United Engineering, Inc.

International Rolling Mill Consultants, Inc.

F Ronald Vidil

Vladimir B Ginzburg

A composite table roll for use in roll tables in metal rolling mills, particularly for handling hot metal workpieces, having a sleeve portion which is tightly secured to an underlying arbor only at the axial mid-portion so that the end-portions of the sleeve are not in contact with the arbor sufficient to cause any significant heat conductivity thereacross and the end-portions are free to thermally expand with reference to the arbor to thereby greatly minimize any thermal distortion of the arbor in the event a hot metal workpiece becomes stalled on the roll table.

Non-warping table rolls

The invention relates to a rolling mill of the 4 Hi Mae West type having cylinders for axially shifting the work rolls for a schedule free rolling operation, work roll balance cylinders are mounted in the Mae West blocks and as a result assume a varying off set axially relation with the work roll bearings, a control for the balance cylinders to compensate for the effect the offset conditions would otherwise have on the forces of the balance cylinders to maintain the forces at a predetermined value.

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McKeesport, PA, United States of America

F Ronald Vidil