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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7921771 | Web-fed printing machine having a turning bar A web-fed rotary printing machine has at least one printing unit and at least one turning bar that is usable to redirect a travel direction of a web that is to be conveyed. The turning bar has an effective length, for redirecting the web. A projection of this effect... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7562623 | Printing unit and a rotary roller printing press A printing unit is comprised of at least two pairs of two cylinders each. The two cylinders in each pair are a transfer cylinder and a forme cylinder. The transfer cylinder and the forme cylinder are each embodied with a width sufficient for printing six newspaper p... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7546801 | Printing unit and a rotary roller printing press A printing unit is comprised of at least two pairs of two cylinders each. The two cylinders in each pair are a transfer cylinder and a forme cylinder. The transfer cylinder and the forme cylinder are each embodied with a width sufficient for printing six newspaper p... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7448320 | Printing unit and a rotary roller printing press A printing unit is comprised of at least two pairs of two cylinders each. The two cylinders in each pair are a transfer cylinder and a forme cylinder. The transfer cylinder and the forme cylinder are each embodied with a width sufficient for printing six newspaper p... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7364148 | Sheet combining device and a method for combining sheets A sheet combining device includes at least one former, at least one longitudinal cutter, and at least two partial web guide routes. A respective partial sheet of partial cut webs can be conveyed on each of the at least two partial web guide routes. These sheets can ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7325421 | Printed loop fabric and method for producing the same The present invention relates generally to a printed loop fabric with improved graphic visibility and clarity which may be used as the female portion of a mechanical closure system. The loop fabric is generally comprised of a knit fabric, and more specifically, of a... | 02/05/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7186043 | Linerless web utilizing apparatus and methods having dual function stripper element There is disclosed a printer with an arrangement for assuring that a linerless tacky adhesive-backed web is reliably fed. The printer has stripper elements which terminate at tip portions which extend into the platen roll to initially cut grooves in the platen roll,... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7178460 | Web-fed rotary printing press A web-fed rotary printing press, which is used for printing a web has at least four printing points or locations that are allocated to the web in an imprinting mode of the press. At least one of each two printing points or locations can be alternatively engaged with... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7178458 | Method of making transfer printed webbing A method of economically dye transfer printing small batches of webbing with custom designs includes printing N longitudinally adjacent identical design strips of approximate length L/N with a desired custom design. The design is printed on continuous roll paper wit... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7159512 | Printing unit and a rotary roller printing press The invention relates to a printing unit, comprising at least two pairs of two cylinders each, namely a transfer cylinder and an associated forming cylinder, whereby the transfer and forming cylinders are each embodied with a width sufficient for printing six newspa... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7114447 | Flexographic printer with enclosures at a regulated temperature and vapor extraction The invention relates to a flexographic printer comprising: inner dividing means which, together with a surround casing, define first, second and third enclosures; and fluid circulation means which are used for the circulation of at least one fluid at a regulated te... | 10/03/2006 |
| 6918338 | Printing system A printing system has an imaging subsystem, an application subsystem, and a decoupler separating the imaging subsystem from the application subsystem. A method of imaging is also provided. In a placing action, an image is placed on a transfer roll in a first environ... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6910353 | Printed loop fabric and method for producing the same The present invention relates generally to a printed loop fabric with improved graphic visibility and clarity which may be used as the female portion of a mechanical closure system. The loop fabric is generally comprised of a knit fabric, and more specifically, of a... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6862986 | Apparatus for setting the lateral register for printing units of rotary presses An apparatus for setting the lateral register of a printing unit of a rotary press that prints on a paper web includes a first bearing block configured as a locating bearing arranged on the drive side of a forme cylinder; and a second bearing block configured as a f... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6832549 | Rotary printing press having printing units each having printing devices arranged vertically in layers A rotary printing press includes a plurality of printing units, including at least one multiple-printing unit having a plurality of printing devices arranged vertically in layers. A plurality of first web feed units each having a web roll support device are provided... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6802253 | Rotational body configuration for web width correction A rotary printing machine, in particular in a reel-fed newspaper offset rotary press is provided with a device for correcting the web width. A rotatively mounted rotational body configuration is arranged in the path of the web between two print printing nips (2, ... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6796226 | Printing method A method of printing with a rotary printing press having a plurality of printing cylinders that are adapted to be adjusted on and off from a running web, with a length of a printed image being larger than a peripheral length of the largest one of the printing cylind... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6789475 | Satellite printing machine for printing sheets A satellite printing machine for printing sheets includes a single central common counter-pressure cylinder and at least four satellite printing groups arranged in a peripherally distributed manner about the counter-pressure cylinder in a rotational direction thereo... