When did laminating machines come out?

Lamination History

Lamination is used to strength, protect, and waterproof tiles, paper, wood, and other types of formats. Lamination has been dated the 's through the 's of the modern century. Moving from hand application to commercial applications lamination is used widely today.

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Lamination is the process of fusing a sheet of paper or medium between two thin sheets of plastic. This plastic is normally cellulose acetate. Cellulose acetate is a film base in photography that is a synthetic fiber.  Lamination protects a medium from environmental contaminates and residues left by handlers.   It was later replaced with a nitrate film in the 's. It is less flammable and cheaper to produce.

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Organizations with large collections like the Library of Congress began lamination in the late 's -'s. Due to large budgets these organizations could purchase bulky equipment that changed and evolved over time. Organizations that lacked their own equipment hired other agencies for these protective services.

William Barrow a fore father of lamination experimented with ways to refine the process. With the backing of the National Bureau of Standards, a way to standardize lamination occur. The sample would be deacidified, by neutralizing damaging acids that can lay dormant and inherent to paper. Next the medium would be layered between thin sheets of tissue and cellulose acetate. The cellulose acetate increased the flexibility and decreases the temperature required to soften it.  The tissue improves the strength, internal tear resistance, and folding. The layered medium is then heated in a laminating press. The heat melts the plastic layer, while the high pressure forces the cellulose acetate into the folds of the paper. The medium is then finished with a semi-flexible coating.

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AGL advanced into Human Machine Interfaces (HMI's) in this decade providing for one touch control of all machinery process features of some of our more automated equipment. These HMI's were custom created from a platform of software that ranges from machine speed to product tensions to web cooling and various windup features. Just to name a few of them.

Present

AGL's unique ability to satisfy specialized process requirements is still available today. AGL, Inc. offers customized engineering and manufacturing capabilities to satisfy specialty applications to serve industries such as Automotive, Converting, Custom, Foam/Gasket, Glass, Graphic and Solar. AGL continues to advance our engineering expertise to these industries.

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