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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7370578 | Inking or dampening unit including adjustable throw-on force for setting imprint width An inking or dampening unit includes an applicator roll mounted on levers so that the application roll can be pivoted about a distributor cylinder onto a form cylinder with a controlled throwing-on force. ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7350464 | Modular printing unit In order to provide a printing unit (1; 50) of modular design with the lowest possible expenditure on construction and high flexibility, the printing unit (1; 50) of modular design for printing webs (29) has a stand (2; 2′; 54), which i... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7341001 | Printing unit arrangement in a web-fed rotary printing press A printing unit arrangement in a web-fed rotary printing press includes at least one printing unit 2a having a first and second plate cylinder 4,6 and associated first and second blanket cylinders 8, 10 which are mechanically coupled via ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7270409 | Liquid applying apparatus and ink jet printing apparatus A liquid applying apparatus and an ink jet printing apparatus can reduce evaporation that may occur when an application liquid is left in a liquid holding member for a long time. The liquid holding member forms a space between an elastic member and a roller to hold ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7234395 | Device for conveying a sheet through a printing machine A device for conveying a sheet through a printing machine includes a cylinder, formed with a channel wherein grippers are disposed for holding the sheet at a leading edge, a chain conveyor with grippers fixed to endless chains for holding and picking up the sheet at... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7207265 | Devices for turning sheets in a sheet-fed rotary printing machine Devices for turning sheets in a rotary printing machine are described. The devices have a storage drum for handling sheets, which are each held by a holding device, and a turning drum is disposed downstream of the storage drum and has a holding device for engaging a... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7140295 | Printing group including cylinders supported for movement A printing group of a printing machine is comprised of a pair of cylinders each having a circumference that corresponds essentially to a length of a section of a side to be printed. The effective generated surface of at least one of the cylinders comprises, at the m... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7107902 | Sheet-guiding device for a printing machine The invention relates to a sheet-guiding device in a printing machine. The object of the invention is to provide such a sheet-guiding device which in a printing/varnishing unit that is not involved in the printing/varnishing process, permits the smear-free passage o... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7073435 | Printing blanket with convex carrier layer A printing blanket includes a carrier sleeve layer having at least one axially convex surface and a print layer disposed over the carrier sleeve layer. A blanket cylinder with a convex outer surface and a convex shim is also provided. An offset printing press is als... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7044054 | Printing group of an offset rotary printing machine A printing group of an offset rotary printing machine includes at least one forme cylinder, one transfer cylinder and at least one inking system. Two of these printing groups are arranged opposite to each other. The arrangement of the printing group in relation to e... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7032510 | Mounting for cylinders of a printing machines At least two cylinders of a printing machine are arranged in the printing machine. An end journal of each of the cylinders is mounted either in or on a common insert. That common insert is, in turn, detachably located in, or on a lateral frame of the printing machin... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7017482 | Printing unit arrangement in a web-fed rotary printing press A printing unit arrangement in a web-fed rotary printing press includes at least one printing unit 2a having a first and second plate cylinder 4, 6 and associated first and second blanket cylinders 8, 10 which are mechanically coupled via... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6972860 | Encoding of requests for sample copy output in document assembly trees The concept of a document assembly tree is extended to include in nodes, such as a node describing a sheet 330 or a node describing a compilation 342, a sample interval specification. The sample interval specification is interpreted as a request to pro... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6966258 | Printing unit arrangement in a web-fed rotary printing press A printing unit arrangement in a web-fed rotary printing press includes at least one printing unit 2a having a first and second plate cylinder 4, 6 and associated first and second blanket cylinders 8, 10 which are mechanically coupled via... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6923436 | Process for the manufacture of sets of printed pages for the preparation of books, and set of printed pages manufactured by that process The process is based on printing, in an electronic printing machine, the various bodies of text of the pages with symmetrical distribution with respect to the center of symmetry of the sheet being printed and likewise symmetrically with respect to one or both axes o... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6923118 | Drive for impression cylinders of a rotary press Apparatus for preventing the cylinder drive wheels of the transfer cylinders jamming against one another during setting and throwing-off movements includes a transfer cylinder having cylinder drive wheel which engages the drive wheels of a forme cylinder and of an i... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6910417 | Inking arrangement improvement A mechanism for rotary printing presses to increase the number of ink form-rollers without decreasing the space available for changing the printing plates. An additional advantage of this mechanism is the ease of access to the inner form rollers. ... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6827018 | Device and method for driving a printing machine with multiple uncoupled motors A device and method for synchronizing at least two printing-unit groups (2, 3) which represent a sheet-fed printing machine (1). Between the two printing-unit groups (2, 3) there is provided a transfer unit (10) being operable by means of a separately controllable d... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6820547 | Support structure for a blanket cylinder of an offset printing press A support structure for a blanket cylinder of an offset printing press includes: a first eccentric bearing that is rotatably supported by frames of the offset printing press; a second eccentric bearing that is rotatably supported by the first eccentric bearing so as... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6796239 | Method and device for driving a printing press A method for driving a printing press includes driving, in a printing operation, via a gear train by at least a first motor, at least one drum for advancing printing material and a printing-form cylinder, processing angle-of-rotation signals of the drum in a control... