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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7399526 | Printing blanket and method for reducing corrosion and abrasion of printing blankets and blanket cylinders A printing blanket and method of reducing corrosion and abrasion of printing blankets and printing blanket cylinders is provided. The printing blanket includes a metal base ply having first and second surfaces, a surface layer on the first surface of the base ply, a... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7395759 | Sleeve for a printing machine The invention relates to a sleeve, particularly a rubber blanket sheath, for a printing machine. The sleeve (10) has a two-layer structure comprising an internal layer designed as support layer (11), and an external layer designed as cover layer (12... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7384685 | Compressible plate for flexographic printing and method for obtaining same The invention concerns a compressible plate for flexographic printing, designed to be positioned on a support cylinder of a printing machine. The invention is characterised in that said plate (1) comprises a photopolymer layer (10) and a compressible l... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7361245 | Compressible printing blanket and method of manufacturing a compressible printing blanket Disclosed is a compressible printing blanket in which voids are formed in the compressible layer by using microballoons, comprising at least two fabric layers, an adhesive layer interposed between adjacent fabric layers, a surface rubber layer, and a compressible la... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7323261 | Compressible printing blanket and method of manufacturing a compressible printing blanket Disclosed is a compressible printing blanket in which voids are formed in the compressible layer by using microballoons, comprising at least two fabric layers, an adhesive layer interposed between adjacent fabric layers, a surface rubber layer, and a compressible la... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7287470 | Offset lithographic printing press having seamed sleeved printing blanket An offset lithographic printing press combined with a gapped or seamed cylindrical offset printing blanket having pre-made blanket material mounted on a cylindrical sleeve is disclosed, wherein conventional, manufactured blanket material in flat form is adhered to a... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7270873 | Anti-marking coverings for printing presses In a printing press and attached onto the transfer cylinders, an anti-marking system that uniformly supports the transport and the release of the wet printed sheet from one station to the next. The anti-marking sheet consists of a two plus layer system, the outer la... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7238257 | Method for making a printing blanket A method for making a printing blanket resulting from assembling a plurality of layers employs elastomer layers which do not contain thermal cross-linking agents and are of the thermoplastic type. Such a printing blanket is useful in the field of printing machines. | 07/03/2007 |
| 7131375 | Offset lithographic printing press having seamed sleeved printing blanket An offset lithographic printing press combined with a gapped or seamed cylindrical offset printing blanket having pre-made blanket material mounted on a cylindrical sleeve is disclosed, wherein conventional, manufactured blanket material in flat form is adhered to a... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7128811 | Belt for a papermaking machine A belt for a papermaking machine has minute projections and recesses randomly formed in a shoe-contacting surface of the belt by a powdery material contained in a high molecular weight elastic section formed on a base body. The surface roughness RZ of the shoe-conta... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7104198 | Printing blanket with convex outer print surface A tubular printing blanket having an axial center has a carrier sleeve layer having a uniform thickness, a compressible layer, a reinforcing layer over the compressible layer, and a print layer disposed over the reinforcing layer. At least one of the reinforcing lay... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7073435 | Printing blanket with convex carrier layer A printing blanket includes a carrier sleeve layer having at least one axially convex surface and a print layer disposed over the carrier sleeve layer. A blanket cylinder with a convex outer surface and a convex shim is also provided. An offset printing press is als... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7053748 | Electrical devices A composite circuit protection device includes a laminar insulating member and first and second laminar circuit protection devices. Each of the first and second laminar circuit protection devices includes (1) a first laminar electrode, (2) a second laminar electrode... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7036429 | Rubber blanket cylinder sleeve for web fed rotary printing machines A transfer cylinder sleeve is provided for an offset printing machine including an inner carrier layer, a compressible layer and a covering layer, where at least one of the layers has a joint or a gap and provided that when a joint or a gap is used in the covering l... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7014733 | Belt for shoe press and shoe calender and method for forming same A method of producing an endless belt includes the steps of: securing axial fibers relative to a mandrel, the axial fibers being spaced apart from one another at desired intervals and extending substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis of the mandrel; applying a... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7013805 | Rubber cylinder sleeve for offset presses A rubber cylinder sleeve has a rubber covering with a layer construction which includes, at a distance from the outer surface, compressible layer elements and layer elements which influence the stiffness (S), such as filaments/yarns or fabric structures. The layer e... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6981444 | Seamed sleeved printing blanket A gapped or seamed cylindrical offset printing blanket having pre-made blanket material mounted on a cylindrical sleeve, and a method for making same, are disclosed, wherein conventional, manufactured blanket material in flat form made by methods known in the art is... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6969543 | Intermediate transfer blanket and method of producing the same A multi-layered image transfer blanket and a method of producing same, including a body portion and an image transfer portion, the image transfer portion having an image transfer surface and a back surface, comprising forming the image transfer portion on a carrier ... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6884498 | Rubber blanket for offset printing The present invention provides a rubber blanket for an offset printing, comprising a surface rubber layer, a first fabric layer, a compressible layer and a second fabric layer, wherein the thickness of the blanket falls within a range of between 1.65 mm and 3 mm, th... