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...that two musicians were responsible for the invention of color print film? Fascinated by photography, Leopold Godowsky and Leopold Mannes worked together to produce an easy-to-use, practical color film. They worked full time as music teachers and gave concerts while experimenting during their off hours in Mannes' kitchen. Their success earned them full-time, well-paying jobs at Kodak and their efforts resulted in Kodachrome film, which was introduced in 1935.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7392740 | Web fed rotary printing unit A web-fed rotary printing unit having a plurality of printing mechanisms is provided. Each printing mechanism includes a form cylinder (1, 5, 16-18, 27-30), a transfer cylinder (2, 6, 3, 7, 12-15, 22-25) and an impression cy... | 07/01/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7316184 | Drier for a web of material A dryer is used for drying a web of material. The dryer includes a passage duct for the material web. Drying takes place within this passage duct which includes at least one straight section. The dryer is disposed on a printing group which includes vertical web guid... | 01/08/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7114439 | Printing groups of a printing press A printing group of a printing press is comprised of at least one pair of cylinders which include a form cylinder and a transfer cylinder. The transfer cylinder cooperates with an impression cylinder to apply ink to a web of material, with the web being guided verti... | 10/03/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6971308 | Printing device for printing machines of various kind Printing device for printing machines of various kind, which is made in such a way that to permit to print paper pages and sheets of any size, with a number of copies larger than those attainable with the current printing machines and with high printing accuracies. ... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6935234 | Lithographic newspaper printing press A lithographic newspaper printing press including printing units which are mounted on top of each other, forming a tower arrangement. Each printing unit including a first and a second plate cylinder having a length being substantially four times the width of a newsp... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6848363 | Device for changing the operating state of a gripper-control device in a sheet-reversing device of a sheet-processing machine and sheet-processing machine having the device A device for changing an operating state of a gripper-control device in a sheet-reversing device of a sheet-processing machine including a cylinder having an actuating shaft accommodated therein, includes an activating element cooperatively engaging with the actuati... | 02/01/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6786151 | Printer of an offset printing machine with separable frame modules A printer, that includes multiple printing groups, is mounted in the frame of an offset printing machine. Each printing group includes at least one printing cylinder, at least one transfer cylinder and at least one inking system. Two of these printing groups are arr... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6782817 | Printing machine A printing machine includes two printing units, each comprising a web feed section, a web printing section connected to the web feed section and a web treating section connected to the web printing section, in which a single-side surface of a continuous web is print... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6782820 | Printing blanket The present invention provides a cylindrical printing blanket comprising a seamless sleeve and a sheet-like blanket having a fabric layer, a compressive layer and a surface printing layer, said sheet-like blanket being bonded onto the outer surface of said seamless ... | 08/31/2004 |
| 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 |
| 6599040 | Method of setting a print start position in a continuous form printing system In a print position setting method, a sequence of the following operations of printing a toner mark 4 by the obverse side printer, of detecting the toner mark 4 by a mark sensor 9, and feeding a printing sheet a distance ranging from a toner mark detectin... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6510791 | Web-fed rotary press A multi-color, web-fed rotary printing press provides a shortened construction. A web passes vertically downwardly through a plurality of bridge printing units which are arranged one above the other. A lowermost one of these bridge printing units has a tr... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6435094 | Web processing with electrostatic moistening An apparatus for processing a web of material by applying a liquid material to the web, heating the web, cooling the web and moistening the web is provided with an applicator that applies the liquid material to the web, a drying apparatus that heats the w... | 08/20/2002 |
| 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 |
| 6338298 | Rotary printing machine with blanket cylinders and plate or form cylinders integrated in pairs in cylinder groups A rotary printing machine has blanket cylinders and plate cylinders, which are integrated in pairs into cylinder groups by a mechanical coupling for their joint drive. Such a cylinder group is driven by a separate drive motor.... | 01/15/2002 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 5907997 | Multi-color printing press for printing single or dual webs A multi-color single blanket printing press for printing single or dual webs includes a pair of blanket cylinders that are movable between a contacting position and a remote position. A plurality of plate cylinders associated with each blanket cylinder ap... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5692439 | Printing unit for blanket-to-blanket printing The present invention relates to a printing unit for blanket-to-blanket printing. The printing unit includes two printing couples positioned one on top of the other. Each printing couple includes a form cylinder and a transfer cylinder. The transfer cylin... | 12/02/1997 |
