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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8176847 | Method for assessing the plausibility of at least one measured value determined in a printing press The plausibility of at least one measured value, that is determined in a printing press, and that includes a density of an ink applied to a stock, is assessed. The stock is conveyed through the printing press and the ink is applied to the stock in several inking zon... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176845 | Form cylinder of a printing press comprising a plurality of sections in series on its circumferential surface in its axial direction, and printing couple comprising such form cylinder A form cylinder of a printing machine includes a plurality of sections in series in an axial direction of the cylinder surface. At least one printing form is arranged in each one of these sections. The form cylinder has at least one channel, also extending in the ax... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8171847 | Printing press including fold formers of different widths and at least one fold former that is movable in a direction transverse to web travel A superstructure of a printing press includes a turning tower with at least one turner bar that is usable to deflect a web section from a transport direction by 90°. A second turner bar, that is shorter than the first turner bar, is also used to deflect a web secti... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8127679 | Printing unit of a printing press, comprising at least two frame parts, the position of which relative to one another can be changed A printing unit of a printing press is comprised of at least two frame parts, the position of at least one of which, relative to the other, can be changed. Cooperating ones of these frame parts are placed against each other along a common joining surface, in a first... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8127678 | Method and apparatus for providing information about printing plates to be manufactured for a new production of a printing press A method and an apparatus are used for providing information about printing plates to be manufactured for a new production of a printing press. A use of at least one of the printing plates, at its point of use in the printing press, is visualized on a display of a d... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8127672 | Method and device for controlling at least one rotating component of a printing press At least one rotating component of at least one printing unit is regulated to a target value for a temperature, representing the component temperature, by a temperature controller. At least one drive of an assembly of the printing machine is regulated or controlled,... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8127671 | Printing unit of a printing machine, and method for using a printing unit A printing unit of a printing machine is configured having at least two frame parts, a spacing between which can be modified. Several form cylinders and several transfer cylinders, which cooperate to print a web, are located on each of the at least two frame parts. ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8100057 | Method for regulating the ink in a printing press The ink in a printing press, in which a stock of material is being printed in an ongoing printing process, is registered. At least one ink is applied to the stock in several inking zones. A measured value, indicating an ink density, is determined for the at least on... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8069788 | Method for providing printing formes at installation positions on one of a plurality of forme cylinders disposed in a printing press and for disposing of used printing formes from the printing press Printing plates are prepared at installation positions on one of a plurality of plate cylinders disposed in a printing machine. A plurality of flat printing plates, which are provided for a printing process to be carried out by the printing machine itself, and which... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8069787 | Printing couple, printing press, and methods for operating a printing couple A printing group of a printing press includes at least one form cylinder that has at least one axially extending opening on the external surface of the cylinder. That at least one axially extending opening forms a channel in the cylinder and in which channel several... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8069786 | Printing groups comprising at least two cooperating cylinders and radially movable bearing units Printing groups are each comprised of at least two cooperating cylinders, each of which is mounted in a bearing unit that radially displaces its associated cylinder. At least one of these bearing units is provided with an actuator which is controlled, or regulated b... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8069785 | Printing groups of a printing press A printing group of a printing press is comprised of a transfer cylinder, a forme cylinder and a first roller of an inking unit. That first inking unit roller cooperates, as an ink application roller, with the forme cylinder. The inking unit is provided with two axi... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8069784 | Device in a printing unit of a printing machine A device for use in a printing unit of a printing machine, with that printing unit comprising at least one roller of an inking unit or of a dampening unit of the printing unit and with at least one traverse drive for generating an axial traversing stroke of the roll... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8047133 | Cut-off register controller in a former assembly and method of controlling cut-off register A cut-off register controller is usable in a longitudinal fold forming assembly of a rotary cylinder printing press that is provided with at least one form folding assembly plane which consists of two adjacently defined longitudinal fold formers. The web ribbon or t... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8011871 | Devices for transporting reels of material Reels of material are transported by being disposed on a first transport carriage which is, in turn, disposed on a second transport carriage. The second transport carriage travels between a reel storage area, that has a plurality of storage spaces, and a reel change... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8011297 | Printing machine system A printing system includes a first printing machine that is provided in the form of a newspaper printing machine and which comprises at least two first printing units that are provided in the form of printing towers and with a number of printing machines arranged on... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8006617 | Assemblies in a printing couple of a rotary printing press An assembly in a printing unit of a rotary printing press includes at least one plate cylinder, three ink form rollers, two vibrator rollers and an ink separator roller. Both of the vibrator rollers are applied directly to the ink separation roller. One of the ink f... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8004706 | Device for producing a printed image at at least one printed image location A printed image is produced at least one printed image location using a printing machine with at least one illuminating device that produces at least one printed image at a number of printed image locations. These respective printed images belong to the same page of... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8002215 | Reel changer having a holder for supporting a material reel with a winding sleeve A reel changer is usable for supporting a reel of material that is wound on a winding sleeve. The reel holder includes a carrier journal and a plurality of driver elements. These driver elements are arranged such that they engage in a front of the winding sleeve. Th... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8002108 | Tensioning mechanism for a circulating element A tensioning apparatus for a circulating element, such as a belt or a band, has a basic body in which a first chamber is formed. A piston is positioned in the first chamber and carries a piston rod. The piston can be displaced in the first chamber by the use of a pr... