Patent ID: 8459074

Claim:
A rolling method for a strip, which comprises a head of the strip and a tail of the strip, the method comprising the steps of: rolling the strip, beginning with the head of the strip, in a rolling stand of a rolling device between an upper arrangement of rolls and a lower arrangement of rolls of the rolling stand, monitoring whether the tail of the strip reaches a changeover point lying upstream of the rolling stand, as seen in the rolling direction, upon tail of the strip reaching the changeover point: determining whether the arrangements of rolls are subjected by a setting device to a bending force that spreads the arrangements of rolls apart and is at least as great as a minimal force, in response to determining that the bending force is below the minimal force, automatically increasing the bending force to the minimal force, and from the time at which the tail of the strip reaches the changeover point, using a setting device to maintain the bending force on the arrangements of rolls at a level at least as great as the minimal force, wherein the minimal force is at least as great as a balancing force of the upper arrangement of rolls, and wherein the minimal force is determined in dependence on at least one of parameters of the strip and operating parameters of the rolling device.