US Patent Issued to SYNCRO on April 21 for "Method and apparatus for adjusting the thickness of a plastic film produced by cast extrusion process" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,876, issued on April 21, was assigned to SYNCRO S.R.L. (Busto Arsizio Va, Italy).

"Method and apparatus for adjusting the thickness of a plastic film produced by cast extrusion process" was invented by Gabriele Caccia (Busto Arsizio, Italy), Paolo Rizzotti (Novara, Italy), Enrico Nappa (Induno Olona, Italy) and Fabiano Sarnari (Ravenna, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing reels of plastic film by cast extrusion process is described. The steps include causing the film to flow from an extrusion head slit, adjusting its thickness, drawing the exiting film with an internally cooled roll, winding the film downstre...