US Patent Issued to CLECIM on June 3 for "Multi-roll metal strip leveler" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,830, issued on June 3, was assigned to CLECIM S.A.S. (France).

"Multi-roll metal strip leveler" was invented by Sebastien Maillard (Vernaison, France) and Dominique Tellier (Saint Etienne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metal strip leveler (B): the strip has a thickness (e) subject to a stress distribution. The leveler includes a row of upper rolls (1, 3, 5, 7, 9.. ) and a row of lower rolls (2, 4, 6, 8, 10.. ) having parallel axes, are longitudinally offset in a direction of line of passage (lp) and are offset in height, to define, by vertical imbrication (overlapping) of the rolls, an undulating path of the strip between th...