US Patent Issued to SMS GROUP on Nov. 25 for "Method for the preoxidation of strip steel in a reaction chamber arranged in a furnace chamber" (German, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,194, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SMS GROUP GMBH (Duesseldorf, Germany).

"Method for the preoxidation of strip steel in a reaction chamber arranged in a furnace chamber" was invented by Frank Maschler (Duisburg, Germany), Lutz Kuemmel (Juechen, Germany) and Jean-Pierre Crutzen (Chaudfontaine, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for the preoxidation of high-strength strip steel. The invention relates to an improved method for the preoxidation of high-strength strip steel in a reaction chamber arranged in a furnace chamber. The reaction chamber is sealed at a strip entrance and a strip exit against gas exchange between ...