SECTION OF WIRE ROD COOLING Russian patent published in 1998 - IPC

FIELD: rolling, in particular, design and arrangement of equipment for treatment of wire rod in mill process flow, mainly, air treatment; may be used on small-section and wire mills provided with lines of two-stage cooling of rolled products. SUBSTANCE: section has roller conveyor of turns combined with cooling device. The latter is made in the form of through heat-insulating tunnel with covers provided with means for air supply to its working space in the form of forced fans located under roller conveyor. Heat-insulating tunnel is made in the form of a row of single-type, gas-tight aerodynamically neutral with respect to adjacent volumes, joined sections, each is provided with forced fan. Each section has means of convective thermostating made in the form of closed circulation circuit having additional fan, supplying and discharging headers, electric heater and pipeline of circulation circuit. Means of convective thermostating of each section have means for automatic regulation of air temperature in its working space having temperature-sensitive element of working space, remote-controlled thermoregulator and multiposition switch installed in the electric heating circuit. EFFECT: extended process potentialities of wire rod cooling section in production of wire rod of wide range and excluded patenting in hardware shops with respective improvement of ecological situations in the region of the enterprise. 2 dwg