US 12,235,046 B2
Device and method by which the process control, in particular temperature control, of a metal product passed through along a single running-through line is flexibly influenced by means of at least two adjacent segments
Joachim Hafer, Siegen (DE); Matthias Peters, Kreuztal (DE); and Kilian Kaupper, Recklinghausen (DE)
Assigned to SMS group GmbH, Düsseldorf (DE)
Appl. No. 17/784,395
Filed by SMS group GmbH, Düsseldorf (DE)
PCT Filed Dec. 10, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/085639
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 1, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/116350, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 17, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2019 219 343.9 (DE), filed on Dec. 11, 2019; and application No. 10 2020 206 176.9 (DE), filed on May 15, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0412653 A1, Dec. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. F27B 19/04 (2006.01); F27B 9/02 (2006.01); F27D 3/00 (2006.01)
CPC F27B 9/029 (2013.01) [F27B 19/04 (2013.01); F27D 3/0024 (2013.01); F27D 2003/0042 (2013.01)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device by which a process control, in particular a temperature control, of a metal product, in particular a slab, thin slab or pre-rolled hot strip, which is passed through along a single running-through line (L) is flexibly influenced, comprising:
at least two segments(S) arranged one behind the other in the running-through direction (L),
wherein at least one segment(S) is designed as a furnace (S2, S3), an enclosed transport section (S4), an open transport section (S1) and/or a cooling section (S8),
wherein a further furnace segment (S2, S3) can be positioned next to a first furnace segment (S2, S3),
wherein at least one segment(S) can be exchanged by a transport device (T) comprising at least one drive unit,
wherein one segment(S) can be exchanged for another segment(S) by the transport device (T) by means of a transport operation in one continuous operation,
wherein the segments(S) exchangeable with one another are arranged on a common support structure (7, 8), and
wherein the support structure (7, 8) has at least one coupling (K) and/or at least one support plate (P) for connecting a plurality of segments(S) to one another.