| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7438677 |
Chopper table |
October 21, 2008 |
| A chopper table comprises table bodies for guiding a signature transported by transport belts, and a pair of inlet guides for guiding the signature pushed in by a chopper blade. The table bodies are detachably supported on chopper frames, and the inlet guides are detachably supported on |
| 7395758 |
Ink fountain device with adjustable ink dams and adjustable fountain roller |
July 8, 2008 |
| An ink fountain device includes a fountain roller, a blade, a pair of ink dams, a compression coil spring, and a fountain roller moving device. The fountain roller is rotatably supported by an eccentric bearing. The blade is arranged close to the fountain roller. The distal end of the bl |
| 7377510 |
Delivery apparatus and delivery method |
May 27, 2008 |
| In a delivery apparatus having a delivery conveyor for receiving and transporting a signature discharged from a printing press, the delivery conveyor is continuously driven if the drive speed of the printing press is higher than a predetermined speed, or the delivery conveyor is inte |
| 7364158 |
Conveyor apparatus |
April 29, 2008 |
| A conveyor apparatus includes a receiving clearance adjustment mechanism for adjusting the vertical clearance between portions of downstream-side upper belts, the portion being located furthest upstream with respect to the conveyance direction of signatures, and upstream-side lower belts |
| 7347143 |
Air blowing device for printing press |
March 25, 2008 |
| An air blowing device for a printing press includes a plate cylinder, blanket cylinder, impression cylinder, air blowing equipment, air suction equipment, and cover. The plate cylinder is rotatably supported. Ink from an inking device and dampening water from a dampening device are suppl |
| 7326161 |
Folder |
February 5, 2008 |
| A folder includes a cut-off cylinder, etc. for cutting a web into sheets; a group of cylinders for folding each sheet into a signature in accordance with the selected folding specifications; and a conveyer apparatus, a fan wheel, a delivery conveyer, etc. for conveying signatures. In |
| 7325494 |
Sheet convey apparatus for sheet-fed offset rotary printing press with convertible press mechani |
February 5, 2008 |
| A sheet convey apparatus for a sheet-fed offset rotary printing press with a convertible mechanism includes a gripper device and a gripper pad shaft. The gripper device swings between a first position to receive a sheet from a chucking cylinder on an upstream side in a sheet convey d |
| 7303522 |
Parallel folding device of folding machine |
December 4, 2007 |
| A parallel folding device includes: a folding cylinder which transfers a signature; a first jaw cylinder having gripper boards; an upper second jaw cylinder in contact with the first jaw cylinder and having grippers; a lower second jaw cylinder in contact with and the first jaw cylinder |
| 7284482 |
Sheet-fed offset rotary printing press with convertible press mechanism |
October 23, 2007 |
| A sheet-fed offset rotary printing press with a convertible press mechanism includes a chucking cylinder, convertible cylinder, grippers, and air nozzles and blowing ports. The chucking cylinder conveys a sheet by holding its leading edge. The convertible cylinder is arranged downstr |
| 7254902 |
Sheet dryer |
August 14, 2007 |
| A sheet dryer includes sprockets and a delivery chain, at least one heat-resistant glass plate, at least one lower-surface drying lamp, a guide plate, a plurality of first discharge holes, and a plurality of second discharge holes. The sprockets and delivery chain convey a paper shee |
| 7249560 |
Ink supply amount adjustment method and apparatus for printing press |
July 31, 2007 |
| In an ink supply amount adjustment method for a printing press, one of a density value and a color value of a printing product is measured. The difference between the measurement value and a preset reference value related to one of the density value and the color value is obtained. The |
| 7232201 |
Ink supply amount adjustment method and apparatus for printing press |
June 19, 2007 |
| In an ink supply amount adjustment method for a printing press, one of a density value and a color value of a printing product is measured. The difference between the measurement value and a preset reference value is obtained as a measurement difference. The first error ratio allowed wit |
| 7228799 |
Moving member fixing apparatus |
June 12, 2007 |
| A moving member fixing apparatus includes a stationary gear, rotary gear, press member, and first and second flat inclined surfaces. The rotary gear is movably provided to the stationary gear. The press member presses the rotary gear to fix the rotary gear to the stationary gear, and |
| 7222569 |
Oscillation amount adjusting device for oscillating roller |
May 29, 2007 |
