Roll with means for removing longitudinal curvature

Claim 1

A ROLL COMPRISING AN ELONGATED TUBULAR SUPPORT OF SUBSTANTIALLY SYMMETRICAL CROSS-SECTION, SAID SUPPORT BEING SUBJECT TO EXTERNALLY-APPLIED FORCES WHOSE RESULTANT ACTS TO PRODUCE A BENDING MOMENT IN AN AXIAL PLANE TENDING TO CAUSE LONGITUDINAL CURVATURE THEREOF IN SAID PLANE; A SLEEVE, MEANS SUPPORTING SAID SLEEVE AGAINST TRANSVERSE SAGGING AND MOUNTING SAID SLEEVE FOR ROTATION ABOUT SAID SUPPORT AT MORE THAN THREE AXIALLY SPACED POINTS; A PAIR OF ABUTMENTS ENGAGED IN THE OPPOSITE ENDS OF SAID SUPPORT; AT LEAST ONE INTERMEDIATE ABUTMENT SECURED WITHIN SAID SUPPORT IN AXIALLY SPACED RELATION TO SAID END ABUTMENTS TO DEFINE AND ISOLATE A PLURALITY OF INDIVIDUAL SECTIONS OF SAID SUPPORT; AT LEAST TWO TENSION ROD MEANS EACH EXTENDING LONGITUDINALLY INTERIORLY OF SAID SUPPORT FROM SAID INTERMEDIATE ABUTMENT THROUGH A CORRESPONDING ONE OF SAID END ABUTMENTS, SAID ROD MEANS BEING PARALLEL TO AND SYMMETRICALLY SPACED ABOUT SAID AXIAL PLANE OF CURVATURE; MEANS FOR ADJUSTABLY TENSIONING SAID ROD MEANS INDIVIDUALLY; SUCH THAT THE INDIVIDUAL COMPRESSION REACTIONS TO THE TENSION IN EACH ROD MEANS, ARE APPLIED EACH THROUGH A PAIR OF SAID ABUTMENTS COMPRISING ONE OF SAID END ABUTMENTS AND SAID INTERMEDIATE ABUTMENT, TO ECCENTRICALLY COMPRESS SAID INDIVIDUAL SECTION OF SAID SUPPORT; SAID ROD MEANS BEING ARRANGED TO APPLY SAID REACTIONS TO SUBJECT SAID SUPPORT TO A BENDING MOMENT IN SAID AXIAL PLANE OPPOSING THE BENDING MOMENT APPLIED BY SAID RESULTANT; WHEREBY LONGITUDINAL CURVATURE OF SAID ROLL MAY BE ELIMINATED BY TENSIONING THE VARIOUS ROD MEANS TO ALIGN THOSE OF SAID POINTS LYING WITHIN EACH OF SAID SUPPORT SECTIONS WITH THE MAJOR AXIS OF SAID SUPPORT.