Driving roll stand
AssigneeVereinigte Osterreichische Eisen- und Stahlwerke - Alpoine Montan Aktiengesellschaft
InventorAlois Scheinecker
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Abstract
A driving roll stand, in particular to be used in a continuous casting plant, has a pair of rolls, at least one of the rolls being mounted in a rocker; the rocker is pivotably hinged to a stationary stand with one bearing on each roller-end side, and a displacement means for each bearing for displacing the bearing in the pivot plane of the rocker is provided.
Claims3
In a driving roll stand, in particular to be used in a continuous casting plant, said stand including a pair of generally cylindrical rolls with generally parallel axes, one of said rolls being mounted at both ends in a rocker and the other roll being mounted at both ends in a stationary stand, and a first bearing and a second bearing mounted on the stationary stand for pivotably hinging said rocker to said stationary stand adjacent the ends of each roller, the improvement comprising displacement means for independently displacing said first bearing and second bearing in different directions in the pivot plane of said rocker in order to correct for skew between the axes of the rolls by moving one end of the roll in the rocker in one direction and the other end in another direction.
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