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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 1998
Filed:
May. 24, 1996
Estore Donini, Vimercate, IT;
Fausto Drigani, Zugliano, IT;
Danieli & C. Officine Meccaniche SpA, Buttrio, IT;
Abstract
Block to provide curvature and balancing, which is suitable to impart an 'IN' or 'OUT' pre-curvature to processing rolls (11) of a four-high rolling mill stand (12) comprising a pair of processing rolls, lower (11a) and upper (11b) rolls respectively, each of which cooperates with a relative back-up roll (13a, 13b), the processing rolls (11a, 11b) and back-up rolls (13a, 13b) cooperating at their two ends with respective chocks (15a, 15b) and (16a, 16b) and relative bearings, the block comprising at least one lower rib (18a, 118a) and one upper rib (18b, 118b) including on their respective inner surfaces curvature jack means (20, 120) cooperating with the opposite surfaces of the chocks (15) of the processing rolls (11), supporting jacks (14) being included and cooperating with the chocks (16a, 16b) of the back-up rolls (13a, 13b), at least one rib (18) including on its outer surface compensation jack means (21, 121) which are actuated when an 'OUT' pre-curvature is imparted to at least one processing roll (11) associated with the block (10), the compensation jack means (21, 121) acting on the chocks (16) of the corresponding back-up roll (13).