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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7918161 | Printing unit having a tubular blanket-changing throw-off configuration allowing the passage of a web of paper and corresponding printing press A printing unit for printing a web of paper is provided. The printing unit includes a frame and an upper printing group and a lower printing group. The printing unit has at least one throw-on configuration and a blanket-changing throw-off configuration. The blanket ... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7841275 | Printing unit having an idle throw-off configuration and a blanket changing throw-off configuration and corresponding printing press A printing for printing a web of paper is provided. The printing unit includes a frame and at least an upper printing group and a lower printing group. The printing unit has at least a throw-on configuration, an idle throw-off configuration and a blanket-changing th... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7373880 | Variable format offset printing press A printing press includes a frame that supports one or more printing units. Each printing unit includes a retractable inker module cantileverly supported by the frame, an ink injection system having a pump, a sidelay registration mechanism for one or more plate cyli... | 05/20/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7343320 | Online digital image-based product ordering system A system is provided that allows a photographer to take images for a customer and provide those images to order servicing equipment with which the images are placed on-line for the customer to view. The customer may place orders for the images and products and servi... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7337035 | Method for carrying out a printing correction and apparatus for doing this A method for carrying out a printing correction and a device for this. A method for carrying out a printing correction is provided, a product being printed on during a processing procedure by a plurality of processing devices, positions of two printing marks A,B,C,D... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7240614 | Method for influencing lateral web spreading in a printing unit in a rotary printing press A method for influencing lateral web spreading in a printing unit in a rotary printing press, the printing unit having first and second transfer cylinders contacting each other along a contact zone for receiving a web to be printed on therebetween and undergoing a d... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7216585 | Shaftless motor drive for a printing press with an anilox inker An offset printing press includes a first plate cylinder, a first blanket cylinder for selectively contacting the first plate cylinder, an anilox inker for inking the first plate cylinder, and a first motor directly connected to the anilox inker for driving the anil... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7213513 | Printing group pertaining to a printing machine having a linearly displaceable transfer cylinder A printing group of a printing machine is comprised of at least two cylinders, a forme cylinder and a transfer cylinder. The transfer cylinder can be moved between a print-on position and a print-off position along a linear adjustment path. Both of the cylinders in ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7127991 | Method and printing unit for influencing lateral web spreading in particular in rotary presses A printing unit for influencing lateral web spreading in particular in rotary presses, which makes constant contact conditions possible across the width in the rubber-rubber nip and improves the lateral-register quality and the web run without using concave or conve... | 10/31/2006 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7066231 | Wasteless type lamination system A wasteless type lamination system comprises a first transfer device for transferring along a first transfer path a continuous laminate film; a cutter for cutting the continuous laminate film in a predetermined length, provided beside the first transfer path at the ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7044058 | Automatic motor phase presetting for a web printing press A method for presetting motor phase in a web printing press includes providing a mark on a printing form, the mark being a function of a desired preset phase for a motor driving the printing form during printing. The mark is read using a sensor, the sensor having a ... | 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 |
| 7017484 | Method for controlling an apparatus for controlling a cutting position of a web member and device therefor A control method for controlling a cut-off control apparatus in a printing press comprises a step of detecting an unstable factor such as a revolution number of a cylinder/a tensile value of a web in a printing press, a step for setting a stable factor such as a rev... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7007602 | Method and apparatus for controlling a cutting position of a web member and device therefor A method and apparatus for controlling the cutting position of a web member in a printing press by setting a reference tensile value, detecting the present tensile value of a web in a printing press during an actual printing operation, and controlling the starting a... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6986305 | Web stabilization for non-contact web guidance in flying-change printing units The printing-material web is guided in the same position and plane when the transfer cylinders are moved apart for the flying printing-plate change, so that contact between the web and the transfer cylinders and smearing are avoided, that is to say undesired contact... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6973875 | Printing machine with image-setting device for a rotary printing machine A rotary printing machine having a plurality of printing-unit cylinders mounted one above another on a side wall, their axes lying in a plane inclined with respect to the plane of the printing-material web. An image-setting device is arranged wholly within the range... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6971309 | Web-fed rotary press In order to create preconditions, in a web-fed rotary press, for good format variability of the printed products and economic utilization of the printing material, at least two printed pages of different heights are arranged in the circumferential direction on a for... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6945169 | Apparatus for producing printing plates Apparatus for producing printing plates in particular a blank sleeve-like printing plate, includes a cylinder carrier for receiving a printing plate, the cylinder carrier being held in cantilever fashion at one end in a frame in a mounting and is driven by a motor, ... | 09/20/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6860200 | Form cylinder of a rotary printing press, in particular of an offset printing press A form cylinder is provided with a circumferential surface which is convexly curved in the axial direction, such that the convex profile, determined by calculation, of the circumferential surface varies in such a way that the diameter of the form cylinder is largest... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6851362 | Printing cylinder with fanout compensation A printing cylinder for a web printing press includes an extensible cylindrical sleeve configured for carrying an image to be printed. An extension device is provided for applying a force to the sleeve so as to stretch at least a portion of the sleeve and axially mo... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6848362 | Varnishing apparatus To provide a varnishing apparatus for indirect printing with the lowest possible structural outlay, a varnishing mechanism of the varnishing apparatus for varnishing webs includes a form cylinder and a transfer cylinder, the web running between the transfer cylinder... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6799507 | Web printers A web printer has a buffer for adjusting the traveling position of the web under its slack status, a tension assigning unit for assigning fixed tension to the web delivered from the buffer, a device for detecting the traveling position of the web delivered from the ... | 10/05/2004 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6786149 | High speed continuous feed printing system A CF printing system includes at least three CF printing devices; a plurality of print-related devices to effect duplex printing; the printing and print-related devices being selectably operable in accordance with a defined print line segment; and a print line manag... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6748857 | Crop mark setting device A printing press with crop mark setting device and process is provided. A printing couple for printing on a web is used with a lengthwise cutting device for cutting the printed web lengthwise into a first web strand and at least one second web strand. A convergence ... | 06/15/2004 |
| 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 |
| 6668717 | Web-fed rotary printing machine In order to provide a rotary printing machine for direct printing, in which the printing-assembly cylinders are arranged in a space-saving way, there is arranged in side walls at least one double printing assembly containing two form cylinders which are l... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6662721 | Rotary press In a rotary press, a first press roller adapted to retreat during printing and advance during plate changing to contact a web is provided on a travel route of the web between a printing unit and a dryer. A second press roller having the same function as t... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6651557 | Printing unit A printing unit comprises a pair of blanket cylinders (2) that form a nip through which a substrate can pass as ink images are transferred from the blanket cylinders to both sides of the substrate. Each blanket cylinder (2) is provided with a pair of plat... | 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 |
| 6553908 | Web fanout control system A printing cylinder has a first rotatable section having a central image area on the surface, and a first and second end. A first shell is disposed circumferentially about the first end, and a second shell is disposed circumferentially about the second en... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6543352 | Printing unit A printing unit for a web fed rotary printing machine is provided including a machine frame support, two sets of printing unit cylinders, carriages, drive motors and guide elements. The two sets of printing unit cylinders, include a plurality of outer pri... | 04/08/2003 |
| 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 |
