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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 1997
Filed:
May. 17, 1995
Toshiyuki Kajiwara, Katsushika-ku, JP;
Yasutsugu Yoshimura, Hitachi, JP;
Kenji Horii, Hitachi, JP;
Koichi Seki, Hitachi, JP;
Hironori Shimogama, Hitachi, JP;
Tadashi Nishino, Hitachi, JP;
Chukichi Hanzawa, Takahagi, JP;
Akira Goto, Hitachi, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., , JP;
Abstract
By rolling a slab with a thickness of 80 mm or less in a plant including a continuous casting machine and a hot strip rolling mill directly combined with each other, low-speed rolling can be achieved while suppressing a drop of the strip temperature and the occurrence of scales. After a slab 2 cast by a continuous casting machine 1 and being 80 mm or less thick is heated and descaled, it is rough-rolled into a bar with a thickness of 20 to 60 mm by a roughing mill 7 constructed as a 4H-twin mill. After being heated and descaled again, the bar is finish-rolled by finishing mills 19 to 21, each of which employs small-diameter work rolls having a diameter not larger than 500 mm, into a thin plate with a thickness in the range of 1.6 mm to 15 mm or a thick plate with a thickness in the range of 3 mm to 40 mm. The rolling speed on the delivery side of the finishing mills 19 to 21 is set to be as low as 350 m/minute or less with a result of small production scale, and the plant length is set to be not longer than 100 m with a result of small plant space.