ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,560, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to fischerwerke GmbH & Co. KG (Waldachtal, Germany).
"Cross edge rolling" was invented by Christoph Wiedner (Feldkirch, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cross edge rolling process for increasing a thickness of a strip in longitudinal edge strips on both longitudinal sides of the strip. According to the invention, this is achieved in that firstly a step extending in the longitudinal direction of the strip is produced by means of a roll profiling process, wherein the strip is supported during the cross edge rolling process on said step against a compression force acting transversely to the...