ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,972, issued on June 3, was assigned to SGIC INC. (Tokushima, Japan).
"Double-belt press" was invented by Keisuke Sei (Anan, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a double-belt press, an inner seal has an inner seal flow passage having an intake port via which a sealing fluid supplied into an inner sealing groove is taken in and a jet port via which the sealing fluid taken in via the intake port jets toward belts. The outer seal has an outer seal flow passage having an intake port via which the sealing fluid supplied into an outer sealing groove is taken in and a jet port via which the sealing fluid taken in via the intake port jets ...