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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8181572 | System and method for matching a corrected sleeve to a substrate printing cylinder A system and method of identifying the match of a printing cylinder and sleeve when the combination thereof has been dressed by laser ablation to achieve a degree of cylindricity. It is desirable to retain the identification of this match for reuse purposes and ther... | 05/22/2012 |
| 7971529 | Assembly for rotary press An assembly for a rotary press is provided including a hub which is suitable for being rotatably mounted about a center axis in a rotary press, a format adaptation sleeve and means for fixing the adaptation sleeve to the hub. The hub and the adaptation sleeve each i... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7367265 | Method and device for mounting dressings onto the cylinder of a printing press A packing or dressing is mounted on a cylinder of a rotary printing press. A dressing suspension leg, situated at an end of the dressing extending in the production direction of rotation of the cylinder, is positioned in an opening in the surface of the cylinder. Th... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7363857 | Cylindrical outer surface scanning apparatus Depending on the lateral width thereof, an image recording material P is stably positioned on a recording drum, employing two positioning pins with an appropriate pitch therebetween. Non-contacting portions prevent any irrelevant positioning pins from coming into co... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7357079 | Printing group of a printing unit, consisting of two printing groups placed vertically above each other in a printing machine A printing unit consists of at least two printing groups, which are placed vertically above each other, in a printing machine. Each of the printing groups includes a printing cylinder, an inking unit with at least one inking roller, a dampening unit with several dam... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7338276 | Mold tool for paper relief engraving A mold tool for paper relief engraving provides a mold cavity, a mold plunger and a folder for being detachably fixed with the mold cavity and the mold plunger at the inner sides thereof. The mold cavity and the mold plunger are doubly etched to create pattern nests... | 03/04/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7318994 | Compressible flexographic printing plate construction The present invention relates to an improved compressible flexographic printing plate that uses a compressible layer comprising a polyurethane (meth)acrylate resin and microspheres. The process of the invention produces a chemically fused printing plate that elimina... | 01/15/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7302889 | Device for holding a dressing on a cylinder including a holding member and bow in the channel At least one dressing, such as a printing forme, is secured to the surface of a cylinder of a rotary printing press by securement devices. These securement devices are arranged in an axially extending channel on the surface of the cylinder. The channel is defined by... | 12/04/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7216587 | Method of dispensing metal-backed printing blankets A method of dispensing a metal-backed printing blanket onto a printing press cylinder in a controlled fashion is provided. A carton containing the rolled printing blanket may be provided, and a lengthwise slit or opening is opened to withdraw a mounting end of the p... | 05/15/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7158256 | Method of recording image and image recorder An image recorder and a method of recording an image on a printing plate are provided. A punch unit for forming punched holes and the like for use in a printing apparatus in the printing plate positions the printing plate by bringing a pair of reference pins into co... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7146911 | Image recorder Positioning of a printing plate in an image recorder is performed by the same method used for punching positioning holes for printing press in the printing plate. Specifically, the positioning for image recording is performed with reference to an edge of the printin... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7131378 | Device for processing a printing substrate A device for processing a printing substrate (22), having at least one processing tool (10), in particular a die plate or a perforating knife, which is accommodated on a rotatable carrier body (14); the carrier body (14) being at least pa... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7124685 | Internally piped print cylinder and method for making same A print cylinder having a first header, a second header and a hollow cylinder body is internally piped. The first header includes an air inlet and an air outlet. The air outlet is sealingly connected to a central conduit which is sealingly attached to a disk, the di... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7111555 | Method and device for reducing vibrations on rotating parts, and vibration-damped rotating part A method and a device is used for reducing vibrations on at least two rotating elements, such as cooperating cylinders, which roll in opposite directions while situated in contact with each other. At least one of the elements has a surface protrusion that projects f... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7107907 | Flow-restricted printing cylinder for a removable printing sleeve A printing cylinder for accepting an axially-removable printing sleeve includes a cylinder body having an outer surface, the outer surface having at least one hole and a supply line in the cylinder body for supplying fluid to the at least one hole. The supply line h... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7077062 | Sleeve-like printing or transfer form and device for chamfering the longitudinal ends of a sleeve-like printing or transfer form A support sleeve made of a metallic material, preferably of nickel, is provided at at least one longitudinal end with a chamfer running all around in the inner circumference. This prevents damage to a film-like coating or thin intermediate sleeve, which surrounds th... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7073441 | Image recording apparatus A punch unit includes punch blocks supported by an arm through support plates. The arm has, arranged thereon, a motor for rotating a drive rod, a detector for detecting rotation angles of the drive rod, and a sensor for detecting a forward end of a recording materia... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7066090 | 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... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7056075 | Screw-type anchor A self-tapping masonry anchor includes an axial bore that is formed at one end and extends through a portion of the anchor. ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7051632 | Magnetic rotary die A rotary cutting die which is mountable on a metal cylinder. The rotary cutting die includes a rotary die plate having a concave, inner surface which is magnetically attractable and magnetically mountable on a metal cylinder. A cutting blade is mounted on a concave,... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7021213 | Printing method Disclosed is a printing method comprising the steps of mounting an underlay sheet on a plate cylinder of a printing press, and providing, on the underlay sheet, a printing plate material comprising a plastic sheet support, and provided thereon, a hydrophilic layer, ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6959644 | Method for securing a mounting bar at one end of a printing blanket and resulting printing blanket A method for securing a mounting bar at one end of a blanket including a lithographic layer and a support layer and, interposed between those two layers, at least one reinforcing woven layer. The end of the blanket, where the bar is to be fixed, is stripped until th... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6954291 | Method, apparatus, and computer program for reducing plate material waste in flexography plate making Full-format screened data is processed in a computer-implemented method to identify zones that contain printable information. The zones are packed, imaged and made into flexo plates, and elements cut out from the plates for each zone of printable information. The pl... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6948432 | Method and apparatus for mounting flexographic plate segments A method and apparatus for mounting printing plate segments on a printing plate carrier comprising accepting positioning data indicative of a set of first positions and loading the imaged segments onto a working surface of the loading table at approximately the corr... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6938548 | Printing sleeve noise reducer A noise reduction sleeve that fits over a printing sleeve while the printing sleeve is being slid onto or off of a respective cylindrical with the aid of compressed air exiting from holes in the outer surface of the cylinder. The noise reduction sleeve is an open-en... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6920823 | Photosensitive device, image forming apparatus and method for forming images A photosensitive device has a cylinder, a photosensitive sheet slidably wrapping outer surface of the cylinder, and a feeding roller in the cylinder. The feeding roller feeds the photosensitive sheet to the outer surface of the cylinder sequentially. The photosensit... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6920824 | 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... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6917413 | Perforation and image exposure system A perforation and image exposure system comprises an image exposure apparatus and a punch unit. The image exposure apparatus has a first reference pin for defining a lateral position of a plate through contacting with one side edge of the plate contacting a pair of ... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6915569 | Method of manufacturing an anilox roller for a flexographic printing press A method of manufacturing an anilox roller, in particular for a flexographic printing press, the anilox roller comprising a cylindrical core and a sleeve detachably held on the core and having at its surface an anilox layer with a grid pattern of pits, including the... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6901858 | Plate cylinder of a printing press A plate cylinder of a printing press, with a tensioning channel which extends in the axial direction, in which means for fixing the plate ends of at least one printing plate which can be positioned on the plate cylinder are arranged. The leading plate end can be fix... | 06/07/2005 |
