Patent ID: 7293446
Filing Date: 2007-11-13
Classification: B21B,B21C,Y02P

Abstract:
1. Coil box installed between a roughing mill and a finishing mill for metal pre-strip, especially steel pre-strip, which is wound hot into coils and is protected from further cooling in the vicinity of a coiling and/or uncoiling station by means of heat shield devices on the end faces of the coil, wherein the heat shield devices ( 7 ) are formed by lateral walls ( 8 a ; 8 b ) that can be adjusted to the end faces ( 5 a ; 5 b ) of the coil by swiveling, and a pair of opposing heat shield devices ( 7 ) can be adjusted in parallel to different coil widths ( 5 c ), wherein the heat shield devices ( 7 ) on each side of the coil ( 11 ; 12 ) can be swung as a unit ( 15 ) out of the vicinity of the uncoiling station ( 6 ) by means of a swivel drive ( 13 ).