Guide roll

摘要

A guide roll of the type which is provided with a ceramic sleeve around the circumference of a steel roll shaft with an internal cooling water passage, the guide roll including a cylindrical ceramic sleeve constituted by a multitude of discrete ceramic segments assembled into a number of annular unitary rings fitted around the circumference and along the length of the roll shaft, the individual ceramic segments being mounted in a restricted state at least in radial and circumferential directions of the roll shaft; and end plates securely fixed to the opposite ends of the roll shaft to grippingly hold the respective unit rings in an axially abutted state on the circumference of the roll shaft.