Patent ID: 7222814

Claim:
A deflection device for deflecting a metal strip in a reeling plant from an initial channel to a final channel arranged above the initial channel and from the final channel to the initial channel, wherein a drive acts with an upper drive roller on the upper side and with a lower drive roller on the lower side of the strip, characterized in that the upper drive roller ( 3 ) is associated with an upper separating device ( 8 ) pivotable into the strip ( 5 ) for deflecting the strip from the final channel to the initial channel, and the lower drive roller ( 4 ) is associated with a lower separating device ( 9 ) pivotable into the strip ( 5 ) for deflecting the strip from the initial channel to the final channel, and in that each separating device ( 8 , 9 ) is formed of a guide table ( 10 , 11 ) having, at its end remote from a respective drive roller ( 3 , 4 ), a guide roller ( 12 , 13 ).