Patent ID: 8047109

Claim:
Device for cutting rolled metal strip to length with a rotary shear, in which a gap between an end of a front roller table upstream of the shear and a beginning of a rear roller table downstream of the shear, where the rolled metal strip is unsupported, is reduced by a swiveling roller table part that supports the rolled metal strip as it passes through during a non-cutting operating phase of the shear, wherein a first movable guide table ( 18 ) is arranged between a swiveling roller table part ( 17 ) and the beginning of the rear roller table ( 4 ), wherein the swiveling roller table part is formed as a circle-segment that is rotatable about an axis so that an outer surface of the swiveling roller table part ( 17 ) is intermittently intermeshed with an outer surface of the first movable guide table ( 18 ) to intermittently close the gap as the roller table part ( 17 ) swivels, wherein the swiveling roller table part ( 17 ) is fastened to a rotational axis of a lower drum ( 8 ) independently of the lower drum.