EP2895280B1 - Train de laminage à pas de pèlerin - Google Patents

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EP2895280B1
EP2895280B1 EP13765682.3A EP13765682A EP2895280B1 EP 2895280 B1 EP2895280 B1 EP 2895280B1 EP 13765682 A EP13765682 A EP 13765682A EP 2895280 B1 EP2895280 B1 EP 2895280B1
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Thomas FROBÖSE
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21B—ROLLING OF METAL
    • B21B21/00—Pilgrim-step tube-rolling, i.e. pilger mills
    • B21B21/04—Pilgrim-step feeding mechanisms
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21B—ROLLING OF METAL
    • B21B21/00—Pilgrim-step tube-rolling, i.e. pilger mills
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21B—ROLLING OF METAL
    • B21B37/00—Control devices or methods specially adapted for metal-rolling mills or the work produced thereby
    • B21B37/78—Control of tube rolling
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21B—ROLLING OF METAL
    • B21B39/00—Arrangements for moving, supporting, or positioning work, or controlling its movement, combined with or arranged in, or specially adapted for use in connection with, metal-rolling mills
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21B—ROLLING OF METAL
    • B21B39/00—Arrangements for moving, supporting, or positioning work, or controlling its movement, combined with or arranged in, or specially adapted for use in connection with, metal-rolling mills
    • B21B39/002—Piling, unpiling, unscrambling
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21B—ROLLING OF METAL
    • B21B45/00—Devices for surface or other treatment of work, specially combined with or arranged in, or specially adapted for use in connection with, metal-rolling mills
    • B21B45/004—Heating the product
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21D—WORKING OR PROCESSING OF SHEET METAL OR METAL TUBES, RODS OR PROFILES WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21D3/00—Straightening or restoring form of metal rods, metal tubes, metal profiles, or specific articles made therefrom, whether or not in combination with sheet metal parts
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C21—METALLURGY OF IRON
    • C21D—MODIFYING THE PHYSICAL STRUCTURE OF FERROUS METALS; GENERAL DEVICES FOR HEAT TREATMENT OF FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS METALS OR ALLOYS; MAKING METAL MALLEABLE, e.g. BY DECARBURISATION OR TEMPERING
    • C21D9/00—Heat treatment, e.g. annealing, hardening, quenching or tempering, adapted for particular articles; Furnaces therefor
    • C21D9/0006—Details, accessories not peculiar to any of the following furnaces
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21B—ROLLING OF METAL
    • B21B45/00—Devices for surface or other treatment of work, specially combined with or arranged in, or specially adapted for use in connection with, metal-rolling mills
    • B21B45/004—Heating the product
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  • the present invention relates to a rolling line for manufacturing a pipe with a pilger rolling mill for reducing the diameter of a billet to a pipe.
  • an extended hollow cylindrical blank is cold-reduced in the fully cooled state by compressive stresses.
  • the blank is formed into a tube with a defined reduced outer diameter and a defined wall thickness.
  • the most common pipe reduction method is known as cold pilgering, the blank being called a billet.
  • the billet is rolled over a calibrated, i. the inner diameter of the finished tube, rolling mandrel pushed while calibrated from the outside of two calibrated, i. comprising the outer diameter of the finished tube defining rollers and rolled in the longitudinal direction over the rolling mandrel.
  • the finished rolled tubes In production, the finished rolled tubes must undergo a number of post-processing steps after rolling. In particular, it is necessary to anneal the finished rolled tubes for solidification. During annealing, a plurality of bundled tubes are introduced into an oven and annealed there at the necessary temperatures.
  • the WO 2011/030273 A2 relates to a system for rolling seamless pipes, typically with a large diameter.
  • the plant included a pilger rolling mill, an oven and a sizing mill.
  • the Japanese patent application JP 04-154944 discloses the production of a zirconium alloy tube in a rolling train with a pilger rolling mill, an annealing furnace and an expander.
