Patent ID: 8042371

Claim:
A rolling stand ( 1 ), especially a plate rolling stand, with a right housing column ( 3 ), a left housing column ( 2 ), an upper column crosshead ( 4 ) that connects them, at least one pair of work rolls and one pair of backup rolls and associated chocks, a balancing device, which has brackets ( 5 , 6 ) and a balancing cylinder ( 22 ), which is hung with its upper edge ( 12 ) in the form of a collar in an opening in the column crosshead ( 4 ), and a piston rod ( 7 ) that extends upward through the column crosshead ( 4 ) beyond the upper surface ( 8 ) of the column crosshead ( 4 ), wherein the piston rod ( 7 ) has a yoke ( 10 ) at its outer end ( 9 ), which yoke ( 10 ) is oriented in the rolling direction and engages the brackets ( 5 , 6 ) of the balancing device, and a rotating sleeve ( 11 ), which encloses the piston rod ( 7 ), is arranged between the upper edge ( 12 ) of the balancing cylinder ( 22 ) and the lower edge ( 13 ) of the yoke ( 10 ), is supported on the column crosshead ( 4 ), and has at least one open slot ( 14 ) into which the yoke ( 10 ) can drop.