| An oscillation amount adjusting device for an oscillating roller has a sleeve detent plate for restraining the rotation of a sleeve. An operator manually loosens a sleeve locking bolt to render the sleeve rotatable relative to a rotating shaft supporting the sleeve. The rotation of the |
| 7217233 |
Parallel folding apparatus of folding machine |
May 15, 2007 |
| A parallel folding apparatus of a folding machine comprises a first cylinder in contact with a second cylinder. A guide plate guides a signature transported on the lower circumferential surface of the second cylinder after being double-folded by grippers of the second cylinder in coo |
| 7202616 |
Synchronous control method and device of the same |
April 10, 2007 |
| A synchronous control device which is provided with drive motors and a central control unit generating a synchronous reference signal and with which the drive motor is controlled to rotate synchronously with the synchronous reference signal supplied from the central control unit, whi |
| 7156340 |
Strip continuous supply apparatus and method |
January 2, 2007 |
| A feeding apparatus comprises a rotatably supported turret arm for supporting a new web roll and an old web roll, and a turret arm turning motor for rotating the turret arm, and splices a web of the new web roll to a web of the old web roll, thereby continuously supplying a web. The |
| 7150225 |
Moving member fixing apparatus |
December 19, 2006 |
| A moving member fixing apparatus includes a stationary cam, moving cam, printing press motor, drive connecting/disconnecting mechanism, fixing/releasing device, and air cylinder. The moving cam is movable with respect to the stationary cam. The printing press motor is drive-connected |
| 7134393 |
Oscillation amount adjusting device for oscillating roller |
November 14, 2006 |
| In an oscillating roller swing device including an oscillating roller, a rotating shaft having an inclined shaft portion, a cylindrical sleeve rotatably supported on the inclined shaft portion of the rotating shaft, a disk rotatably supported on the sleeve, and an oscillation drive motor |
| 7124682 |
Intaglio printing press having interchangeable ink fountain unit and pre-wiping unit |
October 24, 2006 |
| An intaglio printing press includes a rotatably supported intaglio cylinder, and a wiping roller and a wiping tank for removing excess ink from the intaglio cylinder. A rotatably supported fountain roller is provided. Wall plates and a bottom plate for supplying ink to the fountain r |
| 7121206 |
Safety bar including opening for releasing air engulfed between two rotating members and safety |
October 17, 2006 |
| A covering device for rotating parts comprises a plate cylinder supported rotatably, a blanket cylinder opposed to the plate cylinder and supported rotatably, and a wrap-in preventing safety bar, located in a vicinity of these cylinders, for covering at least a spacing between these cyli |
| 7117791 |
Ink fountain apparatus for printing press |
October 10, 2006 |
| An ink fountain apparatus for a printing press includes an ink fountain roller, bottom plate, ink fountain, and scraping member. The ink fountain roller is supported rotatably. The bottom plate is arranged at such a position that its distal end portion is close to the ink fountain roller |
| 7107904 |
Liquid feeder including impression cylinder having gripper unit and cover member |
September 19, 2006 |
| Gap guards are attached to a notch of an impression cylinder in such a manner as to allow grippers to project from inside the notch, and have respective guide surfaces. The guide surfaces extend between a circumferentially first end portion and a second end portion of the notch and h |
| 7104197 |
Oscillation amount adjusting device for oscillating roller |
September 12, 2006 |
| An oscillation amount adjusting device for an oscillating roller has a sleeve detent plate for restraining the rotation of a sleeve. An operator manually loosens a sleeve locking bolt to render the sleeve rotatable relative to a rotating shaft supporting the sleeve. The rotation of the |
| 7104194 |
Cylinder apparatus with a circumferentially movable operating member and swingable levers to fix |
September 12, 2006 |
| A cylinder apparatus includes a cylinder body, support member, shaft, coned disc spring, air cylinder, and levers. The cylinder body is rotatably supported by a pair of frames. The support member is supported to be movable in a circumferential direction with respect to the cylinder b |
| 7096786 |
Ink fountain apparatus for rotary printing press |
August 29, 2006 |
| An ink fountain apparatus for a rotary printing press includes an ink fountain, an intermediate ink dam, and press unit for simultaneously pressing the intermediate ink dam toward the outer surface of the fountain roller and toward the upper surface of the bottom plate. A width of th |
| 7096782 |
Driving apparatus in printing press |
August 29, 2006 |
