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Decorative Jeweled Wheel Cover
An improved wheel is provided wherein decorative items such as gem stones are embedded in either the wheel surface, a special mounting section attached to the wheel surface, or to a spoke strap that wraps around each spoke and positions embedded gem stones on the outside surface of the spoke.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7987784 | Printing system employing deformable polymer printing plates A printing plate has a substrate, an array of cells on the substrate, wherein each cell corresponds to an element of a print image, a deformable polymer material localized into the cells such that each cell is at least partially formed from the deformable polymer ma... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7841277 | Layered structure of a printing plate for printing solid areas and highlight areas A printing structure for printing on a medium, includes a first layer having an outer surface adapted to receive ink for printing on the medium, the first layer having a first hardness and/or a first surface energy; and a second layer positioned outside of the first... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7707937 | Digital impression printing system A print structure includes a pattern layer that selectively actuates one or more of a plurality of actuators to selectively form one or more wells in a print surface to create a defined pattern on the print surface. A material is applied to the one or more wells and... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7673562 | Method of forming a reconfigurable relief surface using microvalves A structure and method of using a reusable master printing plate is described. In one embodiment, the method uses an electric field to control a series of microvalves. The microvalves control a fluid flow that raises or lowers selected regions on a flexible printing... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7350461 | Intaglio printing process for all-over printing of large areas Printing plates for all-over printing of large areas by the intaglio printing process, a method for producing the printing plates and data carriers, in particular bank notes, with large-area printed images produced by the intaglio printing process area proposed. Fla... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7318994 | Compressible flexographic printing plate construction The present invention relates to an improved compressible flexographic printing plate that uses a compressible layer comprising a polyurethane (meth)acrylate resin and microspheres. The process of the invention produces a chemically fused printing plate that elimina... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7290487 | Method for producing flexo printing forms by means of laser direct engraving Flexographic printing plates are produced by means of direct laser engraving by a process in which the starting material used is a flexographic printing element, the relief-forming layer of which has a combination of a substantially hydrophobic, elastomeric binder a... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7275484 | Data carrier comprising a gravure printed image and methods for transposing image motifs into linear structures and onto a gravure printing plate A data carrier printed by line intaglio having a halftone image represented by irregular line structures in the manner of an engraving. The line structures are superimposed at least partly by fine structures rendered in positive or negative representation. Methods a... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7275202 | Method, system and program product for autonomous error recovery for memory devices An autonomous error recovery approach is provided for a memory device of a computing system. In response to a request for data, addressed data and associated control information of the memory device are tested for error. If error is detected, the contents of an addr... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7243601 | Printing plate, press and method of printing, and apparatus and method for manufacturing liquid crystal devices A printing plate includes, on the printing surface of a raised part, grooves passing through from one side to another thereof. Preferably, the grooves are parallel to each other and equally spaced apart. More preferably the raised part is in the shape of a nearly-re... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7213512 | Steel gravure method for the production of a security document, steel gravure plate and semi-product for the same and method for production thereof A method for producing a security document having printed image 1 produced by steel intaglio printing and embossed microstructures 2 of an order of magnitude of less than 100 microns is carried out by one printing plate 8 on which both the steel... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7207268 | Apparatus and method of enhancing printing press cylinders A printing press cylinder and a method of manufacturing the same. The printing press cylinder includes a rigid base member having a reduced radius section and a polymer layer formed about the rigid base member generally within the reduced radius section. The polymer... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7194953 | Dressing on a cylinder or a transfer cylinder as well as printing units of a printing press A blanket is located on an outer surface of a roller, such as printing unit roller. The blanket has an elastic and/or a compressive layer with a surface pressure that depends on the degree of the impression. The layer is selected so that a depending of the surface p... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7169456 | Transcription plate for forming orientation layer Disclosed is a transcription plate for forming orientation layer by coating printed orientation agent onto a substrate. The transcription plate comprises a base film and photosensitive resin plate, such as an APR layer, wherein a number of dots are arranged on the p... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7159511 | Method of manufacturing print belts A manufacturing line for manufacturing a print belt comprising a support-forming strip and a photopolymerized resin forming printing characters, the line comprises spreader means adapted to spread the resin on the strip, photopolymerizer means adapted to solidify th... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7135593 | Degradable crosslinkers, and degradable crosslinked hydrogels comprising them One aspect of the present invention relates to base-labile crosslinkers. A second aspect of the present invention relates to degradable crosslinked polymers and hydrogels comprising a base-labile crosslinker. The present invention also relates to a method of influen... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7130087 | Methods and apparatus to produce security documents Security documents (e.g. passports, currency, event tickets, and the like) are encoded to convey machine-readable multi-bit binary information (e.g., a digital watermark), usually in a manner not alerting human viewers that such information is present. The documents... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7126619 | System and method for direct laser engraving of images onto a printing substrate An optical scanning system and method for laser engraving a plurality of data subrasters into a substrate to form a raster of engraved data defining an image on the substrate. Each subraster has a length dimension and a width dimension. The system includes a transpo... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7126724 | Flexographic printing A method of screening a continuous tone image into a halftone representation for a flexographic printing operation can compensate for characteristic printing problems in highlight areas by selectively placing non-printing dots proximate highlight dots. The non-print... