Bizarre Patents
Pet Toilet-Like Water Disk and Food Storage
One pet-friendly inventor patented "a device for watering pets, e.g., a dog or cat." The device, he helpfully noted, "has the general shape of a toilet."
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7375858 | Image data control apparatus and method for image-recording device Ablation data of a region other than an image region, which ablation data is required for a positive-type printing plate, is added at a printing plate automatic exposure device side. Thus, a disadvantage of a time duration for transmission of job data from a PC bein... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7143495 | Backlight etching process A backlight etching process, and more particularly the etching of a solid, semi-translucent base material, to form an exact image within the material. The base material is preferably translucent and most preferably an acrylic-based product, such as DuPont Corian®. ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7054031 | Color reproduction process A method of color printing is described in which only two transparent inks are used to reproduce a source image The original digitally encoded image in red, green and blue colors may be initially adjusted for contrast, brightness, color balance, and tonal value. Thi... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6935235 | Printing method and device A method for applying printing ink to a printing material, includes producing ink-conducting and ink-repelling areas on an at least approximately flat surface. A plurality of areas with defined color acceptor properties are provided to produce the ink-conducting are... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6893676 | Glow in the dark puff heat transfer method and composition A method of making a glow in the dark puff heat transfer material and a composition of glow in the dark puff heat transfer material are presented in this invention. Unlike many prior art heat transfer methods, the heat transfer method utilized in the present inventi... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6749996 | Puff heat transfer The present invention is a puff heat transfer, a puff transfer composition, and a method of making a puff transfer composition. The puff transfer composition, i.e., ink, is actually loaded with the color. In particular, the transfer composition comprises effective a... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6432617 | Formulations of positive films The present invention relates to positive film formulations for obtaining color selection, through the use of balanced primary colors, and the method to obtain the same. Said formulations comprise an emulsion sensitive to any type of light and a photograp... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6428862 | Ink, ink-jet recording method using the same, and photopolymerization initiator An ink for ink-jet recording contains a coloring agent, a polymerizable oligomer, water, and a photopolymerization initiator having a solubility in water of 3 percent by weight or more. Another ink for ink-jet recording contains a coloring agent, a polyme... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6232041 | Heat transfer A method of making a heat transfer from an image for application to a T-shirt or other piece of cloth is disclosed. An image is scanned to create a computer image represented by a computer readable image file. The image is separated into a plurality of co... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6168902 | Formulations of positive films in order to obtain the selection of colors by means of primary balanced colors, and method for obtaining such formulations The present invention relates to positive film formulations for obtaining color selection, through the use of balanced primary colors, and the method to obtain the same. Said formulations comprise an emulsion sensitive to any type of light and a photograp... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6158345 | Method of compensating image details for flexographic printing plates A method for compensating for image distortion imparted on a flexographic printing plate is disclosed. The compensation scheme reduces the distortion effect caused by stretching of the image when the printing plate is wrapped around the cylindrical drum o... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6145565 | Laser imageable printing plate and substrate therefor A metal substrate is treated with a plurality of rotating brushes and a slurry of particulate material such that the treated surface is capable of absorbing incident infrared laser radiation. The substrate is itself capable of being visibly imaged by sele... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6030743 | Method for manufacturing pattern sheet for plate-making A method for manufacturing a pattern sheet for plate-making capable of easily forming a positive image through the use of a photographic negative film. In this method, as a first step, a negative film with a printed negative image is placed on a surface o... | 02/29/2000 |
| 5879865 | Image forming method An image forming method for a silver halide photographic light sensitive material comprising a support having thereon a color image forming layer containing a silver halide emulsion and a dye forming coupler is disclosed, comprising (i) subjecting the pho... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5858589 | Intensity modulated stochastic screening for preparing a lithographic printing plate A method for making a lithographic printing plate from an original containing multiple tones comprising the steps of frequency modulation screening the multiple image to obtain screened data representing tones of the multiple tone image in terms of halfto... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5700610 | Time modulated stochastic screening A method for generating a screened reproduction of a multiple tone image comprising the steps of frequency modulation screening the multiple tone image to obtain screened data representing tones of the multiple tone image in terms of halftone dots, reprod... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5677093 | Size modulated stochastic screening A method for generating a screened reproduction of a multiple tone image comprises the steps of frequency modulation or stochastic screening the multiple image to obtain screened data representing tones of the multiple tone image in terms of halftone dots... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5389506 | Elements and processes for producing superior photographic records A process of producing a viewable photographic image is disclosed wherein an imagewise exposed photographic element containing at least two silver halide emulsion layers capable of recording within the same region of the spectrum and having differing thre... | 02/14/1995 |
| 5283154 | Random screen waterless printing process An improved method of making lithographic reproductions is disclosed. The method involves several improvements over prior processes, including (a) the combination of random plates and a waterless, dry press for halftone, duotone, tritone and four color se... | 02/01/1994 |
