US Patent Issued to ACCO BRANDS on Aug. 19 for "High-speed in-line cold laminating unit" (Illinois, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,030, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to ACCO BRANDS Corp. (Lake Zurich, Ill.).

"High-speed in-line cold laminating unit" was invented by James R. Newell (Vernon Hills, Ill.), Peter J. Lee (McHenry, Ill.), Benjamin R. Anderson (Buffalo Grove, Ill.) and Peter D. Hotkowski (Chester, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high-speed, cold laminating system includes a lamination unit for inline use connected with a paper feeder supplying at least 30 ppm. The lamination unit further includes a set of unheated motor-driven laminating pressure rollers along a laminating path, and a cutter between the rollers and an exit. A diverter gate pass...