US Patent Issued to SMS group on April 7 for "Device and method for machining the edges of casting strands" (German, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,685, issued on April 7, was assigned to SMS group GmbH (Dusseldorf, Germany).

"Device and method for machining the edges of casting strands" was invented by Florian Reinfeld (Wesel, Germany), Dirk TheviBen (Hergenrath, Belgium) and Thomas Leisten (Huckelhoven, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for machining the edges of casting strands includes one machining tool each that can be brought into contact with a longitudinal edge of the casting strand, and at least one guide element for perpendicularly applying the machining tools to the longitudinal edges. Means are provided for moving the machining tools in parallel to the...