Patent ID: 7213785

Claim:
Device for turning and reorienting the running direction of thin hot metal strip, comprising at least one deflection roller ( 2 ) and roller banks ( 5 ) which are arranged on the circumference of the deflection roller, wherein the strip ( 1 ) can be turned about any angle by the at least one deflection roller ( 2 ) by means of the roller banks ( 5 ), and in which the strip is supported at different points by the individual rollers of successive roller banks ( 5 ), such that the roller banks ( 5 ) successively arranged in the strip turning direction are staggered relative to each other in such a way that the contact surfaces of their rollers ( 4 or R 1 to R 6 ) with the strip ( 1 ) are staggered from roller bank to roller bank by a width of one roller of the immediately preceding roller bank, wherein the width ( 7 ) of the individual rollers ( 4 or R 1 to R 6 ) is different from roller bank ( 5 ) to roller bank.