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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6665424 | Automatic inspection of print quality using an elastic model The invention relates to a process for producing by electronic means a model for automatically inspecting the print quality on deformable objects. The model is firstly produced by capturing with an electronic camera (CCD for example) the images of a set o... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6607664 | Apparatus for treating a used wiping solution The process is composed of the following steps: (a) production of the fresh wiping solution, (b) introduction of the fresh wiping solution into one or more wiping tanks, where it is contaminated by the inks. In addition, it comprises the following steps: ... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6484633 | Side wall for an ink fountain of a printing machine The side wall (5) for an ink fountain of a printing machine has two plates (11, 14) fixed some distance apart and an intermediate plate (13) having a front edge (13a) in the shape of an arc of a circle. This intermediate plate (3) is mounted between the p... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6405649 | Ink fountain blade for a printing machine The side wall (5) for an ink fountain of a printing machine has two plates (11, 14) fixed some distance apart and an intermediate plate (13) having a front edge (13a) in the shape of an arc of a circle. This intermediate plate (3) is mounted between the p... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6302016 | Machine for the security printing of security papers The machine comprises a paper sheet-feed device (1), a device (2) for transferring toward a printing unit, a device for transferring printed sheets toward a unit (8) for checking the print quality and a storage unit (10, 11, 12). The printing unit can be ... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6263790 | Machine for security printing on security paper The machine further comprises a paper sheet feed device, a device for transporting the paper and a unit for applying security images (7) supported by at least one ribbon (8, 8a). The ribbon is brought into contact with the paper (1) so that the images (7)... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6231292 | Method for unloading reams of sheets and apparatus for unloading reams of sheets An apparatus for unloading one or more reams of sheets, in particular of sheets of securities, from an exit of a machine which is part of an installation for the production of securities.... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6182959 | Method and devices for conveyance of sheets The invention relates to a method for conveyance of sheets, in which said sheets are advanced or slowed down in such a manner that a distance is altered. A value of said change in distance can be preselected.... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6142069 | Devices and method for conveyance of sheets A device for conveying sheets in a sheet-processing machine uses a processing cylinder having a circumferential speed. Conveyor belts cooperate with the cylinder for transporting sheets with the belts arranged between the processing cylinder and a chain c... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6112651 | Foil-stamping machine that can accept stamping cylinders of different diameters A foil-stamping machine for applying patterns to sheets that can exchangeably accept stamping cylinders of different diameters. The stamping cylinder is exchanged by moving it in its axial direction. Sheet conveying means interact with the stamping cylind... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6109172 | Silk-screen printing machine A machine including a printing cylinder (6) engaging two stencil cylinders (7, 18) for printing at least two non-overlapping areas in different colors using the one printing cylinder. One of the stencil cylinders (7) is conventional and enables silk-scree... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6101939 | Rotary printing machine for security papers The web fed or sheet fed printing machine for security papers, in particular banknotes, possesses a principal printing group. It further has an additional, independent printing group (20) placed upstream of the principal printing group in the feed directi... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6062134 | Embossing cylinder An embossing cylinder for embossing a foil comprising a plurality of stamping dies, where the stamping dies are mounted on the cylinder through adjustable means allowing each of the dies to be adjusted in the axial direction and in the circumferential dir... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6050187 | Wiping cylinder drive of an intaglio printing machine The wiping cylinder drive has a drive shaft (4) which is independent of the wiping cylinder shaft (2) and which, at its end facing away from the wiping cylinder, is connected to the drive member (15) with the aid of a claw coupling (10). Inserted between ... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6050606 | Safety drawing for securities The drawing has a background (10) composed of at least a first region and a second region juxtaposed. Each of said regions comprises its own geometrical drawing so that the first region has a color density which is stronger than that of the second region,... | 04/18/2000 |
| 5960716 | Impression cylinder of a sheet-fed machine having grippers and a cover arranged in a cylinder pit The invention relates to an impression cylinder (1) intended for a sheet-fed machine and having at least one cylinder gap (3) in which sheet grippers (4) are arranged in such a manner that, when closed, they do not project over the envelope of the periphe... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5899145 | Intaglio printing press The intaglio printing machine comprises a main structure (6), a plate cylinder (4), an impression cylinder (3), a wiping device (10) and an inking system consisting of a collector inking cylinder (5), of at least four color-selector cylinders (7a to 7d), ... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5649890 | Draw roller for the transport of a material web, particularly a paper web in a web-fed printing machine The draw roller is designed as a suction roller with a rotatable roller casing having orifices, and the material web loops around the draw roller along a circumferential portion. The internal suction-air supply connectable to a negative-pressure source op... | 07/22/1997 |
| 5626005 | Apparatus for producing packs of notes from bundles of notes of value The apparatus has a distributor (11) with a straight conveying section (12), on which the N bundles of notes originating from a stack of sheets of notes are advanced one behind the other up to N predetermined bundle positions. Fitted underneath the convey... | 05/06/1997 |
| 5598006 | Installation for quality control of printed sheets, especially security paper The installation for quality control of printed sheets (1) comprises means (8-13) for transferring said sheets, and cameras (2, 4, 6) for checking the print quality. The transfer means (8-13) are designed to transport the sheets in a plane and to allow th... | 01/28/1997 |