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6786148 | Sheet-processing rotary printing press with a die cutting or punching unit, and method of operation A method of operating a sheet-processing rotary printing press provided with a die cutting or punching unit and a delivery for forming processed sheets into a sheet pile or stack includes, in a first method step, moving the punching or die cutting unit, during produ... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6698350 | Sheet perfecting apparatus for satellite-type printing press Sheet perfecting apparatus for a satellite-type printing press by which double-side printing is performed with a single satellite-type press and if sheet perfecting is not needed the sheet is printed on one side only. In the course of printing with a plur... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6651558 | System for inserting pamphlets into a printing press An inserter (10) for synchronously feeding a preprinted portion (X1) of a pamphlet into a printing press (P) to be adhered to a complemental portion of the pamphlet in substantial registration to form the completed pamphlet is disclosed. The in... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6612233 | Sheet feed offset press The present invention provides a method for operating a sheet-fed offset press so as to reduce the occurrence of spoilage caused by nonuniform printing. In this method, the timing of start of oscillating motion of oscillating rollers is regulated. Also, t... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6539857 | Five-cylinder offset printing units with adjustable spacing An offset printing press includes a plurality of printing units. These printing units are typically each so-called five cylinder printing units. The spacing distance between two adjacent ones of these five cylinder printing units can be adjusted or modifi... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6408748 | Offset printing machine with independent electric motors 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 (1.1, 1.2) in a printing unit, for example, are driven respectively by separate elec... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6286425 | Sheet-fed rotary printing machine and method of transporting sheets including a cylinder with a displaceable outer portion A sheet-fed rotary printing machine has a plurality of units arranged in tandem, at least one of the units including a first cylinder for transporting a sheet and a second cylinder disposed opposite the first cylinder, the first cylinder and the second cy... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6272985 | Link arm mechanism for adjustable spacing of plate and blanket cylinders in a rotary offset printing press A link mechanism is provided for setting and maintaining a minimum spacial distance between a blanket cylinder and a plate cylinder of a rotary printing press. The link mechanism includes a first link arm that is rotatably mounted on an axle of the blanke... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6272986 | Retractable impression cylinder inking/coating apparatus having ferris movement between printing units A retractable impression cylinder coater printer known as the "Lithoflex I™" combines lithographic and flexographic printing and coating in a single pass operation. The apparatus is adapted for installation on any printing station of a multi-color litho... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6082257 | Printing unit with anilox roller bearer positioning A printing unit is disclosed which incorporates an applicator roller (66) such as anilox roller with bearer surfaces (206) at the ends thereof for positively positioning the applicator roller relative a cylinder, such as a plate cylinder (32) or a blanket... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6062136 | Sheet-fed offset rotary press A sheet-fed rotary offset printing machine accomplishes multi-color printing. A central impression cylinder carries sheets to be printed as they pass by at least two serially located blanket cylinders. These blanket cylinders are provided with ink images ... | 05/16/2000 |
| 5970870 | Web-fed offset printing press capable of image conversion without web stoppage An offset perfecting press is disclosed which has a pair of blanket cylinders on opposite sides of a web traveling along a predefined path. Bearing different images to be printed, two plate cylinders are disposed in circumferentially spaced apart position... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5960713 | Retractable printing-coating unit operable on the plate and blanket cylinders simultaneously from the dampener side of the first printing unit or any consecutive printing unit or any rotary offset printing press A retractable in-line inking/coating apparatus can apply either spot or overall inking/coating material to a plate and/or a blanket on the first printing unit or on any consecutive printing unit of any rotary offset printing press. The inking/coating appa... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5660108 | Modular digital printing press with linking perfecting assembly Modular printing apparatus wherein multiple central-impression presses may be linked to one another, either directly or through a perfecting assembly that reverses the facewise orientation of cut sheets. The presses each contain circuitry defining a signa... | 08/26/1997 |
| 5623873 | Offset printing press An offset printing press comprises a plate cylinder onto which a printing plate is attached, a form dampening roller having an elasticity on its outer surface, a water fountain roller immersed into water in a water pan, and intermediate roller means for t... | 04/29/1997 |
| 5477780 | Horizontal sheet transfer multiple color offset rotary printing press with horizontal slide access A gripper bar conveyor mechanism for transferring sheets to be printed from one rotating impression cylinder to another in a multiple color rotary offset printer of the type having sets of impression cylinders and corresponding blanket cylinders for rolli... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5479585 | Method of carrying a sheet member for plotter and device therefor A method and apparatus for transferring a sheet by a belt drive in a plotter, so that the position of a transfer rail, on which grip devices which grip the sheet are disposed, does not shift during such transfer. The plotter includes a sheet support surfa... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5461977 | Device for transferring single sheets to the impression cylinder of a sheet fed rotary printing machine The device has a sheet-transfer cylinder (2) with a movable setting plate (3) which bears the sheet grippers (4) and whose lateral ends are individually adjustable during each revolution of the transfer cylinder (2) with the aid in each case of a roller l... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5421257 | Sheet transferring machine for printing machine An apparatus for transferring a sheet between a plurality of printing units is disclosed. A transfer cylinder is provided between the adjacent units and is rotated by a motor. A drive gear mechanically connected to the motor and a driven gear mechanically... | 06/06/1995 |
