4-Roll Kocks Reduction Mill and Related Kinematics

Described in the article are the structure and operation principle of the 4-roll Kocks Reduction Mill newly developed by Friedrich Kocks GmbH & Co. Owing to the rather complex structure and unique movement process of rolling of the mill, it is impossible to use relevant conventional method to study the movement thereof. The paper focuses on an introduction of the result of the kinematics research on the mill with the so called "velocity vector" method.