ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,431, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to PRIMETALS TECHNOLOGIES GERMANY GMBH (Germany).
"Processing method and plant for welding metal strips" was invented by Josef Hofbauer (Erlangen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing plant for metal strips (1) has a welding machine, a strip store downstream of the welding machine and a processing device downstream of the strip store. The metal strips are welded to form a continuous strip with the welding machine, which is stored in the strip store and output from there to the processing device. The metal strips are connected via diagonally extending weld seams. To join the weld sea...