  • a pilger rolling mill for manufacturing a pipe with a pilger rolling mill for reducing the diameter of a billet to the pipe, a first buffer for a plurality of pipes, the first buffer having means for bundling a plurality of pipes in a collar
  • An annealing furnace for simultaneously annealing a plurality of tubes
  • a second buffer for a plurality of tubes
  • the second buffer for the tubes having means for separating the plurality of tubes from a collar
  • a straightening machine for straightening the separated tubes one by one, wherein the Walz Given operates continuously, wherein the means are arranged in the flow direction of the tube in the above order and wherein between the pilger rolling mill, the first buffer, the annealing furnace, the second buffer and the straightening machine is provided in each case an automated transport device for the pipe.
  • the rolling mill according to the invention operates continuously, i. that preferably in the retracted state substantially simultaneously a billet in the pilger rolling mill is rolled, while at the end of the rolling mill behind the straightening machine, a finished tube can be removed from the street and packaged.
  • the rolling train has a control which makes it possible to control the entire production process in the rolling train and thus to operate it in an automated manner.
  • the transport speed of the rolled tubes in the furnace is significantly slower than the transport speed of the billet or the tube while vocationalage in the rolling mill.
  • the transport speed of the rolled tubes through the oven much slower than the transport speed of the tube in the leveler.
  • several tubes may be annealed at once. It is true that the larger the mass of a single tube section to be glowed, the less tube sections of the same length can be annealed.
  • the two buffers form a central element of the rolling mill.
  • the two buffers serve not only storage, but in them is ggf. a plurality of tubes bundled into a bundle (first buffer) or a plurality of tubes from a bundle isolated (second buffer).
  • a bundle of pipes or pipe sections is understood to mean a number of pipes which together form a furnace lining, i. simultaneously driven into and through the furnace and annealed.
  • Such a covenant can not, however, be bound together with the help of tie wires.
  • Such linking takes place in one embodiment, possibly automated.
  • a device for bundling the tubes is in this sense, for example, a common storage bank for a plurality of tubes, which are then fed together to the furnace.
  • a plurality of pipe sections can be annealed in the oven.
  • about as many pipe sections can be annealed simultaneously that their total mass of the mass of a single pipe section with a dimension that can be annealed in the maximum furnace corresponds.
  • the individual finished piled and tapped pipe sections are collected in the first buffer until the maximum number of pipes to be glowed in a furnace lining is reached and then introduced together into the furnace. Behind the stove takes place in this case an intermediate buffering in the second buffer in order to separate the pipe sections leaving the furnace at the same time and feed them individually to the leveler.
  • an embodiment of the first buffer is expedient, which allows NASAschleusen at this point in the rolling mill finished vocational pipes or pipe sections from the rolling mill and / or piloted at this point at another time and / or on another rolling mill pipes or Pipe sections into the rolling mill for post-processing.
  • the transport direction of the billet in the pilger rolling mill defines a first direction, the first buffer having a transport means for transporting the tubes in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.
  • This transport in a direction perpendicular to the transport direction of the billet in the rolling mill allows on the one hand the bundling of the individual tubes which have left the rolling plant and an intermediate storage or buffer of the tubes before they are fed into the furnace in the bundle.
  • the transport device in a direction perpendicular to the transport direction of the billet in the pilger rolling mill also makes it possible to turn over the transport direction of the pipe in the system.
  • the rolling train is set up such that the pipe in the rolling train is also transported in sections in a direction parallel but opposite to the first direction.
  • the rolling train which in one embodiment could also be constructed linearly, can be folded so that the total length of the rolling train is distributed over several shorter pieces. Although this does not reduce the total space requirement of the rolling mill, but rather their total length and thus the building length, in which the rolling mill is housed.
  • the second buffer has a transport device for transporting the tubes in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.
  • the second buffer engages over parts of the rolling train, so that the pipes cross these parts of the rolling train.
  • the means for bundling a plurality of tubes and / or the means for separating the plurality of tubes from a collar are arranged so as to enable automated bundling or singulation.