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6848364 | Seamed sleeved blanket and method for making and using same A gapped or seamed cylindrical offset printing blanket having pre-made blanket material mounted on a cylindrical sleeve, and a method for making same, are disclosed, wherein conventional, manufactured blanket material in flat form made by methods known in the art is... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6811863 | Anti-marking coverings for printing presses In a printing press and attached onto the transfer cylinders, an anti-marking system that uniformly supports the transport and the release of the wet printed sheet from one station to the next. The anti-marking sheet consists of a two plus layer system, the outer la... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6799512 | Rubber cylinder sleeve for offset printing presses A rubber cylinder sleeve for an offset printing press includes an inner carrier sleeve that has a circumferential and an axial direction. The carrier is expandable outwardly by an application of compressed air from the interior. The rubber cylinder sleeve also inclu... | 10/05/2004 |
| 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 |
| 6705225 | Method of making tubular printing blanket with isotropic reinforcing layer A tubular printing blanket including a tubular print layer, a tubular isotropic plastic reinforcing layer underneath the print layer, a compressible layer underneath the reinforcing layer, and a sleeve for supporting, directly or indirectly, the compressible layer. ... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6691614 | Multi-layered printing sleeve A printing sleeve for use in flexographic or gravure printing applications is provided. In particular, the printing sleeve contains a bridge layer that is formed from a generally rigid and relatively expandable material, which is disposed adjacent to a co... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6651559 | Blanket with variable surface properties for a printing machine The invention concerns a printing blanket for a cylinder of a printing machine, specifically of offset type, including a ground or polished or even molded lithographic layer, at least one reinforcing layer and at least one compressible layer. According to... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6645601 | Printing blanket cover with a narrow cylinder attachment A printing blanket comprising: a) at least one lithographic or printing layer comprising elastomer; b) a compressible layer, c) a reinforcement layer comprising at least one material selected from the group consisting of threads and fibers, wherein at lea... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6640711 | Bridge mandrel for use as a repeat builder in a printing machine A bridge mandrel includes an inner sleeve assembly comprising the inner laminate and an outer laminate secured on each side of an intermediate hardened foam layer. The inner laminate is of multi-ply form with inner plies of base and adhesive layers separa... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6637331 | Printing blanket having reinforcing band sheets on opposite end portions A blanket to be mounted on a blanket cylinder includes a blanket body and two band sheets serving as reinforcing members and attached to corresponding parallel, opposite end portions of the blanket body across a width of the end portions. One of the band ... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6630228 | Display cover A display cover for mobile phones, for example. The display cover is intended to be applied over a display of a device. The display is subjected to external damage from scratches and impacts, during use of the device. The display cover includes an optical... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6615721 | Method and device for manufacturing a tubular lithographic printing blanket A device for manufacturing a tubular printing blanket comprising a sleeve translation device for moving a sleeve, the sleeve providing a support layer for the printing blanket; and at least one ribbon casting device applying a flowable material, the flowa... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6551716 | Intermediate transfer blanket and method of producing the same A method of producing a coating on a member comprising: providing a body portion; coating the body portion with a catalyst material for a release coating material; and overcoating the catalyst material with an uncured polymer material for which the cataly... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6536342 | 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 ... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6514888 | Cushioning material for forming press A cushioning material for forming press includes fiber material layers 31 and 32 superimposed with a bonding material layer 30 interposed, an upper rubber layer 33 positioned on an upper surface of one fiber material layer 31, a lower rubber layer 34 posi... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6505555 | Cylindrical blanket and blanket cylinder, and printing press In the present invention, a blanket cylinder for a printing press is made up of a shaft roller and a cylindrical blanket capable of being attached and detached freely to and from the shaft roller. The cylindrical blanket comprises an elastic layer formed ... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6500776 | Blanket substrate and blanket A blanket substrate comprising spun yarn of polyvinyl alcohol based fibers, in which the fibers have primary ridged streaks which are formed on their surfaces in the direction of the fiber axis with finer secondary ridged steaks formed in the primary ridg... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6389965 | Tubular printing blanket with tubular isotropic reinforcing layer A tubular printing blanket including a tubular print layer, a tubular isotropic plastic reinforcing layer underneath the print layer, a compressible layer underneath the reinforcing layer, and a sleeve for supporting, directly or indirectly, the compressi... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6382102 | Rubber blanket sleeve for an offset printing machine and method of making Rubber blanket sleeve for a channel-free rubber blanket cylinder of an offset printing machine and process of producing rubber blanket sleeve. The rubber blanket sleeve includes an inner, dimensionally stable support sleeve arranged as a supporting layer,... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6374734 | Tubular printing blanket An improved printing press includes a tubular-shaped printing blanket removably disposed on a blanket cylinder rotatably supported by a frame and having a continuous outer circumferential surface which is free of gaps. The printing blanket is disposed in ... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6326077 | Composite polymeric material having high resistance to impact energy A composite material with high resistance to impact energy, comprising an expanded polymer selected among polystyrene, polypropylene, copolymer of polyphenylene oxide and polystyrene and mixtures thereof, dispersed in a resin chosen among melaminic resin,... | 12/04/2001 |
