Patent ID: 7013693

Claim:
A method of continuously stretch leveling metallic strip, especially with a strip thickness of 0.05 mm to 1.5 mm, in which the respective strip passes through a braking roll set and a tensioning roll set and between the two roll sets in the course of its stretching is subjected to a stretching tension in the plastic range, characterized in that the strip between both roll sets traverses an inlet-side stretch leveling zone at the braking roll set between two stretch-leveling rolls on an inlet-side stretch-leveling roll pair, an outlet-side stretch-leveling zone at the tension roll set between two stretch-leveling rolls of an outlet side stretch-leveling roll pair, and an intermediate stretch-leveling zone located between the inlet-side and outlet-side stretch-leveling zones and between the two stretch-leveling roll pairs, and, in these stretch-leveling zones, stretching the strip in a plastic and/or elastic range.