US Patent Issued to Kadant on Nov. 11 for "Doctor blade including natural reinforcement fabric layers bonded together with bio-derived resin matrix" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,203, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Kadant Inc. (Westford, Mass.).

"Doctor blade including natural reinforcement fabric layers bonded together with bio-derived resin matrix" was invented by Michael Draper (Wigan, Great Britain) and Ka Lun To (Bury, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A doctor blade for contacting a roll surface in a papermaking machine is provided that includes a plurality of reinforcement fabric layers bonded together with a renewable, sustainable, eco-friendly, bio-derived resin matrix, thereby forming a multi-layer composite having a beveled edge contacting a roll surface. Each reinforcement fabric la...