Patent ID: 7213432

Claim:
Hot rolling installation for rolling thin hot strip for a wide variety of rolling stock made of materials that can be deformed with varying degrees of difficulty, wherein the combination of the following features: a thin slab casting line ( 1 ) for continuous slab casting, a shear ( 2 ) following the thin slab casting line ( 1 ) for cutting the continuously cast slabs into desired lengths, which correspond to the length of a finished coil or a multiple thereof, a roller hearth furnace ( 3 ) for buffering and tempering the cut slabs, a descaling sprayer ( 5 ) and a seven-stand rolling train ( 7 ) following the roller hearth furnace ( 3 ), with an inter stand escaling device ( 6 ) provided between the first stand (F 1 ) and the second stand (F 2 ) of the rolling train ( 7 ), with a cooling line ( 8 ) located at the end of the rolling train ( 7 ), a shear ( 9 ) for cutting the semicontinuously or continuously rolled strip, and at least one coiler ( 10 ) for coiling the strip into coils, in which the thin slab casting line ( 1 ) has an adjustable strand guide.