After surveying the various types of hot rolling mill units for heavy ingots and their evolution, the author selects for description certain examples of progressive design from his own recent experience. These include an adaptation of modern heavy mill manipulation to an existing blooming mill, incorporating fabricated steel structures in place of steel castings for mill tables, small hand-worked mills for the accurate finish of high-class steels in small bar sizes, a modern high-production four-strand continuous wire rod mill plant, and two examples of development in rolling mill auxiliaries. The question of roll neck bearings is discussed and a special bronze and white-metal combination roll neck bearing is described.
Continuous wire reinforcement for jammed granular architecture
