US Patent Issued to VALMET on Feb. 3 for "Support body and paper machine comprising such a support body" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,434, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to VALMET AB (Sundsvall, Sweden).

"Support body and paper machine comprising such a support body" was invented by Anders Leandersson (Karlstad, Sweden), Jonas Berg (Hammaro, Sweden), Anders Brattstrom (Karlstad, Sweden), Peter Jarkeborn (Karlstad, Sweden) and Adam Nordin (Karlstad, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a support body (50) for a paper machine having an extended nip formed between the support body and a counter-pressure member, wherein the support body comprises-a base body (51) comprising an upper surface facing in the first direction, -a cover body (...