  • the pilger rolling mill comprises a rolling stand, a flywheel on a drive shaft, which is rotatably mounted about a rotation axis, and a Push rod having a first and a second end, wherein the first end of the push rod is attached to the flywheel at a radial distance from the axis of rotation and wherein the second end of the push rod is attached to the rolling stand, so that during operation of the system, a rotational movement of the flywheel is converted into a translational movement of the roll stand.
  • Calibrated rollers are rotatably mounted on the rolling stand. The rollers preferably receive their rotational movement by means of a toothed rack fixed relative to the roll stand, into which toothed wheels fixedly connected to the roll axes engage.
  • the billet undergoes incremental advancement in the direction of the mandrel towards or beyond it, while the rolls are rotationally reciprocated over the mandrel and thus horizontally across the billet.
  • the feed of the billet over the mandrel is carried out by means of a feed tension slide, which allows a translational movement in a direction parallel to the axis of the rolling mandrel.
  • the linear feed of the feed tension slide in the pilger rolling mill is achieved for example by means of a ball screw.
  • the ball screw consists of a servo motor, a gear, a trapezoidal screw, the associated bearing points and appropriate lubrication and a trapezoidal threaded spindle nut.
  • the servomotor is connected via a coupling with the gearbox and this via a further coupling with the trapezoidal thread spindle itself.
  • the rotational movement of the threaded spindle is converted into a translational movement by means of the trapezoidal threaded spindle nut.
  • the linear feed of the feed tension slide can also be effected with a linear drive.
  • the superimposed conically calibrated rollers in the rolling stand rotate counter to the feed direction of the feed tension slide.
  • the so-called vocational's mouth formed by the rollers captures the billet and the rollers press from the outside a small material shaft, which is stretched by the smoothing caliber of the rollers and the mandrel to an intended wall thickness until the idling caliber of the rollers releases the finished tube.
  • the roll stand moves with the rolls attached thereto against the feed direction of the billet.
  • the billet After reaching the idling caliber of the rolls, is advanced a further step towards the rolling mandrel, while the rolls return to their horizontal starting position with the rolling stand.
  • the billet undergoes a rotation about its axis, to a uniform shape of the finished tube in the circumferential direction to reach.
  • in the outlet region of a bottom inlet for the finished pillared pipe is provided.
  • billets are rolled into tube sections up to lengths of 20 m and above, so that their full length placement in a hall is often difficult. Therefore, it is possible according to the invention to easily bend the tube after the exit from the rolling mill and to let run in approximately vertically down into the floor of the hall. This saves space for the system in the hall.
  • the annealing furnace is a continuous furnace whose muffle is maintained at a substantially constant temperature.
  • the annealing furnace is a belt furnace, preferably a mesh belt furnace.
  • the pipes to be annealed are moved on a metal belt through the furnace or its muffle.
  • the mesh belt furnace on two locks, through which the tube to be glowed in the oven or out of this can be moved without the muffle would be exposed to significant temperature fluctuations.
  • the annealing furnace is set up so that the annealing takes place under a protective atmosphere, for example under hydrogen, nitrogen or argon.
  • the annealing temperature of the furnace is between 400 ° C and 1300 ° C, preferably between 1000 ° C and 1200 ° C, and more preferably 1150 ° C.
  • the automated transport devices between the individual processing stations of the rolling train according to the invention are in one embodiment roller conveyors on which the tube is movable in the longitudinal direction.
  • one or more rollers of the roller conveyor is driven by a motor in one embodiment.
  • the transport devices between the individual processing stations can also be gripper systems, in particular if the pipe has to be moved in its transverse direction, ie perpendicular to the transport direction of the billet in the pilger rolling mill.
  • Other transport means are for example inclined ramps on which the pipe can roll in the transverse direction and thus moves in a direction perpendicular to the transport direction of the billet in the pilger rolling mill.
  • the rolling line between the pilger rolling mill and the first buffer on a Abstechä for cutting to length of the tube.
  • this is divided into two pipe sections.
  • a testing device which allows an examination of the pipe inner wall, is provided.
