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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8069785 | Printing groups of a printing press A printing group of a printing press is comprised of a transfer cylinder, a forme cylinder and a first roller of an inking unit. That first inking unit roller cooperates, as an ink application roller, with the forme cylinder. The inking unit is provided with two axi... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8042464 | Rotary press A rotary press including a plurality of printing groups each with a plate cylinder and a blanket cylinder arranged in the machine frame such that respectively two blanket cylinders are configured to be leaned against each other and, in this way, a paper web that is ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8001891 | Printing machine system A printing machine system includes a first printing machine which is configured as a newspaper printing machine and which has at least two first printing units that are structured as printing towers, each with a plurality of superimposed printing groups that are usa... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7707936 | Movable frame parts in a printing press A printing unit of a printing press includes at least two frame parts whose distance from each other can be varied. Each of these frame parts include two laterally spaced frame plates. The two frame plates in each of the frame parts accommodate at least one cylinder... | 05/04/2010 |
| 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 |
| 7341001 | Printing unit arrangement in a web-fed rotary printing press A printing unit arrangement in a web-fed rotary printing press includes at least one printing unit 2a having a first and second plate cylinder 4,6 and associated first and second blanket cylinders 8, 10 which are mechanically coupled via ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7159514 | Printing machines comprising several printing groups A printing machine is comprised of several printing groups, at least one dryer and at least one folding apparatus. At least two of the printing groups are arranged side by side in the axial direction of the cylinders in the printing groups. A longitudinal direction ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7017482 | Printing unit arrangement in a web-fed rotary printing press A printing unit arrangement in a web-fed rotary printing press includes at least one printing unit 2a having a first and second plate cylinder 4, 6 and associated first and second blanket cylinders 8, 10 which are mechanically coupled via... | 03/28/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6968666 | Method of producing soft packets of cigarettes A method of producing soft packets of cigarettes, whereby an inner packet, as it is fed along a packing path, is mated with a sheet of packing material withdrawn in a direction tangential with respect to the packing path; the sheet of packing material being folded i... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6966258 | Printing unit arrangement in a web-fed rotary printing press A printing unit arrangement in a web-fed rotary printing press includes at least one printing unit 2a having a first and second plate cylinder 4, 6 and associated first and second blanket cylinders 8, 10 which are mechanically coupled via... | 11/22/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6745688 | Lithographic web-fed rotary printing press A web-fed rotary printing press (1) for alternatively printing, in a perfecting mode, a single web (10) or, in a non-perfecting mode, first and second webs (6, 8), comprises a first impression cylinder (16) having a plurality of first bla... | 06/08/2004 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6601505 | Synchronous control apparatus of a rotary press for selecting a control target based on printing image information To provide a synchronous control apparatus in a rotary press having a plurality of multicolor printing units to print the synchronous control apparatus including a printing image allocation setting section for allocating printing images which printing cou... | 08/05/2003 |
| 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 |
| 6505555 | Cylindrical blanket and blanket cylinder, and printing press In the present invention, a blanket cylinder for a printing press is made up of a shaft roller and a cylindrical blanket capable of being attached and detached freely to and from the shaft roller. The cylindrical blanket comprises an elastic layer formed ... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6499396 | Web-fed rotary press A web-fed rotary printing press includes at least two printing units each of which has two print units. The two print units are situated adjacent each other and form a double print unit or print unit module. Several double print units or printing units ca... | 12/31/2002 |
| 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 |
