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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7182813 | Production apparatus of multilayer coating film The coating construction has flexibility corresponding to the number of layers of multiple coating layers, by which a multilayer coating film can be produced with small film thickness without adherence of dust to a film surface, a drying fault such as unevenness ind... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7159513 | Offset printing machine The invention relates to the drive of a printing machine. Cylinders and functional groups are to be driven with low technical expenditure. To this end, all form cylinders in a printing unit, for example, are driven respectively by separate electric motors and are no... | 01/09/2007 |
| 6936111 | Method and device for washing a rubber blanket During a washing cycle of a rubber blanket on a blanket cylinder some revolutions of the blanket cylinder are initially performed during which the cleaning element is lifted off the blanket cylinder temporarily when the clamping channel passes under the cleaning ele... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6722802 | Wet printed media output system A wet printed media output system in a printing mechanism including a frame is provided. The system includes an election mechanism mounted to the frame for ejecting a wet printed medium along a media path in an output direction towards an output area and a holding m... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6637333 | Apparatus to aid in fixing dye to fabric An apparatus (10) to aid in fixing dye to fabric having housing (15) having a portion (20) to receive and support a printer (25) to apply dye to the fabric (40) as it passes a predetermined location (50). A first set of rollers to provide for movement of ... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6203914 | Ink-fouling preventing sheet An ink-fouling preventing sheet which is attached to a feed or delivery cylinder that supports and moves a printed paper in an offset press. The sheet comprises a flexible sheet base; an adhesive layer formed on the base; many small balls partially buried... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6148727 | Wet printed media output management system A printer having a system to manage the output path of wet printed media is disclosed. In such a system, the wet printed media are held for a time before being ejected into an output tray to avoid the smearing of the wet print markings made on the media. ... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6109184 | Cooling arrangement in a folding assembly and cooling process A folding device in which printing-material webs are cooled in an effective manner includes guide rollers and/or feed rollers designed as cooling rollers. Alternatively or in conjunction with the cooling rollers, there are cooling arrangements in the fold... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6095047 | Web-fed rotary printing press with apparatus for diverting a wet printed web A lithographic web-fed rotary printing press (1) comprises an apparatus (8a, 8b, 8c, 8d) for diverting a wet printed web (4), e.g. in order to pass it around a downstream printing unit (2b) of the press (1). Each diverting apparatus (8a, 8b, 8c, 8d) inclu... | 08/01/2000 |
| 5967036 | Web infeed device for rotary printing presses A web infeed device for rotary printing presses, including a flexible, finite infeed element having a length greater than a spacing between adjacent drive elements for the infeed element includes a guide wherein the flexible infeed element is received, a ... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5906163 | Apparatus and method for preventing condensation in machines processing a web of material An apparatus and method for preventing condensation in machines for processing web-like material includes locating a condensation prevention device to reduce the amount of moisture near selected components to be protected and/or maintaining the surface te... | 05/25/1999 |
| 5606914 | Process and device for printing sheeting in rotary offset press A method and an apparatus for the printing of foil webs in web offset printing are proposed in which strongly oxidatively drying inks are used, the printed foil webs are subjected to a heat-air drying, the printed foil webs are furthermore conducted over ... | 03/04/1997 |
| 5566616 | Substrate printed by a single substrate, repeat-pass printing process A low basis weight, continuously moving substrate is printed by a single substrate, repeat-pass printing process. The continuously moving substrate is passed a first time through the printing station without receiving any pattern directly printed thereon,... | 10/22/1996 |
| 5562037 | Single substrate, repeat-pass printing process A low basis weight, continuously moving substrate is printed by a single substrate, repeat-pass printing process. The continuously moving substrate is passed a first time through the printing station without receiving any pattern directly printed thereon,... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5507229 | Printing press The invention concerns a printing press with several printing units arranged round an impression cylinder mounted in a frame, in which arrangement several gas blast devices for drying the web are arranged between the individual printing units. To allow th... | 04/16/1996 |
| 5501149 | Dual substrate, single-pass printing process 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 ... | 03/26/1996 |
| 5450792 | Automatic cleaning system for press rollers and cylinders An improved apparatus and method for cleaning one or more of the rollers used in printing presses. Typically, the printing press features manual or automated devices for supplying cleaning solvent to the press during a washing operation. A blade assembly ... | 09/19/1995 |
| 5443005 | Dusting device A device for dusting flat products such as printed matter with a powder includes a powder box open toward a product transport surface on which a plurality of the products which are to be dusted are moved. The powder box has a powder nozzle arrangement inc... | 08/22/1995 |
| 5429051 | Printing-unit assembly with smear-preventing device of a web-fed printing press and method of operation Printing-unit assembly of a web-fed printing press, the printing-unit assembly having a smear-preventing device and being assembled of at least two satellite printing unit sub-assemblies, respectively, including a satellite cylinder, one of the satellite ... | 07/04/1995 |
| 5413044 | Sack net for printing press anti-smear transfer cylinder A ready-made fabric sack with an elastic string around the periphery of the sack opening to be placed over a transfer cylinder in a printing press. When placed over the transfer cylinder, the inherent resiliency of the fabric and string causes the sack to... | 05/09/1995 |
| 5390602 | Device for cleaning ink-carrying surfaces in printing units A cleaning unit for cleaning ink-carrying surfaces in printing units of rotary printing machines comprises a supply reel carrying a web of washcloth; a take-up reel for receiving washcloth from the supply reel; a drive for driving the take-up reel and a c... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5337944 | Paper web guide device having alternating driving and braking guide rollers A paper web guide device for guiding and conveying a paper web comprises a plurality of guide rollers arranged in a parallel configuration in a printing system. The guide rollers comprise a mix of driving guide rollers equipped with a driving mechanism an... | 08/16/1994 |
| 5320042 | Paper web guide roller, particularly for use with a rotary printing machine, to guide a freshly printed paper web To provide a paper guide roller on which freshly printed ink does not smear while, still, the roller has a surface which is sufficiently rough so that it can be rotated by frictional engagement with a paper web passing thereover, the roller is formed with... | 06/14/1994 |
| 5289774 | Sheet-cleaning apparatus A sheet-cleaning apparatus for cleaning a sheet (6) that is to be printed, before it runs into the printing mechanism (2) of a sheet-fed printing press. A backing cloth (20), which is contacted with the sheet (6) that is to be printed with the help of the... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5184555 | Apparatus for reducing chill roll condensation An apparatus for dispersing contaminants from the surface of a web moving in a processing direction within a web processing system, the web processing system including a web processing structure, the apparatus including a chill roll air bar disposed proxi... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5170712 | Magnetic cleaner for printing press medium A device is provided for catching and holding loose metal articles accidentally dropped into a printing machine, thus preventing the articles from being fed into the press and damaging printing cylinders therein. The device is a magnet in the shape of elo... | 12/15/1992 |
| 5092696 | Graphics printer including print medium guidance system A graphics printer including a secondary guiding system comprising a fan arrangement for generating an air flux and directing the flux to a part of a print medium that hangs freely from the graphics printer, so as to maintain the hanging part away from th... | 03/03/1992 |
| 4563950 | Rotary printing machine with paper guide To prevent smearing, ghost formation, or unsharp printing of offset printing machines, due to flutter, random oscillations or adhesion of a substrate to a blanket cylinder caused by adhesive characteristics of printing ink, an endless flexible guide eleme... | 01/14/1986 |
