US Patent Issued to VARDEN PROCESS on July 15 for "Pulp fibre material processing tool for use in a thermoforming process" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,205, issued on July 15, was assigned to VARDEN PROCESS PTY LTD (Clayton, Australia).

"Pulp fibre material processing tool for use in a thermoforming process" was invented by Mark Appleford (Clayton, Australia) and Stuart Gordon (Clayton, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tool for a thermoforming process to form a moulded product from wet pulp fibre material includes two or more moulds each having a moulding surface, an actuator assembly, and a fluid extraction system. At least one of the moulds is displaceable by the actuator assembly between first and second positions and has fluid extraction paths extending through the mou...