IP Library Granted Patent US 9,050,637
Granted Patent B2
US 9,050,637 · App. 12/682,693 · Granted Jun 9, 2015

Operating method for introducing a product to be rolled into a roll stand of a roll mill, control device, data carrier, and roll mill for rolling a strip-type product to be rolled

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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 9,050,637
App. No.
12/682,693
Granted
Jun 9, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

A roll mill for rolling a product has a roll stand with working rolls and a control device. The product has a head part and is moved towards the stand at a product head part speed. The working rolls form a rolling gap. The control device controls the stand such that, before the product head part enters the gap, the rolls are rotated at a peripheral speed which is essentially the same as the product head part speed; the gap is vertically adjusted to essentially a product head part thickness, on the feeding side, before the product enters the gap; and, during or following the insertion of the product into the gap, the gap is closed to a pre-determined value, and the peripheral speed of the working rolls is modified, especially increased, according to the gap, essentially at the same time as the closing of the gap.

Claims (24)

1. An operating method for introducing a rolling stock to be threaded into a roll stand of a rolling mill wherein the rolling mill has a roll stand with working rolls and a control device, the method comprising:

moving a head of the rolling stock to be threaded toward the roll stand at a rolling stock head speed, wherein the working rolls form a rolling gap,

before the head of the rolling stock to be threaded enters the rolling gap:

rotating the working rolls at a circumferential speed that is essentially equal to the speed of the head of the rolling stock, and

setting the rolling gap in the vertical direction essentially to a thickness of the head of the rolling stock on the inlet side, and

when or after the head of the rolling stock enters the rolling gap, closing the rolling gap to a predetermined value and, essentially at the same time as the closing of the rolling gap, changing the circumferential speed of the working rolls based on the rolling gap.

2. The operating method according to claim 1 , wherein a tensile stress of the rolling stock is measured at least on one of the inlet side and outlet side at least one of upstream and downstream of the roll stand, and wherein the control device activates adjusting means for influencing the tensile stress of the rolling stock in such a way that an intended tensile stress of the rolling stock in dependence on the measured tensile stress.

3. The operating method according to claim 1 , wherein the control device activates adjusting means for influencing a tensile stress of the rolling stock in such a way that a tensile stress intended for the rolling stock is maintained by means of manipulated variables pre-calculated by a rolling model.

4. A rolling mill for rolling a rolling stock comprising:

a roll stand with working rolls, and

a control device comprising a computer-readable program code stored in a non-transitory computer-readable medium, the computer program code being executable by the control device to:

move a head of rolling stock to be threaded toward the roll stand at a rolling stock head speed, wherein the working rolls form a rolling gap,

before the head of the rolling stock to be threaded enters the rolling gap:

rotate the working rolls at a circumferential speed that is essentially equal to the speed of the head of the rolling stock, and

set the rolling gap in the vertical direction essentially to a thickness of the head of the rolling stock on the inlet side, and

when or after the head of the rolling stock enters the rolling gap, close the rolling gap to a predetermined value and, essentially at the same time as the closing of the rolling gap, change the circumferential speed of the working rolls based on the rolling gap.

5. The rolling mill according to claim 4 , comprising:

a measuring device configured to measure a tensile stress of the rolling stock on at least one of the inlet side and outlet side at least one of upstream and downstream of the roll stand, and

adjusting means for influencing the tensile stress of the rolling stock being activated by the control device in such a way that an intended tensile stress of the rolling stock is set based on the measured tensile stress.

6. The rolling mill according to claim 4 , comprising adjusting means for influencing a tension of the rolling stock, which adjusting means are controllable by the control device in such a way that a tensile stress intended for the rolling stock is maintained based on manipulated variables pre calculated by a rolling model.

7. The rolling mill according to claim 4 , wherein the rolling stock is a metal strip.

8. The rolling mill according to claim 4 , wherein changing the circumferential speed of the working rolls based on the rolling gap comprises increasing the circumferential speed of the working rolls.

9. The operating method according to claim 1 , wherein the rolling stock is a metal strip.

10. The operating method according to claim 1 , wherein changing the circumferential speed of the working rolls based on the rolling gap comprises increasing the circumferential speed of the working rolls.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 16, 2016
From: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
To: PRIMETALS TECHNOLOGIES GERMANY GMBH
Reel/Frame 039707/0288 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 13, 2010
From: FELKL, HANS-JOACHIM
To: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Reel/Frame 024223/0611 →