Owner SMS Meer GmbH

Inventors Leferink, Manfred

Agent Griffith Hack

Pub. Number AU-B-2003235800

PCT Number PCT/EP03/00090

PCT Pub. Number WO2003/057383

Priority 102 00 581.8 09.01.02 DE; 102 61 632.9 27.12.02 DE

Filing date 8 January 2003

Wipo publication date 24 July 2003

Acceptance publication date 11 May 2006

B21B 1/18 (2006.01) Metal rolling methods or mills for making semi-finished products of solid or profiled cross-section

B21B 1/20 (2006.01) Metal rolling methods or mills for making semi-finished products of solid or profiled cross-section

B21B 17/04 (2006.01) Rolling methods or mills specially designed for making or processing tubes

B21B 17/14 (2006.01) Rolling methods or mills specially designed for making or processing tubes

B21B 19/04 (2006.01) Tube-rolling by rollers arranged outside the work and having their axes not perpendicular to the axis of the work

B21B 23/00 (2006.01) Tube-rolling not restricted to methods provided for in only one of groups , e.g. combined processes

B21B 25/06 (2006.01) Mandrels for metal tube rolling mills, e.g. mandrels of the types used in the methods covered by group

B21B 37/52 (2006.01) Control devices or methods specially adapted for metal-rolling mills or the work produced thereby

B21B 37/78 (2006.01) Control devices or methods specially adapted for metal-rolling mills or the work produced thereby - Control of tube rolling