US Patent Issued to SMS group on Jan. 13 for "Method and device for guiding and centering a metal rolling stock in a rolling mill" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,777, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SMS group GmbH (Dusseldorf, Germany).

"Method and device for guiding and centering a metal rolling stock in a rolling mill" was invented by Christian Mengel (Siegen, Germany), Olaf Norman Jepsen (Siegen, Germany), Bernhard Ehls (Hilchenbach, Germany) and Wolfgang Fuchs (Hilchenbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a device for guiding and centering a metallic rolling stock in a rolling mill having at least one assembly that is arranged in a rolling line and at least one rolling mill stand for shaping the rolling stock are disclosed. The method includes the use of lateral gui...