Method and Apparatus for Producing Cut to Length Bars in a Steel Mill
AssigneeDavid Teng Pong
InventorDavid Teng Pong
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Abstract
A method of producing steel bars that are cut to length in response to a customer order. The method includes producing a continuous length of steel bar from a rolling mill, cutting said continuous length of steel bar into lengths equal to the length of the bar of the customer order while maintaining the production of the continuous length of steel bar produced by the rolling mill, and bundling bars of the length of the customer order for discharge from the mill using one of two bundling stations arranged to receive and bundle cut bars.
Claims17
A method of producing steel bars that are cut to length in response to a customer order, said method comprising the steps of:
- producing a continuous length of steel bar from a rolling mill,
- cutting said continuous length of steel bar into lengths equal to the length of the bar of the customer order while maintaining the production of the continuous length of steel bar produced by the rolling mill, and
- bundling bars of the length of the customer order for discharge from the mill using one of two bundling stations arranged to receive and bundle cut bars.
Apparatus for producing steel bars that are cut to length in response to a customer order, said apparatus comprising:
- a rolling mill for producing a continuous length of steel bar;
- shearing means coupled to a CPU configured to operate the shearing means to produce bars cut to the length of the customer order in time with the production of the continuously produced length of bar, and
- at least two bundling stations positioned to receive the cut bars from the cold shears for producing bundles of the bars of the length of the customer order.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.