| 5590507 | Process and apparatus for processing sheets of notes to form bundles of notes A sequence of H sheets of notes, for example 100 sheets, is first of all checked for misprints, and the note positions having misprints of each sheet are stored in a computer. The sheets of this sequence then pass a numbering machine (4), which has freely... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5592573 | Method and apparatus for determining mis-registration An image processing apparatus includes a data acquisition stage for acquiring data representative of several spatially separated regions of a sample. The apparatus also includes data storage means for storing reference data corresponding to the sample dat... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5555805 | Printing unit for a web-fed printing machine The printing unit has two cooperating cylinders (1, 4) which form the printing nip and which have printing saddles (2, 5) separated by cylinder pits (3, 6). The paper web (7) passing through the printing nip is transported in the pilgrim-step mode, in ord... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5540146 | Web-fed printing machine having a register device for aligning the paper web The web-fed printing machine has two cylinders (2, 3) which form the nip, a paper-web-directing device (10) with an infeed roller (14) and a discharge roller (15), which are arranged adjustably on both sides of the nip (S), and an upstream web-feeding dev... | 07/30/1996 |
| 5530562 | Apparatus for image acquisition with speed compensation An image acquisition system includes a transport mechanism for transporting sheets of objects past a sensor. The sensor scans the objects and generates data streams which are scaled by a multiplier to compensate for the speed variation of the transport me... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5461977 | Device for transferring single sheets to the impression cylinder of a sheet fed rotary printing machine The device has a sheet-transfer cylinder (2) with a movable setting plate (3) which bears the sheet grippers (4) and whose lateral ends are individually adjustable during each revolution of the transfer cylinder (2) with the aid in each case of a roller l... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5440601 | Counting station for counting the notes of value, in particular banknotes, of a banderoled pack of notes The counting station has a transporting section (2b), on which the banderoled packs of notes (P) are moved at certain intervals uniformally past the rotating counting disk (1a, 1a') of a note-counting device (1, 1') fixedly installed on this transporting ... | 08/08/1995 |
| 5435247 | Printing plate with raised etched image The relief printing part (2) of the printing plate, which is intended to be inked over its entire surface, includes at least one etched recessed pattern (4) intended to be filled with the same ink as that serving for the inking of the relief printing part... | 07/25/1995 |
| 5429044 | Security printing machine Machine for security printing on security papers, especially bank notes, comprising a device (1) for feeding with paper, a device for transporting the paper and a unit (19) for applying optically variable images supported by at least one tape which is bro... | 07/04/1995 |
| 5394486 | Method and apparatus for monitoring image processing operations An image processing system with self monitoring includes an image acquisition module for acquiring data corresponding to an image, and one or more image processing modules. The acquisition module interleaves the variable (and therefore unpredictable) imag... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5390598 | Wiping device for an intaglio printing machine In an installation for cleaning the wiping cylinder (1) of an intaglio printing machine, including a plurality of cleaning elements in contact with the periphery of the wiping cylinder and constituted by brushes (4) and/or wiping blades (3) as well as at ... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5368148 | Device for conveying printed sheets in an installation for checking the quality of paper money The device comprises a conveyor chain (1) for the sheets to be checked (3) by a detector (5). The support bars (4, 4'), on which the sheet to be examined (3) slides, are fitted, in the checking zone, with suction nozzles (4a) and in the gap between two su... | 11/29/1994 |
| 5341910 | Apparatus for turning flat objects On the conveyor track (1) on which the objects (2a, 2b) to be turned are moved at an equal distance apart by slides (3a, 3b), there is provided along a turning zone an advancement mechanism having an advancement member in the form of a spring bar (5), whi... | 08/30/1994 |
| 5288065 | Method for separating sheets of paper stacked in reams and device for implementing this method The method consists, while the ream is applied against a curved surface, in exerting pressure forces against the outer sheet of said ream, along a line of application parallel to the generatrices of the curved surface, moving this line over the entire len... | 02/22/1994 |
| 5282417 | Intaglio printing machine with direct and color-collect inking The intaglio printing machine has three machine stands (I, II, III). Essentially, the impression cylinder (1) and the plate cylinder (2) are mounted in the first stand (I), the stencil rollers (10) and the inking unit (11) are mounted in the second stand ... | 02/01/1994 |
| 5255907 | Device for conveying printed sheets in an installation for checking the quality of paper money The device comprises a conveying cylinder (1) for the sheets (3) to be checked, which is provided with a bar of sheet-clamps (2) and at least one detector (4). In proximity to the detector (4), there is provided a calibrating strip (6) mounted in a movabl... | 10/26/1993 |
| 5230286 | Inking unit for a printing machine The side walls (2) of the ink fountain (1) bear with their front edge on the circumference of the ductor roller (4) solely in the region of the entry face (2a) and of the exit face (2c), whilst the intermediate middle region (2b) forms with the ductor rol... | 07/27/1993 |
| 5230456 | Draw-roller unit for a web-printing machine The draw-roller unit has only one suction roller (20b, 21b) as a draw roller, in which a constantly acting suction effect is effective along that circumferential portion round which the paper web is looped, whilst the remaining circumferential portion exp... | 07/27/1993 |
| 5222432 | Wiping device of an intaglio printing machine The wiping device operates with at least one cylinder (3) which receives the ink raised from the printing plates and against which rests a doctor blade (4) which removes the ink from said cylinder (3). In order to clean the doctor blade (4) reliably from ... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5152220 | Wiping device for the plate cylinder of an intaglio printing machine The wiping device has a trough (4) and a wiping cylinder (2) which is mounted in the mutually opposite side walls (4a) of the trough (4). The trough (4) is itself mounted tiltably about a pivot axis (6) lying at least approximately in that plane (T') whic... | 10/06/1992 |
