US Patent Issued to SMS GROUP on Nov. 11 for "Intermediate stand guide on a vertical roll stand of a mill train, and method for guiding the rolled stock using the intermediate stand guide" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,965, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SMS GROUP GMBH (Dusseldorf, Germany).

"Intermediate stand guide on a vertical roll stand of a mill train, and method for guiding the rolled stock using the intermediate stand guide" was invented by Stefan Wendt (Hilchenbach, Germany) and Ron Beuter (Kreuztal, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an intermediate stand guide (3) on a vertical roll stand (1) of a rolling line for guiding the rolled material into a horizontal roll stand (2) or out of a horizontal roll stand (2) having at least one guide element (4), which is mounted on the vertical roll stand (1) and is a...