ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,382, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to JOHN COCKERILL S.A. (Seraing, Belgium).
"Device for cooling a metal strip with a hot dip coating of high thickness" was invented by Fabian Pizzuto (Saint-Nicolas, Belgium), Michel Dubois (Boncelles, Belgium) and Giuseppe Lombardo (Seraing, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An installation for adjusting a thickness of a hot liquid coating on a traveling strip with suppression of "angel wing" flow defects, the traveling strip having a thickness equal to or greater than 2 mm, and for cooling the coating, the coating thickness being in a range above 25 micro metre, the installation successively ...