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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8117963 | Printing security features A printing machine for printing security features onto a web. The machine has a first printing cylinder defining a first circumference and carrying a first number (m) of rows of first image elements, each adjacent row of first image elements having a first circumfer... | 02/21/2012 |
| 7806051 | Drive of the inking unit in an intaglio printing machine The machine comprises at least a plate cylinder carrying printing plates with engravings corresponding to a specific intaglio structure to be printed, and cooperating with an impression cylinder, a collector cylinder (8) on which the ink in the different colo... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7464642 | Blanket cylinder for an intaglio printing machine The blanket cylinder for an intaglio printing machine comprising a plate cylinder carrying printing plates with engravings corresponding to a specific intaglio structure to be printed on a substrate, and cooperating with an impression cylinder, the blanket cylinder ... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7273007 | Portable printer coater A portable printer coater for use with a printing press includes: a counter for indicating wear on seal components, a system for installing and removing the coater without lifting, and a tensioner for improving lifetime of seals in the chambered doctor. The counter ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7255041 | Cylinder and device for guiding a material web The invention relates to a cylinder, which is in contact with a material web. Said cylinder flexes in or against the direction of travel of the material web, in accordance with at least one pixel that is located on said web. ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7249559 | Method for cleaning a porous printing surface by extruding liquid through surface Method and apparatus in which a first liquid is extruded through a porous plate to a first surface, a second liquid is externally applied over the first liquid on the first surface. The second liquid is subsequently removed from the first surface. In some embodiment... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7243602 | Device for positioning further processing devices on printing machines An apparatus for positioning further or auxiliary processing devices, such as folders, cross cutting devices, sheet stackers or roll winding-up systems, on printing presses, includes a first positioning device which interacts with a further positioning device fixed ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7228798 | Printing machine A web-fed printing machine is provided. The printing machine includes a plurality of printing units. A first work station precedes the printing units. A second work station follows the printing units. At least one lifting device is assigned to the printing units for... | 06/12/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7124682 | Intaglio printing press having interchangeable ink fountain unit and pre-wiping unit An intaglio printing press includes a rotatably supported intaglio cylinder, and a wiping roller and a wiping tank for removing excess ink from the intaglio cylinder. A rotatably supported fountain roller is provided. Wall plates and a bottom plate for supplying ink... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7093540 | Method and device for initial adjustment of the register of the engraved cylinders of a rotary multicolor press To adjust peripheral register of engraved cylinders, the positions of a respective angular register mark arranged on each cylinder is measured with respect to a zero reference, and an angular printing mark characteristic of the position of the engraving is associate... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7082874 | Short inking unit A short inking unit for a planographic printing unit that has a compact design and is operable for transferring an ink film to a form cylinder with high uniformity and stability. This short inking unit includes an applicator roll arrangement having a plurality of ap... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7059244 | Method for aqueous gravure printing and apparatus therefor This invention provides a method for aqueous multicolor gravure printing which can print at a high speed without color drift, which is formed of plural printing unit processes, each of which contains a printing process, a drying process and a cooling process, wherei... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7054017 | Avoiding printing defects Various systems and methods are provided for avoiding printing defects when printing documents. In one embodiment, a method is provided that identifies a printing defect on a hardcopy document, the printing defect being created by a printer, identifies a non-printed... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7011020 | Printing machine by intaglio engraving The invention relates to a printing machine by intaglio engraving comprising a rack (01; 11; 14) with a stationary part (01) and a moving part (11; 14). A plate cylinder (07) is rotationally mounted inside the stationary part, and an Orlo... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7000542 | Low cost litho printing press, printing plate, and method for printing paste-type oil-based litho ink which eliminate the dampener and dampening solution therefrom A litho printing press comprising one or more litho ink printing stations, each of which has paste-type, oil-based litho ink applicating means for depositing said oil-based litho ink onto a printing plate, an adjacent first rotatable cylinder called the plate cylind... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6993149 | Embedding digital watermarks in spot colors The present invention relates to digitally watermarking spot color images. In one embodiment, an original spot color is replaced with a combination of cyan (C), magenta (M) and yellow (Y) components and the original spot color. The CMY components convey a digital wa... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6955623 | Single planet steering position planetary differential A single planet planetary differential including a shaft mechanism, a planet gear, disposed so as to be meshingly communicated with the shaft mechanism, a carrier device, the carrier device defining a carrier cavity for rotatingly containing the planet gear, a worm ... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6948428 | Sheet-fed printing press and method carried out using the same A method by which stacks of printed sheets can be formed and, at the same time, the risk of soiling of the stacked sheets can be reduced to the maximum extent. To this end a printing machine is proposed, in particular a sheet-fed printing machine, into which unprint... