Patent ID: 8196444

Claim:
In a rolling stand having two working rolls that cooperate to define a passage nip, a bending device having guide blocks in lateral roll housings at ends of the rolls for guiding two pressure-transmission bodies which are vertically adjustable with respect to each other; chocks supporting the working rolls on both of the bodies; a pair of bending cylinders at different respective locations along an axis of the rolls and disposed between the pressure-transmission bodies, each cylinder having a piston rod acting on one of the pressure-transmission bodies and a cylinder at the respective other pressure-transmission body; and self-adjusting wearing plates supporting respective ones of the pressure-transmission bodies on the respective guide block at each end of the rolls in a sliding manner; wherein each self-adjusting wearing plate includes a planar sliding surface toward either the respective pressure-transmission bodies at the end of the working roll or toward the guide block at the end of the working roll, and includes a cylindrically or spherically shaped support surface toward the other of the respective pressure-transmission body or the guide block at the end of the working roll.