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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7908966 | Cylinder of an inking or dampening system A cylinder, which is part of an inking system or of a dampening system, has a rotary individual drive which is embodied as a drive motor. A changeable drive is also provided. The rotary drive is driven by the drive motors by a bevel or angular gear. ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7370578 | Inking or dampening unit including adjustable throw-on force for setting imprint width An inking or dampening unit includes an applicator roll mounted on levers so that the application roll can be pivoted about a distributor cylinder onto a form cylinder with a controlled throwing-on force. ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 6892637 | Self-inking stamp with ink cartridge barrier A stamp pad holder for use in a self-inking hand stamp. The stamp pad holder has a stamp die box that holds a stamp forming material, ink cartridge and plastic within the die box. The stamp forming material is placed at the bottom of the die box. A pre-inked ink car... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6691612 | Driving device for printing machines A driving device for printing machines, having a rod for oscillatingly moving a distributor roller in axial direction, includes a joint via which the rod is connected to the distributor roller, the joint permitting relative movement between the rod and th... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6584902 | Inking roller nip width adjustments in a rotary printing press A rotary printing press has one or two inking rollers each in rolling engagement with both an ink supply cylinder and a plate cylinder. Each inking roller is identically supported by a first pair of roller support members mounted one adjacent each end of ... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6302019 | Apparatus and method for adjusting skew in a printing press dampener A method and apparatus for adjusting skew settings in a dampener in a printing press. One or more skew adjustment linkages connect skew adjustment rods for the upper and lower dampeners of each printing unit. The linkage ensures that a single movement by ... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6279473 | Inker unit An inker unit for a printing unit of a web-fed rotary printing press has a pair of ink application rollers in direct contact with a forme cylinder and with a central, ink receiving roller. A pair of inking rollers are also in direct contact with the ink r... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6213017 | Ink duct pivotable between two positions An ink duct is used with an ink-metering roller of a printing press. The ink duct includes doctor blades and is shiftable for pivoted movement between a working position and an emptying position with at least one of the doctor blades remaining in contact ... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6109181 | Inking device for printing machine The present invention is to provide an inking device for a printing machine, which enables a work for replacing a plate cylinder to be carried out easily without removing a form roller or readjusting a nip pressure. Over a bearing 10 of the first swing ro... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6058837 | Inking device for printing machine An inking device for a printing machine, which has both a nip pressure adjusting mechanism, adjustable from the outside during the running of the machine, and a follow-up mechanism of a nip pressure to a movement of a plate cylinder and increase a degree ... | 05/09/2000 |
| 5806428 | Inking unit An inking unit for a rotary printing machine, a frame and a plurality of rollers. The plurality of rollers includes two inking rollers fixedly mounted to the frame so as to be spaced from one another, and a transfer roller mounted between the two inking r... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5598777 | Retractable printing/coating unit operable on the plate and blanket cylinders A retractable in-line inking/coating apparatus can apply either spot or overall inking/coating material to a plate and/or a blanket on the first printing unit or on any consecutive printing unit of any rotary offset printing press. The inking/coating appa... | 02/04/1997 |
| 5590598 | Horizontal sheet transfer multiple color offset rotary printing press with horizontal slide access A horizontal slide mechanism for removably replacing an inking unit set in a rotary offset printing press of the type having a plate cylinder, a blanket cylinder and an impression cylinder having parallel rotational axes. The horizontal slide mechanism in... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5558021 | Printing device for printing plastic cards A printing device for printing plastic cards utilizes a printing and inking unit which is supported in a pivotable frame, in cooperation with a counter-pressure cylinder to print individual cards in one or more streams of cards. The printing and inking un... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5488902 | Device for mounting and adjusting a metering roller in a finishing unit A combination of a finishing unit for a rotary printing press disposed up-line from a delivery, including a form cylinder, a metering roller, and at least one applicator roller, with sheet-guiding cylinders cooperatively engaging with the finishing unit, ... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5385093 | Inking unit having a cantilevered inking roller, as well as a cantilevered plate cylinder An inking unit having a cantilevered inking roller and a cantilevered plate cylinder. The plate cylinder and the inking roller are mounted together and for horizontal displacement relative to each other. The plate cylinder and the inking roller are pivota... | 01/31/1995 |
| 5357862 | Roller holding apparatus for printing press A roller holding apparatus for a printing press which holds bearing portions at two end portions of a roller includes an annular roller holding portion and a bolt. The annular roller holding portion is arranged at each of the two end portions and has a se... | 10/25/1994 |
| 5282417 | Intaglio printing machine with direct and color-collect inking The intaglio printing machine has three machine stands (I, II, III). Essentially, the impression cylinder (1) and the plate cylinder (2) are mounted in the first stand (I), the stencil rollers (10) and the inking unit (11) are mounted in the second stand ... | 02/01/1994 |
| 5249524 | Container body inking apparatus An apparatus for applying ink to a printing plate which utilizes a plurality of successive, interconnected/interfacing rollers to provide a desired film thickness of ink to the printing plate such that a desired design may be transferred to a container bo... | 10/05/1993 |
| 5230284 | Mechanism for adjusting forme rollers at the plate cylinder of a rotary printing machine A mechanism for adjusting form rollers at a plate cylinder of a rotary printing machine. The form rollers are mounted via bearing levers so as to pivot about distributor rollers and so as to be engageable with and disengageable from the plate cylinder, re... | 07/27/1993 |
