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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7387067 | Method for adjusting a spray dampener A medium, typically a fluid, is supplied at a level of a rotatable body and is dispensed by a dispenser, such as a spray dispenser. The spray dispenser includes at least one spraying nozzle which applies a dampening agent to the roller. A spraying frequency of the s... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7275482 | Ink proofer arrangement including substrate roll support and tensioner and method of using An ink proofer arrangement to generate consistent and reliable ink drawdowns irrespective of the size of the substrate or the user preparing the ink sample. The ink proofer arrangement includes an ink proofer tool, a cylindrical drum roller, a drive motor adapted to... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7237485 | Print supply monitoring An identification card printer includes a card input, a card transport, a printhead, and a card output. The card transport is configured to feed a card from the card input along a print path. The printhead is positioned below the print path and is configured to prin... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7154519 | Printer and ribbon cartridge A printer includes a substrate input, a substrate transport, a printhead, a removable ribbon cartridge, a ribbon cartridge receiver, and a substrate output. The substrate transport is configured to feed a substrate from the substrate input along a print path. The pr... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7124686 | Apparatus for clamping and holding a printing plate on an exposure drum In the field of electronic reproduction technology, an apparatus for clamping and holding a printing plate on the surface of an exposure drum in a printing plate exposer includes a clamping apparatus for the front edge of the printing plate. The clamping apparatus h... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7117788 | Spray device A spray device for a printing press includes a liquid inlet orifice for receiving a liquid, a gas inlet orifice for receiving a gas disposed downstream from the liquid inlet orifice, and an exit orifice disposed at a distance from a surface of the printing press. In... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7111553 | Method of kneading ink of a printing press and printing press In a printing press, ink fountain keys are disposed to be movable toward and away from an ink fountain roller of an ink fountain to allow them to have a predetermined gap therebetween and hence the amount of ink to be fed to a downstream roller to be determined. The... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7018117 | Identification card printer ribbon cartridge A ribbon cartridge includes a cartridge housing, a supply spool, a take-up spool, and a supply of ribbon. The cartridge housing includes a supply spool enclosure, a take-up spool enclosure, a pair of ribbon guides, and a gap between the ribbon guides and the supply ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6945524 | Card singularization gate A card singularization gate for use in an identification card printer includes a roller support, a guide roller, and a card stop. The roller support is positioned between a card feeder and the card transport mechanism. The guide roller is supported by the roller sup... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6932527 | Card cartridge A card cartridge includes a housing having a pair of opposing side walls, a top, a front wall, a back wall opposite the front wall, and a base. The housing includes an interior cavity that is sized to accommodate a stack of cards, a card access, and a card output sl... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6561090 | Printing press dampener using straight streams and method of dampening a printing press A press dampening system which applies dampening fluid to a roll or cylinder using high-density straight streams of fluid flow. The term straight stream encompasses a stream of fluid which is primarily laminar, and which produces a minimal amount of spray... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6546860 | Dampening unit for a printing press A dampening unit for a printing press contains a first roller and a second roller that together form a slip gap. The dampening unit is distinguished in that a pivot axis, about which the first roller is pivotably supported against the second roller, exten... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6253677 | Spray nozzle repositioning device Disclosed is a spray nozzle repositioning device for attaching to a spray bar in a multi-nozzle spray dampening system of a printing press to reposition the nozzle and reduce the area covered by the dampening spray. The positioning device has a fluid cond... | 07/03/2001 |
| 5813332 | Device for remoistening a web of printed material In a remoistening device for remoistening a freshly printed and dried web of printed material has a housing through which the web of printed material runs. The remoistening device is a disposed downstream from a dryer, preferably in the area between the d... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5644981 | Abnormality detector for nozzle type dampening systems An abnormality detector for nozzle-type dampening systems in offset printers, for injecting dampening solution through nozzles onto a receiving part by intermittently opening nozzles with nozzle opening signals generated by a nozzle operation controller, ... | 07/08/1997 |
| 4304183 | Latent image-multiple copy process A latent image-multiple copy process wherein use is made of a stencil in which stencil openings are formed to correspond to the latent image and base sheets in combination therewith, containing an invisible, soluble, color forming component, whereby when ... | 12/08/1981 |
| 4208233 | Lithographic and etching apparatus A feed unit (17) feeds a master sheet (14) from an etching unit (28) to a master drum (13), the distance from the etching unit (28) to the feed unit (17) being smaller than the length of the master sheet (14). The feed unit (17) includes a support member ... | 06/17/1980 |
| 4178848 | Automatic plate supplying device for use in an offset printing machine An automatic plate supplying device for supplying plates to an offset printing machine is disclosed, which operates to sequentially supply original plates to an original plate conveying device adapted to feed original plates to a plate cylinder provided i... | 12/18/1979 |
| 4151854 | Method and apparatus for mixing and supplying fountain solution to printing presses A process control system especially adapted for mixing and supplying fountain solution to printing press apparatus obviates the need for mechanical float metering devices and scale mechanisms heretofore used for mixing of liquid solution ingredients in pr... | 05/01/1979 |
