Patent ID: 8286691

Claim:
A method for making long metal rolled products, comprising: providing a continuous casting made by a single casting machine, defining a casting axis; casting a cast product with a quadrangular or equivalent section, having a surface equal to that of a square with equivalent sides comprised between 100 and 300 mm; performing a reduction of the section in a rolling mill defining a rolling axis substantially coinciding with the casting axis; shearing the cast product to a plurality of segments; and performing selective accumulation and maintenance at a temperature of the plurality of segments of the cast product in a laterally misaligned position with respect to the casting axis and/or the rolling axis, inside a maintenance box furnace, having a containing capacity which is equal in weight to a 70 ton ladle of steel, for a time correlated to a condition of temporary interruption of the reduction step, so as to allow continuity of the continuous casting step, wherein when there is the temporary interruption, translating the segments of the cast product sheared to size in the maintenance box furnace along a substantially transverse direction with respect to the casting and rolling axis, by thrust heads which are movable along said substantially transverse direction, and then recovering the segments from the maintenance box furnace and re-introducing the segments into the casting and rolling axis according to a movement in inverse direction by the thrust heads or by counterthrust heads located on the opposite side of the maintenance box furnace with respect to the thrust heads.