Patent ID: 8276647

Claim:
A process for producing hot-rolled products in a combined casting and rolling installation comprising: passing a billet of a continuously cast precursor material over a roller table and then after the billet has fully solidified through a cutting-up and discharging device at a transportation speed in uncut form, then rolling the billet in a finishing rolling mill train, then cooling the billet, cutting up the billet and storing the billet, upon an interruption of the producing in a part of the installation downstream in the passing from the cutting-up and discharging device, bridging by the following process steps: a) cutting off a billet portion of the continuously produced precursor material; b) raising a tail part of the cut off billet portion from the roller table; c) passing the precursor material past a first shears and there breaking up the material into pieces of scrap by the first shears, discharging the pieces of scrap and removing the billet portion until operational readiness of the combined casting and rolling installation is restored.