Apples or oranges? A user-centred framework for co-operative user profile management

An apparatus for conveying tubular or bar-shaped rolled stock is provided having a collecting device which collects pieces of tube or bars from a cooling bed in closely spaced pockets, a transverse conveying device having the same pocket spacing as the collecting device which picks the collected pieces from the collecting device and transports them to and deposits them on a longitudinal conveyor, by means of which the pieces of rolled stock are fed to a cutting device which has a clamping device also provided with the same pocket spacing as the collecting device and which cuts the stock into portions of predetermined length.