US Patent Issued to ArcelorMittal on March 31 for "Apparatus and method for dip coating a metal strip using a moveable overflow" (French, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,343, issued on March 31, was assigned to ArcelorMittal (Luxembourg).

"Apparatus and method for dip coating a metal strip using a moveable overflow" was invented by Hubert Saint-Raymond (Metz, France), Amico Settefrati (Essey-les-Nancy, France), Bert Van Nieuwenhuyze (Ghent, Belgium), Kristof Van Dyck (Zoersel, Belgium), Freddy Kreps (Ghent, Belgium), Whoudhouh Memni (Paris) and Jose Veg (Brenouille, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An equipment for the continuous hot dip-coating of a metallic strip comprising: an annealing furnace, a tank containing a liquid metal bath, a snout connecting the annealing furnace and said bath, th...