| 5284090 | Color printing apparatus for both sides of printing paper A color printing apparatus printing for both sides of printing paper comprises a plurality of printing sections which are arranged at a regular interval in a piled configuration. Each one of the printing section includes a pair of blanket cylinders facing... | 02/08/1994 |
| 5239924 | Printing press, preferably flexographic printing press This invention relates to a printing press including an impression cylinder and a plurality of printing units which include drive gears and plate cylinders which are movable into and out of engagement with the impression cylinder. The press also includes ... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5152222 | Color printing apparatus for both sides of printing paper A color printing apparatus printing for both sides of a web of printing paper comprises a plurality of printing sections which are arranged at a regular interval in a piled configuration. Each one of the printing section includes a pair of blanket cylinde... | 10/06/1992 |
| 5136942 | Web-fed printing machine for recto-verso printing especially of banknotes The web-fed printing machine preferably intended for the printing of banknotes has two closely adjacent impression cylinders (2, 3), each of which interacts with several blanket cylinders (4, 6). Each blanket cylinder (4, 6) is inked by a plate cylinder (... | 08/11/1992 |
| 5036763 | Convertible multi-color printing machine for the rectoverso printing of especially bank notes The printing machine is composed of two essentially identically constructed halves which each have an impression cylinder (4, 14), an image transfer cylinder (6, 16) resting against this, a blanket cylinder (7, 17) and a collect-printing plate cylinder (5... | 08/06/1991 |
| 5009156 | Multi-color rotary printing machine for simultaneous recto-verso printing The printing machine has two interacting blanket cylinders (4, 14), between which the paper to be printed runs through, thereby being printed on both sides, two plate cylinders (5, 15), each of which carries a collect-printing plate and is in contact with... | 04/23/1991 |
| 5007339 | Convertible multi-color printing machine, especially for the printing of banknotes The printing machine has two multi-color printing units (I, II) of essentially identical construction, each composed of a first blanket cylinder (4, 14), of a second blanket cylinder (7, 17), of a plate cylinder (5, 15) and of an image transfer cylinder (... | 04/16/1991 |
| 4794856 | Combined rotary multicolor perfecting press A printing machine comprising an indirect printing device, a drying device, a sheet transfer and turning device actuated according to requirements, and an intaglio printing machine. It permits printing in a single pass through the device a simultaneous re... | 01/03/1989 |
| 4768436 | Conversion of letterpress to offset printing A method and apparatus for conversion of a web fed letterpress unit (10) into a web fed offset printing press unit (42) having a main frame (12) an auxiliary frame (44) inside the main frame for receiving cylinders, a pair of offset plate cylinders (46 an... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4766809 | Multicolor perfecting press According to the machine and method, one of the paper sides is printed with a collect print image with juxtaposed colors by means of a typographic plate cylinder inked by a collecting cylinder inked in turn by selective color inking cylinders of which the... | 08/30/1988 |
| 4697515 | Rotary multicolor printing machine for simultaneous recto-verso printing The printing machine has two interacting blanket cylinders (1,2) which are each inked by several offset plate cylinders (5,12) and between which the paper (P) to be printed on both sides runs through. One of the blanket cylinders (2) is also in contact wi... | 10/06/1987 |
| 4640189 | Rotary multicolor machine for simultaneously printing both sides of a paper web or sheet The machine can print on both sides of the paper either an image with juxtaposed color by means of a typographic plate inked respectively by a collecting cylinder inked in turn by selective color inking cylinders of which the number corresponds to the num... | 02/03/1987 |
| 4633777 | Multicolor rotary printing machine The machine can print on both sides of the paper either an image with juxtaposed colors by means of a typographic plate inked respectively by an ink collecting cylinder inked in turn by selective color inking cylinders of which the number corresponds to t... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4620480 | Conversion of letterpress to offset printing A method and apparatus for conversion of a web fed letterpress unit (10) into a web fed offset printing press unit (42) having a main frame (12) an internal support such as an internal auxiliary frame (44) inside the main frame for receiving cylinders, a ... | 11/04/1986 |
| 4584939 | Combined rotary printing machine The machine comprises an indirect printing device, a drying device, a sheet transfer and turning device actuated according to requirements, and an intaglio printing machine. It permits of printing--in a single pass--through device a simultaneous recto-ver... | 04/29/1986 |
| 4574696 | Rotary press for the simultaneous multicolor printing on both sides of a web or sheet The machine can print on one of the paper sides an image with juxtaposed colors by means of a typographic plate cylinder inked by a collecting cylinder inked in turn by selective color inking cylinders of which the number corresponds to the number of colo... | 03/11/1986 |
