US Patent Issued to SMS group on Dec. 9 for "Cross-rolling unit and method for setting the roll pass of a cross-rolling unit" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,549, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SMS group GmbH (Duesseldorf, Germany).

"Cross-rolling unit and method for setting the roll pass of a cross-rolling unit" was invented by Martin Sauerland (Moenchengladbach, Germany), Susanne Zeller (Moenchengladbach, Germany) and Matthias Krahn (Moenchengladbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cross-rolling unit and a method for setting the roll pass of a cross-rolling unit, having at least two rolls and a roll housing, in which at least one of the rolls is mounted such that its position can be adjusted in order to change the roll pass, allow the roll pass to be adjusted by means of a r...