Siemens Vai Metals Technologies Gmbh

Siemens Vai Metals Technologies Gmbh & Co.

Roland Gatterbauer

Jürgen Schiefer

Werner Rab

Friedrich Moser

A transporting system for transporting metal coils, for example hot coils, may include a multi-track rail system; a number of driverless transporting carriages, which can be moved on the rail system by means of a drive device and are equipped with an on-board communication device; a locating device, with which up-to-the-moment locational information can be determined for each transporting carriage located on the rail system; and a central control device, to which the locational information of each transporting carriage can be fed, wherein a communication link, which at least in certain sections is formed without any lines, can be established between the control device and the communication device.

Transporting system, transporting carriage and method for transporting metal coils

The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for cropping the ends of or for separating test pieces from rolled strip wound into bundles. An apparatus is disclosed which, by means of an outwardly pivotable bottom roller () and guide devices () for guiding the strip end to the shears, also makes it possible to process strips which are thicker or of greater firmness and are wound into bundles (). Furthermore, a method is specified, which allows a reliable sampling and, if appropriate, inspection of the sample from strips wound into bundles, a closed bundle being obtained again after sampling.

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Linz, Austria

Roland Gatterbauer