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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4193344 | Silk screen printing machine An improved silk-screen printing machine is provided which includes a squeegee and means for urging the squeegee against an elastic stencil and the material to be printed. Means are also provided to impart movement to the stencil relative to the material ... | 03/18/1980 |
| 4184428 | Perforating-printing device for making and using thermal stencils A device which may be operated in a mode of thermally perforating thermal stencils, and another mode of producing printed copies by employing the perforated thermal stencils, wherein the thermal stencils are provided as a particular type of framed assembl... | 01/22/1980 |
| 4177729 | Method for the production marking of liquid displays A method for the production marking of liquid crystal displays whereby the closure bar of the liquid crystal cell is produced and encoded by a screen printing process. Several coding techniques which minimize production interruptions are also disclosed.... | 12/11/1979 |
| 4157683 | Printing system A method of printing a multicolor design on a long, continuous web or carpet in a machine having uniformly spaced printing stations and apparatus for longitudinally advancing the carpet in steps between printing operations. Two or more stations adjacent e... | 06/12/1979 |
| 4135020 | Process for producing art works and resulting product Art is stencil cast using modeling paste directly onto a substrate door, a wall section, such as, a panel, a rigid or flexible vinyl sheet or similar materials, which acts both as a base for the mold and as the substrate for permanent retention of the cas... | 01/16/1979 |
| 4129669 | Method of applying decorative designs to surfaces A method of applying decorative designs through a stencil to surfaces comprises applying an adhesive stencil to a surface and painting the stencil to form a decorative design on the surface. The stencil may be made from a laminated sheet consisting of two... | 12/12/1978 |
| 4119745 | Deposition of electroluminescent material through superimposed dual masks A display device includes a layer of electroluminescent material which is capable of conducting electric current. The electroluminescent material is sandwiched between a pair of electrodes to which a voltage is to be applied to excite the electroluminesce... | 10/10/1978 |
| 4111124 | Method and apparatus for producing factory-trimmed wall covering The method hereof, conducted at the factory or site of printing of the wall covering, advantageously uses the same work or printing station reference that accurately positions the imprinted pattern on the wall covering substrate for the positioning of cut... | 09/05/1978 |
| 4109028 | Fabrication of cathodes for electrodeposition Disclosed is a method of preparing a cathode for use in the electrodeposition of metallic structures in a predetermined pattern. A porous planar member is provided with a masked region of its porous surface corresponding to the desired pattern of the meta... | 08/22/1978 |
| 4103052 | Two-way window grid A window having the highly desirable appearance of being a plurality of panes each adjoined to adjacent panes by cross-bars having the triangular cross-section, on each face of the window, which is typical of the cross-bars of wooden divided sash, which a... | 07/25/1978 |
| 4094716 | Method of and apparatus for decorating articles with decalcomanias A decalcomania is prepared for transfer to an article by wetting the backing layer of the decalcomania, peeling this layer from the transfer sheet which bears the pattern, and perforating the transfer sheet at points located to minimize disturbance of the... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4079674 | Automatic screen printing method and apparatus Continuous, automatic printing of ordinary fabrics and cloths and screen printing of papers, films, metal foils and metal sheets is disclosed. Printing is accomplished by contacting a squeegee member, to which the printing paste or ink has been applied, w... | 03/21/1978 |
| 4077322 | Method for rapid marking of articles A method of rapidly applying marks by spraying ink or another marking substance on to articles which move at a high speed or from a marker which is moving rapidly, comprising the step of speeding up the ink to be sprayed by centrifugal acceleration produc... | 03/07/1978 |
| 4066807 | Marking metal In the marking of metal, for example, steel billets, by spraying aluminum through a stencil, the sprayed metal tends to build up on the stencil and render it inoperative. To reduce the metal build-up, a release compound is applied to the stencil surface a... | 01/03/1978 |
| 4054091 | Silk screen printing process and apparatus A silk screen printing process and apparatus in which a silk screen having a porous figure printing area may be divided by partitions into compartments for different types or colors of ink. The printing operation is performed by a rapid upward acceleratio... | 10/18/1977 |
| 4053344 | Process of printing on non-paper material A process of printing letters and/or patterns on an article of non-paper material, such as glass, metal, plastics, porcelain, with the clear and lasting reproduction thereof, by screen printing followed by hot foil transferring to and over the screen prin... | 10/11/1977 |
| 4053672 | Hot stamp transfer press plate A hot stamp transfer press plate comprising a transfer medium on which a transfer layer has been applied in a desired pattern, said transfer layer consisting of hot stamp ink wherein there is employed, as the binder resin of the ink, methoxymethylated nyl... | 10/11/1977 |
| 4044671 | Duplicating apparatus employing modulator screen cylinder A duplicating apparatus is equipped with a photoconductive modulator screen cylinder for making reproductions of a graphic original on a dielectric receiving medium utilizing aperture-controlled electrostatic printing techniques. Means is provided for cre... | 08/30/1977 |
| 4042401 | Hectograph products and process Novel thixotropic hectograph printing ink and process for printing hectograph master sheets or transfer sheets therewith comprising preparing a semi-solid, thixotropic hectograph printing ink containing non-drying semi-solid oleaginous material, film-form... | 08/16/1977 |
| 4038123 | Method for printing a color design on a release paper for heat transfer to a fabric material A predetermined design for heat transfer to a fabric material is produced in color on a release paper by offset printing. To intensify or bring out the colors in the offset printed design the separate color portions thereof are outlined or accentuated by ... | 07/26/1977 |
