US Patent Issued to NIPPON STEEL on July 1 for "Scum adsorbing member, twin roll continuous casting device, and method of producing slab" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,793, issued on July 1, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Scum adsorbing member, twin roll continuous casting device, and method of producing slab" was invented by Yuichi Kato (Tokyo) and Naotsugu Yoshida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scum adsorbing member provided in a twin roll continuous casting device to produce a slab by supplying a molten metal to a molten metal storage section formed by a pair of rotatable cooling rolls and a pair of side weirs, and forming and growing a solidified shell on each circumferential surface of the pair of cooling rolls, so that a part of the scum adsorbing member is immersed in t...