Patent ID: 6959574

Claim:
A continuous pickling and cold-rolling equipment system for rolling steel strips in plural passes, comprising: an uncoiling apparatus for uncoiling the newly fed and already cold-rolled steel strip; a welding station for joining the end sides of two steel strips; a looper as a strip length compensation; a cleaning station for washing off rolling oil from the steel strip; at least one cold-rolling mill group comprising a plurality of mill stands, for reducing the thickness of the steel strip; a pickling station for the descaling of the steel strip by an acid located before a first of the at least one cold-rolling mills; a cutting apparatus for cutting the rolled steel strip; and a coiling apparatus for the rolled steel strip, wherein the cleaning station is arranged between the welding station and the pickling station, and is deactivated during a first pass of the strip and activated during one or more further passes of the strip.