Cooling device and method for operating same
AssigneeSMS group GmbH
InventorsAugust Sprock, Christoph Hassel, Ulrich Cramer
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Abstract
A cooling device for cooling a metallic item and a method for operating the cooling device. Such cooling devices having a plurality of cooling bars arranged in parallel in groups for applying a coolant to the metallic item are known in the prior art. In order to be able to set a desired distribution function of the coolant over the width of the metallic item as precisely as possible, the cooling device provides that similar application regions in at least two cooling bars within a group are each formed differently with respect to their contour and/or with respect to their surface area.
Claims11
A cooling device for cooling a metallic item, comprising:
- at least one group of cooling bars having at least one first and one second cooling bar arranged in parallel for applying a coolant to the metallic item,
- wherein each cooling bar has at least one first and one second application region having application tubes or nozzles, which are arranged in succession along a longitudinal direction of the cooling bar;
- and
- a control unit having valves for individually adjusting a pressure and/or a volume flow of the coolant in each of the application regions;
- wherein
- the first application region of the first cooling bar comprises a contour and/or an area different from a contour and/or an area on the first application region of the second cooling bar adjacent to the first cooling bar in each group.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.