Patent ID: 7899357

Claim:
A reinforced doctor blade assembly seal, comprising: a base strip of a flexible plastic film having a thickness, a surface of predetermined area bounded by multiple edges, and a foldable region extending length-wise of said base strip between one pair of said multiple edges and spaced from and located intermediately between another pair of said multiple edges; a supplemental strip of a flexible plastic film having a thickness and a surface of predetermined area bounded by multiple edges and being laminated onto said flexible plastic film of said base strip offset from and along one side of said foldable region on said base strip such that said base strip has laminated and non-laminated portions along opposite sides of said fold region with the thickness of the laminated portion being greater than the thickness of the non-laminated portion; and an adhesive layer on at least a section of said non-laminated portion of said base strip extending between said one pair of multiple edges of said base strip; wherein the base strip, the supplemental strip and the adhesive layer form a unitary assembly.