| 6408746 | Printing unit A printing unit of an offset printing press utilizes a plurality of forme cylinders, transfer cylinders and at least two counter-pressure cylinders. In one mode of production all of the transfer cylinders engage one of the counter-pressure cylinders. In a... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6345574 | Printing unit arrangement in a web-fed rotary printing press A printing unit arrangement in a web-fed rotary printing press includes at least one printing unit 2a having a first and second plate cylinder 4, 6 and associated first and second blanket cylinders 8, 10 which are mechanically coupled via meshing gear whe... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6332397 | Print unit A print unit of an offset printing machine utilizes individually driven cylinders. Each forme cylinder or plate cylinder is driven by its own, separate drive motor. The blanket cylinders, or cooperating blanket cylinders and counter-pressure cylinders are... | 12/25/2001 |
| 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 |
| 6050191 | System and method for providing multi-pass imaging in a printing system A multi-pass imaging system and method provides for duplex documents and multiple color images with variable information to be printed by re-entering a substrate into a same tower system, employing a split roller design, for generating subsequent portions... | 04/18/2000 |
| 5970871 | Cylinder unit for a web-fed printing press having cylinders movable during running production A cylinder unit is provided for a web-fed printing press. The unit includes first and second cylinders which form printing gaps with a common first counterpressure cylinder. Third and fourth cylinders are provided which form printing gaps with a common se... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5699735 | Web-fed rotary press A web-fed rotary press has an adjustable reel changer for accommodating printing material webs of different widths, a printing couple with printing cylinders, which can be engaged with one another to form printing stations, and an adjustable folder. The w... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5555803 | Web-fed rotary offset printing press with bridge printing units A tower printing unit is formed using a plurality of bridge printing units, each of which has two opposing individual printing units. Ink roller trains in vertically alternating ones of these bridge printing units are oriented either vertically or horizon... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5483887 | Paper guide for web-fed press A paper guide for a web-fed rotary printing press which prints multiple colors on both sides of a paper web uses multiple color printing groups arranged in pairs on a plurality of vertically spaced levels. Separate air drying paths are provided for the we... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5179899 | Tower printing system having multiple vertically stacked satellite printing stations Two satellite printing stations (2, 3) are located vertically above each other, and a web (22) is guided first about a common impression cylinder (13) of the lower printing station, then upwardly about a common impression cylinder (4) of the upper printin... | 01/19/1993 |
| 4934265 | Rotary offset printing machine plate and blanket cylinder arrangement To permit selective operation of two printing couples (1, 2, 4, 5) for printing, on a continuous web (7) respectively double-image prime printing (FIG. 1), single-image prime printing (FIGS. 3, 5), while permitting flying plate changes of one of the plate... | 06/19/1990 |
| 4875936 | Conversion of letterpress to offset printing An offset press unit which has a main frame defining a pair of spaced apart walls having bores therein, a pair of plate cylinders are disposed within the frame and are rotatably supported in spaced apart relation, and a pair of blanket cylinders are dispo... | 10/24/1989 |
| 4827842 | Rotary offset printing machine system with registration control To permit exchange of printed subject matter carried on a plate of a plate cylinder (10, 16) of two printing couples (8, 10; 12, 16) which are selectively engageable with an impression cylinder (4) which, for example, can be a blanket cylinder of another ... | 05/09/1989 |
| 4798137 | 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... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4788912 | Versatile printing machine system permitting plate change during machine operation To provide for versatile printing, while permitting exchange of the plate of a blanket cylinder - plate cylinder couple during operation of the printing machine, i.e. while the machine is printing, for example only prime or verso printing in a single colo... | 12/06/1988 |
| 4677911 | Conversion of letterpress to offset printing An offset press unit which has a main frame defining a pair of spaced apart walls having bores therein, a pair of plate cylinders are disposed within the frame and are rotatably supported in spaced apart relation, and a pair of blanket cylinders are dispo... | 07/07/1987 |
| 4577559 | Rotary web printing machine To provide ready access to printing cylinders, including, for example, a satellite cylinder (4), plate and blanket cylinders, and inkers and dampers of a printing system in which the printing couples and associated inkers and dampers are located, essentia... | 03/25/1986 |
| 4491070 | Rotary offset printing machine having a multi-image receiving blanket cylinder To provide for multi-color printing while passing a substrate, such as cut sheets or a web (39, 67), only through a single printing line, so that paper, possibly of poor quality, will not be excessively saturated by damping liquid, and mechanically stress... | 01/01/1985 |