  • a test device is an eddy current probe which can be inserted into and pulled out of the tube on a delivery arm.
  • testing device is provided between the pilger rolling mill and the staking unit, it is possible to cut out pipe sections which have failed in the test with the staking unit from the pipe and to further process only those pipe sections which have passed the test ,
  • the rolling train between the pilger rolling mill and the first buffer preferably between the pilger rolling mill and a Abschnechmaschine for cutting tube, a device for degreasing a tube outer wall.
  • a device for degreasing a pipe inner wall is provided between the pilger rolling mill and the first buffer, preferably between a cutting unit for cutting the pipe to length and the first buffer.
  • the straightening machine is a skew-roll straightening machine.
  • further processing means for performing further processing steps for the finished pipe sections can be arranged.
  • Such further processing devices are, for example, a device for finishing the tubes, a test device or a device for packaging the tubes.
  • FIG. 1 shows a schematic plan view of an embodiment of the rolling mill according to the invention.
  • FIG. 1 has shown the following processing stations for producing a high-quality stainless steel tube: a cold pilger rolling mill 1, a device for degreasing 2 of the outer wall of the tube, a parting device 3 for cutting the tube, a device for degreasing 4 of the tube inner wall and for end processing of the tube, a first buffer 5 for the tubes, an annealing furnace 6, a second buffer 7 for the tubes and a straightening machine 8.
  • a cold pilger rolling mill 1 1, a device for degreasing 2 of the outer wall of the tube, a parting device 3 for cutting the tube, a device for degreasing 4 of the tube inner wall and for end processing of the tube, a first buffer 5 for the tubes, an annealing furnace 6, a second buffer 7 for the tubes and a straightening machine 8.
  • the flow direction or transport direction of the billet or behind the cold pilger rolling mill 1 of the pipe is from the cold pilger rolling mill 1 to the outlet of the leveler 8.
  • roller conveyor 9a, 9b, 9c, 9d, 9e, 9f These have rollers on which the tube is moved or transported in its longitudinal direction.
  • each second roller 10 is provided with a motor drive in each of the roller conveyors, which causes the roller in a rotational movement and thus causes the transport of the resting on the rollers 10 tubes.
  • the illustrated embodiment of the rolling train has the roller conveyors at three points via transport means 11, 12, 13, which transport the tubes in their transverse direction.
  • the rolling mill has, when considering the transport path or material flow within the rolling line, a convolution of the path.
  • the transport direction of the tube in the rolling mill changes a total of three times.
  • the first change of direction takes place between the degreaser 2 for the pipe outer wall and the parting device 3
  • the second change of direction takes place between the degreaser for the pipe inner wall 4 and the annealing furnace 6
  • the third change of direction takes place between the annealing furnace 6 and the straightening machine 8.
  • the transport directions of the tube on the individual sections are opposite each other by 180 °, while between the four transport sections in the longitudinal direction in each case a transport in the transverse direction of the tube, i. substantially perpendicular to its longitudinal direction.
  • the transport devices 11, 12, 13 for the transport of the tube in the rolling train in a transverse direction perpendicular to the transport direction of the billet in the cold pilger rolling mill 1 have very different configurations.
  • the first of these transport devices 11 consists of an inclined ramp which connects two roller conveyors.
  • the tube which has left the degreaser 2 rolls from an upper roller conveyor 9a via a slope on a lower roller conveyor 9b.
  • the second transport device 12 for transporting the pipe in a direction perpendicular to the transport direction of the billet in the cold pilger rolling mill 1 is integrated into the buffer 5 for the pipes.
  • the transport device 12 is a bridge crane, the bridge 14 between two elevated rails 15 in a direction substantially perpendicular to the transport direction 16 of the billet in the cold pilger rolling mill 1 is movable.
  • the bridge 14 has a series of grippers (not shown) with which a tube which has left the roller conveyor 9c in front of the buffer 5 is gripped.
  • the third transport device 13 for transporting the tube in a direction perpendicular to the first direction 22 is again a ramp on which the tubes independently roll in their transverse direction.
