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Dining Table Having Integral Dishwasher
A space-saving dishwasher, which may be installed within a counter top or table, having a dish-carrying rack that is vertically shiftable through the open top of the dishwasher for facilitating loading and unloading of the dishes.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110303112 | Method for Making an Imprint on an Article An imprint (18) that represents a predefined pattern on an article. Article (10) comprises a body (12) made of a first material with a first thermal expansion coefficient (C1). The method comprises a step of incorporating a piece (22) ... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110253622 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF INDELIBLY MARKING CELLULOSE, PAPER, TEXTILES AND OTHER WOVEN AND NON-WOVEN FIBER MATERIALS The present invention provides a convenient and cost effective method of imprinting both text and images on certain filter materials such as those used in automatic coffee makers or as envelopes for the steeping of tea. The imprint must therefore be indelible, water res... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110185927 | PRINTING/COATING METHOD AND APPARATUS A printing/coating method includes the steps of transferring highly reactive ink/varnish which cures with a low light energy onto a transfer object, and irradiating the transfer object, onto which the highly reactive ink/varnish is transferred, with light in the wavelen... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110036255 | PRINTING DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD A printing device and method for printing a latex ink on a printing medium is disclosed. The printing device comprises a heating stage for heating the medium at least during printing the latex ink on said medium, a further heating stage for curing the latex ink on the m... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20100175571 | DIGITAL CLICHÉ PAD PRINTING SYSTEM AND METHOD A digital cliché pad printing system includes a conveyor for conveying a substantially non-elastic support medium, a material deposition jetting device for depositing a curable material onto the support in a desired pattern, the desired pattern having at least one void... | 07/15/2010 |
| 20100154669 | PROCESS FOR PRINTING AND COATING, AND APPARATUS IMPLEMENTING THE PROCESS To print and coat a medium (111), an image is printed on the medium (111), the printed medium (112) is inline dried, and the dried printed medium is inline coated. Both the drying and coating processes operate in synchronism with the printing proces... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100083858 | NON-FLUTING PRINTING SUBSTRATE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME The present invention relates to a printed substrate comprising a substrate and a printing ink and is characterized in that at least one side of the substrate has a surface with a porosity of below 0.07 ml/g determined by the mercury porosimetry method, and it comprises... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20090223393 | Printing press and method of operating a printing press, and printing press system and method of operating the printing press system A printing press is comprised of at least one dry offset printing unit. At least two different webs can be fed through the dry offset printing unit. In a first production mode “C” of the printing press, a first web is fed through the dry offset printing unit without... | 09/10/2009 |
| 20090050009 | Line art transfer freehand colouring In a line art transfer free hand colouring printing technique, a design outline is first generated on a transfer substrate using a glutinous ink and is then applied to a surface, for example the front of a T-shirt. A user then applies colouring and/or texturing in and/o... | 02/26/2009 |
| 20080210111 | Web-Fed Rotary Press and Method for Minimizing Fluting in a Web-Fed Rotary Press A web-fed rotary press (10) for printing on a web substrate (12) using heat-set inks in an offset printing process, having at least one print unit (14) and one dryer (16), and at least one additional device (18) for inputting heat into... | 09/04/2008 |
| 20080134915 | Printing Press and Method of Drying Printed or Varnished Sheets in a Printing Press A printing press and a method of drying printed or varnished sheets in a printing press include heating printed and/or varnished sheets, before the sheets enter a dryer, to a temperature higher than the ambient temperature, through the use of a heatable impression cylin... | 06/12/2008 |
| 20080095940 | Method and Apparatus for Non-Contact Type Direct Dye-Sublimation Printing An apparatus and method of printing patterns, an ornamental design or a picture on a printing object using a heat transfer or sublimation transfer technology are provided. In the non-contact type direct dye-sublimation printing method, and agent treatment layer is forme... | 04/24/2008 |
| 20080053334 | Transparent Ink and Method for Printing the Same A transparent ink and a method for printing the same are provided. The transparent ink is made by mixing a hardening agent and a thinner with a two-liquid type ink. The transparent ink is printed on a surface of an object on which a color paint is printed. The transpare... | 03/06/2008 |
