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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8181573 | Method and apparatus for feeding printing plates to a plate cylinder of a processing machine In an apparatus for feeding printing plates to a plate cylinder of a printing press, the printing plate is prealigned on stops outside the plate cylinder with a lateral offset and with an oblique skew. Then the printing plate is fed, in the thusly aligned position t... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8176846 | Printing plate positioning A method for positioning a printing plate includes supporting the printing plate on a support surface. A first force is applied to the printing plate to move the printing plate over the support surface along a path. A second force is applied to the printing plate to... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8161875 | Apparatus and method for changing printing plates An apparatus and method for changing printing plates is disclosed. A printing plate cartridge for a printing press has multiple cases for accommodating printing plates to be removed during a printing plate change and for accommodating printing plates to be installed... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8146496 | Printing plate handling device A printing plate handling device for holding a printing plate (11) adjacent to one edge (12) of the plate, especially adjacent to a bent-over leading edge or a bent-over trailing edge of the printing plate, with a mechanism for holding the printing pla... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8141488 | Method for improved plate change and sheet-fed offset printing press having a plate change apparatus An apparatus and a method for changing printing plates in sheet-fed rotary printing presses include a plurality of printing units and plate cylinders being coupled to one another mechanically in the printing units during a printing operation. At the beginning of a p... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8127677 | Plate inserting apparatus including braking unit for braking the plate A plate inserting apparatus includes a plate cylinder, press roller, and braking unit. A plate is to be mounted on the outer surface of the plate cylinder. The press roller is rotatably supported to oppose the outer surface of the plate cylinder. When the leading ed... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8127678 | Method and apparatus for providing information about printing plates to be manufactured for a new production of a printing press A method and an apparatus are used for providing information about printing plates to be manufactured for a new production of a printing press. A use of at least one of the printing plates, at its point of use in the printing press, is visualized on a display of a d... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8096240 | Method for handling printing plates Exposed printing plates are bent in the area of a bending device to form a leading end and a trailing end. Each exposed and bent printing plate is grasped in the area of the bending device at the leading end or at the trailing end of the printing plate by means of a... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8087356 | Handling device of a printing press A handling device of a printing press, in particular for handling printing plates during an automated change of printing plates on a printing unit of a printing press, is disclosed. The handling device has a manipulator arm, where a manipulator head is allocated to ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8069788 | Method for providing printing formes at installation positions on one of a plurality of forme cylinders disposed in a printing press and for disposing of used printing formes from the printing press Printing plates are prepared at installation positions on one of a plurality of plate cylinders disposed in a printing machine. A plurality of flat printing plates, which are provided for a printing process to be carried out by the printing machine itself, and which... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8051774 | Printing plate module, printing press, and method of mounting plates A printing plate module is disclosed. The module comprises a printing plate support member (3) having means (5) to locate printing plates (4) in a predetermined position thereon and, engagement means (8) on the plate support member for th... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8006618 | Device and method for performing a printing plate change on a plate cylinder of a printing press A device and method for performing a printing plate change on a plate cylinder of a printing press is disclosed. The device includes a rolling element featuring several rollers for pressing at least one printing plate on the plate cylinder during a printing plate ch... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8001897 | Systems for checking the loading of a print forme magazine and systems for transporting at least one print forme stored in a print forme magazine to a cylinder A system for checking the loading of a print form magazine, which stores at least two print forms, utilizes at least one code reader to read a code which is carried by the print forms. The code reader reads the coding of the printing forms in a secondary region. The... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7975610 | Printing units comprising several printing groups, and printing tower The invention relates to a printing unit (16; 17) comprising several printing groups (03; 04; 21; 22; 28; 29; 31; 32), each of which is provided with at least one plate cylinder (07) and at least one transfer cylinder (06) that is arrange... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7971530 | Automatic mounting system for positioning a plate on a carrier The invention relates to a method and a device for positioning a flexible printing plate on a carrier, comprising the following steps of: placing on a table the flexible printing plate for positioning; determining the position of the printing plate by means of a vis... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7934452 | Devices comprising several spaced-apart storage compartments At least several spaced apart storage compartments are provided in a plate storage device. These compartments can receive used printing forms from a printing cylinder or new printing forms that are to be supplied to the printing cylinder. At least one positioning as... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7926422 | Plate transport speed control system An apparatus for preventing printing plate deformation (29) in a plate processor device comprising a plate transport means (19) comprising a motor (15) and plurality of rollers (11, 12, 13, 14). A one way coupler (21) connects the ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7913621 | Plate feeding apparatus and plate feeding method A plate feeding method includes a suction-holding step for causing suction pads to suck and hold an upper surface adjacent an end edge, remote from nip rollers, of each plate, a moving step, while swinging the suction pads about a moving unit, for moving the moving ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7856925 | Method for the arrangement of printing blocks on a plate cylinder of a printing machine A plurality of printing blocks are placed on a plate cylinder of a printing machine. Each of these printing blocks is located at one of a plurality of mounting locations which are located adjacent each other in an axial direction of the plate cylinder. Each of these... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7849796 | Web offset printing press with articulated tucker An offset web print unit includes a plate cylinder, a blanket cylinder, the plate cylinder being movable during a throw-off operation, and a tucker bar for tucking plates into the plate cylinder, the tucker bar having an axis movable with respect to the plate cylind... