Pouring reel

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENT Referring now to the drawings, there is shown at 10 a pouring reel for forming a longitudinally moving mill product, for example a round bar, into an upstanding cylindrical coil.
By way of illustration, a typical coil forming operation might entail receiving 3/4" bar at a mill delivery speed of 4000 f.
p.
m.
and at a temperature of approximately 1700.
degree.
F.
, and forming said bar into an upstanding coil weighing 6000 lbs.
, with an outer diameter of 54", an inner diameter of 39" and a height of approximately 75".
It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that coils of this size and weight are relatively unstable, and thus special precautions must be taken to avoid coil distortion during handling and transit.
The pouring reel 10 includes a rotatable tub 12 having a bottom 14, a cylindrical side wall 16 open at the top as at 18, and a circular row of pin members 20 arranged concentrically within the side wall.
The tub bottom 14 is secured to the collar 22 of a vertical shaft 24 rotatably supported between bearings 26.
The shaft 24 carries a driven bevel gear 28a in meshed relationship with a driving bevel gear 28b on horizontal shaft 30.
Shaft 30 is connected by means of a coupling 32 to a drive motor (not shown).
The rotatable tub 12 is disclosed within an outer fixed cylindrical housing 34 carrying conventional nozzles, piping, etc.
(not shown) for applying cooling water to the external surface of the rotatable tub wall 16.
The pin members 20 have angularly extending feet 36 which extend downwardly through openings 38 in the tub bottom 14.
The feet 36 are connected as at 40 to brackets 42 on the underside of the tub bottom.
The pin members are pivotal between substantially vertical operative positions as shown by the solid lines in FIG.
1, and inoperative inwardly inclined positions as shown by the dot-dash lines at 20' in FIG.
1.
When operatively positioned, the pin members 20 cooperate with the tub side wall 16 to define an annular coil forming chamber 44