Wire-rod and the like hot-rolling machine

Wire-rod and the like hot-rolling machine adapted to hot roll in parallel two or more which are fed one beside the other along respective feeding paths, and which comprises a plurality of roller-provided rolling units which are arranged one after the other along the wire-rods feeding paths, so that each roller-provided rolling unit can plastically deform all wire-rods while these are fed along the respective feeding paths;

• the wire-rod and the like hot-rolling machine being characterized
• in that said feeding paths are locally substantially rectilinear and parallel to one another;
• in that at least a first roller-provided rolling unit comprises a plurality of rolling-mills assemblies, each of which is provided with a pair of opposite and counter-rotating rolling mills which are arranged parallel and adjacent each other, so as to define a rolling groove or throttling through which the wire-rod to be hot-rolled is forced;
• and
• in that said rolling-mills assemblies are arranged one beside the other, substantially coplanar to a corresponding reference plane locally substantially perpendicular to the feeding paths of the wire-rods, so as to arrange the respective rolling groove or throttling on the lying plane of the feeding paths of the wire-rods, each at the feeding path of a respective wire-rod, and are oriented so that the rotation axes of the rolling mills of the various rolling-mills assemblies are locally substantially parallel to one another and simultaneously intersect the lying plane of the wire-rods feeding paths with an inclination angle greater than 5° and smaller than 85°.