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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7854200 | Hold down device for material placed on platen of digital printing machine A device is provided for holding down textile material (on which images or text are to be printed) on the platen of a digital printing machine. The device includes facing flexible rubber pads or seals mounted on the periphery of the platen. The seals have opposed gr... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7765927 | Method of printing on article of clothing using an adjustable area platen A platen for use in printing on an object, wherein the platen has an adjustable area of a working surface on which to place the object. The platen surface includes a plurality of elements, wherein each element includes a flat surface that can be positioned at a work... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7424851 | Screen printer with platen equalizer and method of printing A multi-station screen printing apparatus includes a base member; a plurality of platens, each for supporting a substrate to be printed, the platens mounted radially in a rotatable manner about the base member; and a plurality of print heads mounted radially and non... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7413301 | Inkjet printing apparatus with multiple platens An inkjet type fabric printing apparatus is provided with an inkjet head, a platen and a positioning member. The inkjet head reciprocally moves in main scanning direction and auxiliary scanning direction relative to a fabric (e.g., clothes). The platen holds the fab... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7338613 | System and process for automated microcontact printing An automated process for microcontact printing is provided, comprising the steps of providing a substrate and a stamp; automatically aligning the substrate and stamp so that the stamp is aligned relative to the substrate to impart a pattern to the substrate at a des... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7322287 | Apparatus for fluid pressure imprint lithography Improved apparatus for imprint lithography involves using direct fluid pressure to press a mold into a substrate-supported film. Advantageously the mold and/or substrate are sufficiently flexible to provide wide area contact under the fluid pressure. Fluid pressing ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7266915 | Double-sided ironing board The present invention relates to an ironing plate. Double sides may be used for ironing. In the present invention, front and back surfaces as well as curved portions of clothes are effectively ironed without forming wrinkles in a state that clothes are putted onto a... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7252492 | Devices and methods for aligning a stamp and a substrate There is provided a device for transferring a pattern from a stamp to a substrate, provided with a moldable film, by pressing the stamp and the substrate against each other. The device comprises at least one fixture for retaining a planar object such as the stamp or... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7237890 | Inkjet printing apparatus An inkjet type fabric printing apparatus is provided with an inkjet head, a platen and a positioning member. The inkjet head reciprocally moves in main scanning direction and auxiliary scanning direction relative to a fabric (e.g., clothes). The platen holds the fab... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7207270 | Fixture for printing blinds Provided is a fixture assembly for printing image graphics on a slat set of a window blind. The slat set is comprised of a plurality of substantially identically configured slats. Each one of the slats has a slat length and a slat width. The fixture assembly compris... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7204686 | Parallelism adjustment device A parallelism adjustment device applicable to nano-imprint lithography has an imprint unit, a carrier unit, a parallelism adjustment mechanism, and a driving source. The imprint unit has a first molding plate and an imprinting mold mounted on the first molding plate... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7195734 | Device and method in connection with the production of structures Device in connection with the lithography of structures of nanometer size, which device comprises a first main part (1) with a first principally plane surface (2a) and a second main part (3) with a second principally plane surface (9 | 03/27/2007 |
| 7175354 | Inkjet printing device There is provided an inkjet printing device, which is provided with a holding unit that is used to hold a substrate to be subjected to printing operation, and an inkjet head that ejects ink onto the substrate held by the holding unit. The holding unit is movable bet... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7134391 | Apparatus and method for side printing on low temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) substrates A fixture attached to the rear of the base plate of a semi-automatic screen printer includes an element holder having a vertical recess or pocket for receiving an assembly, such as a substrate, of LTCC laminate material lengthwise therein so as to expose only one si... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7127992 | Arrangement for printing flat workpieces An arrangement for printing flat workpieces is provided and includes an application roller which rolls on the workpiece surface 6 to be printed and thereby applies a printed image to the workpiece surface 8, the application roller forming a printing cy... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7117790 | Microcontact printing A microcontact printing tool having a print unit including a stamp head with a stamp and a wafer chuck for retaining a substrate. The stamp contained by the stamped head movable relative to the substrate by an actuator and a stage. A plurality of sensors detect the ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7040748 | Inkjet printing apparatus An inkjet type fabric printing apparatus is provided with an inkjet head, a platen and a positioning member. The inkjet head reciprocally moves in main scanning direction and auxiliary scanning direction relative to a fabric (e.g., clothes). The platen holds the fab... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7041228 | Substrate for and a process in connection with the product of structures A substrate comprising at least a first and a second coating layer on one surface of the substrate is for nanoimprint lithography, the first coating layer has a positive resist and the second coating layer has a negative resist. A process in connection with nanoimpr... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7029529 | Method and apparatus for metallization of large area substrates A system and method for processing large area substrates. In one embodiment, a system for processing large area substrates includes prep station, a stamping station and a stamp that is automatically moved between the stamping station and the prep station. The stampi... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6918709 | Flat platen and image forming apparatus A flat platen is provided in an image forming apparatus having a side edge detector that detects a side edge of a recording medium to be fed in a predetermined direction. The flat platen has a surface on which the recording medium to be fed is supported and is dispo... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6910419 | Multi-use pallet with torsion control for a printing machine A pallet (10) for use with a screen printing apparatus having arms (12) extending outwardly from the printing machine supports an article against a printing force supplied by the screen printing machine. A base portion (14) of the pallet (10 | 06/28/2005 |
