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Kunio Miyamoto

Hideyuki Nikaido

Toshiaki Amagasa

Shigeru Isoyama

Takeshi Hirabayashi

Hirosuke Yamada

Akio Kuroda

Yoshiki Mito

Kanji Hayashi

Toshisada Takechi

Nozomu Tamura

Kazuo Morimoto

Kazuya Tsurusaki

Ikuo Wakamoto

Norio Takashima

Hiroyuki Nakano

Takahiro Yamasaki

Junzo Nitta

Masashi Osada

Shuji Amanuma

Hideo Sakamoto

Michio Hashimoto

Toshinobu Eguchi

Fumihiro Maeda

Kazunori Nagai

Katsuhiro Takebayashi

Kiyoshi Izumi

A continuous hot rolling mill with a metal block conveying apparatus and a metal block joining apparatus which moves with the metal blocks along the metal block conveying apparatus to conform a joining operation. The metal block conveying apparatus uses rollers supported by cylinders with a common hydraulic circuit which allows the cylinders to follow guide rails on the metal block joining apparatus and lower out of the path of the metal block joining apparatus and then return to a metal block support position after the metal block joining apparatus' passage without individual control circuits and valves for each of the cylinders.

Continuous hot rolling mill with metal block conveying apparatus

The invention comprises a continuous hot rolling method in which a rear end portion of a preceding metal block and a fore end portion of a succeeding metal block are cut and the metal blocks are joined to each other by heating and pressing followed by a finish rolling. A region of each metal block is restrained from a clamping position to the end portion thereof in order to prevent a change in level of the metal blocks in heating and pressing the piece. The end portions of the metal blocks can be thus prevented from deformation.

Defectively joined portion removal apparatus for use in a continuous hot rolling process

According to the invention, the rear end of a preceding metal piece and a front end of a succeeding metal piece are heated, pressed and joined prior to the finishing hot rolling. An alternating magnetic field running through the metal pieces in the thickness direction thereof is generated in an end region on opposed faces of the respective metal pieces to perform heating. Another alternating magnetic field whose direction is reverse with respect to that of the former alternating magnetic field is partially generated in the end region on the opposed faces of the metal pieces and in either a region where the metal pieces exist or a region outside width ends of the metal pieces. This assures a uniform heating of the end region on the opposed faces of the metal pieces over their full width to reliably join the both metal pieces to each other.

Method and apparatus for joining metal pieces using induction heating

A method and apparatus for joining metal pieces wherein the rear end of a preceding metal piece and a front end of a metal piece are heated and then pressed together prior to hot finished rolling. The temperature the ends of the metal pieces are heated to is a temperature range between the solidus and liquidus line temperatures of the metal(s) to be joined.

Method of joining metal pieces

Method and apparatus for joining metal pieces

Method and apparatus for joining metal pieces using induction heating. Metal pieces to be joined are placed end-to-end with a gap between them and induction heated in the thickness portion. To maximize speed and even heating edge-to-edge of the ends, members of a magnetic substance are provided in a gap between the inductor and the piece to be heated, thereby enhancing local heating effect by increasing magnetic flux density. Once heated, the ends are pressed together end-to-end for joining.

An apparatus for joining metal pieces using induction heating. Preceding and succeeding metal pieces are followed by a carriage which carries an inductor. The inductor has the ability to move in the longitudinal direction of the metal pieces relative to the carriage to allow the inductor to move more or less upon the preceding or succeeding metal pieces to increase or decrease the induction heating effect, thereby taking into account any thickness variation of the metal pieces and yet still heating them evenly with regard to each other, prior to their being pressed against each other for joining before hot finishing rolling.

Apparatus for joining metal pieces using induction heating

Continuous hot rolling method of metal blocks, as well as a metal block

The invention comprises a continuous hot rolling method in which a rear end portion of a preceding metal block and a fore end portion of a succeeding metal block are cut and the metal blocks are joined to each other by heng and pressing followed by a finish rolling. A region of each metal block is restrained from a clamping position to the end portion thereof in order to prevent a change in level of the metal blocks in heating and pressing the piece. The end portions of the metal blocks can be thus prevented from deformation.

A post continuous hot rolling method where a rear end portion of a preced metal block and a fore end portion of a succeeding metal block are cut and the metal blocks joined to each other by heating and pressing followed by a finish rolling, wherein a poorly joined portion is removed by shaving the defective portion through application of rotating cutters prior to a final finish rolling of the joined blocks.

Method and apparatus for removing a defect in joined metal blocks

Hot rolling method for continuously joining metal blocks and an

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Kunio Miyamoto