Claims
- 1. Apparatus for pickling and cold-rolling metal strip, said apparatus comprising:a metal pickler, a reeling arrangement comprising one of a horizontal and a vertical reverse-coiler, said reverse coiler comprising a coiling reel mandrel, an uncoiling reel mandrel, and a separate drive unit for each mandrel, said mandrels being axially movable, said drive units being disconnectable from the mandrels when the reels are reversed, and a cold-rolling mill which is a reversing mill.
- 2. Apparatus as in claim 1 wherein said cold-rolling mill is one of a two-stand and a three-stand tandem line, said apparatus further comprising a reversing reel at each end of the tandem line.
- 3. Apparatus as in claim 2 wherein each said stand is a six-high stand.
- 4. A method for pickling and cold rolling metal strip in an installation comprising an in-line arrangement of a metal pickler, a reeling arrangement comprising a coiler and an uncoiler, and a cold-rolling mill, said method comprising the following serial steps:passing a metal strip through the pickler, introducing the strip to the reeling arrangement, winding the strip into a coil on the coiler, switching the coil to the uncoiler, uncoiling the strip from the coil into the cold-rolling mill for a first reduction pass, and rolling out said strip in several deformation passes.
- 5. A method as in claim 4 wherein said cold-rolling mill is a reversing mill, said deformation passes being reversing passes, said installation further comprising a reversing reel at each end of the reversing mill, said method further comprising winding said strip on at least one of said reversing reels after at least one of said reversing passes.
- 6. A method as in claim 4 wherein said cold-rolling mill is one of a two-stand and a three-stand tandem line, said deformation passes being a single pass through said stands.
- 7. A method as in claim 4 wherein said cold-rolling mill is one of a two-stand and a three-stand tandem line, said deformation passes being reversing passes through said tandem line, said installation further comprising a reversing reel at each end of the tandem line, said method further comprising winding said strip on at least one of said reversing reels after at least one of said reversing passes.
- 8. A method as in claim 4 wherein said reeling arrangement comprises a mandrel and a drive for each of said coiler and said uncoiler, said method further comprising disconnecting said drives from said mandrels after winding said strip into a coil on said coiler, whereby said coil can be switched to said uncoiler.
- 9. A method as in claim 8 wherein said mandrels are axially movable, said method further comprising moving said mandrels axially after disconnecting said drives from said mandrels.
Priority Claims (1)
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199 05 286 |
Feb 1999 |
DE |
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Parent Case Info
This is a U.S. national stage of application of PCT/DE00/00186, filed on Jan. 18, 2000. Priority is claimed on that application and on the following application: Country: Germany, Application No.: 199 05 286.7, filed Feb. 3, 1999.
PCT Information
Filing Document |
Filing Date |
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PCT/DE00/00186 |
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WO |
00 |
Publishing Document |
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WO00/45971 |
8/10/2000 |
WO |
A |
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