Upsetting press for reducing the width of rollng stock with internally cooled retaining rolls and driver rolls

摘要

In an upsetting press for reducing the width of rolling stock, particularly for reducing the slab width in hot-rolled wide strip roughing mills with tool carriers, which are disposed on either side of the slab edge and accommodate pressing tools, in order to improve the pressing process, the upsetting press has, in the region between the pressing tools, at least one height-adjustable retaining roll above and at least one below the slab, that driver rolls are disposed in the inlet and outlet regions of the upsetting press above and below the slab and the retaining rolls and driver rolls are provided with internal cooling.