Patent ID: 6568056
Filing Date: 2003-05-27
Classification: B21B,Y10T

Abstract:
A rolling system comprising:means for producing a plurality of continuously advancing and parallel hot metal strands; a vertical-roll stand receiving the strands and having an upstream row of vertical pairs of rolls and, immediately downstream therefrom in a movement direction of the strands, a downstream row of vertical pairs of rolls, the rows extending parallel to each other and transversely to the strands, each roll pair defining a nip and the nips of the downstream roll pairs being staggered transverse to the direction between the nips of the upstream roll pairs, some of the strands passing by the upstream roll pairs and through the nips of the downstream roll pairs and the remaining strands passing through the nips of the upstream roll pairs and by the downstream roll pairs; a horizontal-roll stand aligned in the direction with the vertical-roll stand and having a pair of horizontal rolls forming a plurality of nips aligned in the direction with the nips of the vertical-roll stand; and means for rotating the rolls and drawing the strands downstream through the nips.