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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7194924 | System and method for biohazard detection using compression The present invention includes a system and method for detecting contaminated objects, for example mail pieces, through use of a pinching device that compresses the objects, thereby possibly releasing potential contaminant-containing particles into the air in a clos... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7123341 | Image recording apparatus Operating speed of an image recording apparatus is optimized within the range in which throughput capacity is not decreased, and exposure processing can be performed so that uneven exposure is not generated in a photosensitive material. When operation causing the ph... | 10/17/2006 |
| 6387602 | Apparatus and method of cleaning reticles for use in a lithography tool A reticle cleaning apparatus that utilizes an ultraviolet light source in an oxygen-containing environment to cleanse organic contaminants from a reticle. The reticle cleaning apparatus of the present invention enables the storage of multiple reticles for... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6289810 | Photoengraving machine for stamping face A photoengraving machine comprised of a cabinet with a flash light mounted in an upper lever thereof facing down towards a fixture seat. The fixture seat is secured on a slide-in chassis in the cabinet. The fixture seat comprises an adjustable clamping as... | 09/18/2001 |
| 5969804 | Photographic printer with mechanism for placing contact print slide at paper print gate Apparatus is disclosed for placing a contact print slide (134) in a photographic printer (10) having a platen (54) for supporting a photographic paper (32) during exposure of an image (88, 90) onto the paper at a paper print gate (36) at the platen. The a... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5957053 | Stamp material, stamp material-setting jig and stamp assembly There is provided a stamp material comprising a stamp portion and a stock for holding the stamp portion. The stamp portion includes a stamp surface-forming portion for forming a stamp surface therefrom. The stamp portion is removably mounted in the stock.... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5923411 | Photographic printer with mechanism for placing contact print slide at paper print gate Apparatus is disclosed for placing a contact print slide (134) in a photographic printer (10) having a platen (54) for supporting a photographic paper (32) during exposure of an image (88, 90) onto the paper at a paper print gate (36) at the platen. The a... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5892574 | Plate exposing apparatus and method Apparatus for subjecting photosensitive letterpress lithographic plates to a pre-exposure operation and then to a main exposure operation. The apparatus includes a support for supporting a letterpress plate at a pre-exposure station, a pre-exposure system... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5875717 | Assembly and method for producing flat printing plates An assembly for producing printing plates from photopolymerizable resins includes an upper fixture assembly and a lower fixture assembly. The upper fixture assembly includes an upper glass plate, and an upper shutter box in which an upper UV light source ... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5873308 | Stamp making assembly with two directions of irradiation A black sheet is interposed between a manuscript and a porous resin and the manuscript face is irradiated by a linear light source moving along the manuscript face under a laminated state. By this process, the total face of the manuscript is irradiated, a... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5822046 | Image recording device An image recording device in which an image is exposed onto a photosensitive material, and an image forming solvent is applied thereto, and an image receiving material is superposed thereon, and then heat development transfer is carried out so as to obtai... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5813342 | Method and assembly for producing printing plates Printing plates are formed from a layer of photo polymerizable resin by a process and assembly which includes a back masking negative placed over the non-printing side of the resin layer. A connective substrate is positioned between the back mask negative... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5812246 | Photographic contact printing device A photographic contact printing device has a point-like light source (17) and two uni-directionally curved parabolically cylindrical mirrors (18, 19) the axis of curvature (22, 23) of which are perpendicular to each other, and one axis (23) being parallel... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5812245 | Asynchronous contact printer for motion picture film An asynchronous contact printer and a related method for printing motion picture film in different formats. The contact printer has a pair of film drives that move duplicate film and original film at different increments through the printer, and then inte... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5786905 | Image scanner having system extending function and image correcting function In an image scanner having a flat bed type structure and an automatic document feeding type structure, the scanner includes: an image read unit at least including a lamp, a mirror and CCD sensors to read a manuscript which is put on the structure; an imag... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5745222 | Apparatus for making a stamp from an original picture A compact print making device by which a desired imprint figure can be made easily in a short time. This print making device employs a resin seal face member, a part of which receives light having a wavelength within a predetermined range and thus is put ... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5684571 | Apparatus for and method of exposing photosensitized plates Apparatus for exposing photosensitized plates to light through films. The apparatus has an infeed end, an outfeed end forward of the infeed end, opposite sides, an exposure station forward of the infeed end at which a plate is exposed to light through a f... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5493363 | Image recording apparatus and variable diameter conveying rollers with V-shaped pressure piece at exposure station An image recording apparatus is disclosed, which includes an exposure portion, a first conveying roller pair, a second conveying roller pair, a V-shaped pressuring piece disposed between the first and second conveying roller pairs, the pressuring piece ex... | 02/20/1996 |
