US Patent Issued to Primetals Technologies USA on Sept. 30 for "High production quality round wire rod using a slit rolling process" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,563, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Primetals Technologies USA LLC (Alpharetta, Ga.).

"High production quality round wire rod using a slit rolling process" was invented by Steven Morgan (Neath Port Talbot, Great Britain) and Matthew D. Palfreman (Charlton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed within is a slit section pass formation unit having a pair of rolls and a de-ribbing means, where the pair of rolls has a roll profile configured to produce a pair of slit rods with symmetrical dimensions, the pair of slit rods connected via a rib, and the de-ribbing means to remove the rib in its entirety forming a first slit ro...