ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,746, issued on March 18, was assigned to SMS Group GmbH (Duesseldorf, Germany).
"Roll stand for rolling a metal product" was invented by Dietmar Fontayne (Hilchenbach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A roll stand for rolling a metallic product and having two work-rolls supported in the roll stand by respective work-roll chocks. An axial displacement arrangement is provided with which the work-rolls can be displaced in direction of their longitudinal axes, and at least one work-roll locking arrangement is provided with which the work-roll chocks can be locked and unlocked in the roll stand. A rotation prevention arrangement is...