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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 30, 1997
Alain Douaud, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Kvaerner U.S. Inc., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Abstract
A compact facility for treating flexible strip material, particularly cold rolled metal strip, has a strip entry section, a strip treating section and a strip exit section, in which at least one of the strip entry section and the strip exit section is disposed in spaced-apart, side-by-side and parallel relationship with the treating section, resulting in facility installation space savings and elimination of all but one operator's pulpit. The moving strip is turned by two or more turning devices from the direction of travel in the entry section to a direction along the length of the treating section and from the treating section to a direction along the length of the exit section.