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AssigneeSiemens Industry, Inc.
InventorsWilliam Xiaolan Shen, Keith E. Fiorucci, Christopher D. Lashua, Kenneth Plante
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A trim shear is adapted to trim the front and tail ends of a hot rolled product exiting from a rolling mill along a mill pass line and travelling at either high or low speeds, depending on the size of the product being rolled. The trim shear comprises a trim station having a high speed a set of trim knives configured and arranged to trim the front and tail ends of high speed products, and a different low speed set of trim knives disposed laterally from the high speed set of trim knives and configured and arranged to trim the front and tail ends of low speed products; and traversing means for shifting the trim station transversely with respect to the mill pass line to alternatively locate either one or the other of said sets of trim knives in an active position on the mill pass line.
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A rolling mill delivery guide for handling either high or low speed products travelling along a mill pass line, said delivery guide comprising laterally disposed high and low speed sections, said high speed section having front and tail end high speed guide paths separated by a high speed through path, and said low speed section having front and tail end low speed guide paths separated by a low speed through path, said high speed paths being dimensioned to provide close support and guidance for high speed products, and said low speed paths being more generously proportioned in comparison to said high speed paths to handle said slow speed products, said delivery guide being laterally shiftable to selectively align one or the other of said through paths with said mill pass line.
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