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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7174678 | Modular patient room A modular patient room includes a plurality of modular wall panels or units having various configurations. In some embodiments, the modular wall units have water dispensers. Headwall units having water dispensers are also disclosed. The water dispensers are configur... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7032511 | Fountain ink feed system An ink fountain assembly for use in duplicating machines, such as rotary lithographic machines. The assembly comprises a fountain trough defined by an elongated blade and an ink fountain roller defining a gap therebetween. A proximal edge of the blade is rigidly ret... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6917877 | Method for determining the intersection of polygons used to represent geographic features A method for determining a polygonal intersection of a first polygon and a second polygon. An intersection of the boundary of the first polygon with the boundary of the second polygon is located by finding a point from which at least three portions of boundaries ext... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6901856 | Inking system comprising rollers An inking system is comprised of rollers. At least one roller has a barrel with at least two separate sections. One of these casing sections is arranged in a manner which permits it to be changed independently of the other casing section. ... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6782819 | Inking apparatus and side plate thereof An inking apparatus according to the present invention includes an ink fountain roller, an ink fountain blade, a front end of which is position-adjustable to be located close to the outer circumference of the ink fountain roller, a pair of side plates, each standing... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6772684 | Ink fountain apparatus for rotary printing press An ink fountain device for a rotary printing press includes a rotatably supported ink fountain roller, ink fountain, at least one intermediate ink dam, a press unit, and an adjustment bolt. The ink fountain is comprised of an ink fountain blade and a pair of ink dam... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6330858 | Method and system for scrolling a map display in a navigation application A system and method for implementing a smooth scrolling function in a map display tool used with a navigation system and a map database. The system includes a map processing layer in the map display tool having a multi-tasking abstraction layer and a sync... | 12/18/2001 |
| 5894798 | Ink fountain divider for ink fountain arrangement An ink fountain divider, which is capable of completely preventing leakage of ink and is easy to handle, includes an ink fountain divider body which has an approximately triangular shaped cross-section having a bottom edge having a contour line conforming... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5862756 | Ink chamber doctor blade for a printing machine An ink chamber doctor blade for a printing machine, comprising a doctor blade box (10) forming an ink chamber, at least two doctor blade knives (11, 12) attached to the doctor blade box (10) and bounding an opening (13) which, during operation, points to ... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5243907 | Divider seal for split-fountain chambered doctor blade for a flexographic printing press A divider seal for a split-fountain chambered doctor blade for a printing press, comprising a seal contoured to sealingly engage a circumferential surface of a rotating cylinder, a seal retainer for retaining the seal in sealing engagement with the rotati... | 09/14/1993 |
| 5081925 | Selective drive for a damping unit metering roller in an offset printing press A selective drive for a metering roller in a damping unit of an offset printing press which enables the metering roller to be driven by the damping fluid fountain roller without peripheral slip during the joint washing of the damping unit and inking unit.... | 01/21/1992 |
| 4991504 | Ink duct for a printing machine The ink duct is separated by at least one separating wall which is fastened to the base and is formed from two metal plates (4, 5), fastened at a distance from each other and between which a plastic intermediate plate (6) is mounted with a tight fit and s... | 02/12/1991 |
| 4796528 | Separated ink fountain for a flexographic printing machine To separate a flexographic ink fountain into axial zones (10a, 10b . . . ) to permit use of inks of different characteristics, for example different colors along axial zones of an anilox roller (10), a separator element (2) has an insert strip element (3)... | 01/10/1989 |
| 4754701 | Ink separating unit for flexo printing machinery To permit separating a flexograph ink trough, and flexograph ductor or trough roller into axial zones for respectively differently colored inks, a separating plate is located beneath the doctor blade which has a sealing element (7) attached thereto, resil... | 07/05/1988 |
| 4366754 | Holder for ink separator on a drum of a printing press The present invention relates to a device for feeding ink to a printing press. The invention includes an ink drum and at least one doctor blade for micrometrically proportioning one or more ink films of different colors in narrow zones through a gap provi... | 01/04/1983 |
| 4150996 | Lithographic fountain concentrate A fountain concentrate for preparing a dampening or fountain solution for lithography, consisting essentially of a mixture of a desensitizer, sulfanilic acid, and formaldehyde.... | 04/24/1979 |
| 4029011 | Multi color wells process A device for applying multi-color designs to wall surfaces or other areas is disclosed. A hand-held paint applying device is utilized in rolling contact with the area to be decorated. The applying device includes a design carrying roller in peripheral con... | 06/14/1977 |