  • the cold pilger rolling mill 1 consists of a rolling stand 16 with rollers, a calibrated rolling mandrel and a drive 17 for the rolling stand 16.
  • the drive for the rolling stand 16 has a push rod, a drive motor and a flywheel. A first end of the push rod is mounted eccentrically to the axis of rotation of the drive shaft to the flywheel.
  • the axis of rotation of the motor shaft coincides with the axis of rotation of the drive shaft of the flywheel. If the rotor of the drive motor rotates, a torque is generated which is transmitted to the motor shaft connected to the rotor.
  • the motor shaft is connected to the flywheel of the drive train such that the torque is transmitted to the flywheel.
  • the flywheel rotates about its axis of rotation.
  • the push rod which is arranged with its first end at a radial distance from the axis of rotation, experiences a tangential force and transmits it to the second push rod end.
  • the rolling stand 16 connected to the second push rod end becomes along the traversing direction 22 defined by a guide rail of the rolling stand 16.
  • cold pilger rolling mill 1 undergoes a introduced into the cold pilger rolling mill 1 in the direction 22 billet, ie a tube, a gradual feed towards the roll mandrel to or beyond this, while the rollers of the rolling mill 16 rotatably over the mandrel and thus over the Luppe horizontally reciprocated.
  • the horizontal movement of the rollers is predetermined by the rolling stand 16 itself, on which the rollers are rotatably mounted.
  • the rolling mill 16 is reciprocated in a direction parallel to the rolling mandrel, while the rolls themselves receive their rotational movement through a rack fixed relative to the rolling stand 16 into which gears fixedly connected to the roll axes engage.
  • the feeding of the billet over the mandrel takes place with the aid of the feed clamping slide 18, which allows a translational movement in a direction 16 parallel to the axis of the rolling mandrel.
  • the superimposed in the rolling stand 16 conically calibrated rollers rotate counter to the feed direction 16 of the feed tension slide 18.
  • the so-called vocational mouth formed by the rollers captures the billet and the rollers from the outside press a small material shaft from a Glättkaliber the rollers and the rolling mandrel the intended wall thickness is stretched until an idling caliber of the rollers releases the finished tube.
  • the rolling stand 16 moves with the rolls attached thereto against the feed direction 22 of the billet.
  • the billet is advanced by a further step onto the roll mandrel, while the rolls return to their horizontal starting position with the rolling stand 16. At the same time, the billet undergoes a rotation about its longitudinal axis to achieve a uniform shape of the finished tube.
  • a uniform wall thickness and roundness of the tube and uniform inside and outside diameter is achieved.
  • a central sequence control of the rolling train controls all initially independent processing stations, as well as the drives of the cold pilger rolling mill 1 itself.
  • the control for the cold pilger rolling mill 1 begins with the triggering of a feed step of the drive of the feed tension slide 18 for advancing the billet. After reaching the feed position of the drive is controlled so that it holds the feed tension slide 18 static.
  • the rotational speed of the rolling mill drive motor 16 is controlled to return the mill 16 to its original length at the same time as the feed tension carriage 18 advances, while after completion of the advancing step, the mill 16 is slid horizontally over the billet, the rollers forming the billet roll out again.
  • the drive of the chuck is driven such that the billet is rotated about the mandrel.
  • the finished reduced tube is degreased in a degreaser 2 on its outer wall.
  • that fat is removed, which is introduced in the cold pilger rolling mill as a lubricant between the rolls of the roll stand 16 and the billet.
  • the finished piloted and externally defatted tube runs with a portion of its length into a funnel-shaped assembly 23 such that a portion of the finished pillar is inserted into a substantially vertical hole 25 to accommodate space in the hall the rolling mill stands to save.
  • a plurality of rollers 24 are provided, which are arranged so that their surface portions, which are engaged with the finished pierced tube, describe a curvature along which the tube end into the Hole 25 enters.
  • the pipe undergoes an offset behind the degreaser 2 in a direction perpendicular to the transport direction 16 of the billet in the cold pilger rolling mill 1.
