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The Origin of Rolling Mill


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2021-11-09

It is said that there was a rolling mill in Europe in the 14th century, but it is recorded that in 1480, the Italian Leonardo da Vinci designed the sketch of the rolling mill. In 1553, the Frenchman Brewer (Brulier) rolled out gold and silver plates to make coins. Rolling mills have since appeared in Spain, Belgium and England.

It is said that there was a rolling mill in Europe in the 14th century, but it is recorded that in 1480, the Italian Leonardo da Vinci designed the sketch of the rolling mill. In 1553, the Frenchman Brewer (Brulier) rolled out gold and silver plates to make coins. Rolling mills have since appeared in Spain, Belgium and England. Figure 1 The mill designed in 1728 for the production of round bars is the mill designed in England in 1728 for the production of round bars. Britain had a serial small rolling mill in 1766. In the middle of the 19th century, the first reversible plate rolling mill was put into operation in Britain and rolled out marine iron plates. In 1848, Germany invented the Wanneng type rolling mill. In 1853, the United States began to use a three-roll profile rolling mill (Figure 2, the original three-roll rolling mill side view) and mechanized it with a lifting platform driven by a steam engine. Then came the Lauter mill in the United States. The first continuous rolling mill was built in 1859. The Wanneng profile mill appeared in 1872. At the beginning of the 20th century, it was made into a semi-continuous strip mill, consisting of two three-high roughing mills and five four-high finishing mills.