US Patent Issued to SMS group on June 16 for "Ring-rolling mill and method for operating same" (German, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,220, issued on June 16, was assigned to SMS group GmbH (Dusseldorf, Germany).

"Ring-rolling mill and method for operating same" was invented by Dennis Michl (Bochum, Germany), Abdelouahed Arrache (Witten, Germany) and Koos Van Putten (Voerendaal, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ring-rolling mill (1) includes a machine table (2) for accommodating the rolled material (3) and an axial stand (4) that supports at least one axial roll, preferably two axial rolls (5, 6), for rolling the end faces (7, 8) of the rolled material (3). The ring-rolling mill and a method for operation thereof facilitate rapid product change without e...