  • the further transport of the tube is compared with the transport direction of the billet in the cold pilger rolling mill 1 rotated by 180 ° a parting device 3 into it.
  • parting a turning tool is rotated about the longitudinal axis of the tube and simultaneously delivered radially on or in the pipe, so that the pipe is separated and two pipe sections.
  • the parting process can be considered as milling, since the tube is firmly clamped while the Abstechm Jardinel rotates around the tube and is delivered radially.
  • the tapped, i. tube cut to the set length, leaves the parting device 3 on a roller conveyor 9c and is taken from this in the transverse direction and inserted into a degreaser 4 for degreasing the inner wall of the tube.
  • a degreaser 4 for degreasing the inner wall of the tube.
  • a face milling of the end faces of the tube takes place, so that they have a planarity, as it is required for a later orbital welding of several pipe sections together.
  • the tube After the tube is degreased in its interior and planned at its ends, it is pivoted back onto the roller conveyor 9 c and fed with this in the buffer 5.
  • the buffer 5 has an inlet bank 19 and five memory banks 20. With the help of the bridge crane 12, the tube is gripped by the inlet bank 19 and stored on one of the memory banks 20. Each following tube will also be on the same Memory bank 20 filed until a desired number of tubes is located on a memory bank 20, which then form a covenant, ie a furnace support.
  • the tubes of a collar are tied together, wherein the binding of the collar of tubes on the memory bank 20 is automated.
  • the bundle is gripped by means of the bridge grab 14 and placed on the roller conveyor 9d, which feeds the bundle of tubes to the mesh belt furnace 6.
  • the first buffer 5 has the possibility of ejecting piled in the vocational rolling mill 1 and tapped off with the parting device 3 from the rolling mill, in order to be able to further process it at a later time and in another plant.
  • pipes pilgered on another rolling mill can be introduced into the buffer 5 for further processing in the furnace 6 and straightening machine 8.
  • the furnace 6 the bundle of tubes for solidification is annealed, that is brought to a temperature of 1080 ° C.
  • the furnace is designed as a mesh belt furnace 6, in which a conveyor belt 21 of stainless steel wire mesh extends as an endless belt through the sleeve of the furnace and continuously moves a pipe collar through the muffle , At the ends of the muffle each H 2 flushed sluice is provided. These locks prevent oxygen from entering the muffle during operation of the furnace, which would then react with the pipes under temperature.
  • the tubes are first removed from the furnace by means of a roller conveyor 9e and from there with a bridge crane (in FIG. 1 not shown) in a direction perpendicular to the transport direction 16 of the billet in the cold pilger rolling mill in the second tube buffer 7.
  • a bridge crane in FIG. 1 not shown
  • Each individual tube is then introduced into straightening machine 8 and directed there.
  • the straightening machine 8 is a so-called skew-roll straightening machine, in the present case with ten rolls.
  • the axes of rotation of the individual rolls are arranged at an angle ("oblique") to the longitudinal axis of the plant, which coincides substantially with the longitudinal axis of the pipe to be straightened.
  • the individual rollers have a hyperbolic shape of their lateral surfaces, with which the rollers engage with the pipe to be straightened on. From the hyperbolic shape of the lateral surfaces of the rollers follows a long contact surface of each roller on the pipe to be straightened, so that the bending forces are introduced by the rollers as a line load on the pipe to be straightened.
  • the leveler Of the total of ten rolls of the leveler, two rolls are arranged in pairs one above the other, so that one comes from above with the pipe to be straightened and the other roll of the pair from below.
  • the rollers are motor driven and the alignment of their axes of rotation at an angle to the axis of the pipe to be straightened causes the pipe to be straightened to be forced to rotate and to advance.
  • From the bottom roll of a pair the pipe is plastically bent into the concave contour of the top roll. This plastic longitudinal bend is superimposed by a plastic oval deformation of the tube cross-section, whereby the degree of detail, in particular at the tube ends, is further improved.