| 5142977 | Device to engage, disengage and adjust the inking rollers or wetting rollers of a printing press The present invention describes a device for moving rollers and in particular rollers of a printing press in two independent directions. Movement in each direction is independent of movement in the other direction. The roller has trunnions which are mount... | 09/01/1992 |
| 5142978 | Offset printing machine for variable printing sizes with automatic loading and unloading of the printing cylinders An offset printing machine is disclosed wherein printing cylinders used for a new run are carried by a carriage into a vicinity of a printing unit of the machine. The printing unit is provided with two lateral movable arms which automatically and successi... | 09/01/1992 |
| 5134934 | Printing system for flying plate change To permit flying plate change of printing plates (14, 15; 28, 29) on plate cylinders (10, 11; 24, 25) of an offset printing system having blanket cylinders (1,2), one of which can function as an impression cylinder (2, 1), the plate cylinders, to maintain... | 08/04/1992 |
| 5103727 | Meter roll mounting means This roll mounting assembly (10) for mounting a meter roll between opposed sideframes (12) includes a meter roll (20) and opposed mounting blocks (28) each receiving a journal end (22) of the meter roll (20). The mounting blocks (28) are pivotally mounted... | 04/14/1992 |
| 5101723 | Mechanism for the engagement, disengagement and adjustment of inking and damping rollers Adjustment means for engaging, disengaging and adjusting inking and damping rollers are provided in the inking and damping units of offset printing machines. The printing machine includes inking rollers supported on cam rollers which bear on cam discs sit... | 04/07/1992 |
| 5025724 | Change-over device for an intermediate damping roller in an offset printing press To enable two intermediate rollers to be selectively associated with a combined damping and inking unit as connecting rollers, or with the applicator roller of the damping unit as a first rider roller and a tandem second rider roller, the spindle of the s... | 06/25/1991 |
| 4986176 | Device for connecting and disconnecting dampening system and inking system in offset printing machine A device for connecting and disconnecting a dampening system B and an inking system A in an offset printing machine. The offset printing machine includes a plate cylinder 7, and the inking system includes an ink applicator roller 10 movable toward and awa... | 01/22/1991 |
| 4955299 | Web printing press with replaceable print unit A blanket to blanket Typed Printing Press for separately using, one at a time, a plurality of printing units each of which includes two sets of plated and blanket cylinders, where one printing unit has different standard sizes of cylinders with respect to... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4949637 | Self-metering dampening system for a lithographic press A dampening system for a lithographic press in which a train of rollers delivers dampening fluid from a dampening fluid pan to the plate cylinder of the lithographic press is provided. The train of rollers comprises a hard rubber pan roller, a rubber tran... | 08/21/1990 |
| 4942815 | Meter roll mounting means An assembly (30) for mounting a printing press meter roll (16) to opposed sideframes (12, 14) includes mounting frames (32) each including forwardly disposed bearing (46) receiving the weight of the meter roll and a rearwardly disposed ell-shaped slot (68... | 07/24/1990 |
| 4907507 | Operating lever mechanism for offset printing press An offset printing press having an operating lever mechanism which is capable of controlling sequential printing operations by manipulating a single operating lever. The offset printing press includes an inking roller system and a dampening roller system.... | 03/13/1990 |
| 4872406 | Dampening mechanism for offset rotary printing presses This invention relates to a dampening mechanism for offset rotary printing presses with a supply roller partly immersed in the dampening fluid. Downstream rollers transfer the dampening fluid to the printing plate. At least one of two or more elastic mete... | 10/10/1989 |
| 4831926 | Processing paper and other webs A printing apparatus has an array of cartridges for printing a web of e.g. paper passing through the array, and one or more units containing printing medium. The cartridges each are capable of transferring the printing medium from the unit(s) to the web. ... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4729309 | Imprinter An imprinter, particularly for use downstream of a flexographic printing machine, wherein the stubs at the ends of the counterpressure roller which forms part of the web guiding system are suspended on levers. The levers are pivotable about a horizontal a... | 03/08/1988 |
| 4711174 | Device for engaging and disengaging the form rollers in an inking unit of a printing machine A device for engaging form rollers in an inking unit of a printing machine with a plate cylinder of the printing machine and for disengaging the form rollers therefrom, including bearing levers for the form rollers disposed at both side frames of the prin... | 12/08/1987 |
| 4699053 | Device for selectively controlling the operation of inking or damping unit rollers of a printing press A device for selectively controlling the manual or automatic operation of inking or damping rollers of a printing press wherein the torque which produces the adjusting movement is transmissible through a non-positive coupling and a spring-biased manually ... | 10/13/1987 |
| 4625642 | Inking unit of a rotary offset press An inking unit for a rotary offset press wherein transfer and applicator rolls are normally externally accessible only after pivoting around one or more non-displaceable transfer rolls, or after the removal of such rolls, including at least two applicator... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4590858 | Mechanism for the control of the inker unit on accessory devices of printing machines Mechanism for the control of an inker unit, particularly on an accessory device for the numbering of sheets, for additional printing, and for the perforation of sheets on a printing machine. The mechanism provides an automatic control of the inker unit as... | 05/27/1986 |
| 4535692 | Apparatus for supplying liquid mediums to rollers of printing machines utilizing a distributor plate A method and apparatus for supplying a liquid medium, such as viscous printing ink, to the distributor and transfer rollers of printing machines. The apparatus includes an arcuate shaped distributor plate, an ink feed for dispensing a controlled quantity ... | 08/20/1985 |
| 4528907 | Print head with dual exchangeable hot inking rolls A print head has a print roller carrying one or more type holders thereon for imprinting a work piece movable between the print roller and a support roller, and has dual hot ink rollers carried on an ink roller support member which is movable so as to sim... | 07/16/1985 |
