US Patent Issued to First Quality Tissue on Feb. 11 for "System and method for cleaning of belts and/or fabrics used on through air drying papermaking machines" (South Carolina, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,221,748, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to First Quality Tissue LLC (Great Neck, N.Y.).

"System and method for cleaning of belts and/or fabrics used on through air drying papermaking machines" was invented by James E. Sealey II (Belton, S.C.), Marc Paul Begin (Simpsonville, S.C.) and Theodore D. Kennedy (San Mateo, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for cleaning a belt of a through air drying papermaking machine in which a high pressure shower is configured to traverse across a width of the belt of the papermaking machine while ejecting water onto the belt, and a vacuum box is operatively connected to the high pressure shower....