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8001898 | Method for adjusting an inking unit of a printing press A method is used for adapting an inking unit of a printing press. During a setup phase for the printing press, at least a first actual value with regard to an ink application that is set at the inking unit and that is applied to the printed material, is determined b... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8001897 | Systems for checking the loading of a print forme magazine and systems for transporting at least one print forme stored in a print forme magazine to a cylinder A system for checking the loading of a print form magazine, which stores at least two print forms, utilizes at least one code reader to read a code which is carried by the print forms. The code reader reads the coding of the printing forms in a secondary region. The... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8001896 | Ink dosing device of a printing group, and method for controlling the ink dosing device An ink dosing device of a printing group, that includes a printing group cylinder which is configured as a plate cylinder, includes an inking unit. The ink dosing device has a number of physical zones which are arranged next to each other in a longitudinal direction... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8001895 | Inking unit of a rotary press, comprising a film roller An inking unit of a rotary printing press includes a film roller. The film roller has a structured outer surface that has a Shore D hardness ranging between 80 and 90 and a stochastic surface. The stochastic surface is incorporated into the outer surface of the film... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8001894 | Roller of a printing machine comprising a device for generating an axial oscillating movement of the rotating roller A roller of a printing machine includes a device for use in the generation of an axial oscillating movement of the rotating roller. The device includes a drive that is comprised of a pump which pressurizes a working fluid. The pump is arranged inside of the roller. | 08/23/2011 |
| 8001891 | Printing machine system A printing machine system includes a first printing machine which is configured as a newspaper printing machine and which has at least two first printing units that are structured as printing towers, each with a plurality of superimposed printing groups that are usa... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7997200 | Printing machine and a method for producing a printed product A printing machine is provided with at least one printing unit that is usable for printing an image, in ink, on a printable material. The printing machine includes at least one application device which is usable to apply at least one contactless identification chara... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7980174 | Page of a printed product having a plurality of information fields arranged in different print columns, and longitudinal perforation device for producing the page A page of a printed product having a plurality of information fields arranged in different printed columns is provided. At least one perforated line, extending parallel to the height of the page, is generated in the page between at least two printed columns. The at ... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7975610 | Printing units comprising several printing groups, and printing tower The invention relates to a printing unit (16; 17) comprising several printing groups (03; 04; 21; 22; 28; 29; 31; 32), each of which is provided with at least one plate cylinder (07) and at least one transfer cylinder (06) that is arrange... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7975608 | Device and a method for feeding a material web to a printing unit of a web-fed rotary printing press A device is usable for feeding a material web to a press unit of a web-fed rotary press having a reel carrier which carries a material reel and which is mounted next to the machine line. At least one deflection rod is arranged in the web transport path between the r... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7969565 | Device for inspecting a surface A device that is usable to inspect the surface of a material uses an inspection system which includes an optical unit. That optical unit can register the light which is reflected by the surface to be inspected. An illumination system, that uses at least two light so... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7963226 | Method for operating a printing unit having at least one press unit, and a press unit for carrying out the method A printing unit has at least one press unit having a plate cylinder with at least one printing plate that can be mounted on the plate cylinder and which carries a printing image. The plate cylinder has at least one cylinder channel in which ends of the printing plat... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7963225 | Method for controlling and/or adjusting a register in a printing machine and a device for controlling and/or adjusting a circumferential register A register in a printing machine is controlled and adjusted by providing at least one printing unit provided with at least two printing groups in the printing machine. Each printing group comprises a cylinder pair consisting of at least a forme cylinder and a transf... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7958821 | Printing unit of a printing machine, a method for use thereof and a printing machine with a plurality of modules A printing unit of a printing machine is supported by a pair of spaced side frames that are disposed opposite to each other. The printing unit includes at least one printing machine and at least one ink unit. The printing machine is formed by a plurality of printing... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7950640 | Rotary printing press and method for producing a newspaper product in tabloid format A rotary printing press is usable for producing a newspaper product in tabloid format. The printing press has at least one printing unit which is configured so that it prints a web with printed pages in a horizontal tabloid format. A part web, which is formed by sli... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7940417 | Method for storing data of at least one component of a printing press that comprises a plurality of components and at least one communications network Data of at least one component of a printing machine, that comprises several components and at least one communications network, is stored. Data from one of these components, and which characterizes that component, is stored in a memory unit which belongs to that co... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7934452 | Devices comprising several spaced-apart storage compartments At least several spaced apart storage compartments are provided in a plate storage device. These compartments can receive used printing forms from a printing cylinder or new printing forms that are to be supplied to the printing cylinder. At least one positioning as... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7926421 | Printing press system A printing press system includes a first machine line of a printing press, which is embodied as a newspaper printing press, and is provided with at least one first printing unit having printing group cylinders of a first maximum effective printing width. A second pr... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7922642 | Devices and method for feeding at least one material web or web strand into a folding device A device is usable to feed at least one material web and/or at least one strand that is comprised of several material webs into a folding device. A superstructure is part of the device, as is a former that can be displaced in relation to the material web, and a tran... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7921773 | Doctor blade system A doctor blade system utilizes a lightweight doctor blade chamber to apply ink to an inking roller. The doctor blade chamber is removably positioned on a support plate which is, in turn, carried by linear guides on pivotable end plates. A rigid box beam is also atta... | 04/12/2011 |
