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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 06, 1999
Erich Grossmann, Tönisvorst, DE;
Henning Schneider, Krefeld, DE;
SMS Schloemann-Siemag AG, Dusseldorf, DE;
Abstract
A hook conveyor moves a succession of coils having outer turns through a trimming station in a transport direction with each coil lying at the station in a plane generally parallel to the direction. A trimming apparatus has a pair of supports flanking the conveyor at the station and each movable between outer and inner positions, respective guides on the supports defining respective vertical guide planes generally parallel to the direction, and respective shears movable on the guides long the respective guide planes. Respective actuators displace the shears along the respective planes and, in the inner positions of the respective supports, cut the outer turns from a coil in the station. Respective separating wedges are displaceable on the guides generally radially of the coil in the station to separate the respective outer turns from the coil. Furthermore respective stripper rods carried on the supports are each displaceable between upper and inner positions engaging the coil in the station and lower and outer positions so that the rods pull the cut outer turns from the coil in the station on displacement from the respective inner to outer positions. These rods have hooked inner ends.