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7806052 | Printing forme magazine with a receiving arrangement for receiving a plurality of printing formes to be mounted on a forme cylinder of a printing press At least two blankets which are removed from the same cylinder of a printing machine one after the other, are stored in a storage device. The blankets are drawn off the cylinder in a longitudinal direction and are stored in the device at an angle of inclination of n... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7699001 | Apparatus for pressing a covering onto a printing-unit cylinder for a rotary press A plurality of longitudinal channels for supplying pressure medium are arranged within a carrier having a closed profile. A plurality of operating cylinders have pressure spaces which are flow-connected to the channels for moving the pressure rollers inward and outw... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7690302 | Device and methods for raising and/or lowering a printing form A printing form is either raised or is lowered by the use of a pressure device which includes a roller. The roller is arranged on a cross-beam in such a way that the roller can selectively be placed on, or taken off the forme cylinder, or a forme that is supported o... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7685938 | System for interleaf sheet removal in an imaging system A removal system for removing an interleaf sheet that is interposed between plate sheets in an imaging system, wherein said removal system contains a substantially horizontal member, at least two roller assemblies, a disposal roller assembly, a rail assembly, and at... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7647868 | Method for feeding a printing forme to a forme cylinder of a printing press A printing plate is produced having at least one edge which has been cut so that it is parallel to a line of delimitation of the type area of the plate. The printing plate is fed to an impression cylinder of a printing press, in an axial direction of the impression ... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7621218 | Plate feeding apparatus A plate feeding apparatus of this invention includes a storage unit 10 for storing a plurality of plates P with end edges thereof arranged even by a stopper 11, a first and a second nip rollers 12 and 13, a suction device 45 dispos... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7610855 | Apparatus and process for transporting lithographic plates to a press cylinder Transportation of a lithographic plate uses an indexer to load plates into pods for delivery to a press cylinder via a pod elevator or a pod cart. The plates are imprinted with a bar code, imaged, punched, bent, sheared, corner notched, and registered to a press cyl... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7610854 | Imaging system and method for loading a printing plate An imaging system for performing a computer-to-plate imaging process on printing plates includes a plate imaging bed for exposing radiation to a printing plate. The bed includes an input section for receiving a printing plate and an output section for transferring t... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7565865 | Plate inserting device A plate inserting device includes a plate cylinder, roller, and rotation braking unit. The plate cylinder has a groove portion in its outer surface to extend in an axial direction. A plate is to be mounted on the outer surface of a plate cylinder. The roller is rota... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7555983 | Plate handling apparatus A plate handling apparatus includes a loader, first and second air cylinders, and first and second detection units. The loader is supported to be movable substantially parallel to a paper convey direction and swingable in directions to come close to and be spaced ap... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7555984 | Web offset press, and method and apparatus for replacing printing plate in web offset press A method and apparatus for replacing a printing plate enabling to easily replace the printing plate of a plate cylinder of a printing unit in an easy posture in a variable cutoff rotary press of a web offset press or the like is realized. Upon replacing the printing... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7530309 | Device for storing at least two dressings that are drawn off from the same cylinder of a printing machine one after another At least two blankets which are removed from the same cylinder of a printing machine one after the other, are stored in a storage device. The blankets are drawn off the cylinder in a longitudinal direction and are stored in the device at an angle of inclination of n... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7464644 | Devices and methods for raising and/or lowering a printing form A printing form is either raised or is lowered by the use of a pressure device which includes a roller. The roller is arranged on a cross-beam in such a way that the roller can selectively be placed on, or taken off the forme cylinder, or a forme that is supported o... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7434511 | Image recording apparatus including a plurality of notch forming sections Punches 44 of punchers 41a to 41d each punch a plate P lying immediately thereunder to form a notch. Then, stopper pins 47 of the punchers 41c and 41d abut with the deepest portion of the notch, s... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7409908 | Method for transporting printing plates using the plate and blanket cylinders An apparatus positions a plate cylinder and a blanket cylinder in a transport position for assisting in transporting printing plates. The apparatus spaces the blanket cylinder and plate cylinder apart from one another such that a pressure acting on a printing plate ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7401553 | Printing plate cartridge for a press and press A printing plate cartridge for a press including a housing having an old printing compartment for holding a printing plate to be removed during a printing plate change and a new printing plate compartment for holding a printing plate to be mounted on a form cylinder... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7398732 | Method for determining an image area to be exposed on a printing plate A method for aligning a printing plate, prior to imaging, on a platesetter includes the steps of: determining a leading edge of the printing plate; feeding the printing plate by the leading edge onto punch equipment resident on the platesetter; centering the printin... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7370582 | Method for handling printing plates A method for handling printing plates includes moving the printing plates from a first process station to a second station by a printing plate holder. The process stations are all arranged on a cylinder circumferential surface around a mid-axis, and it is possible f... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7370581 | Changing station for printing press sleeves A changing station for sleeves of a printing machine has a conveyable magazine with at least one take-up device for the sleeves. The magazine is both vertically and horizontally conveyable alongside the printing machine. The horizontal movement can be provided by a ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7367265 | Method and device for mounting dressings onto the cylinder of a printing press A packing or dressing is mounted on a cylinder of a rotary printing press. A dressing suspension leg, situated at an end of the dressing extending in the production direction of rotation of the cylinder, is positioned in an opening in the surface of the cylinder. Th... | 05/06/2008 |
