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US 3,941,611 AGranted
Apparatus for cooling strip like material
AssigneeWean United, Inc.
InventorJoseph Irwin Greenberger
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Abstract
An apparatus for distributing a controlled flow of water onto passing hot strips in proportion to the varying width of strips as they issue from a hot strip rolling mill.
Claims5
An apparatus for cooling varying width relatively flat strip produced by a hot strip mill, comprising:
- header means mounted over a passing strip and receiving coolant medium,
- a number of discharge members carried by said header means arranged relative to the upper flat surface of the passing strip to form a transverse cooling zone approximately equal in width to the maximum width strip for delivering said coolant medium from said header to said upper flat surface,
- means for compartmentalizing said discharge members into two or more areas, including means for forming a separate passageway for each of said areas for delivering separate quantities of coolant medium to each area, and
- means for selectively delivering and interrupting said coolant medium for at least one of said areas of discharge members in a manner that the effective cooling width of said zone can be varied to optimize the use of the coolant medium for the particular width strip being cooled.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.