Patent ID: 9724741
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: B21B,B21F,B65G

Claim:
1. A drum for receiving, transporting and discharging long metal products (P), the drum comprising: the drum having an axis; a plurality of pairs of channels, the channels of each pair of channels being circumferentially spaced apart, each channel of a respective pair of channels extending longitudinally parallel to the drum axis, at least one pair of channels of the plurality of pairs of channels being configured to simultaneously receive two long products, with one long product respectively in each one of the channels of the at least one pair of channels and the at least one pair of channels are configured to subsequently discharge the at least two long products on notches of a cooling bed, wherein each pair of the plurality of pairs of channels is circumferentially spaced apart from a neighboring pair of channels by a first angle that is not more than 45°, and wherein each channel in the at least one pair of channels is angularly spaced from another channel in the at least one pair of channels by an angle in the range 14° to 24°.