Roller entry guide for rod mills
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1. A roller entry guide for a rod mill comprising:
- a body having a passageway formed therein for guiding the passage of a rod as it passes therethrough,a pair of pivoting arms mounted on said body on opposing sides of the rod passageway,a pair of reversible roller guide members mounted on said pivoting arms at the ends thereof for engaging said rod as it passes through said guide,means to direct a stream of high speed fluid onto said roller guide members in such a manner as to cause rotation of said roller guide members,each of said roller guide members having a plurality of fluid reaction pockets arranged in a ring on each roller guide member, said pockets being in the form of a slightly rounded parallelapiped.
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Abstract
A roller for a steel mill entry guide in which pockets are formed in at least one of the flat annular surfaces on the side of the roller. The pockets are used to intersect a stream of moving fluid projected at the surface of the roller containing the pockets to force the rollers to rotate whilst no work is passing through the guide. The pockets are of a rectangular shape and are easy to fabricate and have no preferential direction of rotation.
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1. A roller entry guide for a rod mill comprising:
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a body having a passageway formed therein for guiding the passage of a rod as it passes therethrough, a pair of pivoting arms mounted on said body on opposing sides of the rod passageway, a pair of reversible roller guide members mounted on said pivoting arms at the ends thereof for engaging said rod as it passes through said guide, means to direct a stream of high speed fluid onto said roller guide members in such a manner as to cause rotation of said roller guide members, each of said roller guide members having a plurality of fluid reaction pockets arranged in a ring on each roller guide member, said pockets being in the form of a slightly rounded parallelapiped. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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