| 5394220 | Vacuum blanket for pin registration A vacuum blanket apparatus for maintaining precise registration between an image forming sheet and a light sensitive sheet when subjected to controlled exposure to light passing through a glass panel includes a vacuum blanket having an upper cover of flex... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5390001 | Photosensitive material printing apparatus A photosensitive material printing apparatus equipped with a printing portion for printing images of an original film onto a photosensitive material. The photosensitive material printing apparatus is equipped with a holding device for holding the original... | 02/14/1995 |
| 5369468 | Photographic printing apparatus and method Automated apparatus and method for exposing lithographic plates to light through films and masks. The method involves placing a plate, film and mask at an exposure station in superposed relation to one another with the film overlying the plate and the mas... | 11/29/1994 |
| 5359390 | Apparatus for transmissive exposure of copy pairs The proposed apparatus for transmissive exposure of copy pairs has a pressure device 15, which presses the copy pairs being transmitted against the glass plate 11 and which comprises a plurality of pressure shoes 25 which are disposed side by side in the ... | 10/25/1994 |
| 5347341 | Photographic printing apparatus Apparatus for exposing photosensitized plates to light through films, having a window movable up and down at an exposure station adapted to grip a film after an exposure of a plate and to lift the film away from the plate, plates and films being fed in un... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5327194 | Lithographic printing plate printer A lithographic printing plate printer includes: an original-film loading section; a lithographic printing plate loading section; a printing surface plate on which an original film is brought into close contact with a lithographic printing plate; a light s... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5298940 | Rapid vacuum hold down system and method The method and apparatus for securing a sheet of photographic material in position on a plate during exposure to a source of radiation includes configuring a flexible vacuum blanket substantially to the shape of a rigid template that forms surface recesse... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5275919 | Process for making photosensitive resin printing plate and plate-making apparatus used therefor A photosensitive resin printing plate which can provide printed matter with good ink coverage and little dot gain, and a plate making apparatus used therefor.... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5165062 | Automatic printing system An automatic printing system includes an array of printing devices arranged along a direction in which the printing member is fed, each of printing devices having a positioning mechanism for positioning the printing member, a feeding device for feeding a ... | 11/17/1992 |
| 5124745 | Apparatus for the production of printing plates In the context of a device for the production of printing plates comprising a printing down station with a plate table and an associated illuminating means, which station has associated with it a foil receiving means formed preferably by a foil cassette f... | 06/23/1992 |
| 5089845 | Printing apparatus In a printing apparatus, a supply pallet storing an original and a photosensitive film is located above a printer. The films are carried onto a transparent plate of the printer in this order by a carrier. Then, light from a light source of the printer is ... | 02/18/1992 |
| 5083156 | Vacuum contact printing device and exposure apparatus and original contact device A vacuum contact printing device comprises a pair of frame members for supporting a pair of originals disposed on both sides of a base member and a pair of transparent plates disposed outside the frame members. A first vacuum chamber is formed between the... | 01/21/1992 |
| 5068688 | Device for automatically loading an image recording apparatus with a recording medium A device for automatically loading an image recording apparatus with a web of a photosensitive recording medium includes a first belt for conveying a mask original into an exposure unit, and a mechanism facing the belt and movably supported on a frame so ... | 11/26/1991 |
| 4962314 | Image transfer apparatus An image transfer apparatus for transferring an image on an image sheet to an image-receiving sheet, while the image sheet and the image-receiving sheet are held in a superposed condition, comprises a working station for placing the image sheet and the im... | 10/09/1990 |
| 4951089 | Photographic printing apparatus Apparatus for selectively exposing photosensitized plates to light through films operable selectively in a first mode for exposing plates of single newspaper page size to light through films of such size, and in a second mode for exposing plates of double... | 08/21/1990 |
| 4931833 | Automatic process line Automatic process line for exposing photosensitive printing plates with a film and a mask, if any, lying thereon, in a light box. Magazines (13, 14, 15) for plate, film and mask are disposed one above the other in said order from top downwards, displaced ... | 06/05/1990 |
| 4926215 | Contact exposure unit A contact exposure unit for the exposure of image-containing sheet material includes a housing having upper and lower portions separated by a transverse slot extending from an infeed end to an exit end of the housing, the lower portion provided with a plu... | 05/15/1990 |
| 4786950 | Device for inserting copy and exposure material layers into a device for the continual exposure of this material A device for inserting copier web materials and exposure web materials into an apparatus for the continuous exposure of this material. The web materials are moved by means of a belt conveyor (9) through an entry slit, formed by a pair of drive rolls (15, ... | 11/22/1988 |
| 4764791 | Work alignment apparatus for double-sided exposure of a work Disclosed is a work alignment apparatus for double-sided exposure of a work which serves to convey to and locate the work in an exposing position such that the work is exposed on either side thereof between printing frames each holding an image mask on ea... | 08/16/1988 |
| 4755854 | Contact printer A contact printer comprising a glass plate on which a rubber mat can be placed by unwinding the latter from a roll. The cylinder of the roll is mounted in a slide which can be moved along guide rails extending on both sides of the glass plate. The guide r... | 07/05/1988 |
| 4664510 | Repeating copying machine The exposure head of a repeating copying machine is disposed on a slide, with the exposure head being able to be traversed on a table of the copying machine by means of the slide and having a master carriage, an exit carriage and feed means, with a magazi... | 05/12/1987 |
| 4626099 | Film duplication system for microimage recorders A microimage recording apparatus of the type utilizing an elongated master film strip movable along a master film processing path and a duplicate film strip movable along a duplicate film strip processing path for making duplicates of successive developed... | 12/02/1986 |
