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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 1978
Filed:
Oct. 11, 1977
Donald Sieurin, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Morgan Construction Company, Worcester, MA (US);
Abstract
In a rolling mill having a plurality of roll stands aligned along the mill pass line, each roll stand having parallel roll shafts carrying cooperating pairs of work rolls, with the roll shafts of at least some of the roll stands being offset 90.degree. with respect to the roll shafts of the other roll stands in order to eliminate the necessity for twisting the product as it progresses from stand to stand along the mill pass line, an apparatus for driving the roll shafts consisting of intermeshed gears carried by each pair of roll shafts for establishing a drive connection therebetween; a driven sprocket wheel connected to one roll shaft of each pair; a gear unit for each roll stand, each gear unit having an input shaft and an output shaft, the output shaft of each gear unit being parallel to the roll shafts of the roll stand associated therewith and having a driving sprocket wheel thereon; and endless chains for connecting the driving and driven sprocket wheels, the input shafts of the gear units being interconnected along a single drive line parallel to the mill pass line and being driven by a common power source.