ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,457, issued on April 15, was assigned to SMS group GmbH (Dusseldorf, Germany).
"Method for inductively heating steel ingots on a transport shoe and device for carrying out the method" was invented by Klaus Fussbroich (Cologne, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shell (10) acts as a transporting shoe for steel ingots, which are pushed through a preferably tubular induction furnace for inductive heating for the purpose of producing seamless tubes by the extrusion process. The shell (10) is formed in such a way that it partially reaches around the contour of the steel ingot to be heated. The shell is provided at one end leading in ...