US Patent Issued to SMS group on Dec. 9 for "Stabilization of the rolled product during opening and/or closing of a roll stand" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,551, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SMS group GmbH (Dusseldorf, Germany).

"Stabilization of the rolled product during opening and/or closing of a roll stand" was invented by Olaf Norman Jepsen (Siegen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rolling mill stand has two working rolls forming a roll gap in which a rolled product transported in a conveying direction can be formed. The positioning of at least one working roll is variable in a plane perpendicular to the conveying direction. The rolling mill is used in a method which comprises: conveying the rolled product through the roll gap in the conveying direction and at the same t...