US 12,377,454 B2
Device and a method for machining at least one surface of a continuous aluminum or an aluminum alloy strip
Jens Artel, Kirchhundem (DE); Guido Fick, Kreuztal (DE); Olaf Norman Jepsen, Siegen (DE); Matthias Vogd, Düsseldorf (DE); and Sebastian Böcking, Siegen (DE)
Assigned to SMS group GmbH, Düsseldorf (DE)
Appl. No. 18/579,329
Filed by SMS group GmbH, Düsseldorf (DE)
PCT Filed Jun. 14, 2022, PCT No. PCT/EP2022/066144
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 13, 2024,
PCT Pub. No. WO2023/285056, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 19, 2023.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2021 207 450.2. (DE), filed on Jul. 14, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0342778 A1, Oct. 17, 2024
Int. Cl. B21B 45/06 (2006.01); B21B 3/00 (2006.01)
CPC B21B 45/06 (2013.01) [B21B 2003/001 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device (10) for machining at least one surface of a continuous strip material (B) of aluminum or an aluminum alloy, comprising
a rotating roller brush (12), a roller length of which can be brought into contact with a surface of the continuous strip material (B),
wherein the rotating roller brush (12) has a diameter between 200 mm and 1000 mm, and
wherein the device (10) is arranged in a strip casting line downstream of an aluminum casting device (G) for casting the continuous strip material (B) and upstream of an adjoining hot rolling device (W) for rolling the continuous strip material (B).