US Patent Issued to Inter IKEA Systems on Sept. 23 for "Molding of fiber blanks into three-dimensional fiber block articles" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,497, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Inter IKEA Systems B.V. (Delft, Netherlands).

"Molding of fiber blanks into three-dimensional fiber block articles" was invented by Anders Bergner (Halmstad, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fiber block molding apparatus comprising: -a mold having a lower part and an upper part forming between them a cavity for forming a fiber blank into a fiber block article upon closing the mold; -a conveyor system for receiving the fiber blank to be molded at a receiving position, transporting the fiber blank via a heater for activation of a binding agent, and delivering the heated fiber blank into ...