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| 7410314 | Apparatus for receiving inverting and returning sheets from and to a printer for large-sized paper An apparatus for receiving, inverting and returning sheets from and to a printer for large-sized paper, said printer being adapted to be automatically fed a web of paper from a supply of paper through an inlet (6), defined by a portion of a paper-supporting p... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7082282 | Image formation method and image formation apparatus for same An image formation method and image formation apparatus capable of forming images on both sides of a recording medium even if a first image formation unit or a second image formation unit does not have the required functions. Detection is conducted to determine whet... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7032518 | Method and system for managing tension and maintaining registration between multiple webs in a web finishing system A system and method for managing the tension and maintaining registration between multiple webs in a web finishing system. The method involves transporting a first web and at least second web toward a finishing apparatus, comparing relative positions of registration... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7024152 | Printing system with horizontal highway and single pass duplex Parallel printing systems include first and second adjacent electronic printers and at least one sheet bypass section extending around the second electronic printer to provide a sheet transporting path overlying the second electronic printer and bypassing the second... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7007602 | Method and apparatus for controlling a cutting position of a web member and device therefor A method and apparatus for controlling the cutting position of a web member in a printing press by setting a reference tensile value, detecting the present tensile value of a web in a printing press during an actual printing operation, and controlling the starting a... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6994005 | Apparatus for slitting, merging, and cutting a continuous paperweb A paper web, which may be pinless, is slit into side-by-side web ribbons that are merged one on top of the other for simultaneous crosscutting into appropriate page lengths. One web ribbon wraps substantially about an angled turnbar to shift it into registry with th... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6971309 | Web-fed rotary press In order to create preconditions, in a web-fed rotary press, for good format variability of the printed products and economic utilization of the printing material, at least two printed pages of different heights are arranged in the circumferential direction on a for... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6840170 | Device for torque compensation in a sheet-processing machine and reversing drum having a torque compensation device A device for torque compensation in a sheet-processing machine includes a cam-controlled compensating mechanism having an energy storage device for exerting a force, a cam disk, and a cam follower to be thrown onto the cam disk by action of the force from the energy... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6786149 | High speed continuous feed printing system A CF printing system includes at least three CF printing devices; a plurality of print-related devices to effect duplex printing; the printing and print-related devices being selectably operable in accordance with a defined print line segment; and a print line manag... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6782817 | Printing machine A printing machine includes two printing units, each comprising a web feed section, a web printing section connected to the web feed section and a web treating section connected to the web printing section, in which a single-side surface of a continuous web is print... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6666399 | System for transfer and inversion of a continuous web substrate between printing and other devices An inverting transfer apparatus for continuous web substrate, such as may utilize a single printing system including a conventional or existing simplex web-fed xerographic print engine.... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6662721 | Rotary press In a rotary press, a first press roller adapted to retreat during printing and advance during plate changing to contact a web is provided on a travel route of the web between a printing unit and a dryer. A second press roller having the same function as t... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6663304 | Simultaneously printing information on two sides of print media A method, printer system and printer apparatus for simultaneously printing a first print medium and a second print medium, wherein, on the first print medium first information is printed that is one of: identical information to the second information and ... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6634296 | Printer document presenter apparatus and method A kiosk printer for unattended operation is equipped with a presenter to prevent a user from prematurely trying to remove a printed document. The presenter has motor driven feed rollers and a document sensor for determining when the printing document is i... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6626103 | Inverter An inverter (1) for thin, flat products (2), especially printing substrates in a printing machine, with belts (7, 8) positioned over two deflection pulleys (3, 4, 5, 6) that are set together at 180° between the deflection pulleys (3, 4, 5, 6). Such inver... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6615717 | Symmetrical parallel duplex paper path device A parallel duplex paper path device is provided for feeding a recording medium along a feed direction from a first printing device to a second printing device, which are arranged in parallel. The paper path device comprises at least two turning stations t... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6325266 | Automatic paper-threading device for use in angle bar section An automatic paper-threading device for use in an angle bar section of a rotary press which includes a paper web supply unit, a press unit, an angle bar section, and a folding unit and which has a paper-threading path for paper web formed between the pape... