METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BINDING HOT-ROLLED STEEL STRIP COIL

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent reliably a press flaw from occurring due to band seal which causes a press flaw, without using any cushioning materials, by tightening a coil with a coil binding band at a position of an intersecting line on the far side from a tail end of a steel strip from among intersecting lines between a horizontal plane including the center axis of the coil and an outer peripheral face of the coil. SOLUTION: A coil 1 withdrawn from a take-up machine is temporarily placed on a coil pacing table 2, and a lower shoot 3 is advanced by a cylinder 4 for the lower shoot to close a part of a loop for a binding band, which has been open. Then, a binding head 6 is elevated up to, or lowered down to, the height of the center axis of the coil while being adjusted to the outer diameter of the coil. Subsequently, an upper band shoot 9 on the side of the binding head 6 is lowered down by a cylinder 10 to a position where it does not interfere with the binding head 6. In a like manner, a lower band shoot 11 on the side of the binding head 6 is elevated by a cylinder 12 up to a position where it does not interfere with the binding head 6, thus completing the loop for the binding band. Thereafter, the binding band is advanced, and the band is tightened and fixed by the binding band 6.