| 4102267 | Feeding of sheets and cards in a rotary duplicator machine capable of whole-page and linewise printing Sheets upon which the entire text on a printing form mounted on a printing drum is to be printed are fed to the printing drum via a sheet infeed transport path. Cards upon which only portions of the text are to be printed are fed to the printing drum via ... | 07/25/1978 |
| 4092919 | Card selecting and address printing apparatus A card selecting and address printing apparatus to select a card having specified information from among a group of cards bearing thereon coded information and a master printing address and to transfer-print the specified information from the card onto an... | 06/06/1978 |
| 4082039 | Duplicator control by area scanned coded master There is disclosed an improvement in a system for sensing information encoded on a duplicating original, using the information to control copy processing. A duplicating original is installed onto the surface of a cylinder revolving in the duplication proc... | 04/04/1978 |
| 4080060 | Copy system An improved copy system includes a document feeding apparatus which is effective to move a document to an imaging station. An image on one side of the document is then projected on an electrostatically charged sheet to form a first master. The document is... | 03/21/1978 |
| 4073233 | Print position adjusting apparatus for address printer The preferred embodiment of the invention disclosed herein is an address printer including roller means for feeding a workpiece, for example, an envelope, on which printed material is to be duplicated, liquid application roller means for applying a copyin... | 02/14/1978 |
| 4069757 | Programmed operation of rotary duplicator machine capable of whole-page, paragraphwise and linewise printing upon whole-page sheets and smaller-format cards or slips The printing form on the printing drum of the machine bears an image in the form of a multi-line text. A counterpressure element can be moved to an operative position to effect transfer of the whole text onto whole-page sheets or transfer of individual li... | 01/24/1978 |
| 4069754 | Transfer-printing apparatus A transfer-printing process and apparatus for transfer-printing from a master card onto a work piece. The process starts by manual insertion of the master card into a gap provided between press rollers. By the insertion of the master card, the work piece ... | 01/24/1978 |
| 4068581 | Addressing machine A small desk-type addressing machine with automatic card feeding and manual control for registration adjustment. The printing station uses a narrow large diameter segmented printing roll made of relatively soft rubber on an auxiliary shaft. A single clutc... | 01/17/1978 |
| 4068580 | Selective duplicating machine A duplicating machine for duplicating printed material from selected master cards onto a workpiece comprises a master card feed station including a feed device for feeding cards to a print station and a workpiece feed station including a device for feedin... | 01/17/1978 |
| 4064804 | Duplicator and method of duplicating A duplicator system and method are provided for preparing a lithographic master and for producing duplicated copies from the master in a fully automated system. An ink and moisture system is provided for supplying ink and moisture to a master on a master ... | 12/27/1977 |
| 4044672 | Printing machine, in particular an office offset machine with means for pre-curving the master A printing machine, especially an office offset printing machine, in which a master before being wrapped around the master cylinder is pre-curved by sliding over an edge of one pivotable part of a bipartite table which part is tilted manually during the m... | 08/30/1977 |
| 4037531 | Rotary printing machine The printing machine includes a cyclically moving printing member having a printing surface, particularly a rotating printing roller carrying a lithographic printing form, and an inking arrangement for inking the printing surface. A counterpressure member... | 07/26/1977 |
| 4036135 | Offset duplicator with master treating means A lithographic duplicating machine includes a device for feeding an imaged master from a stack of masters through a treating unit, containing conversion fluid for converting the imaged surface of the master, to a master cylinder. A motor drive system is p... | 07/19/1977 |
| 4019433 | Pattern transfer machine An improved pattern duplicating machine for transferring a printed pattern from a moving master sheet to a moving copy sheet by a pair of counter-rotating rolls mounted in yieldable pressure engagement with one another so as to form a nip therebetween, in... | 04/26/1977 |
| 4018158 | Universal master cylinder for offset presses A master cylinder for an offset or the like printing press includes an arcuate master receiving surface extension section mounted on the cylinder for movement between an inoperative position into the interior of the cylinder and an operative position adja... | 04/19/1977 |
| 4016811 | Grooved roller dampener The invention pertains to an improved transfer roller for use in continuous type dampening mechanisms for lithographic offset printing presses. The surface of the transfer roller is provided with minute, closely spaced, spiral grooves whereby the fluid fe... | 04/12/1977 |
| 4005652 | Addressing machine and variable drag drive therefore A duplicating machine wherein adjustment of the location of material to be duplicated on the workpiece is accomplished by resiliently coupling to the machine drive system, the shaft which controls the feeding of the cards which carry the printed matter to... | 02/01/1977 |
| 4002117 | Rotary copying machine A rotary copying machine adjustable for a full page printing respectively line printing of sheets from a printing form on a rotatable printing drum has a device for moistening the sheets to be printed, and wherein the stroke of a piston pump for supplying... | 01/11/1977 |
| 3998159 | Pattern copying machine A machine for copying of patterns for use in the garment industry incorporating the spirit duplicating process. The machine incorporates a pair of nip rollers between which is engaged a master pattern paper and copy paper. The copy paper is fed from a sup... | 12/21/1976 |
| 3996854 | Duplicating apparatus Duplicating apparatus for reproducing printed matter from a master card onto labels. The appartus is of very simple construction and enables adjustment of the position of the printed area on the labels.... | 12/14/1976 |
| 3995546 | Rotary duplicating machine A rotary printing roller supports a printing form and a rotary counter-pressure roller is adjacent the printing roller. One of the rollers is movable to and from a printing position in close proximity to the other roller to define with the same a printing... | 12/07/1976 |
