Patent ID: 6811396
Filing Date: 2004-11-02
Classification: B21B,C21D,Y02P

Abstract:
Hot-rolling plant, which consists of at least one continuous casting installation (1), followed by a furnace (4), a roughing stand (5) and, via a strip edge guide, a roller-hearth soaking furnace (15), as well as a finishing train, wherein the strip edge guide has a length of at least 4 m, that the roller-hearth soaking furnace (15) has or is preceded by at least one device for detecting the position of the strip edge, that the roller-hearth soaking furnace (15) has at least one swiveling cover segment (30 to 32), that a discharging device (29) that extends in the longitudinal direction of the roller-hearth soaking furnace (15) can be moved at least alongside the roller-hearth soaking furnace (15), and that evaluation devices (14) and a device that triggers an emergency switch device and/or emergency cutters are assigned to the devices that determine the positions of the strip edges.