High back coil car designed to facilitate automatic banding on the coil car
AssigneeButech, Inc.
InventorsJason Cuff, Nathaniel Gamble, Ryan Mercer, Benjamin Greenawalt
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Abstract
A strip process line has a high back coil car for automatically banding coil of metal strip on the coil car. The process line runs while banding occurs on the coil car. The coil car includes an outer frame, and coil receiving saddle with a pair of blocker rolls or a “V” saddle, and a hold down arm and a plurality of strap guide channels. By the high back car being docked with an automatic loading station, the process line can run while the banding takes place on the coil car, and keeps the operator safely away from the coil car until the banding is completed.
Claims26
A strip process line comprising:
- a high back coil car for automatically banding coil of an associated metal strip on said coil car, wherein said process line runs while banding occurs on said coil car;
- wherein said coil car comprises an outer frame and a coil receiving saddle comprising blocker rolls;
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- a hold down arm and a plurality of strap guide channels;
- wherein a first mechanism raises said coil car outer frame and said coil receiving saddle and said blocker rolls.
A method of automatically banding coil of metal strip, comprising:
- providing a high back coil car at an end of a process line for automatically banding coil of said associated metal strip on said high back coil car, wherein said process line runs while banding occurs on said high back coil car;
- wherein said high back coil car comprises an outer frame, a coil receiving saddle;
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- a hold down arm and a plurality of strap guide channels;
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- further providing a first mechanism for raising said coil car outer frame and said coil receiving saddle and blocker rolls.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.