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5950539 |
Letterpress machine for continuous printing
An improved printing machine comprises: a frame, at least one cliche carrying roller fitted rotationally on the frame, the cliche carrying roller being interchangeable with cliche carrying rollers...
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5950538 |
Printing unit having drive means
In a printing unit of an offset rotary printing press with two pairs of plate and rubber blanket cylinders, the first plate cylinder and the two rubber blanket cylinders are mechanically coupled...
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5941172 |
Transfer printing and laminating blanket
A dual purpose transfer printing and laminating blanket (18) has an endless woven base fabric (28) having at least one layer of fluoropolymer coating material (32, 33) applied thereto. A bonding...
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5881643 |
Device for cooling the surface of a blanket of a printing unit cylinder
Dry offset printing unit having at least one plate cylinder and at least one blanket cylinder, and being equipped with a cooling circuit wherein a fluid coolant circulates, includes at least one...
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5878666 |
Printing machine with at least one interchangeable cylinder
A printing machine, having side walls and at least one form cylinder with an outer cylindrical surface carrying a removable sleeve-shaped printing form, the form cylinder having journals and being...
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5862753 |
Ink jet printing apparatus with handheld applicator
An apparatus and method for printing postal indicia and similar images. The apparatus includes two print stations and an ink jet printhead transportable between the stations. The printhead forms...
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5842414 |
Digital printer
A digital printer of the present invention employs a single laser depress unit. In a prepress process, an impression cylinder is used as a plate retention member for holding four printing plates....
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5829354 |
Method and film for coating a transfer cylinder in a printing press
A film and method for attachment of the film to the surface of a transfer cylinder of an ink printing press. A film base sheet coated with micro-particles of aluminum oxide is releaseably...
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5813335 |
Apparatus for preventing backlash between the meshing teeth of a first and a second gear in a printing unit of a lithographic rotary printing press
Apparatus for preventing backlash between a first gear and a second gear of a gear train. Exemplary embodiments include a supplementary gear rotatably mounted adjacent to the first gear and...
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5813334 |
Cylinder with a printing cover for offset printing
Offset printing cylinder is formed of a basic cylinder body and a printing cover disposed on an outer cylindrical surface of the cylinder body, the printing cover including a plurality of layers of...
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5802975 |
Device for manipulating sleeves on cylinders
A device for manipulating sleeves, including sleeves serving as printing forms or as rubber blankets as well as screened sleeves, from outside the printing mechanism without removing the paper web...
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5784957 |
Printing mechanism and means for cooling transfer and form cylinders
A printing mechanism for waterless offset printing, including a form cylinder that carries a sleeve-shaped printing form and/or a transfer cylinder that carries a sleeve-shaped transfer form. The...
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5768990 |
Gapless tubular printing blanket
A tubular printing blanket for a blanket cylinder in an offset printing press comprises a cylindrical sleeve, a compressible layer over the sleeve, and an inextensible layer over the compressible...
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5595115 |
Printing mechanism including means for cooling and means for mounting sleeve shaped forms on transfer and form cylinders
A printing mechanism for waterless offset printing including a form cylinder that carries a sleeve-shaped printing form and/or a transfer cylinder that carries a sleeve-shaped transfer form such...
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5542353 |
Process and installation for sheet-by-sheet printing
In the sheet-by-sheet printing process, a sheet is printed during its passage in the nip zone between a printing cylinder, which comprises on its periphery a rubber element, and an impression...
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5535674 |
Distortion-reduced lithographic printing press
In a lithographic printing press for printing on material in sheet or web form, a plate cylinder has a printing form mounted thereon. A gapless blanket cylinder is engageable with the plate...
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5473983 |
Rotary printing press
A rotary printing press for printing on sheets of printing stock will typically have cylinders mounted therein for transporting the sheets of printing stock through the printing press. Such...
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5468568 |
Printing roller with a sleeve of thermally wound fiber-reinforced thermoplastics and a plasma-sprayed coating of copper or copper alloy
The printing roller according to the invention comprises a core cylinder and a sleeve of plastic. The sleeve is built up from a tubular base body composed of a fiber-reinforced thermoplastic...
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5461977 |
Device for transferring single sheets to the impression cylinder of a sheet fed rotary printing machine
The device has a sheet-transfer cylinder (2) with a movable setting plate (3) which bears the sheet grippers (4) and whose lateral ends are individually adjustable during each revolution of the...
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5456169 |
Process and apparatus for printing on flat individual articles
In a process and apparatus for printing on flat individual articles such as CDs by means of offset printing, the surface to be printed upon and the offset printing cylinder which is rolled against...
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5440981 |
Offset lithographic printing press including a gapless tubular printing blanket
A tubular printing blanket for a blanket cylinder in an offset printing press comprises a cylindrical sleeve, a compressible layer over the sleeve, and an inextensible layer over the compressible...
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5423254 |
Image-transfer apparatus with highly accurate registering performance
An image-transfer apparatus performs highly accurate registering and comprises a platen having a cut-off portion on its surface, being prepared for attaching an image-forming material thereto, and...
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5385091 |
Sheet-fed print installation and a corresponding print line
The sheet feed print installation of the flexographic type for printing on a semi-rigid material of the corrugated card type comprises: a plate-carrier cylinder having a plate of thickness E c ...
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5366784 |
Corrosion inhibiting offset printing blanket
Method of inhibiting corrosion of blanket cylinders used in offset printing operations, in which zinc is applied to the surfaces of printing blankets which contact the blanket cylinders, by...
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5351615 |
Offset blanket for a grooveless blanket cylinder composed of a carrier plate and a rubber layer placed thereon
An offset blanket for a grooveless blanket cylinder for applying a printed image onto web material or sheet material is composed of a carrier plate which has been cut to size and a rubber layer...
