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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8096239 | Registering printing sleeve segments A printing sleeve (10) has a first printing sleeve portion (10A) with a first and a second end. At least one of the ends of the first printing sleeve portion has a plurality of projections (16) and notches (18). A second printing sleeve p... | 01/17/2012 |
| 7934451 | Apparatus for orienting magnetic flakes A printing apparatus includes a magnetic rotatable roller with a smooth even outer surface for aligning magnetic flakes in a carrier, such as an ink vehicle or a paint vehicle to create optically variable images in a high-speed, linear printing operation. Images can... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7861653 | Rolls and cylinders with a steel core for offset presses A cylinder for an offset printing press comprising a steel core and a heat-conducting layer arranged on the steel core in order to uniformly distribute localized steel core heating. The heat can consist of copper and can be arranged in or underneath a functional lay... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7861652 | Packing sleeve for a printing unit cylinder of an offset printing press A packing sleeve including an outer lateral surface for a printing unit cylinder of an offset printing press is disclosed, wherein the outer lateral surface has at least one region with an area containing a number of incisions, which increase the elasticity of the p... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7762187 | Device and method for removing the jacket from cliché rollers in printing machines Device for the substitution of a cliché-jacket from a cliché cylinder in a printing machine or the like wherein said cylinder (1) is connected to a motor (3) driving it into rotation about its longitudinal axis and is provided with radial holes conne... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7717037 | Humid media transfer device and/or printing media transfer device of printing machines The invention relates to the use of a roller or a rubber blanket with a covering made of elastomeric material with an outer surface for indirect or direct transfer of a damping solution and/or a printing agent to a print carrier of a printing press. In order to enab... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7681499 | Gap filling member for blanket cylinder A filling member for filling the concave portion of a blanket face which is generated along the opening portion of a groove of a blanket cylinder comprises a wedge-shaped limb portion and a head portion capable of filling the concave portion. The limb portion is ins... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7624680 | Adaptation sleeve, corresponding assembly and method for mounting This format adaptation sleeve for a rotary press comprises an outer surface. In the non-mounted state, the outer surface of the adaptation sleeve is frustoconical. ... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7559278 | Apparatus and method for a printing-press cylinder sleeve A sleeve, in particular a rubber-blanket sleeve, for a printing press is disclosed. The sleeve having a construction which has at least two layers, having an inner layer which is configured as a carrier layer and an outer layer which is configured as a covering laye... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7523703 | Printing group of a rotary printing press A printing group of a rotary printing press includes at least one forme cylinder and at least one transfer cylinder. The forme cylinder has at least two printing forme end channels. These two channels are spaced circumferentially. At least one of these forme cylinde... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7412924 | Printing blanket assembly for a blanket cylinder including filler material at blanket ends A printing blanket assembly for a blanket cylinder of a rotary printing press includes a dimensionally stable support plate, and a printing blanket fastened to the outside of the support plate. A leading end of the support plate and a trailing end of the support pla... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7370579 | Printing blanket assembly for a blanket cylinder and method for producing a printing blanket assembly A printing blanket assembly for a blanket cylinder of a rotary printing press includes a dimensionally stable support plate with a printing blanket secured to an outer surface of the support plate. A filler material is arranged on at least one end of the printing bl... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7361245 | Compressible printing blanket and method of manufacturing a compressible printing blanket Disclosed is a compressible printing blanket in which voids are formed in the compressible layer by using microballoons, comprising at least two fabric layers, an adhesive layer interposed between adjacent fabric layers, a surface rubber layer, and a compressible la... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7357892 | Method of manufacturing cylinder with interchangeable sleeve The rotating cylinder comprises: an elongated inner core (12) which is substantially rigid and an interchangeable sleeve (45) which is fitted onto the core; the sleeve is axially and angularly constrained to said core and is provided on its external su... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7350462 | Gap filling member for blanket cylinder A filling member for filling the concave portion of a blanket face which is generated along the opening portion of a groove of a blanket cylinder comprises a wedge-shaped limb portion and a head portion capable of filling the concave portion. The limb portion is ins... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7334522 | Apparatus and method for reducing oscillations in a web-fed rotary press An apparatus and method for reducing oscillations in a web-fed rotary press are disclosed. The apparatus includes a form cylinder of a web-fed rotary press, having at least one clamping device for fastening at least one printing plate on the form cylinder. The clamp... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7334336 | Method for producing a sleeved polymer member, an image cylinder or a blanket cylinder This invention relates to a method for producing a polymer sleeve including a polymer sleeve for use with an image cylinder or a blanket cylinder in an electrophotographic process so that the sleeve has a stretched length as mounted on the mandrel equal to a length ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7331288 | Apparatus for pulling a sleeve on and off In order to make handling easier, an apparatus for pulling a sleeve onto and off a printing-press cylinder has a head piece (8) having a positioning device (13) for defining the position of the head piece (8) with respect to the cylinder (1 | 02/19/2008 |
