US Patent Issued to SMS group on March 18 for "Crosshead for use as an upper and/or lower beam in a press" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,751, issued on March 18, was assigned to SMS group GmbH (Dusseldorf, Germany).

"Crosshead for use as an upper and/or lower beam in a press" was invented by David Husgen (Korschenbroich, Germany), Michael Busch (Viersen, Germany), Mohamed Houari (Castrop-Rauxel, Germany) and Frederik Knauf (Nideggen-Abenden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crosshead (1) for use as an upper and/or lower beam (50, 60) in a press (100), in particular an open-die forging press or a closed-die forging press, comprises an upper chord (2) and a lower chord (5) connected to the upper chord (2) via a first and a second lateral upright (3, 4). The fir...