US Patent Issued to PRIMETALS TECHNOLOGIES GERMANY on Sept. 9 for "Cooling section with valves and pressure vessels for preventing pressure shocks" (Austrian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,483, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to PRIMETALS TECHNOLOGIES GERMANY GMBH (Germany).

"Cooling section with valves and pressure vessels for preventing pressure shocks" was invented by Erich Opitz (Linz, Austria), Lukas Pichler (Linz, Austria), Florian Poeschl (Linz, Austria), Alois Seilinger (Linz, Austria) and Klaus Weinzierl (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for cooling a metal rolling stock (1) rolled in a rolling train, having multiple cooling devices (4), to which water (5) is supplied via a respective branch line (7) and by means of which the water (5) is applied to the rolling stock (1). The branch ...