US 12,269,080 B2
Modular rolling train, particularly hot rolling train, preferably in conjunction with an upstream casting facility
Gokhan Erarslan, Düsseldorf (DE); Jens Kreikemeier, Lennestadt (DE); Joachim Hafer, Siegen (DE); and Kerstin Spill, Netphen (DE)
Assigned to SMS group GmbH, Düsseldorf (DE)
Appl. No. 17/784,302
Filed by SMS group GmbH, Düsseldorf (DE)
PCT Filed Dec. 3, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/084376
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 10, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/115900, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 17, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2019 219 318.8 (DE), filed on Dec. 11, 2019; and application No. 10 2020 206 174.2 (DE), filed on May 15, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0056053 A1, Feb. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. B21B 13/22 (2006.01)
CPC B21B 13/22 (2013.01) 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for forming a metallic product along a throughput section, comprising:
a casting facility;
a modular rolling train that is subdivided into discrete units along the throughput section, including
a heat treatment unit,
a roughing rolling unit,
a finishing rolling unit, and
a transport unit for moving the metallic product,
wherein at least one of the discrete units is a subdivided discrete unit comprising at least two modules; and
a transport device assigned to the subdivided discrete unit for exchanging the at least two modules,
wherein a first of the at least two modules of the subdivided discrete unit is configured to be exchanged with a second of the at least two modules by the transport device.