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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7410314 | Apparatus for receiving inverting and returning sheets from and to a printer for large-sized paper An apparatus for receiving, inverting and returning sheets from and to a printer for large-sized paper, said printer being adapted to be automatically fed a web of paper from a supply of paper through an inlet (6), defined by a portion of a paper-supporting p... | 08/12/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7187142 | Motor drive with velocity noise filter A drive unit for controlling a motor includes a position feedback device and a velocity noise filter. The position feedback device is operable to generate a position signal relating to a position of the motor. The velocity noise filter is coupled to the position fee... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7182020 | Devices for guiding a partial width web, guide element for guiding a partial width web and processing machine comprising said devices A web is guided in a processing machine by the use of a device which includes a regular device and at least one further web guiding element. These cooperate to subject the web to an offset or to a change in direction. The regular device and the at least one further ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7156019 | Rotary roller printing press A rotary roller printing press has a printing unit for printing a web in six printed pages arranged axially next to each other. A superstructure is used to cut the web longitudinally into three partial webs. A folding installation is used to fold the partial webs an... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7109670 | Motor drive with velocity-second compensation An apparatus for use with a signal generator and a motor controller includes a velocity compensator, an adjustor, and a velocity regulator. The signal generator provides a reference velocity signal, and the motor controller receives an output signal and uses the out... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7085014 | Method, apparatus and article of manufacture using media roughness as a print parameter A method, apparatus and article of manufacture for providing improved print quality regardless of media smoothness is disclosed. Information regarding the smoothness of media is ascertained and the information about the media smoothness is used in the generation of ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7032518 | Method and system for managing tension and maintaining registration between multiple webs in a web finishing system A system and method for managing the tension and maintaining registration between multiple webs in a web finishing system. The method involves transporting a first web and at least second web toward a finishing apparatus, comparing relative positions of registration... | 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 |
| 6969206 | Tension generating mechanism for a printing apparatus A printing apparatus includes a conveyance mechanism for conveying a web to a transfer unit, and a tension generating mechanism for applying a tension to the web fed to the conveyance mechanism, wherein the tension generating mechanism includes a tension generating ... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6899026 | Folding installation on a rotary roller press and as rotary roller press A folding installation of a web-fed rotary printing press includes a first group of at least two folding formers and at least one additional folding former which is offset vertically from the first group. The folding formers of the first group are adjacent and are o... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6892635 | Arrangement for processing a web a folded product from a rotary roller press and a rotary roller press An arrangement for processing webs in a rotary web-fed printing press includes a turning device that is usable for shifting the web about an uneven multiple of a half web-width of the web. A folding installation is also provided. The web or webs, which are displaced... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6886459 | Double-sided high speed printing apparatus and method An apparatus for double-sided high-speed printing on a continuous sheet of printable material having a first guide, a second guide, a third guide, and a fourth guide providing a first print area between the first and second guides for printing on a first side of the... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6840171 | Device for inserting a continuous tape for a printing or copying system comprising modules An apparatus and method is provided for threading a continuous web into a device arrangement having a first module and a second module connectable to and detachable from one another. First and second traction units are provided in the first and second modules. A gri... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6837634 | Portable printer There is disclosed a lightweight portable printer having a frame or housing with a print head and a cooperable platen roll mounted in the housing. The housing pivotally mounts a subassembly. The subassembly mounts an electric motor and gearing driven by the motor fo... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6827012 | Method and device for assembling printed products A printing device includes a roll-to roll printing press for forming a plurality of printed rolls and a separate assembly device, the assembly device having a plurality of roll unwinding devices separate from the printing press, a first folder accepting at least one... | 12/07/2004 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6779903 | Multi-structure lighting device A multi-structure lighting device. The lighting device includes multiple elongate structures that create a luminescent effect, and at least one connector. Each elongate structure is permanently affixed to another elongate structure by the connector. The connector ca... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6752078 | Device for guiding flat or sheet-like copies in folders A device for guiding sheet-like copies which are severed from a material web in a cutting nip of a cutting-cylinder pair, including a copy guide disposed in an outlet wedge of the cutting-cylinder pair for gripping leading ends of the sheet-like copies for guiding t... