Patent ID: 7155950

Claim:
Furnace doors ( 2 ) for coiler furnaces ( 1 ) suitable especially for Steckel rolling mills, where, as the hot-rolled strip is being transported back and forth in a reversing manner through the mill, it is coiled onto a drum in one of these furnaces and uncoiled from another drum in the other furnace and possibly heated, the door being equipped with guide tables ( 6 , 6 ′), which are mounted on the movable furnace doors to feed in and guide the strip, where the furnace doors ( 2 ) and the coiler furnaces ( 1 ) are separate components, each furnace door ( 2 ) being divided into at least two elements ( 2 ′, 2 ″), which can be folded toward and away from each other, and where the two door elements are connected by a door support ( 7 ) so that they have the freedom to pivot, wherein the furnace door ( 2 ) is mounted on a part ( 4 ′) of a roller table frame ( 4 ) underneath the coiler furnace ( 1 ), and in that the roller table frame ( 4 ) can be moved along with the furnace door ( 2 ) along guide rails ( 5 ) and out of the thermal radiation zone of the coiler furnace ( 1 ).