Hot Rolled Slitting

In this process hot rolled carbon steel coils are cut down into a no. of smaller coils of narrower measure to get customer specified widths. Slitting is also a shearing process, but rather than making cuts at the end of a workpiece like shearing, slitting us used to cut a wide coil of metal into a number of narrower coils as the main coil is moved through the slitter. During the slitting process, the metal coil passes lengthwise through the slitter's circular blades. For sheet metal, two cylindrical rolls with matching ribs and grooves are used to cut a large roll into multiple narrower rolls. This continuous production process is very economical yet precise; usually more precise than most other cutting processes. However, the occurrence of rough or irregular edges known as burrs are commonplace on slit edges. Also, the geometry of these rolls is determined by specific tolerances in addition to the type of material and work piece thickness.

1.0.1 Material Specification a. Raw Material 1.0.2 Dimensional Specification a. Maximum Width b. Maximum Thickness c. Maximum Weight 2000mm 7mm 35 MT Hot rolled carbon steel

1.0.3 Line Specification a. Maximum Speed 100m/min

1.0.4 Line Description

a. Coil Car: Transfers coil from the coil saddles and places the coils on the pay off reel. There are two coil cars one at the beginning known as coil loading car and other at end of slitting line known as exit coil respectively. The coil loading car transfers coils from the crane to the uncoiler fast and efficiently.

b. Pay off reel/uncoiler: It is the reel on which the coil to be processes is loaded, once the strap of the roll is cut manually. It feeds the slitting line, de-coiled material under controlled back tension. c. Peeler: The peeler allows back bending of the lead edge to remove coil set and threads it into the next line operation without manual handling. d. Hold down roll/pinch roll: A pinch roll is provided for smooth feeding of the strip as it is uncoiled from the pay off reel.

e. Leveler: The leveler straightens/levels the strip and corrects shape at close tolerances. f. Shear: The crop shear squares off the leading and tail end of the coils. g. Slitter: Slitter with pinch rolls, threads the strip into the cutters used with a guide table to centre the strip h. Side guide: It guides edges trimmed from the slitter to the scrap winder. i. Scrap winder: The scrap winder winds edges trimmed from the slitter into easily handled scrap bundles. j. Tension station: The tension station is a unit that automatically keeps strip tension constant off unwinds as tha coil builds down. Unwind tension is adjustable by initial out diameter of coil and thickness of coil. k. Recoiler: The recoiler with over arm separator is the workhorse of the slitting line and sets line speed and coil tension.

1.0.5 Tool Material: 6CrW2Si steel

1.1 Setting of cutters: Thickness in mm

1.6 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0 5.0 6.0

Crap setting in mm
0.16 0.20 0.25 0.30 0.35 0.40 0.50 0.60