Patent ID: 6925845

Claim:
A method of leveling cold-rolled strip, comprising the steps of: passing the cold-rolled strip in succession through a brake roll set and a tension roll set and subjecting the strip between both roll sets to stretching under a stretching tension; and subjecting the strip between said roll sets to a bending to increase the degree of stretch in a further high-traction roll set arranged between the brake roll set and the traction roll set such that a major part of the stretching tension in the cold-rolled strip is produced by the further high-traction roll set, the degree of stretch being controlled in that individual degrees of stretch at run-on and run-off points of the individual rolls of the further roll set are summed up to a total degree of stretch, and a degree of stretch outside the further roll set is detected respectively in the brake roll set and the traction roll set and is fed back to control the torques of the rolls of the further high traction roll set.