ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,285, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SMS group GmbH (Dusseldorf, Germany).
"Roller assembly" was invented by Holger Eckelsbach (Monheim, Germany) and Stefan Peggen (Wassenberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a roller assembly (1) comprising two roller shafts which are mounted in a housing. The roller shafts are preferably mounted parallel to each other, and each roller shaft has at least one roller ring on the axial end region of the roller shaft. A seal assembly is secured on or in the housing, said seal assembly being used to allow the axial end region of the roller shafts, together with the roller...