Method and arrangement for removing leading and trailing ends from rapidly moving rolled material

An arrangement for removing an end-part from a rapidly moving rolled material having a diameter, comprising a cutting device (3) for cutting the moving rolled material, guide means (4) located downstream of the cutting device and having an active state, in which a forward end of rolled material (T) fed to the guide means (4) in a first direction, is gripped and driven by said guide means and fed therefrom in a second direction different to said first direction, and an inactive state in which an end of a rolled material (T) entering the guide means in said first direction passes through the guide means (4) without changing direction and without being gripped thereby, said arrangement further including feed devices (5) for advancing in said second direction rolled material (3) discharged in said second direction from the guide means (4) in its active state, said guide means including a first rotatable roller (24), whose peripheral surface enagages one side of rolled material (T) moving in said first direction, and a second rotatable roller (23), which is mounted on an opposite side of the rolled material (T) to the first roller (24) and is displaced relative thereto in the downstream direction;

• said second roller (23) being movable in a direction towards and away from the first roller (24), between a first, active position in which the smallest distance between the peripheral surfaces of the first and the second rollers (24 and 23) is smaller than or equal to the diameter of the rolled material (T) which shall pass through the guide means (4), and a second, inactive position in which the peripheral surface of the second roller (23) engages tangentially the opposite side of rolled material (T) moving in said first direction;
• and said first and second rollers (23, 24) being driven for rotation at mutually the same peripheral speeds.