| 20080017062 | Image responsive pivoting pressure roll According to an aspect of the present disclosure; a method of processing a substrate media having an image injected thereon is provided and includes the step of passing the substrate media through a nip defined between a heated fuser drum and a pressure roll. A fixer su... | 01/24/2008 |
| 20070289466 | Web-fed rotary press and method for operating it A web-fed press includes at least two printing units and at least one drier for drying at least one printing-material web which is moved through the at least two printing units and printed on at least one side with at least one offset printing ink at each of the printin... | 12/20/2007 |
| 20070251404 | Method for custom imprinting plastic identifier tags The invention is of an improved method and process for printing plastic tag blanks for producing plastic identifier tags (such as cattle ear tags). By printing images on tag blanks using conventional ink jet printers and thereafter “welding” the image to be plastic ... | 11/01/2007 |
| 20070240596 | Color filter and method for manufacturing same A color filter (100) includes a substrate, a black matrix formed on the substrate, and a plurality of color stripes. The black matrix defines a plurality of spaces therein, and the black matrix includes carbon black in a proportion by weight from 5% to 55%, polym... | 10/18/2007 |
| 20070234919 | Method and Dvice for Combined Printing The invention relates to a method and to a device for the production of printed products which are printed according to various methods. The invention also relates to a method for the production of printed products by combining various immediately successive processing ... | 10/11/2007 |
| 20070062397 | Sheet offset machine, drier and method for drying in sheet offset machine The invention describes a sheet offset machine in which may be applied an air-drying ink/varnish. The invention furthermore concerns a drying unit that may be used for drying air-drying ink/varnish. The drying unit is disposed in connection with a cylinder surface and i... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070017399 | Dual heating system for high speed printing A dual heating system and apparatus for high-speed printing is disclosed. A first heater that is a metal roller used in a printing machine. The outer surface of the metal roller may be covered by a silicone rubber coating material to enhance print transfer. This first h... | 01/25/2007 |
| 20070006765 | Decorating an elongated element An apparatus comprises an advancing arrangement for advancing an elongated element in an advancing direction, a first decorating device for decorating a first surface of said elongated element, and further comprises a second decorating device for decorating a second sur... | 01/11/2007 |
| 20060230969 | Printing with ink A method is disclosed of printing an area of a substrate in a plurality of passes using curable ink, the method comprising depositing a first pass of ink on the area, partially curing ink deposited in the first pass, depositing a second pass of ink on the area, and full... | 10/19/2006 |
| 20060174792 | METHOD FOR REGISTERING PATTERNS ON A WEB A method for registering patterns on a web to provide independent scale control in both the lateral and longitudinal directions is provided. The method comprises routing the web over a first roller; routing the web over a second roller and stabilizing the web; applying ... | 08/10/2006 |
| 20060144277 | Processes for printing layers for electronic devices and printing apparatuses for performing the processes An electronic device includes a printed layer. In one embodiment, a process for forming the electronic device includes placing a workpiece over a chuck within a printing apparatus. A temperature difference is established between the workpiece and a liquid composition. T... | 07/06/2006 |
| 20060070546 | Method and apparatus for printing an image onto a 3-dimensional surface A printing apparatus (1) for printing an image onto a 3-dimensional surface of a plastics article such as a mobile telephone or computer mouse (not shown) has a housing (2) having a slot (3) for receiving a drawer (4) for receiving one of mor... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20050241519 | Heat sink vacuum plate for printing press ultraviolet curing system A sheet transfer assembly for use above an ultraviolet curing unit in a flexographic printing press used for printing corrugated sheets includes a vacuum plate with heat sinks. The vacuum plate includes openings for rollers that extend through the vacuum plate to drive ... | 11/03/2005 |
| 20050235851 | Device for supplying radiant energy onto a printing substrate A device for supplying radiant energy onto a printing substrate (14), including at least one radiant energy source (10) whose light (12) impinges on the printing substrate (14) on the path (16) of the printing substrate (14) thr... | 10/27/2005 |
| 20050223929 | Drawing apparatus, method of use and resultant art A drawing apparatus and an associated method that allows selective heating of a substrate when a colorant, such as a crayon, is applied to the substrate. The heated substrate at least partially liquefies the colorant. The colorant is then absorbed into the substrate to ... | 10/13/2005 |
