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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 1993
Filed:
Feb. 25, 1992
Peter Seifert, Middletown, OH (US);
The Black Clawson Company, Middletown, OH (US);
Abstract
A deflection controlled roll has a rotatable shell supported on a non-rotating central beam by a plurality of individual shoes which are positioned transversely of the beam between the beam and the shell. A curved semicylindrical surface of the shoe bears against an inside surface of the shell and is hydrodynamically lubricated by an oil film, in the nature of a plain bearing. The shoes are biased by inflatable air lift bellows which are positioned within recesses within the shoe, between the shoe and the beam. The shoes are mounted on the beam on pins which provide at least three degrees of freedom of movement. An improved drive for the roll shell has a cog belt sheave mounted on the shell in concentric relation to one of the shell support bearings. A cog-type drive belt is threaded on the sheave, and a drive pulley for the drive belt is positioned normal to the direction of shell deflection such that the deflections do not change the spacing between the pulley and the sheave.