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5350623 |
Compressible blanket assembly
A void-free, latex rubber cushion layer is interposed between the blanket cylinder and the base layer of a compressible printing blanket in an offset printing press. The latex cushion layer has a...
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5337659 |
Apparatus and method utilizing continuous motion offset and direct printing techniques for decorating cylindrical containers
Continuous motion apparatus having an offset blanket wheel for applying main images to cylindrical containers is also provided with a plurality of direct printing units that apply auxiliary images...
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5333545 |
Sheet-fed rotary offset printing press with a removable imprinting or finishing unit
Sheet-fed rotary offset printing press having a printing unit including a plate cylinder, a rubber-blanket cylinder and an impression cylinder double the size of the plate and the rubber-blanket...
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5333549 |
Method for producing printed images on foil-covered surfaces
A method of printing an image on a foil-covered surface wherein a portion of the surface is coated with opaque white ink provides a unique high-quality graphic wherein the designs printed on bare...
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5309833 |
Printing unit with vibrator mechanism
A printing apparatus (10) comprises a plurality of ink distributor rolls (20) supported for rotation about their axes (48, 50, 52), a rotatable shaft (90), and a vibrating means (32) for...
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5267510 |
Mechanism for accurate-register sheet transfer and the transport of sheets between the printing units of a multi-color printing machine
A chain operated sheet transport and transfer mechanism for sheet-fed printing machines having a plurality of printing units. The chain operated mechanism includes a plurality of gripper cars...
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5255420 |
Plate replacing apparatus for a printing press
In a plate replacing apparatus for a printing press, a plate lockup opening/closing unit opens/closes leading- and trailing-side plate lockup devices upon pivotal movement of a cam shaft. A loader...
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5245923 |
Printing press with movable printing blanket
An offset printing unit (10) for printing an inked image on sheet material (30) comprises a rotatable plate cylinder (12) and a rotatable blanket cylinder (14). The plate cylinder (12) supports a...
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5231925 |
Method of making a decorated, substantially planar sheet of glass or polymeric material
A process is disclosed for making a decorative, essentially planar sheet of material having a design applied to one side, with the design being viewed through the sheet from the opposite side. A...
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5215013 |
Printing blanket with noise attenuation
A tubular printing blanket (20) has a metal sleeve (42) which is receivable over a blanket cylinder (14) in an offset printing unit (10). The sleeve (42) is expandable diametrically under the...
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5205213 |
Axially symmetrical gapless layered sleeve printing blanket system
The present invention relates to a cylinder covered with a printing blanket. According to the invention the layered structure of the blanket is such that the blanket is held onto the cylinder while...
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5186105 |
Device for monitoring sheet movement near the lay marks of sheet-fed offset printing presses
A device for monitoring sheet movement near the lay marks of sheet-fed offset printing presses. To ensure that a sheet has sufficient time to settle on the lay marks, the invention automatically...
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5181471 |
Combined offset and flexographic printing and decorating system
The present invention consists of a combined offset and flexographic printing apparatus. The preferred embodiment of the present invention provides apparatus for printing both quasi-random numbers...
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5170711 |
Method and apparatus for ink control and zonal presetting
The values ascertained from printer's copies (8, 9), for ink zone presetting, are supplied to a color supply detection computer (3) via a film/plate scanner (4). Before the various scanning areas...
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5165341 |
Offset printing machine
To permit use of a yielding surface covering (16) on an ink application cylinder (7, 12, 32) offset printing machine, without slippage or rubbing between the ink application cylinder and an...
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5162119 |
Printing and forming apparatus for making printed baked goods
The present invention provides apparatus for making printed foods such as cookies, crackers, and snacks at high production speeds on a continuous basis. The apparatus includes a rotary printer...
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5159878 |
System for moving a plate cylinder relative to a blanket cylinder
An offset lithographic printing unit (10) in a multi-unit printing press (35) includes a first register adjusting mechanism (80) and a second register adjusting mechanism (84). The first register...
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5125337 |
Printing cylinder groove filler
To distribute loading, and reduce wear, on filler inserts upon roll-off of printing machine cylinders formed with axial grooves, such as rubber blanket cylinders in offset printing machines, the...
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5125336 |
Device for transferring individual sheets to the impression cylinder of a sheet-fed rotary printing machine
The device has a transfer cylinder (2) with a drum (4) which is adjustable in the circumferential direction relative to its shaft (3) and which carries sheet grippers (8) with a front stop (8a) for...
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5069124 |
Method of operating a printing machine during start-up or run-on and optically testing a printed image
During start-up or run-on of a printing machine, a printed image is transferred from a printing cylinder (2, 24, 34) on a control or test cylinder (5, 26, 35) which has a surface representative of...
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5042380 |
Method and apparatus for preventing misregistration between plate and blanket cylinders of a sheet type printing press
A sheet type printing press is disclosed which includes a transmission assembly that prevents misregistration of plate and blanket cylinders upon their separation. The assembly also permits the...
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5040459 |
Device for metering ink in offset printing machines
Device for metering a quantity of ink in an offset printing machine having a plate cylinder and ink applicator cylinder engaging the plate cylinder and having a diameter corresponding to that of...
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5038680 |
Printing press blanket cylinder assembly and method of making same
A pair of coacting blanket cylinder assemblies (13', 14') employed in a high speed printing press are each provided with a resilient blanket (13, 14) wrapped around a cylinder (15, 16) and held in...
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5010815 |
Doctor device
In the context of an ink doctor arrangement with at least one doctor blade which is arranged to be carried on a doctor blade mount more reliable operation with less wear and is made possible by...
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4960049 |
Offset printing machine having two printing units
An offset printing machine having a first printing unit where an ordinary offset printing is achievable and a second printing unit where a number printing and perforating operations can be...
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