ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,256, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Valmet Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Belt" was invented by Vesa-Matti Riihioja (Tampere, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to a method for manufacturing a belt for a paper, board, pulp or tissue machine, the belt (5) comprising a body (14), and a reinforcing structure (31, 32), the belt (5) having an inner surface (10) and an outer surface (11), wherein the method comprises: applying a coating comprising a solid lubricant on to a casting cylinder (18), drying the coating comprising the solid lubricant, thereby obtaining solid lubricant particles (29) on the cast...