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6928927 | Intaglio printing press An intaglio printing press includes, an intaglio plate cylinder, inking units, each having an ink supplying pattern roller in contact with the intaglio plate cylinder, and each ink supplying pattern roller having different supply patterned portions, an ink removing ... | 08/16/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6779445 | Intaglio printer An intaglio printer has a form or plate cylinder and a printing or counterpressure cylinder. In addition, at least one screen printing cylinder is provided and transfers screen printing ink to the form or plate cylinder. ... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6761110 | Method for interleaving sheets A method by which stacks of printed sheets can be formed and, at the same time, the risk of soiling of the stacked sheets can be reduced to the maximum extent. To this end a printing machine is proposed, in particular a sheet-fed printing machine, into which unprint... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6557464 | Nine-cylinder satellite printing unit A nine-cylinder satellite printing unit includes printing stations having a first, second, third and fourth transfer cylinder which a web passes through. The transfer cylinders are capable of being stopped when the printing assembly is switched off. A dis... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6523470 | Printing cylinder A printing cylinder with a cylinder core (10), on which a carbon fiber-containing casing (20) is disposed, wherein the casing (20) is self-supporting and held at a distance from the peripheral surface (18) of the cylinder core (10) by disks (22) disposed ... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6272987 | Intaglio printing press An intaglio printing press comprises a plate cylinder capable of having three intaglio plates mounted along a circumferential direction of the plate cylinder; an ink collecting cylinder contacted with the plate cylinder and capable of having four blankets... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6209454 | Multicolor rotogravure rotary press with first and second side printing towers In a rotary rotogravure printing press for accomplishing the multicolor printing of first and second sides of a material to be printed, first side printing units and second side printing units are arranged in an alternating form. Dryers are located betwee... | 04/03/2001 |
| 5899145 | Intaglio printing press The intaglio printing machine comprises a main structure (6), a plate cylinder (4), an impression cylinder (3), a wiping device (10) and an inking system consisting of a collector inking cylinder (5), of at least four color-selector cylinders (7a to 7d), ... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5842414 | Digital printer A digital printer of the present invention employs a single laser depress unit. In a prepress process, an impression cylinder is used as a plate retention member for holding four printing plates. Image formation on the four printing plates held on the imp... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5727464 | Modules with linking drive shafts Modules, such a paper tray 21, are stacked under a printer (3). Power to drive the paper feed originates from the printer. A housing (9, 27) carries a shaft (17, 35) which is keyed to turn with the housing. The shafts have abutment surfaces (47a) which me... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5713288 | Method and apparatus for use in offset printing In a printing method, an electrically encoded image to be transferred to a printing substrate during a printing process is provided in an electronic memory. A flexible carrier web is attached under tension to a cutting cylinder identical in dimensions to ... | 02/03/1998 |
| 5655454 | Layered impression cylinder and method of operation Reprintable impression cylinder for a printing press, the impression cylinder having an outer cylindrical surface wettable, during printing, with a heated printing ink which is transferrable to printing material or stock, includes two superimposed layers ... | 08/12/1997 |
| 5592882 | Printing press bearing and method of controlling temperature of bearings of a printing press In a printing press, a bearing for supporting a cylinder axle of a printing cylinder is supported by a bearing housing attached to a frame of the printing press. A heating device circulates heated water through a path formed in the cylinder. A path is for... | 01/14/1997 |
| 5566618 | Method and apparatus for use in offset printing A method used in offset printing utilizes an electrically encoded image, stored in an electronic memory, to be transferred to a printing substrate during a coating application in an offset printing process. An offset printing blanket is attached under ten... | 10/22/1996 |
| 5564336 | Rotary intaglio printing machine A rotary intaglio printing machine has at least two printing mechanisms and a drying device arranged between the printing mechanisms, through which a web of paper to be printed upon successively passes. The printing mechanisms are so arranged that the web... | 10/15/1996 |
| 5540146 | Web-fed printing machine having a register device for aligning the paper web The web-fed printing machine has two cylinders (2, 3) which form the nip, a paper-web-directing device (10) with an infeed roller (14) and a discharge roller (15), which are arranged adjustably on both sides of the nip (S), and an upstream web-feeding dev... | 07/30/1996 |
| 5528987 | Rotary printing press unit suspended from beam frame A rotary printing press built on a frame structure in which printing units, normally mounted on a floor foundation, are instead suspended from the frame structure to minimize clutter in the vicinity of the printing press and simplify the operation of chan... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5528986 | Rotary printing cassette unit suspended from frame The plural cylinders comprising a printing unit in a rotary printing press, are mounted for synchronous rotation within a single frame structure, aligned under the impression cylinder, such that the frame structure including the cylinders is removably sec... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5469787 | Multi-color printing press A multi-color printing press having a single segmented impression cylinder with multiple, segmented blanket cylinders of equal diameter arranged about the periphery thereof. The segments of the impression cylinder and the blanket cylinders are equal in le... | 11/28/1995 |
| 5463949 | Gravure press with improved printing drum arrangement Prevention of damages on the printing surface of plastic gravure plate is the object. Radius of the plate cylinder 14, impression cylinder 11, and transfer drum 2 located between units are identical. The plate cylinders 14, 24 and the impression cylinders... | 11/07/1995 |
