Hitachi, Ltd.

Nippon Steel Corporation

Yoshihiko Iida

Toshiyuki Kajiwara

Tomoaki Kimura

Yasutsugu Yoshimura

Mitsuo Nihei

Hiromi Matsumoto

Toshio Kikuma

Kouichi Seki

Kenichi Yoshimoto

Ryohei Konose

Masayoshi Tagawa

The work rolls of two sets of roller groups are held within one-piece metal chock in a rolling mill. A one-piece metal chock in which the driving side and operating side are separate then provides support at the upper part of the rolling material, with support similarly being provided at the lower part using another pair of single piece metal chocks. Two sets of roll groups can then be arranged close to each other, strip walking and strip curving can be prevented, and a rolling mill, rolling method and rolling installation that are easy to maintain and provide superior rolling efficiency can be provided.

Rolling mill and rolling method and rolling equipment

A method and an apparatus for controlling a rolling mill which dampens a snake motion of a material being rolled is disclosed. According to this method and apparatus, an amount corresponding to the snake motion of the material being rolled is detected, and the value thus detected is added to a value corresponding to a differentiated value of said detected value. A control operation is applied to the material being rolled to thereby control the snake motion of the material.

Method and apparatus for controlling snake motion in rolling mills

A method of and apparatus for continuously hot rolling steel slabs. Separate pieces of steel slabs are continuously fed from a slab yard and delivered to a carriage which is adapted to move reciprocatingly along the line of path of the steel slab pieces. The carriage carries a welder which can move transversely of the path of the slab pieces, and also clamp devices for clamping preceding and succeeding slabs to fix them to the carriage, as means for keeping the preceding and succeeding slab pieces in abutting condition. As a steel strip including a plurality of slab pieces welded together is moved at a predetermined rolling speed into a rolling mill, the carriage moves substantially at the same speed to keep the succeeding slab in abutment with the trailing end of the last slab piece of the steel strip, to permit the welder to weld these slab pieces at their abutting end. This welding is performed only over a part of the cross-sectional area of these slab pieces. The steel slabs are thus welded together into continuous form, delivered to the rolling mill and rolled by the latter. This system ensures a higher yield of products and permits a full continuous hot rolling of the steel slabs.

Method of and apparatus for continuously rolling steel slabs

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Yoshihiko Iida