Patent ID: 7533552

Claim:
A system for the production of extruded aluminum or aluminum alloy profiles starting with billets, the system comprising; an extrusion press having a horizontally directed outlet; means for feeding preheated billets to the press such that the billets exit the outlet of press as a horizontally extending profile; a horizontal profile cooling, straightening, and cutting bench downstream of the outlet; means for conveying the profile in a horizontal orientation to and setting the profile in the horizontal orientation on the bench, whereby the profile is cooled, straightened, and cut into profile sections on the bench while horizontal; a conditioning chamber for profile ageing heat treatment downstream of the bench; means for coating the profile sections downstream of the conditioning chamber; means upstream of the conditioning chamber for picking the profile sections up off the bench and shifting them from the horizontal orientation to a vertical orientation; and conveyor means extending from the picking-up means through the conditioning chamber and coating means for conveying the profile sections therethrough while in the vertical orientation.