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6705219 | Rotary offset printing unit with rubber blanket belt and offset printing method The web-fed rotary offset printing machine utilizes a blanket belt onto which two or more colors are offset and which prints the two or more colors at once onto a material web. The blanket belt travels about guide rollers which have a lesser mass and/or a lesser dia... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6651556 | Dual-web offset printing press and method for printing dual webs A web offset printing press for dual webs includes several printing units, each printing a color image on outer sides of a pair of webs. The webs travel through these printing units in a back-to-back arrangement. Additional printing units print another co... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6557467 | Printing unit A printing unit is provided for a web-fed rotary printing machine, having a plurality of cylinders with associated drive motor, an additional device for printing an at least two guide elements. At least one cylinder is a plate cylinder. At least one guide... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6363848 | Printing unit with cylinders arranged in the shape of a "V" and "W" A first printing unit of an offset printing press has five cylinders, which include two forme cylinders, two transfer cylinders and a counter-pressure cylinder. These five cylinders are arranged in a manner forming a shape of a "W".... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6308619 | 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) incl... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6276269 | Guide roll for use in printing lenticular materials A guide roll (22, 24) for a printing press (10) printing an image on a flat surface (16) of a web (12) of a lenticular lens material. The other side of the material has a series of lenticules (14) formed on it which extend parallel of each other longitudi... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6244176 | Printing apparatus for printing on a medium by transferring a plurality of different color inks onto an elastic endless blanket Disclosed is a printing apparatus comprising a driving roll, a supporting roll, an endless offset blanket stretched between the driving roll and the supporting roll, a plurality of plate cylinders for transferring inks having a plurality of different colo... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6220157 | Printing press with in-line central impression cylinders A printing press includes a pair of in-line central impression cylinders which rotate about parallel axes. A web which is printed on the central impression cylinders is advanced from one of the cylinders to the other along a path which is perpendicular to... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6189449 | Width adjusting device and method for a paper web, and rotary lithographic press having same A web width adjusting device comprises a pressure force applying unit for applying pressure force to one side surface of a paper web which is successively traveled through two or more printing sections. Further the web width adjusting device may also incl... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6176181 | Deck configuration for a printing press A deck for a printing press includes first and second rolls which are mounted for linear movement on a pair of spaced parallel rails. A rotatable ball screw moves the rolls along the rails. The axis of the screw substantially intersects the axes of the ro... | 01/23/2001 |
| 6125758 | Method for varying the piling-order and/or turning webs upside down in a rotary press A rotary press can vary the order of piling of printed traveling webs freely without requiring the bay window device to the construction and thus contributes for reducing size and weight of the rotary press. Also, the rotary press may facilitate repairing... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6082258 | Printing press damping system A printing press damping system (10) has a set of rollers (12,1,15,16) to deliver a damping fluid (14) from a trough (11) to a plate cylinder (20) of a printing press. The rollers comprise a fountain roller (12) which is rotatable within the trough to pic... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6041707 | Web-fed rotary printing machine A web-fed rotary printing machine having a plurality of directly adjacent printing units. Each of the printing units has only one side wall, in which the printing group cylinders are float mounted. The printing units are arranged in-line with no working s... | 03/28/2000 |
| 5729817 | Accent printer for continuous web material An accent color printer for printing on a continuous web of material has spaced apart drums, and a flexible continuous belt positioned around the drums. The belt defines a transport path having an arcuate portion at one of the drums. A platen cooperates w... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5724891 | Method for manufacturing a display A system and a method for producing displays such as signs and cards includes a continuous substrate of material which is passed from a supply roller to a take-up roller. A series of printing stations apply a four-color image to the substrate. A fifth pri... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5706725 | Flexographic printing press with variable printing length A flexographic printing press with one or several color printing units (12), which are disposed at the periphery of a common back pressure cylinder (10) and, in each case, have an impression cylinder (14; 14') and an applicator roll (16) and the impressio... | 01/13/1998 |
| 5612118 | Elongate, semi-tone printing process and substrates printed thereby A printing process prints a continuously moving substrate with elongate, semi-tone graphics. The printed substrate is incorporated into a composite elastic material, in which the substrate is contracted, thereby forming a desired full-tone graphic from th... | 03/18/1997 |
| 5597642 | Dual substrate, single-pass printing process and substrates printed thereby 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 ... | 01/28/1997 |
| 5479855 | Belt-type printing machine for multi-color purposes A belt-type printing machine, especially for a plurality of colors, comprising at least one printing station (2) containing a frame (1), idler rolls (7) arranged in bearings therein, an impression cylinder (6) for guiding a continuous web (8) to be printe... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5413038 | Printing machine In a printing machine with an impression roll and several printing mechanisms, the bearings of the size cylinders and the inking device supports can be moved with the screen rolls on guides of the printing machine stand, approximately radially to the impr... | 05/09/1995 |
| 5267512 | Blanket to blanket type printing press employing divided plate cylinder A BB-type printing press employing a divided plate cylinder has a novel drive gear train for avoiding rotation in the associated rotating condition and whereby to maintain satisfactory level of sharpness and/or clearness of printed patterns. The BB-type p... | 12/07/1993 |
