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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8162023 | Film transfer apparatus with variable film web guidance An apparatus for film transfer includes at least one printing press and at least one transfer film supply roller, a transfer film guiding device for guiding the transfer film web from the transfer film supply roller to a transfer nip. In order to ensure a variable f... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8156982 | Film transfer unit with integrated further processing device If a plurality of part film webs are each stored on different supply shafts, considerable effort is necessary to use a plurality of part film webs within one apparatus. If the part film webs are stored as a plurality of part film webs on a common supply shaft, vario... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8079587 | Sheet braking mechanism A sheet braking mechanism for a sheet punching and/or embossing machine for the braking a sheet in a processing station of the sheet punching and/or embossing machine, includes a movable pneumatic sheet brake and a movable carrier, on which at least one brake brush ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8042467 | Printing press with bearer rings A printing press includes a first rotary body with a first bearer ring and a second rotary body with an axle which eccentrically supports a second bearer ring. The second bearer ring is in rolling contact with the first bearer ring and is rotatably coupled to the se... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8033219 | Apparatus and method for treating a rotating printing technology surface with a process liquid, machine for processing printing material and machine for treating printing forms An apparatus and method for treating a rotating printing technology surface, especially a re-imageable printing form, with a process liquid, such as cleaning, covering or rinsing liquid, include jet nozzles disposed along a straight line substantially parallel to th... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7896329 | Waste blower for a paper sheet punching and embossing machine A sheet punching and embossing machine includes revolving gripper cars with which a gripping margin of a sheet is grasped by grippers disposed on the gripper car so as to move the sheet through the machine, a punching station in which the gripping margin can be sepa... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7794379 | Folded box gluing machine for production of folded boxes from blanks A folded box gluing machine for making folded boxes from blanks includes several processing stations and a conveying mechanism for delivering the blanks through the individual processing stations. The machine also includes an embossing mechanism that includes emboss... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7735824 | Back-edge braking system A sheet processing machine for the processing of sheets of paper, cardboard, and the like, includes at least one processing station, one delivery unit, one sheet transport system including circulating gripper carts, which are driven by individually actuated linear d... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7703597 | Device for turning flat articles including folded box blanks A device for the turning of flat articles, particularly blanks of folded boxes, includes conveying elements which define at least two conveying sections that are permeable to air and on which the articles are conveyed lying substantially flat, the conveying elements... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7678035 | Folded box gluing machine with improved accessibility A folded box gluing machine for the processing of folded box blanks includes at least one feeder unit arranged to transport the folded box blanks to downstream processing stations including a folding station, a glue applicator unit, a transfer station, a gathering a... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7670274 | Folding station with adjustable folding strap A folding station of a folding box gluing machine for processing a blank having a middle piece and side pieces which are attached to sides of the middle piece and which are deflected upward and inward along folding grooves between the middle piece and the side piece... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7520496 | Driving element and saddle chain A driver element is provided for an endless saddle chain in a saddle line, wherein the saddle chain includes saddle segments and receiver segments, with the saddle segments defining a substantially saddle-shaped roof of the saddle chain. The driver element is arrang... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7396007 | Positioning device for a rotationally displaceable positioning element A positioning device for a positioning element, which is rotationally displaceable about a first axis, including a positioning member engaged with the positioning element. The positioning member is rotatable about a second axis perpendicular to and spaced from the f... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7234694 | Saddle stitcher including card gluers for dispensing personalized printed cards and method therefor A saddle stitcher for producing personalized saddle stitched brochures includes a stitching station, at least two folded sheet feeders for the feeding of nonpersonalized folded sheets, an assembly chain, a drive system, and at least two card gluers arranged along th... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7150707 | Folding box gluing machine for production of folding boxes from blanks A folding box gluing machine has a folding station in which portions of blanks provided with a glue strip are folded, and a subsequent transfer station which includes as a conveyor mechanism at least two pairs of conveying straps, each including an upper and a lower... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7116346 | Device for setting the focus of exposure heads of a printing plate exposer A device sets the focus of at least one exposure head on a recording material, in particular a printing plate, in an exposer for recording printing originals. An exposer has an exposure drum for holding the printing plates, and an exposure-head carrier, which contai... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7057196 | Device and method for detecting the edge of a recording material A device and a method for detecting the edge of a recording material, in particular, a printing plate, in an exposer for recording printing originals includes an exposer having an exposure drum holding the plate, and an exposure head moved axially along the drum and... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7014185 | Spring-action suction head In a spring-action suction head for separating sheets from a sheet stack, a first suction chamber, which can be subjected to vacuum is provided for lifting the sheet. The first suction chamber is surrounded coaxially by a second suction chamber, which can be subject... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6915743 | Device and method for detecting the edge of a recording material A device and a method detect an edge of a recording material, in particular a printing plate, in an exposer for recording printing originals. An exposer has an exposure drum for holding the printing plate, and an exposure head, which is moved axially along the expos... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6747767 | White balancing method In a method for white balance of an optoelectronic color scanner element of a color scanner device for pixel-by-pixel and line-by-line scanning of a color original rated voltage values are calculated from the optical densities of the white point of the color origina... