Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd.

Sumitomo Metal Industries, Inc.

Hisao Murakami

Tsuneo Yamada

Toshihiro Tanaka

Yoshio Kawashima

Masato Tomiku

Masaaki Yokoyama

Shunji Ogata

Tsutomu Kuno

Kozo Watanabe

Hiroyuki Morimoto

Toyoshige Myojo

Disclosed is a method and apparatus for feeding a material to a hot forging machine in a forging line in which a coiled material is uncoiled, straightened, fed intermittently by pinch rollers through a heating device, cut by a cutting device and then fed into a hot forging machine. The method has the steps of preparing a driving device which drives the pinch rollers mechanically independently from the hot forging machine; picking up the timing of forging conducted by the hot forging machine as an electric signal, and controlling the driving device in accordance with the electric signal.

Method of feeding material to hot forging machine

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Yukuhashi, Japan

Hisao Murakami