Laminating
A laminate is a material that can be constructed by uniting two or more layers of material together. The process of creating a laminate is lamination, which in common parlance refers to the placing of something between layers of plastic and glueing them with heat and/or pressure, usually with an adhesive.
(Wikipedia, Laminate, 12/6/2010)
Recent US Patents
12/19/2010
7,807,001
Lamination device method for flexographic plate manufacturing
Zwadlo et al of Eastman Kodak, New York laminated a masking film onto a pre-press flexographic printing plate in optical contact with the film by applying a balanced, non-distorting, optimized force to the flexographic printing plate and masking film. (RDC 12/19/2010)
9/28/2010
7,802,597
Press apparatus
Okazaki. Hideki and Ryoji of Kitagawa Seiki, Japan have developed a press for both hot and cold pressing for laminating and molding a resin and copper foil. The cold pressing can be performed after the hot pressing by inserting the cooling plates between the heating plates such that the product is cold-pressed between the cooling plates to which pressing pressure is applied via the heating plates. (RDC 12/6/2010)