INCOMING-SIDE DEVICE OF CONTINUOUS STRIP PROCESSING LINE

PURPOSE:To decrease the strip pause time of the incoming side, by arranging a shearing machine and a path changing table from a connector side and right before the connector and carrying out the path line insertion of the following strip immediately after dividing the tail end of the preceding strip. CONSTITUTION:A continuous line process is carried out by defining a strip 15 that is carried out of an upper side strip supply device as the preceding strip, and a strip 15' carried out from a lower side strip supply device is cut by a shearing machine 3' at the tip defective part and made to wait at a path changing table 7. When the coil strip quantity within a roll-out machine 1 reaches a value right before its end, the preceding strip 15 is divided by a shearing machine 8 and by the signal of a detector. The tail end of the strip 15 moves up to the position of a connector 9 and stops there. After this, the table 7 moves up to send the following strip 15' up to the position of the connector 9. Thus the strip 15' overlaps the tail end of the strip 15. The ends of both strips 15 and 15' are connected together to immediately start the working.