Roll arrangement

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10710131-B2
Application number	US-201615569447-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 21, 2016
Priority date	May 26, 2015
Publication date	Jul 14, 2020
Grant date	Jul 14, 2020

Abstract

A roll arrangement for rolling rolling material in a rolling system. The roll arrangement includes a roll that is rotatably mounted by its roll journal in a bearing bush of a chock. A ring gap for receiving a lubricant is formed between the bearing bush and the roll journal. The ring gap is sealed both on the ball side of the chock and on the side of the chock away from the balls, using sealing rings. In order to increase the load capacity or the rolling force of a roll arrangement while maintaining or reducing the construction size thereof and without the roll arrangement overheating, discharge channels are provided in a through-flow angular range of the bearing bush for discharging the lubricant out of the ring gap into an oil-receiving chamber.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A roll arrangement for rolling rolling material in a rolling system, comprising:
a roll with a roll barrel and a roll journal;
a chock with a bearing bushing arranged for rotation with the chock and having a receiving opening for receiving the roll journal, wherein the receiving opening has an inside diameter larger than an outside diameter of the roll journal so that an annular gap for receiving a lubricant remains between the bearing bushing and the roll journal;
a sealing ring which is arranged against the bearing bushing on an end of the receiving opening on a roll barrel side for sealing the annular gap; at least one oil receiving chamber; and a sealing ring arranged against the bearing bushing on an end side of the receiving opening remote from the roll barrel for sealing the annular gap; wherein the bearing bushing, as seen in a circumferential direction, is divided into a through-flow angular region and a shut-off angular region; wherein, in the through-flow angular region, the bearing bushing has at least one discharge channel for conducting the lubricant out of the annular gap into the oil receiving chamber;
wherein the through-flow angular region extends adjacent to the shut-off angular region over an angular range of 360° minus the shut-off angular region;
wherein the bearing bushing is configured so that the shut-off angular region, starting from A+γ, wherein −10°<γ<35°, extends by a maximum of 270° counter to a direction of rotation of the roll, wherein A is a supporting load point represented by the angular position of a narrowest gap between the roll journal and the chock in event of a load.

2. The roll arrangement according to claim 1 , further comprising a journal bushing arranged on the roll journal for rotation therewith;
wherein the receiving opening of the bearing bushing is configured to receive the roll journal together with the journal bushing; and
wherein the annular gap for the lubricant is formed between the bearing bushing and the journal bushing.

3. The roll arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein, in the event of a load, the supporting load point is arranged in an angular range of φ=+/−25° with respect to a center axis Y of the roll, said center axis being perpendicular to a plane of the rolling material.

4. The roll arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one oil receiving chamber includes a barrel-side oil receiving chamber between the chock and the roll barrel and a barrel-remote oil receiving chamber at a barrel-remote end of the roll journal.

5. The roll arrangement according to claim 4 , wherein, in the through-flow angular region, the bearing bushing has at least one barrel-side discharge channel for a fluid-conducting connection of the annular gap to the barrel-side oil receiving chamber and at least one barrel-remote discharge channel for fluid-conducting connection of the annular gap to the barrel-remote oil receiving chamber.

6. The roll arrangement according to claim 4 , wherein the at least one discharge channel runs from the bearing bushing through the chock and opens from the chock into one of the at least one oil receiving chambers.

7. The roll arrangement according to claim 6 , wherein the at least one discharge channel includes a plurality of discharge channels arranged next to one another in the circumferential direction within the through-flow angular range.

8. The roll arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one discharge channel has a slot-shaped cross section that extends in the circumferential direction within the through-flow angular range.

9. The roll arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one discharge channel includes a plurality of discharge channels arranged next to one another in the circumferential direction within the through-flow angular region.

10. The roll arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein, in the through-flow angular region, the bearing bushing has a collecting oil pocket on an inner side facing the roll journal; and
wherein the at least one discharge channel is in fluid-conducting connection to the collecting oil pocket.

11. The roll arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the roll is a working roll, a supporting roll or an intermediate roll.

Assignees

• Sms Group Gmbh

Inventors

• Alken Johannes
• Seidel Ralf

Classifications

• B21B31/07 Primary

  Adaptation of roll {neck} bearings (bearings in general F16C) · CPC title

• B21B2203/18

  Rolls or rollers · CPC title

• B21B31/078

  Sealing devices (sealings in general F16J15/00) · CPC title

• B21B31/074 Primary

  Oil film bearings, e.g. "Morgoil" bearings · CPC title