ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,065, issued on April 14, was assigned to DANIELI & C. OFFICINE MECCANICHE S.P.A. (Buttrio, Italy).
"Cleaning plant for metal products" was invented by Luciano Vignolo (Udine, Italy), Alessandra Primavera (Faedis, Italy) and Emanuele Trucillo (Udine, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleaning plant for hot-rolled metal strips provided with a surface oxide layer, the plant comprising unwinding means for unwinding at least one coil of rolled strip and pickling means for pickling said rolled strip; wherein there are provided measuring means for measuring the thickness of the surface oxide layer, arranged between said unwinding mean...