US 4,760,723 AGranted

Elongation control system

AssigneeMitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorYoshiaki Nakagawa

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Abstract

An elongation control system for controlling the elongation of a work to be rolled by a rolling mill applied to a continuous thin plate rolling equipment, through control of the rolling load of a press down device in the mill and control of tension on the work, i.e., control of the rates of feed of the work by feeders. The press-down device for pressing down a work roll is controlled based on the difference between the actual elongation detected by an elongation detector and a preset reference elongation. The rolling load at the moment the actual elongation accords with the reference elongation is held by a rolling load holding circuit, and the difference between the actual press-down position of the press down device corresponding to that press-down load and a target press-down position is outputted as rate correction signal to feed rate controllers for controlling the feed rates on the basis of the respective tensions on the work on the entrance side and the exit side of the rolling mill, whereby the feed rates are controlled and, therefore, the tensions on the work are controlled.

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A system for controlling the elongation of a work to be rolled by a rolling mill through control of the rolling load in said rolling mill and control of tension on said work, comprising:

an elongation detector for measuring the actual elongation of said work being rolled by said rolling mill,
an elongation control unit for controlling a press-down device of said rolling mill in accordance with the difference between said actual elongation measured by said elongation detector and a preset reference elongation,
a device for holding the rolling load of said press-down device as it is when the elongation detected by said elongation detector accords with said reference elongation,
a plurality of feed rate controllers, provided respectively on the exit side and on the entrance side of said rolling mill, for controlling the rates of feed of said work by work feeders based on tensions detected by tension detectors which detect the tension on said work on the exit side of said rolling mill and the tension on said work on the entrance side of said rolling mill, respectively, and
a feed rate corrective controller for correcting the feed rate control of said feed rate controllers, according to the difference between the press-down position of said press-down device corresponding to the rolling load held in said rolling load holding device and a target press-down position.

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