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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7367560 | Suction device and method of conveying laminated sheet A suction device of the present invention includes a suction roller and a vacuum chamber. The suction roller holds an adhesive sheet to its peripheral surface by suction while maintaining contact with the film surface of the adhesive sheet, and conveying the adhesiv... | 05/06/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7325492 | Stencil printer A stencil printer of the present invention includes a print drum and a pressing member selectively movable into or out of contact with the print drum. A duplex master, formed with a first and a second image in the lengthwise direction thereof, or a simplex master fo... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7325493 | Sheet-fed rotary printing press having a three-drum reversing device and method of transporting a sheet through a three-drum reversing device A sheet-fed rotary printing press for selective recto printing and recto and verso printing includes a three-drum reversing device having three cylinders cooperatively disposed behind one another between respective impression cylinders of two adjacent printing units... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7207265 | Devices for turning sheets in a sheet-fed rotary printing machine Devices for turning sheets in a rotary printing machine are described. The devices have a storage drum for handling sheets, which are each held by a holding device, and a turning drum is disposed downstream of the storage drum and has a holding device for engaging a... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7111843 | Sheet-processing machine having a suction air producing device A sheet-processing machine includes a revolving sheet holding device for aiding in transporting sheets to be processed. A device for producing suction air or air blast has a movable air delivery element accommodated on the revolving sheet holding device. An actuatin... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7073436 | Duplex printing device configured for duplex printing on the front and reverse sides of a sheet of printing paper and simplex printing on only one side of the sheet A duplex printing device including a duplex printing master on which two images are perforated in series over a single plate, and a simplex printing master on which a third image is perforated over the single plate. Either master is wrapped around an outer periphera... | 07/11/2006 |
| 6923436 | Process for the manufacture of sets of printed pages for the preparation of books, and set of printed pages manufactured by that process The process is based on printing, in an electronic printing machine, the various bodies of text of the pages with symmetrical distribution with respect to the center of symmetry of the sheet being printed and likewise symmetrically with respect to one or both axes o... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6912952 | Duplex printing system Apparatus for duplex printing comprising: a first impression roller (24) on which a first side of a sheet (22) having a leading edge and a trailing edge is printed referenced to the leading edge; a second impression roller (26) on which a second... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6851360 | Satellite-type printing press Sheet-fed printing press, especially a satellite-type printing press by which double-side printing is performed with a single satellite-type press and if only single-side printing is required a sheet perfecting apparatus does not intervene in the sheet transfer path... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6821038 | Newspaper producing method A newspaper producing method can produce a plurality kinds of newspapers different in page numbers and colors by using a single printing unit. This method includes a plurality of printing cycles, each of which produces a plurality of lateral printed rows on each sid... | 11/23/2004 |
| 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 |
| 6772709 | Varnish coating apparatus In a varnish coating apparatus, a first varnish film forming cylinder has a first supply surface to which varnish is supplied. A second varnish film forming cylinder has a second supply surface to which varnish is supplied. A first blanket cylinder has a first trans... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6718908 | Coating machine for upgrading sheet material A coating machine for applying a flowable coating substance to a sheet material to improve its surface. The coating machine has a series construction which lends itself to easy modification and versatile use. The coating machine includes, in a sheet conveyance direc... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6698350 | Sheet perfecting apparatus for satellite-type printing press Sheet perfecting apparatus for a satellite-type printing press by which double-side printing is performed with a single satellite-type press and if sheet perfecting is not needed the sheet is printed on one side only. In the course of printing with a plur... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6684778 | Printing press with a sheet-turning-over-mechanism There is provided a printing press with a sheet-turning-over-mechanism for turning over a printing sheet, enabling the printing press to be selectively operable in a one-sided printing mode and a double-sided printing mode. The printing press includes a c... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6668716 | Printing apparatus A printing apparatus includes a card transport path composed of the first card transport path for forming an image to a card using a direct transfer method, and the second card transport path composed of a card transport path for transferring an image fro... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6663304 | Simultaneously printing information on two sides of print media A method, printer system and printer apparatus for simultaneously printing a first print medium and a second print medium, wherein, on the first print medium first information is printed that is one of: identical information to the second information and ... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6571706 | Method for two-sided printing of a sheet of printing material, and a sheet-fed rotary printing press for performing the method A method for two-sided printing of a sheet of printing material having a front side and a rear side, in a sheet-fed rotary printing press, wherein the front side is cleaned before being printed, includes also cleaning the rear side of the sheet before pri... | 06/03/2003 |
| 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 |
