of FIG. 1,
- FIG. 3 is a part section of that rolling mill along the line 3- 3 of FIG. 1,
- FIG. 4 is a section along line 4-4 of FIG. 3.
- the rolling mill shown in the drawings is a horizontal mill of the four-high type having two housings 10 which are connected to each other at the top by an upper crossmember 12 and at the bottom by a lower crossmember 14.
- the rolling mill has further an upper backing roll 16, a lower backing roll 18, an upper working roll 20 and a lower working roll 22.
- the upper backing roll is supported in the housings by bearings chocks 24 and the lower backing roll by bearing chocks 26.
- the bearing chocks for the two working rolls are not shown for the sake of simplicity.
- Arranged between the upper and lower bearing chocks 24 and 26 are means 27 for adjusting the pass opening between the two working rolls 20 and 22.
- These means may include rotary and axially displacable elements such as screw spindles and motorized nuts, which may be of the kind described in the copending British Pat. application Ser. No. 1,152,518.
- the rolling mill is further provided at each side with prestressing units, comprising cylinders 28 and rams 30, arranged between the chocks 26 for the lowerbacking rolls and the housings 10.
- prestressing units comprising cylinders 28 and rams 30, arranged between the chocks 26 for the lowerbacking rolls and the housings 10.
- the bearing chocks, the roll-adjusting means and the prestressing units are all arranged in windows of the housings 10, as well known.
- the rolling mill described above is fitted with equipment for deflecting the backing rolls 16 and 18 in such a manner that deflections of these rolls, imposed on them by the rolling load, are counteracted and compensated.
- there are provided in the rolling mill in respect of the upper rolls 16, 20 and the lower rolls 18, 22, roll-deflection means 32, 132 respectively which will be presently described.
- the upper backing roll 16 projects with both its ends beyond its bearing chocks 24, inner and outer outboard bearings 36 and 38 being provided on each projecting end. These bearings as well as the bearing chocks are only diagrammatically shown in the drawings as they may be of any suitable design.
- a box-shaped beam 40 acting as carrier for two substantially triangular levers arms 42' and 42" which are each pivoted at 44 to the beam 40. Each arm is forked at one end and has a triangular main portion which terminates at its narrow end in a foot 46.
- the two levers 42 and 42" are so arranged with respect to each other and the beam 40 that the oblique sides of the triangles are inclined in opposite directions and the forked ends of the levers situated above the inner and outer outboard bearings 36 and 38. Whilst the forked ends of the levers are of substantially the same width as the clear space inside the box-shaped carrier 40, their triangular portions are of reduced width so that they can be placed side by side. They are raked, as shown in FIG. 3.
- the forked ends of the levers 42' and 42" project outside the box-shaped carrier 40 and are provided at their projecting ends with pivots 48 for links 50.
- These links have heads 51 at their lower ends and are thereby adapted to enter into T- shaped grooves 52 in the outer outboard bearings 38.
- the upper surface of the heads 51 has a slightly convex curvature in a plane parallel to the axis of the backing roll 16.
- a strut 54 Secured to the underside of the beam 40 and at each end thereof, is a strut 54 which extends from the beam down to the inner outboard bearing 36, resting on that hearing with a surface which has a slightly convex curvature in a plane parallel to the axis of the backing roll 16.
- Each strut is guided on its adjacent link 50 by means of a bush 56 which encircles the link and further by a shoe 58 which can slide in a guideway 60 provided in the top part of a housing 10.
- the levers 42' and 42" are adapted to be rocked or tilted in opposite directions about their pivots 44 by means of hydraulic pressure units 62, for the purpose of applying bending moments to the backing roll 16 by means of the links 50 and the struts 54 as shown in FIG. 4.
- Each unit 62 consists of a cylinder 64 which is hinged at 66 to the foot 46 of one of the levers 42 or 42" and of a ram having a rod 68 hinged at 70 to a traverse 72 mounted on top of and across the beam 40.
- These units 74 consist each of a cylinder 76, hinged at 78 to brackets 80 on top of the housings 10, and of rams having rods 82 hinged at 84 to a traverse 72. In this way, the hydraulic pressure units can follow the up-and-down movements of the backing roll 16 relative to the housings during the adjustment of that roll.
