US Patent Issued to Valmet Technologies on Oct. 14 for "Stud for a doctor blade holder in a fiber web machine and doctor blade assembly for a fiber web machine" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,136, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Valmet Technologies Inc. (Espoo, Finland).

"Stud for a doctor blade holder in a fiber web machine and doctor blade assembly for a fiber web machine" was invented by Stephane Lecuyer (Troi-Rivieres, Canada) and Jonathan Olszak (Beloit, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of studs mount a doctor blade holder to a doctor back in a fiber web machine for slidable extraction of the doctor blade holder in the cross machine direction. Each stud (15) has a body (16) with a cylindrical center segment with a protruding nonround flange (17) formed as a single piece with the center segment. Oppo...