Patent ID: 8444909

Claim:
A hot-strip cooling device for cooling a hot steel strip that has been subjected to finish rolling while being conveyed over a run-out table, the device comprising: a plurality of cooling nozzles that are disposed above a steel strip and eject rod-like flows of a coolant at an ejection angle tilted toward an upstream side in a traveling direction of the steel strip, wherein the cooling nozzles are positioned downstream from a final finishing stand; and a pinch roll that is rotatable driven and is movable up and down in such a manner as to rotatable touch the steel strip, said pinch roll is disposed on the upstream side with respect to the cooling nozzles, and serves to purge the coolant that has been ejected from the cooling nozzles and resides on the steel strip, wherein the cooling nozzles and the pinch roll are arranged in such a manner that the coolant ejected from the cooling nozzles in a most upstream row lands on the steel strip at a downstream side with respect to a point where the pinch roll rotatably touches the steel strip.