Nippon Steel Corporation

Hideki Tokita

Kazuo Watanabe

Koe Nakajima

Taneharu Nishino

Kanichi Kishikawa

Seiichi Nagasoe

In making metal sections, starting material having a quadrangular cross-section is hot-forged into a blank resembling the desired product in cross-section, and the length of the piece is divided into sections of a given length. Then, the blank is hot-rolled into the product having the desired cross-section.

Method and apparatus for manufacturing metal sections

A method for rolling a steel section having flanges or flange-like portions from a steel bloom of rectangular cross section in a rolling mill having a train of roughing rolling stands for roughing, a universal rolling stand with a pair of opposing horizontal rolls and a pair of opposing vertical rolls, and a train of finishing rolling stands for finishing. The method includes rolling the bloom in the train of roughing rolling stands for roughing to a rough shape having a width greater than the shortest distance between the outer circumferences of the opposed vertical rolls in the universal rolling stand and having a reduced almost flat cross section including a portion to be shaped into flanges or flange-like portions in the final product, rolling the rough shape of flat cross section thus obtained in the universal rolling stand for causing the pair of vertical rolls and the pair of horizontal rolls to cooperatively give bending deformation mainly to the portions to be shaped into the flanges or flange-like portions, and finish rolling the rough shape produced from the bending deformation in the finishing rolling stands for finishing.

Method for rolling steel sections having flanges or flange-like portions

A process for hot rolling an H-shaped metallic material from a workpiece of rectangular cross section which comprises reducing the workpiece in the width direction thereof while wedgewise knifing the opposing sides of the workpiece by means of a first pair of grooves formed in rolls of a vertical roll stand; reducing the workpiece in the width direction thereof while spreading the knifed sides by means of a second pair of grooves which may be formed in rolls of another vertical roll stand or in the rolls having said first pair of grooves; and subsequently rolling the workpiece to a required size by universal rolling mills. This process thus enables a starting material of a rectangular cross section to be employed instead of that of H-shaped cross section.

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Hideki Tokita