Close coupled reversing rougher and finishing train and method of rolling

摘要

A hot strip mill includes at least one roughing reversing mill and a finishing train with the reversing mill spaced from the finishing mill by a distance greater than the length of the transfer bar on the penultimate pass but less than the distance of the final pass through the roughing reversing mill so as to be close coupled to the finishing train on that last pass. The method of rolling includes close coupling the reversing roughing mill to the finishing mill on the last downstream pass through the reversing roughing mill.