Patent ID: 8667826

Claim:
A device for leveling metal stock, which is moved during operation from an infeed side of the device to an outfeed side, comprising: an upper set of leveling rollers and a lower set of leveling rollers, each of which comprises terminal leveling rollers on the infeed side and on the outfeed side, wherein the upper and lower sets of leveling rollers are arranged with an offset to each other, and wherein a plurality of upper and lower drive shafts is provided; a plurality of lower backup roller support blocks, each of which comprises a plurality of backup rollers, which serve to support the lower leveling rollers and are arranged in rows, wherein axes of the backup rollers are parallel to axes of the leveling rollers; at least one of the terminal lower leveling rollers of the set of lower leveling rollers is arranged so that it can be individually adjusted, wherein the at least one of the terminal lower leveling rollers is supported at each end in a lever arm, wherein each of the back up rollers support blocks includes a terminal back up roller and another back up roller immediately adjacent the terminal back up roller, the axis of rotation of the lever arm is the same as the axis of rotation of the backup roller immediately adjacent to the terminal backup roller; the terminal backup rollers are assigned to the at least one of the terminal lower leveling rollers, these backup rollers being arranged to form a row, and are movable; and a mechanism for the synchronous movement of each said terminal backup rollers is provided, wherein the at least one of the terminal lower leveling rollers follows this movement.