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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4085402 | Multiplexing of actuator control signals An apparatus for remote control of a printing press having a plurality of printing units each having a number of ink fountain key actuators, avoids duplication of remote control circuitry and of wiring by multiplexing a small number of remote controls and... | 04/18/1978 |
| 4072104 | Printing unit drive system An improved drive system for driving one unit of a printing press includes first and second meshing gears which are fixedly connected with blanket cylinders of the printing unit. Third and fourth gears are driven by the associated blanket cylinder gears a... | 02/07/1978 |
| 4008664 | Ink key control system In a printing press, a remote control apparatus for adjusting ink keys to control ink film thickness at various lateral portions of the ink fountain has an inspection table for supporting paper printed with an image by the press and a plurality of switche... | 02/22/1977 |
| 3995231 | Mode-locked cavity-dumped laser A mode-locked cavity-dumped laser in which the dumping is phase-coherently synchronized with the mode locking. An acousto-optic modulator is employed in the cavity for dumping. On two passes through the modulator, an envelope pulse of light has two portio... | 11/30/1976 |
| 3986614 | Signature handling A tray is adapted to be supported on an elevator mechanism and moves vertically by the elevator mechanism to pick up a shingled array of signatures which are supported on edge in an inclined position adjacent the elevator mechanism. The tray includes a ge... | 10/19/1976 |
| 3979742 | Apparatus for generating graphical configurations Apparatus for forming graphical configurations, such as alphanumeric characters, on a radiant energy surface, such as the face of a cathode ray tube, with an energy beam. The apparatus includes a path segment length command means which serves to provide a... | 09/07/1976 |
| 3960374 | Sheet delivery system Sheet delivery device employing a vertically-movable main pile hoist, a horizontally-insertable auxiliary platen and a racking device having board-supporting ledges immediately below the platen. The auxiliary platen and racking device are mounted on frame... | 06/01/1976 |
| 3953017 | Gatherer system An improved system for producing different magazines composed of different predetermined combinations of signatures for different subscribers in accordance with predetermined criteria from known subscriber information includes a main gatherer for forming ... | 04/27/1976 |
| 3945633 | Hopper loader A hopper loader delivers a shingled stream of signatures to a hopper from which the signatures are fed. The hopper loader apparatus is portable and comprises a generally horizontal first conveyor belt section for receiving an array of side-abutted signatu... | 03/23/1976 |
| 3945715 | Electro-optical birefringence device employing edge effect An electro-optical transducer and data storage device is operated by electrically establishing different electric field levels in a retentive ferroelectric PLZT crystal. The crystal may have a plurality of areas that serve as data storage elements, each o... | 03/23/1976 |
| 3938437 | Variable speed unwind controller drum The unwind controller drum for metering web material into a web processing machine is positively driven by a positive, fixed-ratio drive train. Several drive ratios are selectively available, each differing only slightly from another to provide minute cha... | 02/17/1976 |
| 3936835 | Directive disk feed system A multiple beam antenna having either a main reflector or a lens is illuminated by a feed system comprising a number of primary radiators such as dipole elements. Primary radiation from each dipole element reflects from the principal reflector to produce ... | 02/03/1976 |
