Manufacture of metal strip
AssigneeBritish Steel Corporation
InventorsDavid P. Hague, Dalip T. Malkani, Andrew Middlemiss, Stuart Scholey
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Abstract
Metal strip is produced by feeding a cutting tool continuously into the peripheral surface of a rotating cylindrical metal workpiece and coiling the peeled strip continuously around a coiler drum. The strip is initially coiled by means of a clamp connected by a flexible linkage to the coiler drum which grips the leading edge of the strip to pull it around the periphery of the drum.
Claims9
Apparatus for manufacturing metal strip from a cylindrical metal workpiece including means for rotating the workpiece about its longitudinal axis, a cutting tool together with means for feeding said cutting tool continuously into the peripheral surface of the workpiece so as to produce a continuous metal strip peeled from the surface of the workpiece, coiler means for collecting the peeled strip, clamp means positioned to receive the leading portion of the strip peeled from the workpiece and connected to the coiler means, means for guiding and leading portion of peeled strip towards and into the mouth of the clamp means, and means responsive to the leading portion of the strip entering the mouth of the clamp means to actuate the clamp means to grip the leading portion of the peeled strip and to cause the coiler means to pull the clamped strip around the coiler.
In a method of manufacturing metal strip which includes the steps of rotating a cylindrical metal workpiece about its longitudinal axis, feeding a cutting tool continuously into the peripheral surface of the workpiece as it rotates so as to produce a continuous metal strip peeled from the surface of the workpiece, and collecting the peeled strip by winding it around a coiler, the improvement which comprises guiding the leading portion of the strip peeled from the workpiece towards and into the mouth of clamp means connected to the coiler and to cause actuating the clamp to grip the strip leading portion and the coiler to pull the peeled strip around the coiler.
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