Twist roller guide device for rolling mill use

A twist roller guide device to be arranged between each two adjacent rolling mills in a set of aligned rolling mills and of the type including a pair of upper and lower twist rollers 34 and a twist guide member 1 having a guide bore 10 formed therein with two diametrally opposite helically extending wall surfaces 10a effective to preliminarily twist the stock as the latter proceeds through the guide bore, said device being characterized in that said pair of twist rollers are journaled on respective bearing plates 33 provided on a hollow cylindrical roller holder 14 mounted on a guide box and that the tubular body of said twist guide member is fitted in said guide box with a body portion of said twist guide adjacent to the exit end thereof directly fitted in the cylindrical hollow of said roller holder so that the exit of said twist guide is held in closely spaced opposite relation to said pair of twist rollers;

• and eccentrically mounted positioning shafts 32, 38 for said twist rollers, and screw type connecting means 36, 37 operably connecting said shafts for symmetrical vertical displacement of said shafts 32 and, hence, of said twist rollers 34.