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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| RE40165 | Method and device for synchronization control A synchronization control device and a synchronization control method are provided in which it includes controllers Am and As1 of a master section and a slave section for accurately synchronizing rotational frequency and rotation phases of driving electric mo... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7048110 | Printing conveyor system The conveyor system is disclosed as appended to a web-fed printing press, for transporting the completed signatures from a delivery fan to a stacking station. Included is a first conveyor having a pair of endless chains each having a series of first grippers in tran... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7028598 | Apparatus for longitudinally perforating a web of paper in a rotary printing press A rotary printing press has a folding station where the printed web is perforated both transversely and longitudinally in order to expedite subsequent folding thereof into signatures. In order to incorporate a longitudinal perforator into the folding station without... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6932755 | Folding machine with collect run mode The folding machine with a collect run mode of this invention comprises folding cylinder fixed cam means for carrying out a straight run at pins, folding cylinder rotating cam means provided with covering section so as to enable rotation of the covering sections for... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6928924 | Spray-type dampening water supply apparatus A spray-type dampening water supply apparatus having a spray whose nozzles are protected against adhesion of any foreign matter to the nozzle surfaces and in which at least orifices of the nozzles can be easily cleaned out. Each nozzle of the spray has a guide surfa... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6899296 | Paper splicing device In order to resolve problems where impact force when a pushing member of a splicing device collides becomes large, strength becomes inconsistent as a result of a pushing force due to reactive force, and paper splicing becomes unstable due to it taking time to suppre... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6896648 | Adjustable-timing jaw cylinder apparatus at the folding station of a web-fed printing press A jaw cylinder has sets of fixed and movable jaws arranged at circumferential spacings thereon for folding the printed sheets into signatures as the sheets are thrust into the jaw cavities by folding blades on a folding cylinder. The movable jaws are mounted fast on... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6829992 | Paper web width adjustment device The present invention relates to a device for adjusting the width of a paper web at a rotary lithographic press and the object of the present invention is to prevent ink or specks of paper from becoming attached to contact parts of a pressing member so as to contami... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6786147 | Three-part plate cylinder with lateral and circumferential adjustments for registration A web-fed, multicolor, offset printing press having a plurality of printing units for printing different-color images on a continuous web of paper. Each printing unit includes a three-part plate cylinder rotatably supported between a pair of confronting framing wall... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6779788 | Apparatus for folding printed paper sections A web of printed paper is cut into sections by a cutting cylinder while riding on a folding cylinder, and each paper section has its midpart subsequently pushed by a folding blade on the folding cylinder into a jaw cavity formed in the surface of a jaw cylinder in o... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6740024 | Jaw cylinder device at the folding station of a web-fed printing press The folding station of a rotary printing press has a folding cylinder on which the printed paper web is cut into sections. Mounted opposite the folding cylinder, a jaw cylinder has cut in its surface several jaw cavities each extending parallel to the jaw cylinder a... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6740022 | Rotary drum of folding device A rotary drum of the folding device includes a reference portion having a rotating shaft and a basic body rotated integrally with the rotating shaft an adjusted portion able to be rotated integrally with the reference portion and arranged so as to be displaced with ... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6732647 | Pump for inking or like purposes An inking pump for an offset printing press has a cylinder defining a bore in which a plunger is received for both rotation and linear reciprocation, creating a first and a second opposed fluid chamber. The cylinder has formed therein a first and a second suction po... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6730011 | Printing-speed-responsive jaw spacing adjustment system for a jaw cylinder at the folding station of a web-fed printing press A printed paper web or any required number of such web in superposition are cut into sections at the folding station of a rotary printing press. Each web section has its midpart subsequently pushed into one of the jaw cavities in a jaw cylinder, therein to be engage... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6695027 | Speed matching system for a web splicer mechanism in a web-fed printing press or the like An apparatus splices a web of paper being paid out from a one web roll and fed into a printing press to another web roll being rotated in a splicing position. The new web roll of any diameter is spaced a prescribed distance from the old web traveling alon... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6673004 | Cutting and folding mechanism for a web-fed rotary press A continuous web of printed paper is cut by a cutting cylinder into discrete sheets on being wrapped around part of a folding cylinder. The folding cylinder has sets of the folding blade in the cavity each aligned parallel to the cylinder axis and all arr... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6662713 | Binding apparatus with a fusible band, and a delivery system incorporating the same An apparatus to be appended to a rotary printing press for binding successive stacks of printings with a thermally fusible paper band. Included is a band looper for loosely looping the band around a load on a platform. After having been tightened against ... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6655278 | Apparatus for fine positional adjustment of a plate cylinder for multicolor image registration An apparatus for positional adjustment of a plate cylinder in both lateral and circumferential directions thereof for image registration in a multicolor, offset rotary printing press. A lateral adjustment mechanism includes a spur gear which is motor driv... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6616086 | Web infeed for a rotary printing press A rotary beam has mounted thereon a pair of carrier arms for rotatably supporting a roll of web from which the web is fed into the press, and another such arm pair for supporting another such web roll to which the web is to be spliced upon consumption of ... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6584902 | Inking roller nip width adjustments in a rotary printing press A rotary printing press has one or two inking rollers each in rolling engagement with both an ink supply cylinder and a plate cylinder. Each inking roller is identically supported by a first pair of roller support members mounted one adjacent each end of ... