US Patent Issued to Toscotec on July 14 for "Paper making machine and process" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,230, issued on July 14, was assigned to Toscotec S.p.a. (Capannori, Italy).

"Paper making machine and process" was invented by Luca Ghelli (Turin, Italy), Paolo Raffaelli (Lucca, Italy), Gaetano Passanisi (Capannori, Italy) and Francesco Simoncini (San Lorenzo a Vaccoli, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Paper making machine comprising a forming zone in which a layer of fibrous material is formed, a zone for forced removal of water from the fibrous material layer downstream of the forming zone, a drying zone downstream of the forced removal of the water, and a paper collection zone downstream of the drying zone, and means for tran...