Cutting equipment for steel strips and cold rolling line

Abstract

Provided are cutting equipment for steel strips and a cold rolling line that allow for accurate laser cutting of joint portions between continuous steel strips. The cutting equipment for steel strips (1) includes: a joint portion detection device (5) configured to detect a joint portion (2) in which a rear end of a preceding steel strip and a front end of a succeeding steel strip are joined; an end portion detection device (6) configured to detect end portions of the steel strips; a vibration prevention device (7) configured to prevent vibration of the steel strips; and a cutting device (4) configured to laser cut a vicinity of the joint portion, wherein the end portion detection device and the vibration prevention device are provided on separate stands from each other.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.