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7081331 | Method for thermally processing photosensitive printing sleeves An improved method of manufacturing a photosensitive printing element that minimizes relief variation and improves image fidelity. The method involves a step of pre-curing the first (floor layer) of photocurable material prior to depositing an additional layer or la... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7063014 | Photogravure press and method for manufacturing multilayer-ceramic electronic component A photogravure printing press includes plurality of cells defined by printing-direction walls and substantially perpendicular walls formed in each of image areas on the circumferential surface of a gravure roll. A plurality of substantially perpendicular cuts are fo... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7055429 | Edge cure prevention process An inkjet printer is used to apply an ink that is substantially opaque to actinic radiation in at least one wavelength region effective to cure the photosensitive printing plate to the edges and corners, of a printing plate after the plate has been trimmed (i.e., cu... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7040227 | Stamping devices and methods An adhesive-backed lenticular lens may be applied over an image. The image may be generated by transferring from an ink source to a ink transfer print plate having a regular pattern of raised and recessed areas or may be applied by a stamp having an image formed by ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7036430 | Method for producing a flexographic printing plate formed by inkjetted fluid Apparatus and method for digitally building up flexographic plates by ink jetting plate pre-cursor material onto a substrate via an offset blanket and forming the plates by successively polymerizing the ink jet fluid. ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7032512 | Edge treatment of flexographic printing elements A method is provided for reducing UV exposure to edges of a printing plate which occurs when the printing plate is subjected to UV illumination. The method involves a spray head comprising one or more spray nozzles for spraying edge masking material toward the print... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7028615 | Gravure process for printing adjacent color surfaces with various color coating thicknesses A data medium having a printed image is created by the intaglio printing process. The printed image has at least one first ink area with a first ink layer thickness and at least one second ink area with a second ink layer thickness adjacent to the first ink area, su... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7005232 | Highly reflective substrates for the digital processing of photopolymer printing plates An improved digitally imageable relief printing element having an increased direct-cure imaging speed upon exposure to lasers and other digital sources of actinic radiation. The printing elements of the invention comprise a reflective layer beneath a photosensitive ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7000542 | Low cost litho printing press, printing plate, and method for printing paste-type oil-based litho ink which eliminate the dampener and dampening solution therefrom A litho printing press comprising one or more litho ink printing stations, each of which has paste-type, oil-based litho ink applicating means for depositing said oil-based litho ink onto a printing plate, an adjacent first rotatable cylinder called the plate cylind... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6998218 | Apparatus and method for thermally developing flexographic printing sleeves An improved thermal development apparatus is used to remove uncured photopolymer from the imaged surface of a flexographic printing element. The apparatus typically comprises one or more heatable rolls that are contactable with an imaged surface of a flexographic pr... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6976426 | Image replication element and method and system for producing the same A process and system for making an image replication element from a photosensitive printing element by digital photopolymerization are provided. The process includes forming a desired printing image on a photopolymer layer by digital light processing without the use... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6966259 | Printing sleeve with an integrated printing surface A seamless printing sleeve comprising a hollow cylindrical base and a seamless imageable surface as its outermost layer is described. The imageable surface acts as an integral flexographic printing surface. Preferably the printing sleeve comprises an intermediate ph... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6948429 | Flexographic printing plate mounting sheet A flexographic printing plate mounting sheet is provided which improves the printing accuracy by its high level of thickness accuracy and ease of installation in the correct position, which makes it possible to peel a flexographic printing plate off without damaging... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6931988 | Rotary head pad printer A rotary head pad printer includes a frame, a head mounted to the frame for rotational movement on the frame so as to define a plane and at least one pad assembly mounted to the head. The pad assembly reciprocates between an extended position and a retracted positio... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6915741 | Method of printing including mounting plate on cylinder using foam cushion tape A foam cushion tape comprising a compressible polyurethane foam layer having a first side and an opposite second side; a composite reinforcing film comprising an anchoring layer and a reinforcing layer, wherein the second aide of the polyurethane foam is disposed on... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6912955 | Metal-backed printing blanket A metal backed printing blanket for mounting on a blanket cylinder that includes a gap, the printing blanket having a thin metal base plate with top and bottom surfaces and ends which include leading and trailing edges adapted for engaging the gap in the cylinder; a... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6854389 | Blanket cylinder for offset presses A blanket cylinder has a rotational axis and a concave surface, concentric to the axis and extending over a printing width of the cylinder, for receiving a flat rubber blanket made of elastically deformable material. The cylinder has a recess concentric to the axis,... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6796232 | Low resilience, high ink releasing printing surface Novel printing surfaces for off-set printing blankets are provided having a resilience of less than about 40% and an average surface roughness of less than about 0.5 microns. Such low-resilience printing surfaces have been found to transfer up to greater than 90% of... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6776095 | Method for laser engraving flexographic printing forms, and printing forms obtained thereby A process for the production of flexographic printing plates by laser engraving, in which the recording layer of a crosslinkable, laser-engravable flexographic printing element is crosslinked by the combination of a full-area crosslinking step with a crosslinking st... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6772686 | Flexographic printing elements with improved air bleed An adhesive tape for flexographic printing including a first adhesive layer, a substrate on the first adhesive layer, and a second adhesive layer on the substrate. The substrate preferably includes a polymeric film layer and a foam layer, wherein the topography of t... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6750985 | Digital watermarks and methods for security documents Security documents (e.g. passports, currency, event tickets, and the like) are encoded to convey machine-readable multi-bit binary information (e.g., a digital watermark), usually in a manner not alerting human viewers that such information is present. The documents... | 06/15/2004 |
