ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,364, issued on June 17, was assigned to HOSOKAWA ALPINE AG (Augsburg, Germany).
"Device and process to permit monoaxial changes in the length of film webs" was invented by Bernd Bayer (Bobingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the case of a device to permit the monoaxial length change of film webs in machine direction, which comprises at least one processing gap delimited by two rolls via which a film web is routed in machine direction, whereby the first roll in film transport direction exhibits a first peripheral speed and the second roll in film transport direction exhibits a second peripheral speed, in order to produce f...