  • the transport path of the pipe to be straightened in the straightening machine 8 is limited by longitudinal guide plates or rulers.
  • a device for directional polishing is provided in the illustrated embodiment, in which two rotating nonwoven discs 26 come into frictional engagement with the finished tube.

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  1. Laminoir pour la fabrication d'un tube, avec
    un train de laminage à pas de pèlerin (1) pour réduire le diamètre d'un lopin à un tube, un premier tampon (5) pour une pluralité de tubes, le premier tampon (5) comprenant un dispositif pour réunir une pluralité de tubes en un faisceau de tubes,
    un four à recuire (6) pour recuire simultanément une pluralité de tubes,
    un deuxième tampon (7) pour une pluralité de tubes, le deuxième tampon (7) pour les tubes comprenant un dispositif pour la singularisation de la pluralité de tubes à partir d'un faisceau de tubes, et
    une machine de rectification (8) pour rectifier des tubes singularisés les uns après les autres,
    le laminoir travaillant de manière continue,
    les dispositifs étant disposés dans la direction de transport du tube dans l'ordre indiqué ci-avant et
    un dispositif de transport automatisé (9a, 9b, 9c, 9d, 9e, 9f, 11, 12, 13) pour le tube étant prévu respectivement entre le train de laminage à pas de pèlerin (1), le premier tampon (5), le four à recuire (6), de deuxième tampon (7) et la machine de rectification (8).
  2. Laminoir selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que la direction de transport (16) du lopin dans le train de laminage à pas de pèlerin (1) définit une première direction et en ce que le premier tampon (5) comprend un dispositif de transport (11, 12, 13) pour un transport des tubes dans une deuxième direction perpendiculaire à la première direction.
  3. Laminoir selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce que la direction de transport (16) du lopin dans le train de laminage à pas de pèlerin (1) définit une première direction et en ce que le deuxième tampon (7) comprend un dispositif de transport (11, 12, 13) pour un transport des tubes dans une deuxième direction perpendiculaire à la première direction.
  4. Laminoir selon l'une des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisé en ce que la direction de transport (16) du lopin dans le train de laminage à pas de pèlerin (1) définit une première direction et en ce que le laminoir est agencé de façon que le tube est transporté dans le laminoir par tronçon dans une direction parallèle à la première direction mais à sens opposé.
  5. Laminoir selon l'une des revendications 1 à 4, caractérisé en ce que le four à recuire est un four à bande (6).
  6. Laminoir selon l'une des revendications 1 à 5, caractérisé en ce qu'il comprend, entre le train de laminage à pas de pèlerin (1) et le premier tampon (5), une unité de tronçonnage (3) pour la découpe en longueur du tube.
  7. Laminoir selon l'une des revendications 1 à 6, caractérisé en ce qu'il comprend, entre le train de laminage à pas de pèlerin (1) et le premier tampon (5), de préférence entre le train de laminage à pas de pèlerin (1) et une unité de tronçonnage (3) pour la découpe en longueur du tube, un dispositif (2) pour le dégraissage d'une paroi extérieure du tube.
  8. Laminoir selon l'une des revendications 1 à 7, caractérisé en ce qu'il comprend, entre le train de laminage à pas de pèlerin (1) et le premier tampon (5), de préférence entre une unité de tronçonnage (3) pour la découpe en longueur du tube et le premier tampon (5), un dispositif (4) pour le dégraissage d'une paroi intérieure du tube.
  9. Laminoir selon l'une des revendications 1 à 8, caractérisé en ce qu'il comprend, entre le train de laminage à pas de pèlerin (1) et le premier tampon (5), de préférence entre le train de laminage à pas de pèlerin (1) et une unité de tronçonnage (3) pour la découpe en longueur du tube, un dispositif de vérification pour la vérification de la paroi intérieure du tube.
  10. Laminoir selon l'une des revendications 1 à 9, caractérisé en ce qu'il comprend une commande qui est agencée de façon qu'elle commande toutes les étapes de traitement dans le laminoir.
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