Nippon Steel Corporation

Taneharu Nishino

Kanichi Kishikawa

Seiichi Nagasoe

Kazuo Watanabe

Shinya Hayashi

Hiroshi Yamashita

Koshiro Aoyagi

Hideki Tokita

Hiroshi Yamane

Kenji Betsuki

Kazushige Ikuta

Method for rolling shape steel having flange and web, and rolling mill

Edging roll for use in making sections having flanges

Rolling method and apparatus for forming sections having flange

The rail is rolled by the steps of breakdown rolling, reforming rolling, first and second universal rolling, head-wheel rolling and base-wheel rolling in that order. The reforming rolling is performed using a pair of horizontal rolls provided with a reforming pass and a head-wheel pass and a vertical roll adapted to reduce the base of the rail, with the paired horizontal rolls, together with said vertical roll, shifted and set in such a position where the reforming pass matches the pass line of the first universal rolling pass. The head-wheel rolling is performed using the same paired horizontal rolls and a vertical roll adapted to reduce the head of the rail, with the paired horizontal rolls, together with said vertical roll, shifted and set in such a position where the head-wheel pass matches the pass line of the second universal rolling pass. The rail rolling apparatus comprises a breakdown stand, a sizing head-wheel stand having a pair of horizontal rolls provided with a reforming pass and a head-wheel pass, a vertical roll adapted to reduce the base of the rail, a vertical roll adapted to reduce the head of the rail, and mechanism for shifting the rolls, a universal stand, and a base-wheel rolling stand.

Method and apparatus for rolling rails

A rail is rolled from a hot-rolled bloom having a square or rectangular cross section by a method which is constituted by the steps of breakdown rolling, universal rolling, which is effected by causing the bloom to travel through a plurality of stands making only a single pass on each stand, base-wheel rolling, head-wheel rolling and edging. The bloom is broken down into substantially H-shaped beam blank whose cross section is symmetrical with respect to the center line of its web. In the base-wheel rolling, the flanges of the blank corresponding to the head and base of the rail are respectively rolled widthwise and thicknesswise in three or more passes using a pair of horizontal rolls and a vertical roll, respectively.

Method of rolling rails

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

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Futtsu, Japan

Taneharu Nishino