US Patent Issued to FIVES STEIN on July 15 for "Device for removing mattes from the surface of a liquid metal bath inside a duct of a line for continuously coating a metal strip" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,296, issued on July 15, was assigned to FIVES STEIN (Maisons-Alfort, France).

"Device for removing mattes from the surface of a liquid metal bath inside a duct of a line for continuously coating a metal strip" was invented by Fernando Da Silva (Maisons-Alfort, France), Timothee Laloy (Maisons-Alfort, France) and Pascal Thevenet (Maisons-Alfort, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a device for removing mattes from the surface of a liquid metal bath inside a duct of a line for continuously coating a metal strip having first and second faces, the first face being intended to come into contact with a bottom roller, compris...