ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,995, issued on July 1, was assigned to Occendo AB (Spanga, Sweden).
"Extended nip press apparatus" was invented by Tomas Anderson (Spanga, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extended nip press apparatus (1) for removing water from a web (20), comprising a rotatable backing roll (2), an elongated press device (3, 30) cooperating with the backing roll for defining between the elongated press device (3, 30) and the backing roll (2) an extended nip (4). The elongated press device is provided with a perforated belt (5, 50). A moveable, permeable carrying medium (6a) is arranged to be passed through the extended nip, and to support on...