Patent ID: 7121130

Claim:
Installation for hot rolling strip with a reversing Steckel rolling stand ( 8 ), on either side of which a furnace reel ( 9 , 10 ) is arranged, with drivers ( 17 , 18 ), which are installed between each furnace reel ( 9 , 10 ) and the Steckel rolling stand ( 8 ), and with a cropping shear, wherein a single flying cropping shear ( 20 ) is installed between one driver ( 17 ) and the Steckel rolling stand ( 8 ), wherein the cropping shear ( 20 ) is a drum blade cropping shear with both an upper and lower adjustable blade drum ( 28 a, b ) for making the flying cut of the strip material, such that each blade drum ( 28 a, b ) can be adjusted between a position some distance from the strip material during the rolling operation and a cutting position, wherein a heat shield ( 41 a, b ) can be swung into the space between the strip material and the corresponding adjustable blade drum ( 28 a, b ), which has been moved into its position some distance from the strip material.