| 6908190 | Platen device for holding workpiece in ink-jet printer A platen device for holding a workpiece in an ink-jet printer operable to perform a printing operation on a printing surface of the workpiece, said platen device being movable into a printing area in which a printing head is operated to deliver an ink onto said prin... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6893176 | Label printer for optical disk such as CD A label printer suitable for label printing of a name card type optical disk as well as a 12 cm-standard complete round disk, wherein a 12 cm-diameter complete round disk loading recessed portion 3 is provided in a disk transferring tray 2 allowed to b... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6883911 | Fabric printing device A fabric printing device contains a supporting section on which a fabric can be installed and removed, having a supporting face for supporting an installed fabric from below; and an ink emitting section for emitting ink onto the fabric on said supporting face. The s... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6854418 | Intensive machine for performing a plurality of processes in fabrication of multilayer substrate An object of the present invention is to provide an intensive machine performing a plurality of processes in a series of steps of fabricating a multilayer substrate. In order that the object may be achieved, the invention provides an intensive machine including an i... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6820553 | Holder for an article to be decorated A holder is provided for holding an article in a machine for decorating articles, the holder including a base member, a format plate arranged releasably above the base member with an opening in the format plate for receiving the article, and an intermediate plate be... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6817288 | Screen-printing apparatus with pneumatic screen frame clamps A screen-printing apparatus having pneumatically operated clamping devices for clamping one edge of a print screen frame to the print head of the apparatus. In a screen-printing operation where multiple print screens must be quickly interchanged, efficiency of time ... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6811336 | Registration cam for a printing press A register cam and a printing press incorporating the register cam are disclosed. The register cam permits the selection of alternative configurations that permit the alteration of parameters of the registration without the removal of the register cam from the print... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6668892 | System for printing and applying tape onto surfaces An apparatus for printing variable information on a tape to form a tape segment, applying the tape segment onto an object, and cutting the tape segment includes a printer for printing information onto the tape segment. A controller controls the printer in... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6662725 | Positioning method and positioning device for positioning printing plate relative to surface plate A printing plate is held at one point thereof by a holding portion provided at a surface plate. When pushed by a pushing portion, the printing plate is only rotationally displaced. Thus, an angular error is substantially eliminated and displacement of the... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6651554 | Platen assembly for screen printing A bifurcated platen assembly is used to improve screen printing operations by providing parallel spaced apart platens instead of a single platen. The platens occupy the same space as a conventional platen but allows the simultaneous printing on two garmen... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6640714 | Adjustable base for shirt screen-printers and method of mounting T-shirt A base or pallet that is variably adjustable along its width to specifically accommodate a wide range of differently sized pieces of clothing is provided. A main pallet base is flanked by a pair of extendable and retractable (movable) wings, along the und... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6619196 | Apparatus for printing golf tees An apparatus for printing on golf tees or other conical objects. The apparatus includes a singler from which the objects are discharged one-by-one. From the singler, the objects are deposited onto a rack. In some versions of the invention, the singler vib... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6575091 | Screen printing machines A quick release pallet for a screen printing machine in which the pallet has locating recesses at either ends which locate the pallet on the pallet arm of the screen printing machine by engaging locating lugs on the pallet arm. A toggle clip secures the p... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6415842 | System for printing and applying tape onto surfaces A tape handling system including a tape mount roller, a first accumulator movable between first and second positions, a printer for printing on tape, and a second accumulator movable between first and second positions. Movement of the second accumulator f... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6349639 | Paper embossing system with a flexible counter and method of embossing A flexible counter for an embossing system provides resilient support under a sheet which opposes pressure from a contoured die forming an embossment in the sheet. The flexible counter includes a resilient mat and a fixed bolster which supports the mat. T... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6343548 | Sheet-fed printing machine with improved quality control console A sheet-fed printing machine having a control console at the downstream end of a sheet transfer system which transfers printed sheets to a delivery unit. The control console has an inclined proof sheet support surface disposed in direct overlying relation... | 02/05/2002 |
| 6322265 | Vacuum workbed A wide format thermal printer for printing a multicolor graphic product on a printing sheet; a vacuum workbed for supporting a sheet material for performing work operations, such as cutting, printing or plotting, thereon; a replaceable donor sheet assembl... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6305285 | Sheet settling system In a high speed sheet printing or coating machine there is a tendency for the sheets to move about as they are being fed to the datum stops, so that precise registration is not achieved. This is remedied by exerting a damping force which pulls each sheet ... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6276274 | Platen for a printing machine A new platen for use with a printing machine, and preferably for allowing automatic unloading of a printed article from a support surface of the platen is disclosed. The disclosed platen includes a structure for attachment to the printing machine, a suppo... | 08/21/2001 |