| 4033831 | Method of making a bi-metal screen for thick film fabrication A bi-metal screen for the fabrication of precisely di-mentioned thick film elements and a method of screen fabrication. The bi-metal screen comprises a first metal screen which provides a web or mesh with accurately placed openings for holding a spacer sh... | 07/05/1977 |
| 4024287 | Food decorating process A method of decorating various confectionary food items such as cakes, pies and the like which includes the steps of placing a transparent shield over a selected design to be transferred to the food item, placing a sheet of thin transfer medium over the s... | 05/17/1977 |
| 4013405 | Aqueous printing pastes for producing transfer printing papers by rotary screen printing A highly improved printing paste, including a sublimable dye, a thickener and water, is disclosed, which includes an additive capable of increasing the effective amount of dye which is transferred to printing papers, thus greatly improving and simplifying... | 03/22/1977 |
| 4009656 | Cloth printer and method with feeder engaging warp threads A method and apparatus for printing cloths in a rotary screen printing machine comprising a number of driven cylindrical stencils, the cloths being interconnected by intermediate strips formed from uninterrupted warp threads so as to constitute a continuo... | 03/01/1977 |
| 4004924 | Thermorecording A process for reproducing an original having visible light absorptive image markings on a light transparent background by exposing to visible light passing through the original a normally water-removable heat-sensitive recording layer which consists essen... | 01/25/1977 |
| 4004513 | Method and apparatus for preventing ink smears in an electrostatic ink mist printing system A high speed printing apparatus for causing ions generated by the application of a high voltage to adhere to ink particles and causing the ink particles to be absorbed selectively to recording paper for printing, wherein a layer of air flow is produced se... | 01/25/1977 |
| 4003877 | Photopolymerizable screen printing inks for permanent coatings prepared from aryloxyalkyl compositions Highly durable coatings are formed by the photopolymerization of screen printing inks containing aryloxyalkyl acrylate monomers or prepolymers, a polymerizable diluent and a free-radical initiating system, such inks having a viscosity of 5,000 to 200,000 ... | 01/18/1977 |
| 4001466 | Process for preparing printed circuits The invention relates to printed circuits and to insulating substrates useful in their preparation. The invention provides a process for preparing an insulating substrate by curing a layer of an etchable synthetic rubber and a thermosettable resin to give... | 01/04/1977 |
| 3995941 | Liquid crystal cells Here is disclosed a liquid crystal cell comprising a juxtaposed couple of planar elements at least one of which is transparent and a liquid crystal material interposed between said planar elements and sealed around the edges thereof, said cell being therm... | 12/07/1976 |
| 3995548 | Method of tensioning and printing a web on an endless blanket A web is guided onto a movable support, such as a printing blanket, and the web and the support are advanced together in a common direction, but at differential speeds so that the web will be subjected to tensioning. Onto the thus supported and tensioned ... | 12/07/1976 |
| 3994683 | Method of and an arrangement for printing fiber based materials The invention relates to the printing of sheet-heavy-pile textile materials, especially carpets, characterized in that powdered dyestuff preparations are applied to the sheet of textile material in consistency with the pattern, preferably by the screen- p... | 11/30/1976 |
| 3990363 | Method and device for printing a web or a rectangular piece of material A rotary screen printing machine has a number of cylindrical stencils each with an internal squeegee and at least one stencil has an impermeable area parallel to the center line of the stencil. The squeegee of the said stencil may be raised or lowered whi... | 11/09/1976 |
| 3990364 | Multicolor offset screen printing method The invention provides for a screen printing method for printing on ceramic articles, wherein color in the form of an image to be printed is transferred via intermediate carriers on to the article to be imprinted wherein the improvement resides in that fo... | 11/09/1976 |
| 3988015 | Marking and sorting procedure Method for marking a large number of credit cards with unique credit card numbers. A lot size of plastic sheets is selected which is related to the numerical base, b, for expressing the sheet numbers. Each sheet is identically marked with position numbers... | 10/26/1976 |
| 3987725 | Process of screen manufacture and use for coding credit cards A process for forming credit cards in which encoded information is screen printed on a plastic sheet. In the process, a photographic film is placed in contact with a surface having film exposure means positioned with respect to the surface. Locating means... | 10/26/1976 |
| 3980017 | Stencil screen coating apparatus In a stencil screen printing system, submersion transfer apparatus for forcing fluid through the pattern screen, including an elongated member with downwardly depending end supports having therebetween a strand submersed in the coating fluid e.g. printing... | 09/14/1976 |
| 3976004 | Apparatus for metal rule die embossing and staining A die member is formed having a desired configuration formed thereon by a metal rule. Absorbent means are placed within said metal rule for receiving a stain. Press means are provided to press the metal rule into a stock-piece to emboss the design therein... | 08/24/1976 |
| 3974766 | Process for imprinting spaced-apart web sections with a composite pattern A machine for printing a recurrent pattern on sections of predetermined length of a textile web, comprising a number of parallel rotary-screen printing units spaced apart in the direction of web motion, includes a first sensor for detecting the leading e... | 08/17/1976 |
| 3962009 | Decorative laminated structures and method of making same A decorative laminated structure having on its surface a pattern composed of concaves and convexes which are formed by local heat shrinkages of a layer of a heat-shrinkable resin sheet employed. Such decorative laminated structure can be obtained by layin... | 06/08/1976 |
| 3934505 | Method and apparatus for synchronous printing of a moving web A method and apparatus are disclosed wherein a signal proportional to the speed of a moving web is compared with a signal proportional to the speed of a motor driven rotary, printing member, and a resultant corrective signal is transmitted to the control ... | 01/27/1976 |