| 6477950 | Apparatus and method for duplex printing of a sheet-like substrate The present invention is an apparatus and method for duplex printing of a sheet-like substrate in a continuous single-pass flat printing process. The device comprises a first conveyor unit in communication with a feeder and a second conveyor unit in commu... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6431065 | Sheet-feed perfecting press The present invention reduces stains, prevents the degradation in print quality, reduces the work for removing stains, and decreases the machine size. To achieve the present invention, the sheet-feed perfecting press has top surface printing devices and b... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6293193 | Method for printing sheets Sheets are printed by being automatically run twice through a printing machine. The first sides of each of the sheets are printed in one, or a plurality of colors during a first printing pass. The sheets so printed are then placed in an intermediated stor... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6227109 | Multicolor printing apparatus with horizontally rotatable discharge station A printing apparatus (1001) having a plurality of blanket cylinders (1051 to 1054) normally-contacting to impression cylinders (1031, 1032), plate cylinders (1041 to 1044) normally-contacting to the respective blanket cylinders, and a ink coating apparatu... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6143074 | Coating device There is disclosed a coating device which can apply varnish to both faces of paper in a simple constitution. The coating device is provided with a pressure drum 12 for receiving paper from a transfer drum 11 and holding the paper, a first varnish applicat... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6073556 | Method and apparatus for handling printed sheet material A transfer cylinder for supporting freshly printed sheet material between printing units or at the delivery unit of a printing press is provided with an ink repellent, flexible jacket covering for supporting and transporting the sheet material without tra... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6019046 | Printing press with replaceable units allowing for different methods of printing System for producing three-dimensional structures on a substrate, including a machine frame having mounted thereon a replaceable unit for producing a three-dimensional structure on a substrate by a given method, a feeder and a delivery for the substrate, ... | 02/01/2000 |
| 5964152 | Method for printing both sides of paper in a printer A method for printing both sides of a paper in a printer includes the steps of (1) providing a paper supply portion for guiding the entry of paper into a printing unit, a paper output portion for guiding the paper from the printing unit to be output from ... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5943954 | Stencil printer A stencil printer of the present invention is selectively operable in a simplex print mode or a duplex print mode and includes two drums. The drums each has a respective master support on its circumferential surface. The master supports of the two drums a... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5931091 | Multicolor offset perfecting press A multicolor offset perfecting press comprising a printing station having offset cylinders, plate cylinders in contact and operatively associated with the offset cylinders, and compression cylinders and at least one intermediate cylinder both having their... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5832826 | Device and method for acting upon sheets in a sheet delivery system A device and a method for acting upon sheets in a sheet delivery system of a printing press, wherein sheets can be printed selectively on one side and on both sides thereof, includes a sheet tautener having a surface by which it is integrated into at leas... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5782178 | Stencil printer A stencil printer of the present invention is selectively operable in a simplex print mode or a duplex print mode and includes two drums. The drums each has a respective master support on its circumferential surface. The master supports of the two drums a... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5778781 | Method and apparatus for printing on opposite sides of a web A continuous web of material is unwound from a roll by driven pull rolls that feed the web material to a printing unit in a feedline of an envelope making machine. The printing unit prints a selected one of the inside surface and the outside surface of th... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5660108 | Modular digital printing press with linking perfecting assembly Modular printing apparatus wherein multiple central-impression presses may be linked to one another, either directly or through a perfecting assembly that reverses the facewise orientation of cut sheets. The presses each contain circuitry defining a signa... | 08/26/1997 |
| 5592878 | Chain conveyor of a sheet-fed printing machine Chain conveyor of a sheet-fed printing machine for first-form and perfector printing includes guided revolving gripper chains, having a respective lower strand and a respective upper strand, at least a part of the lower strand being disposed in a sheet-co... | 01/14/1997 |
| 5586499 | Method for eliminating gear train backlash in a drive for a multi-color sheet-fed printing machine having face printing and perfecting modes A method for eliminating gear train backlash in the drive of a sheet-fed printing machines when changing the printing mode of the machine between face printing and perfecting or vice versa is disclosed. The printing machine has a gear train, a longitudina... | 12/24/1996 |
| 5521722 | Image handling facilitating computer aided design and manufacture of documents Apparatus for handling digital representations of documents which are to be provided with a number of images. The apparatus comprises a first store for storing digital data defining the image content of each pixel of each image and a color generator for g... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5479856 | Rotary printing press for two-sided printing of sheets Rotary printing press for two-sided printing of sheets having a first and a second printing unit, respectively including an impression cylinder, the press including a sheet feeder having a device for separating sheets singly from a feeder pile and a devic... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5309839 | Method and apparatus for facilitating the printing of verso sides and the varnishing of recto sides of sheets Method and apparatus for the varnishing and printing of sheets in a printing machine. A feed drum incorporates a counterpressure surface to form a first nip with an impression cylinder. As sheets are fed to the impression cylinder and transported through ... | 05/10/1994 |
| 5016529 | Sheet-fed rotary printing press for multi-color printing The invention relates to a sheet-fed rotary printing press for multi-color printing with an in-line arrangement of the printing units. Each printing unit comprises a plate cylinder, a blanket cylinder and an impression cylinder, all of a single diameter, ... | 05/21/1991 |