- Runout carriages 94 are arranged below the lower beam 146), the wheels )6 of these carriages being adapted to be moved along rails, not shown, on which the lower roll-deflection means 132 can be moved out of the mill after the beam 140 has been lowered by a sufficient distance.
- the invention has been described here with relation to a rolling mill whose roll-deflecting means are utilized for bending the mill rolls so that the middle portions of opposite rolls approach each other. It is understood that the invention can also be utilized in a mill in which the middle portions of opposite rolls are to be separated from each other by the rolldeflecting means. In this case, the direction of the bending moments applied to the levers is reversed and the links and struts exchange their positions with regard to the outer and inner outboard bearings.
- a rolling mill having housings, rolls, bearing chocks for supporting said rolls in said housings, said rolls having extensions beyond said bearing chocks and inner and outer outboard bearings on said roll extensions, the arrangement of deflecting means for one of said rolls, said roll-deflecting means comprising a carrier arranged longitudinally of said roll and its extensions, arms pivoted at each end of said carrier and extending longitudinally with respect to said carrier, hydraulic pressure units arranged between said carrier and the free ends of said arms, said units subjecting said arms to bending moments about their pivots, links pivoted to said arms at points outside the pivots for said arms on said carrier, said links being attached to said outer outboard bearings so as to transmit said bending moments to said outboard bearings and said roll extensions, and struts secured to said carrier at its ends and extending to said inner outboard bearings so that the reaction of the bending forces is transmitted through said struts from said carrier to said inner outboard bearings.
- a rolling mill according to claim 1 in which the links pivoted to the arms and attached to the outer outboard bearings are so connected to the latter that links and outboard bearings can slide relative to each other in the direction of the axis of the rolling mill roll to which the roll-bending equipment is applied.
- a rolling mill according to claim 1 in which the struts which extend from the carrier to the inner outboard bearings abut against the latter without being attached to them.
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US4164858A (en) * | 1977-06-24 | 1979-08-21 | Davy-Loewy Limited | Rolling mill with roll bending unit |
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US3024679A (en) * | 1957-07-01 | 1962-03-13 | Thomas A Fox | Skin pass mills and methods of rolling |
US3373588A (en) * | 1965-08-17 | 1968-03-19 | United Eng Foundry Co | Crown control for rolling mill |
US3426567A (en) * | 1965-06-28 | 1969-02-11 | Kaiser Aluminium Chem Corp | Roll bending device for a rolling mill |
US3507138A (en) * | 1967-06-20 | 1970-04-21 | Kurt Neuber | Rolling mill support arrangement |
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US3024679A (en) * | 1957-07-01 | 1962-03-13 | Thomas A Fox | Skin pass mills and methods of rolling |
US3426567A (en) * | 1965-06-28 | 1969-02-11 | Kaiser Aluminium Chem Corp | Roll bending device for a rolling mill |
US3373588A (en) * | 1965-08-17 | 1968-03-19 | United Eng Foundry Co | Crown control for rolling mill |
US3526118A (en) * | 1966-11-22 | 1970-09-01 | United Eng Foundry Co | Apparatus for bending the rolls of a rolling mill and like device |
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US4164858A (en) * | 1977-06-24 | 1979-08-21 | Davy-Loewy Limited | Rolling mill with roll bending unit |
US20110232350A1 (en) * | 2008-03-27 | 2011-09-29 | Hans-Georg Hartung | Roll stand |
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Owner name: VICKERS LIMITED, VICKERS HOUSE, MILLBANK TOWER, MI Free format text: ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST.;ASSIGNOR:LONGFLEET ENGINEERING LIMITED;REEL/FRAME:003939/0663 Effective date: 19811110 Owner name: LONGFLEET ENGINEERING LIMITED Free format text: CHANGE OF NAME;ASSIGNOR:QUAY DYNAMICS LIMITED;REEL/FRAME:003939/0662 Effective date: 19790727 |
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Owner name: BROWN & ROOT VICKERS LIMITED,ENGLAND Free format text: ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST;ASSIGNOR:VICKERS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY;REEL/FRAME:004762/0316 Effective date: 19870706 Owner name: BROWN & ROOT VICKERS LIMITED, 7 HANOVER SQUARE, LO Free format text: ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST.;ASSIGNOR:VICKERS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY;REEL/FRAME:004762/0316 Effective date: 19870706 |