ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. RE50,897, issued on May 26, was assigned to Savita Nowar (Kolkata, India) and Shyam Newar (Kolkata, India).
"Forging press for hot forging of asymmetric to symmetric rail and process of forging thereof" was invented by Savita Newar (Kolkata, India) and Shyam Newar (Kolkata, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A forge and method of forging is provided. The forge converts an asymmetric railroad rail to a symmetric railroad rail through a combination of vertical and horizontal forging operations. The rail is linearly translated to heating and forging stations on a roller table. The asymmetric to symmetric conversion can be completed without th...