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6662720 | Apparatus for adjusting the position of a cylindrical image carrier relative to a scanning head and a method for adjusting the position of a cylindrical image carrier relative to a scanning head An apparatus for adjusting the position of a cylindrical image carrier relative to a scanning head is designed to cheaply and easily permit substantially reliable positioning. In the apparatus for adjusting the position of a cylindrical image carrier rela... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6587229 | Method and apparatus for scanning masters In a method and an apparatus for point-by-point and line-by-line scanning of a master chucked on a scanner drum, for pixel-by-pixel illumination of the master, a light spot is generated in a light conductor and is imaged onto the master as illumination sp... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6587230 | Apparatus for scanning masters In an apparatus for point-by-point and line-by-line, opto-electronic scanning of masters chucked on a scanner drum, an illumination unit is provided for generating an illumination spot on the master. A scanner objective, a scanner element and a feed suppo... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6580527 | Method and arrangement for scanning masters In a method and apparatus for point-by-point and line-by-line scanning of masters chucked on a scanner drum, for pixel-by-pixel illumination of the master, a light spot is generated with a light conductor, the light spot being imaged by a matching objecti... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6523467 | Method for measuring engraving cups In a method for measuring cups given the engraving of printing cylinders in an electronic engraving machine, an engraver of an engraving member engraves cups into a printing cylinder. The geometric dimensions of the cups represent actual hue values. A vid... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6525844 | Scanner device In a device for point-by-point and line-by-line scanning of masters chucked on scanner drums having different diameters with an optoelectronic scanner element, which converts the scan light modulated with the content of the master and focused with the sca... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6512847 | Method for generating a frame for graphic objects that are described by Bezier curves A method for producing a frame for a graphic object whose contour is defined by a sequence of Bezier curves is disclosed. To that end, a frame curve that is likewise a Bezier curve and that proceeds approximately parallel to the given Bezier curve is like... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6510792 | Device for forming a sheet pile for a sheet fed rotary printing press A device for forming a pile of sheets by means of a pile carrier and a stop. The stop can be swung around a horizontal geometric axis in a first direction away from the pile against a first actuating force of an actuating device and then swung back in the... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6504953 | Method for the automatic removal of image errors In a method for automatic removal of image errors in digital image data, for example which have arisen due to scratches, hairs, etc., a contour mask is generated with a contour filter and a color mask is additionally generated that covers the image areas ... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6502510 | Method for seamless engraving of patterns In a method for seamless engraving of a pattern in an electronic engraving machine, an engraving element engraves a sequence of cups into a rotating engraving cylinder. For planar engraving of the pattern, the engraving element executes an axial feed moti... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6476936 | Method for scanning screened image master images A method for opto-electronic scanning, by pixel and by line, of screened master photographic images with a sensing device. From the actual scanning, at least one master photographic image area that contains the grid scale is detected in the screened maste... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6433898 | Method and apparatus for the conversion of color values In a method and apparatus for conversion of color values of a color negative according to a positive/negative reversal function [Rp, Gp, Bp =f(Rn, Gn, Bn)] color values (Rn, G | 08/13/2002 |
| 6302391 | Apparatus for varying the speed of copies An apparatus for varying a speed of flat products. The apparatus has a first, higher-speed conveyor arrangement containing conveyor drums and belts, and a second, slower speed conveyor configuration containing belt rollers and belts, in which the flat pro... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6279898 | Air cushion guide and method of adjusting a flotation height An air cushion guide for sheet or web-formed material includes at least one guide member formed with nozzle openings through which air is blown between the guide member and the guided material for supporting the guide material on a supporting air cushion ... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6269744 | Device for changing ink cartridges in an offset printing press A device for filling with printing ink a respective ink duct of various printing units of a printing press, provided with an ink cartridge reciprocatingly movable on a crossbar above the respective ink duct, includes a container system provided with a plu... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6267225 | Sheet-conveying device for machines used in the printing technology field A device for conveying thin workpieces for machines used in the printing technology field having at least one movable conveying element having an electrically insulating contact surface supporting at least one workpiece as it is being conveyed, the contac... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6263794 | Gripper for a sheet-transporting cylinder or drum of a rotary printing press A gripper for a cylinder or a drum of a sheet-fed rotary printing press, includes a gripper element adjustable relative to a gripper shaft carrying the gripper, the gripper element being disposed so as to be swivellable about a swivel point thereon for ef... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6257134 | Device for safeguarding or protecting against penetration by foreign bodies into a roller nip A method for safeguarding against the entry of foreign bodies into a nip between two cylinders, which includes applying a deflection movement to one of the cylinders counter to a spring force applied thereto so as to overcome the spring force and, in acco... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6257144 | Method of metering dampening solution when printing with a printing form for offset printing A method of metering dampening solution when printing with a printing form for offset printing, including, with a control device, setting an amount of dampening solution on the surface of the printing form to a predetermined value before starting to print... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6257138 | Offset printing press An offset printing press having a plate cylinder and, as viewed in a direction of rotation of the plate cylinder, a first applicator roller assigned to a dampening unit and a second applicator roller to an inking unit, a bridge roller in contact with the ... | 07/10/2001 |
