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An apparatus for pack cooling flat stock to be retrofitted to a standard cooling bed. The apparatus includes collecting means having a plurality of stacker arms mounted for movement with respect to the stationary notch bars of the cooling bed between a first, retracted position, in which the arms un

An apparatus for pack cooling flat stock to be retrofitted to a standard cooling bed. The apparatus includes collecting means having a plurality of stacker arms mounted for movement with respect to the stationary notch bars of the cooling bed between a first, retracted position, in which the arms underlie the notches in the stationary notch bars to permit uninterrupted transport of bar stock across the bed, and a second, lifting position in which the arms can lift a flat bar to a height sufficiently above the uppermost travel of the moving notch bars to permit a successive flat bar being transported across the cooling bed to be received in the notch of the stationary bar just vacated by the flat bar lifted by the stacker arms. Upon the return of the stacker arms to their first position, the flat bar held thereon will be placed on top of the newly-introduced flat bar to form a stack, resulting in a retarded cooling rate for the flat bars in the stack. The lifting and stacking operations may be performed as often as desired to obtain a stack of flat bars of the desired height, whereupon the stacker arms may be returned to their first position to permit the stack to be transported across the bed.

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A method of pack cooling a plurality of steel bars or the like on a cooling bed having stationary notch bars and movable notch bars to transport the steel bars from one end of the cooling bed to the other, comprising the repetitive steps of: placing a first steel bar on the notch bars of the cooling

A method of pack cooling a plurality of steel bars or the like on a cooling bed having stationary notch bars and movable notch bars to transport the steel bars from one end of the cooling bed to the other, comprising the repetitive steps of: placing a first steel bar on the notch bars of the cooling bed so that it will be transported by the movable notch bars to a stacking notch in the stationary notch bar; transporting the first steel bar to the stacking notch in the stationary notch bars; collecting the first steel bar from the stacking notch; placing a second steel bar in the stacking notch of the stationary notch bar; and returning the first steel bar on top of the second steel bar to form a stack.