| 5074206 | Printing method and printed product A method of printing with at least two printing plates, or their equivalent, characterized in that associated halftone dots belonging to two distinct pluralities, each of which is printed with one of said two printing plates, and each of which are interle... | 12/24/1991 |
| 4998962 | Printing method and printed product A method of printing with at least two printing plates, or their equivalent, characterized in that associated halftone dots belonging to two distinct pluralities, each of which is printed with one of said two printing plates, and each of which are interle... | 03/12/1991 |
| 4943517 | Imaging system An imaging process which comprises the steps of: (i) providing a first radiation sensitive element comprising a transparent base having coated thereon at least three imaging media each capable of forming a color image upon imagewise exposure and processing, ea... | 07/24/1990 |
| 4816295 | Method for imparting an apparent finish to the surface of an article A method for imparting an apparent finish to the surface of an article, i.e., a method for imparting both a visual and tactile appearance to the surface of an article that the surface itself has been finished using conventional mechanical or chemical tech... | 03/28/1989 |
| 4816378 | Imaging system An imaging process which comprises the steps of: (i) providing a first radiation sensitive element comprising a transparent base having coated thereon at least three imaging media each capable of forming a color image upon imagewise exposure and processing, ea... | 03/28/1989 |
| 4801519 | Process for producing a pattern with negative-type photosensitive composition A developing solution comprising at least two compounds selected from choline and quaternary ammonium salts is suitable for developing a negative-type photosensitive resin composition with exposure to a smaller light amount.... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4774885 | Printing process overlaying multi-color dot images A multicolor half-tone image of an original object is formed on preformed plastic containers or other recipient surface by printing such image while wet from an offset blanket cylinder on which the image is formed by overlying a plurality of one-color hal... | 10/04/1988 |
| 4774165 | Method for direct making of lithographic printing plates Disclosed is a direct making of multicolor printing plates by the procedure of exposing a photosensitive material (P) of the lithographic type for making a black plate to an original bearing both the continuous tone image and the line images. The said pro... | 09/27/1988 |
| 4720448 | Method of manufacturing photorelief printing plate using a liquid photopolymer In the process of making relief printing plates a liquid photopolymerizably layer having substantially identical negatives on each of its two sides and being in registration and also having a transparent substrate is exposed to an external light source so... | 01/19/1988 |
| 4610949 | Method for direct plate making from multicolor original Disclosed is a method for the direct making of printing plates for multicolor lithography capable of faithfully reproducing repeatedly continuous gradation multicolor original, which comprises using color separation filters for at least blue, green, and, ... | 09/09/1986 |
| 4581308 | Process for preparation of a masking element for forming a multicolor printing plate The present invention relates to a photosensitive masking element for plate making including a support made of a transparent film; a metal thin film layer formed on the support; and a photosensitive masking layer formed on said metal thin film layer and s... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4554241 | Color reproduction process A method of printing on a sheet member a realistic image of an original, uses two different superimposed impressions with two different coloring media. A first printing plate is created by interposing at least two filters between the original and the film... | 11/19/1985 |
| 4299165 | Color separation orientation gauge and method The invention is for color separation orientation gauges and methods by which they are used to produce a finished print in more than one color, the colors used being the primary colors and black. In the printing trade, the primary colors are at times refe... | 11/10/1981 |
| 4217822 | Color printing method An improvement in a half-tone primary color printing method where the black color is approximated by balancing the primary color components of the print and where the printing process involves using three primary color printing passes only, includes the s... | 08/19/1980 |
| 4198242 | Photopolymerizable composition containing an o-nitroaromatic compound as photoinhibitor A photopolymerizable coating composition comprising (1) a nongaseous, ethylenically unsaturated, polymerizable compound, (2) a specified nitroaromatic compound, and (3) an organic, radiation-sensitive, free-radical generating system is useful for making a positive or ne... | 04/15/1980 |
| 4188225 | Halftone screen with cell matrix An improved halftone dot screen for use in reproduction of continuous-tone graphic images is disclosed. The screen comprises a two-dimensional matrix of cells (dots) each cell having a common pattern of transmittance to radiation utilized in the reproduct... | 02/12/1980 |
| 4097278 | Redox amplification process employing a combination of oxidizing agents My invention is directed to a process of forming dye images. I accomplish this through a first redox amplification reaction in which a cobalt (III) complex oxidizing agent enters into a redox reaction with a reducing agent at the site of a catalyst image.... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4060643 | Method and apparatus for identifying color separation film A color identifying tape having a clear or white background with a black positive register mark and a negative mark in fixed spaced relationship thereon. The black register mark forms colored background areas shaded in each primary color, red, yellow and ... | 11/29/1977 |
| 4037533 | Color lithography using a random pattern screen Method for substantially improving the shadow detail and color spectrum range of multicolored lithographic reproductions including the preparation of and printing with standard halftone printing plates and overprinting with a secondary printing plate made... | 07/26/1977 |
| 4028105 | Color correction process for color printing using electroluminscent element A photosensitive material for making a color separation record is imaged through a color separation filter. An electroluminescent panel having an image reversal property is then placed on the material. The panel is imaged through a color correction filter... | 06/07/1977 |
| 4018528 | Photomechanical color printing registration The invention provides a method of facilitating registration in photomechanical color printing which comprises the steps of 1. providing a set of color separations with registration holes or slots or notches avoiding the image area, 2. mounting one of the colo... | 04/19/1977 |