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6705220 | Device for guiding a travelling web A device for guiding a travelling web comprises a first movable angle bar and a second movable angle bar located in respective positions in a first operative mode to guide the travelling web from an entering direction to an exiting direction and to define a first pr... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6701837 | Widthwise paper drift correction device for elongated web-like print paper To stably transport an elongated web-like print paper so as not to move in the widthwise direction of the print paper, a first sensor is disposed at a first position in a paper conveying path and a second sensor at a second position downstream of the firs... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6659006 | Tension control device for a printing press A tension control device for a printing press having an adjustment roller, with a web of the press passing from a supply roll of the web to the adjustment roller. Means are provided for measuring the tension on opposed sides of the web passing downstream ... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6606945 | Continuous medium printing apparatus Disclosed herein is a continuous medium printing apparatus for performing printing on both sides of a continuous medium. The continuous medium printing apparatus comprises: a conveyance system; a printing section; a feed-force adjustment section disposed ... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6550384 | Body of revolution for correcting web width 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 n... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6422552 | Movable folders and former board arrangement A movable folder assembly includes one or more folders slidingly supported on a pair of rails and an actuator for moving the folder on said pair of rails. The actuator may include a hydraulic cylinder and a control unit for controlling said hydraulic cyli... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6405098 | Control arrangement for unwinding equipment for webs A control arrangement for controlling web unwinding equipment used for feeding webs to a web-fed rotary printing machine stabilizes a swing roll used to tension the web at a central position via an integrator in a manner independent of the coefficient of ... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6371020 | Web guiding roller A web guiding system for a web-fed rotary printing press includes a web guide roller which contacts the printed surface of a print-carrying web. The effective diameter of the transfer cylinder which prints the print-carrying web is the same as, or is an i... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6327975 | Method and apparatus for printing elongate images on a web A web-fed offset printing press has printing units each comprising a plate cylinder, a blanket cylinder, and an impression cylinder, the impression cylinder being movable into and out of rolling engagement with the blanket cylinder via the web. A first pr... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6298781 | Former board arrangement in a web-fed rotary newspaper printing press A former board arrangement in a web-fed rotary newspaper printing press comprises a first and a second row of former boards each row including a first, second and third former board for longitudinally folding one or more ribbons passing over the former bo... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6230616 | Storage device and its use A storage device for receiving a loop section of a flexible material web (8) moved in a conveying direction (18) between a feed area upstream of the storage device and a discharge area downstream thereof is described, the material web speeds at least peri... | 05/15/2001 |
| 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 |
| 6152034 | Former board arrangement in a web-fed rotary newspaper printing press A former board arrangement in a web-fed rotary newspaper printing press comprises a first and a second row of former boards each row including a first, second and third former board for longitudinally folding one or more ribbons passing over the former bo... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6053107 | Method and apparatus for registering a pre-printed web on a printing press A preprinted web having a plurality of first repeating images is reprinted with a plurality of second repeating images which are in register with the first images. A register mark is printed on the web for each of the first images. When the web is reprint... | 04/25/2000 |
| 6038973 | Web infeeding or threading device for rotary printing presses A web threading device for rotary printing presses, having a flexible, endless threading element for threading a web of material along a web path through components of a rotary printing press, includes a transporter assigned to the threading element, the ... | 03/21/2000 |
| 6021713 | Arrangement for correcting the fan-out effect on web-fed printing presses The fan-out effect of a paper web, passing through a web-fed printing press having a plurality of printing units, is corrected by providing control assemblies before selected ones of the printing units. The control assemblies each have a number of control... | 02/08/2000 |
| 5927196 | Post chill dancer roll A device for controlling the tension in a web of a printing press includes an adjustably positionable dancer roll coupled to an air cylinder. The dancer roll engages the web at a position subsequent to the chill exit nip rolls and prior to a next nip roll... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5901648 | Device for adjusting printing unit cylinders in printing units of rotary printing presses Device for adjusting printing-unit cylinders in a printing unit of a rotary printing press for printing on both sides of a material web, the printing-unit cylinders including printing-form cylinders with exchangeable printing forms, one of the printing-un... | 05/11/1999 |
