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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robert C. Verbickas, Wolcott, CT (US);
Assignee:
Mill Design & Consulting Services, LLC, Wolcott, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B21B 1/314 ; B21B 3/107 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B21B 1/314 ; B21B 3/107 ;
Abstract
Strip edge relief is adjusted in a twenty-high cluster rolling mill by a set of double-tapered intermediate rolls in contact with the work roll. Rolling forces bend the work roll ends toward the tapered sections of the intermediate rolls to provide strip edge relief. Hydraulic actuators rotatably contact journals on the intermediate rolls and exert bending forces bending forces which bend the intermediate rolls so as to bending in the work rolls. This adjusts the strip edge relief.