Universal rolling mill

Abstract

The present invention provides a universal rolling mill in which rolls including width-variable rolling rolls can be replaced at a time even if the universal rolling mill is of a type in which a yoke is caused to recede upward. A concrete structure of the invention is the universal rolling mill including a pair of width-variable rolling rolls each of the rolls having a driving portion (housed in a support box) detachably joined to an end portion of a roll shaft on an operating side for varying a rolling width, the pair of width-variable rolling rolls being used as horizontal rolls, in which a receiving/passing device for receiving and passing the driving portion of an upper width-variable rolling roll from and to the rolling mill is mounted to a yoke for receiving reaction force of an upright roll on the operating side.

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