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6550383 | Independent cylinder drive system for a multicolor offset lithographic press A series of offset perfecting press units are stacked for printing multicolor images on both surfaces of a web traveling successively therethrough. Each printing unit has two plate cylinders each split into a pair of halves, and two blanket cylinders in r... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6511409 | Rotary drum of folding device A rotary drum of the folding device comprises a reference portion having a rotating shaft 11, 41 and a basic body 10, 40 rotated integrally with the rotating shaft 11, 41; an adjusted portion able to be rotated integrally with the reference portion and ar... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6505556 | Plate-making and mounting control system for a multiple-unit printing press A printing press for newspaper production comprises several printing units each having two plate cylinders for concurrently printing on both sides of a web, each plate cylinder having several predefined plate-mounting positions. The control system include... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6481350 | Self-cleaning web-threading apparatus for a web-fed printing press A self-cleaning web-threading apparatus for a web-fed printing press includes guide rails, a web leader, driver and a detergent supply. The guide rails define a web guideway along which a web is to be threaded through a printing press. The web leader trav... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6457411 | Blanket cylinder providing for ready mounting and dismounting of a blanket A blanket cylinder used in offset lithography includes a cylinder body, a retainer spindle and a resilient member. The cylinder body has an undercut groove with a first undercut longitudinal edge for engaging a first flange of a carrier sheet and a second... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6443061 | Multiway switching device for use in threading webs through a rotary printing press A disklike rotary switch is installed at a junction of four web-threading guideways in a rotary printing press, for use in switching a web, being threaded through the press preparatory to printing, from one to another of the guideways. The web-threading g... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6398704 | Outside diameter adjuster for folding cylinder The present invention is directed to an outside diameter adjuster for a folding cylinder. The folding cylinder rotates about an axis and has a basic body having a columnar outer circumferential face, where an outer circumferential member forms one portion... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6393983 | Ink rail for printing press An ink rail for a printing press has an ink rail body, a pedestal, a supporting member and a distance adjusting means. The ink rail body has a concave curved surface and also has an ink supplying surface having plural ink supplying ports opened to the con... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6382100 | Web guide roller, and printing press incorporating the same A roller assembly positioned downstream of a printing station in a web-fed rotary printing press for pneumatically guiding a web of paper after it has been printed upon, without the risk of smearing the printings. The assembly includes a roller in the for... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6374735 | Printing plate having interdigitating mounting lugs, a plate cylinder, and method of mounting A plate cylinder has formed therein a groove extending parallel to the cylinder axis and having a depth direction thereof set at an angle to a plane tangent to the plate cylinder at the groove, so that the opposite sides of the groove are at acute and obt... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6336405 | Pump for printing machine In a pump intermittently rotated and controlled by a motor, the motor, etc. rise in temperature and ink supply is unstable when an operation of the pump is stopped in a magnetizing state. Therefore, the invention resides in a pump for a printing machine c... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6328249 | Adjustable position web supply mechanism for a rotary printing press At least two pairs of carrier arms are mounted to a rotary shaft for independent travel axially thereof while being constrained to joint rotation therewith. Each pair of carrier arms are disposed opposite each other axially of the shaft for rotatably hold... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6257142 | Rotary printing press for production of multiple center spread signatures Several printing units are arranged in a row for printing on as many separate webs traveling in centerline alignment and in phase with one another. At least one preselected web, on issuing from one printing unit, is directed over an angled guide rod there... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6247402 | Ink rail for printing press An ink rail 1 for a printing press has an ink rail body 5 having an ink supplying surface 53 constucted by a concave curved surface able to be opposed to the outer circumferential surface of the fountain roller F at a suitable distance C; an inclination m... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6241179 | Method and apparatus for web flutter containment, and application to web splicing A wall is provided on one side of a web of paper or the like traveling along a predefined path, and an airstream is produced between the wall and the traveling web approximately in the direction of web travel. A transverse static pressure gradient is esta... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6216591 | Delivery fan in a rotary printing press for delivering signatures in overlapping succession A delivery fan used in a rotary printing press receives signatures from a folding machine and deposits them on a delivery conveyor and includes hub means, a plurality of fingers mounted to the hub means and a plurality of flat springs anchored to the hub ... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6178887 | Leak-free ink supply apparatus for keyless printing An ink fountain has one side closed by a fountain roller constantly exposed to the ink contained therein. Forming a part of the fountain bottom, a blade assembly defines in combination with the fountain roller an ink outlet which is to be closed and opene... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6116159 | Paper wrinkle preventing device Angular deformation is caused in a portion of offset-printed web paper corresponding to an adjacent portion of each of side edges of two blankets of a blanket cylinder so that paper wrinkles are caused. To prevent the paper wrinkles from being caused, a c... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6073557 | Ink supply unit for keyless printing press An ink supply unit of a keyless printing press is capable of preventing leakage of an ink while printing is interrupted. The ink supply unit includes a movable blade provided between the both side plates in integral form, inclined descending toward a tip ... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6073876 | Tension control device for paper web in a rotary printing machine A tension control device for paper web used in a rotary printing machine which includes paper rolls each of which has a brake mechanism varied in response to fluid pressure to splice to a new roll when a preceding roll reaches to a predetermined remain le... | 06/13/2000 |
