Paper making and fiber liberation – Apparatus – With cutting – scoring – perforating or tearing
Reexamination Certificate
2005-09-15
2011-12-20
Halpern, Mark (Department: 1741)
Paper making and fiber liberation
Apparatus
With cutting, scoring, perforating or tearing
Reexamination Certificate
active
08080135
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for producing sheets from the pseudostems of banana plants in the family Musaceae, each pseudostem having a longitudinal axis. The method includes the steps of feeding a pseudostem (14) into a workstation, supporting (62, 34) the pseudostem for rotation thereof about its longitudinal axis within the workstation, and contacting the rotating pseudostem along substantially its entire length with a fibre-separating device (38), whereby a continuous sheet of fibre (60) is removed from the pseudostem by the fibre-separating device during rotation. Raw paper may also be made by laminating two or more of these sheets together such that the direction of the generally parallel fibres in at least two adjacent sheets is not aligned and then curing the sheets to form raw paper.
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Costellia Jeffrey L.
Halpern Mark
Nixon & Peabody LLP
Papyrus Australia Limited
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