| 7328656 | Printing device A printing device has a support roll and a sleeve having at least one sleeve element and detachably mounted on the support roll, wherein the sleeve, when mounted on the support roll, surrounds at least partially the support roll. At least one printing plate is adapt... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7322917 | Embossing cylinder with interchangeable sleeve and with system for locking the sleeve at the ends and embossing machine comprising said cylinder The rotating cylinder for processing a web material comprises an essentially rigid cylindrical core (13), on which is fitted an interchangeable sleeve (45) of elastically expandable material whose rigidity is less than that of the material of the core;... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7316183 | Sleeve with multiple layer structure for printing presses and method for its manufacture The invention concerns a sleeve with a multiple layer structure for printing presses with king rolls configured as pneumatic cylinders; in particular a sleeve for the flexographic printing process, with an inner tube of reversibly expandable plastic material, whose ... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7308854 | Printing member provided with identification means defined by or connectable to updateable means for recording data relative to the member and useful for its utilization A printing member such as a printing cylinder includes an at least partly metal cylinder, or a sleeve to be mounted on a mandrel rotating about its axis. The printing member comprises a body having a thickness. With the printing member there is associated an activat... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7305922 | Printing blanket having a rigid carrier plate A printing blanket comprising a rigid carrier plate on which an elastic layer is arranged is provided. The elastic covering layer has a surface that can be inked and by which a printing image can be transferred onto a printing material. An end of the carrier plate i... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7290488 | Apparatus and method for changing printing sleeves on a printing machine The invention provides an apparatus for the mounting and/or demounting of at least two printing sleeves outside a printing unit of a printing machine. The printing sleeves include an outer printing sleeve forming a printing surface and an inner printing sleeve provi... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7285319 | Engraved surface and method An engraved surface in a metallic workpiece and an engraving method therefor, for use in providing a decorative metallic surface. An engraved pattern is formed in a workpiece prior to the formation of an electroplated layer that continuously extends over the engrave... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7285177 | Thin-walled reinforced sleeve with integral compressible layer A sleeve for a print cylinder comprising a fiber reinforced, thin-walled material and having a seamless surface ready to be covered with a surface material. The sleeve may be used in flexographic printing, either as a support for photo-polymerized printing plates or... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7255041 | Cylinder and device for guiding a material web The invention relates to a cylinder, which is in contact with a material web. Said cylinder flexes in or against the direction of travel of the material web, in accordance with at least one pixel that is located on said web. ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7255043 | Apparatus and method for pulling off sleeves In an apparatus for pulling off sleeves (11, 14) which are applied to cylinders (10, 15) of a printing press, a force for pulling off the sleeve is applied in a gentle manner, in that a retaining rod (5), having a retaining head (1) which... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7246557 | Printing group of a rotary printing press A printing group of a rotary printing press includes at least one forme cylinder and at least one transfer cylinder. The forme cylinder has at least two printing forme end receiving channels. These two channels are spaced circumferentially. At least one of these for... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7240766 | Sound dampening pad An easy to manufacture and install sound dampening pad for a printing blanket sleeve is provided. The pad effectively attenuates noise emanating from the sleeve during air pressurized mounting and dismounting of the blanket sleeve to an underlying cylinder. The soun... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7240614 | Method for influencing lateral web spreading in a printing unit in a rotary printing press A method for influencing lateral web spreading in a printing unit in a rotary printing press, the printing unit having first and second transfer cylinders contacting each other along a contact zone for receiving a web to be printed on therebetween and undergoing a d... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7238257 | Method for making a printing blanket A method for making a printing blanket resulting from assembling a plurality of layers employs elastomer layers which do not contain thermal cross-linking agents and are of the thermoplastic type. Such a printing blanket is useful in the field of printing machines. | 07/03/2007 |
| 7234397 | Devices for fixing at least one packing to a cylinder of a rotary printing press and printing group comprising said devices Devices are used for fixing or attaching at least one packing or dressing to a cylinder. A retaining element is located in a channel in the cylinder and retains one end of the dressing or packing. A spring element is also located in the channel and cooperates with t... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7225736 | Printing machine The bearings of a printing roller of a printing machine, preferably of a flexoprinting machine, with at least one counter-pressure cylinder and with at least one printing roller, which on one end is taper bore mounted in the frame, are conveyable in guideways relati... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7219604 | Transfer blanket, in particular rubber blanket, for a printing press The transfer blanket (10), in particular a rubber blanket, for a printing press, has a carrier layer (11), a covering layer (12) and at least one intermediate layer (13, 14, 15) which is positioned between the carrier layer and the coveri... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7210406 | Cylinder pair having a plurality of printing formes and blankets and offset groove openings A cylinder of a printing unit of a rotary offset printing machine has a periphery and an axial length. The peripheral surface of the cylinder is divided, in the axial length, into at least three sections that are positional next to one another. The peripheral surfac... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7207267 | Apparatus and method for manipulation of sleeves on a cylinder A method and apparatus are provided for the manipulation of a sleeve onto and off of a cylinder. A sleeve mounted on a handling shaft is equipped with a substantially airtight slideable end cap at its distal end. During mounting, axial alignment is provided when the... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7207268 | Apparatus and method of enhancing printing press cylinders A printing press cylinder and a method of manufacturing the same. The printing press cylinder includes a rigid base member having a reduced radius section and a polymer layer formed about the rigid base member generally within the reduced radius section. The polymer... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7194953 | Dressing on a cylinder or a transfer cylinder as well as printing units of a printing press A blanket is located on an outer surface of a roller, such as printing unit roller. The blanket has an elastic and/or a compressive layer with a surface pressure that depends on the degree of the impression. The layer is selected so that a depending of the surface p... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7182021 | Printing plate material, printing plate material roll, printing plate manufacturing process, and printing process A printing plate material product, is provided with a printing plate material including a substrate and a image forming layer provided on the substrate; and a wireless memory tag mounted on a part of the printing plate material and including a semiconductor memory a... | 02/27/2007 |