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6125751 | Economical duplex web printing press A duplex color web press, wherein each section, which prints both faces of the web with any one ink type and color, is configured with a single printing cylinder and, in the case of a digitally recording press, with a single recording head. The single pri... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6050191 | System and method for providing multi-pass imaging in a printing system A multi-pass imaging system and method provides for duplex documents and multiple color images with variable information to be printed by re-entering a substrate into a same tower system, employing a split roller design, for generating subsequent portions... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6027003 | Apparatus for turning or displacing a web of continuous recording material An apparatus for turning and displacing a web of continuous recording material in a printer or copier provides that the web is conveyed along a transport path by a web supply, around a deflection device below the web supply, and to a web take-up that is s... | 02/22/2000 |
| 5996491 | Turn bar apparatus A turn bar apparatus is incorporated in a rotary press for reversing a web position during running thereof. The turn bar apparatus includes an upstream side turn bar, and a downstream side turn bar disposed along a web running direction. Pull rollers are ... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5612118 | Elongate, semi-tone printing process and substrates printed thereby A printing process prints a continuously moving substrate with elongate, semi-tone graphics. The printed substrate is incorporated into a composite elastic material, in which the substrate is contracted, thereby forming a desired full-tone graphic from th... | 03/18/1997 |
| 5597642 | Dual substrate, single-pass printing process and substrates printed thereby A dual substrate, single-pass printing process prints a high basis weight substrate and a low basis weight substrate. Ink striking through the low basis weight substrate is collected and absorbed by the high basis weight substrate. The printed substrates ... | 01/28/1997 |
| 5568245 | Turnover device for web-shaped recording media A turnover device is provided having a W-shaped arrangement of hollow rod-like deflector rods and reverser rods with an automatic threading device. The turnover device receives continuous paper in an admission slot, self-threads the paper therethrough, an... | 10/22/1996 |
| 5526748 | Folded substrate, dual-sided printing process and substrates printed thereby A low basis weight substrate is printed by a folded substrate, dual-sided printing process. The substrate is folded to present two printing surfaces. The folded substrate is then passed through a printing station to have an ink pattern printed on one surf... | 06/18/1996 |
| 5467179 | Turnover device for a web-shaped recording medium A turnover device for turning a web-shaped recording medium over between two electrographic printer or copier devices working in tandem mode, the crossing point of the turning elements is arranged offset a distance πr/Ýa;2 in the direction of the def... | 11/14/1995 |
| 4842430 | Printing paper reversing device A paper reversing device comprises a paper inlet roller for moving a printing paper toward a guide plate in association with a reversing roller, and a cylindrical fur brush disposed above the guide plate for forcing the printing paper which has passed bet... | 06/27/1989 |
| 4719855 | Computer controlled web feed method, apparatus and system for web treatment apparatus such as rotary die cutter Web treatment apparatus, such as a rotary die cutting machine, is provided with a die cylinder position encoder for generating pulses as the die cylinder rotates, feed roll position encoder for generating pulses as the feed rolls rotate; voltage dependent... | 01/19/1988 |
| 4621746 | Vending apparatus An improved apparatus for vending newspapers or similar articles is disclosed. The apparatus consists of a horizontally disposed drum mounted on a pedestal. The drum includes an open top and a sliding door on its vertical face. A drive plate is rotatably ... | 11/11/1986 |
| 4610198 | Device for turning paper in verso-recto printing The present invention relates to a device for turning paper in verso-recto printing, adapted to be arranged on the path of the paper between two printing stations and having an assembly of turning bars which are angularly staggered with each other. The de... | 09/09/1986 |
| 4545518 | Web apparatus with variable repeat interval The delineating cylinder of the web apparatus of this invention has a cutout around one-third of its periphery to be out of contact with the web through an idle phase of its rotational cycle during which a web portion at that cylinder is drawn rearward th... | 10/08/1985 |
| 4476149 | Process for the production of an analysis test strip An analysis test strip and a process for the production of analysis test strips with a longitudinal carrier upon which is fixed at least one test field. The test field material is produced batchwise in an amount sufficient for a plurality of test strips, ... | 10/09/1984 |
| 4443094 | Duplicating machine with duplexing capability In a duplicating machine for duplicating images on both sides of copy sheets including a blanket cylinder and an impression cylinder, a mechanism for handling the sheets and re-feeding the sheets back to the impression cylinder for duplex copying. The bla... | 04/17/1984 |
| 4169413 | Belt press with separable web-handling and belt-supporting assemblies A belt-type printing machine, having a stationary web-handling assembly, including a pair of impression rolls, and a plurality of belt-supporting assemblies which are mobile and separable from the web-handling assembly, is disclosed. The belt-supporting a... | 10/02/1979 |
| 4154386 | Automatic paper-passing apparatus in turning bars in rotary press A fixed guide plate is disposed on one side along a paper passage before and after turning bars, and a circulating running belt is disposed on the other side along said paper passage, so that the front end of running paper is fed in the state gripped ther... | 05/15/1979 |