| A driving apparatus in a printing press includes a plate cylinder driven by a printing press motor, an inking device drive-coupled to the plate cylinder, and a driving connecting/disconnecting mechanism. The mechanism connects and disconnects transmission of driving from the plate cylind |
| 7082875 |
Dust collection apparatus of printing press |
August 1, 2006 |
| A dust collection apparatus of a printing press comprises: delivery chains equipped with gripper devices for holding a printed sheet; spray nozzles for spraying a powder toward a printed surface of the sheet being transported by the delivery chains; a blowing device, provided downstream |
| 7040224 |
Roller moving apparatus |
May 9, 2006 |
| A roller moving apparatus includes a pair of inner frames removably supported in a frame; a supportive holder member for supportively holding the roller; and a supportive holder member moving mechanism supported by the inner frames and adapted to support the supportive holder member and |
| 7031022 |
Color management method and apparatus for printing press |
April 18, 2006 |
| In a color management method for a printing press, a color chart formed from a plurality of patches is printed by multi-color printing using the printing press and a plurality of ink colors. Each of the patches has a predetermined combination of dot area percent of the ink colors. The |
| 7028616 |
Ink supply amount control method and apparatus for printing press |
April 18, 2006 |
| In an ink supply amount control method for a printing press, the number of ink fountain keys whose gap amount with respect to an ink fountain roller falls within a predetermined range is counted. On the basis of the count value, the swing operation of an ink ductor roller which is arrang |
| 7017484 |
Method for controlling an apparatus for controlling a cutting position of a web member and devic |
March 28, 2006 |
| A control method for controlling a cut-off control apparatus in a printing press comprises a step of detecting an unstable factor such as a revolution number of a cylinder/a tensile value of a web in a printing press, a step for setting a stable factor such as a revolution number/a t |
| 7007602 |
Method and apparatus for controlling a cutting position of a web member and device therefor |
March 7, 2006 |
| A method and apparatus for controlling the cutting position of a web member in a printing press by setting a reference tensile value, detecting the present tensile value of a web in a printing press during an actual printing operation, and controlling the starting and stopping of the |
| 6997109 |
Plate removing apparatus having two cover members |
February 14, 2006 |
| A plate removing apparatus includes a plate cylinder, cover, loader, cover members, and plate removal port. The plate cylinder is rotatably supported between a pair of frames opposing each other through a predetermined distance. The cover is provided to a front side of the plate cyli |
| 6975430 |
Method and apparatus for adjusting ink supply amount for printing press |
December 13, 2005 |
| In an ink supply amount adjusting method for this printing machine, reference opening amounts of ink fountain keys are obtained in accordance with image area ratios of respective areas, corresponding to the ink fountain keys, of a plate by following a preset relationship between an i |
| 6973876 |
Method and apparatus for plate changing in a plate cylinder of a printing press |
December 13, 2005 |
| A plate changing method and an apparatus for rotating all plate cylinders of a plurality of printing units by a drive device, and performing plate changing by plate changing unit provided in correspondence with the plate cylinders has an abnormality detection step of detecting presence o |
| 6928927 |
Intaglio printing press |
August 16, 2005 |
| An intaglio printing press includes, an intaglio plate cylinder, inking units, each having an ink supplying pattern roller in contact with the intaglio plate cylinder, and each ink supplying pattern roller having different supply patterned portions, an ink removing unit which removes |
| 6915737 |
Ink supply amount control method and apparatus for printing press |
July 12, 2005 |
| In an ink supply amount control method for a printing press, ink is supplied from the gap between a plurality of ink fountain keys and an ink fountain roller to an ink supply path in accordance with rotation of the ink fountain roller. The swing operation of an ink ductor roller is t |
| 6912954 |
Adjusting method and apparatus of ink fountain blade home position of printing press |
July 5, 2005 |
| A method and apparatus are disclosed for numerically adjusting the home position of a plurality of ink fountain blades in a printing press. In the printing press, apparatus is provided for adjusting the ink feed amount to be supplied from an ink fountain into an ink fountain roller by ad |
| 6899327 |
Sheet guide apparatus |
May 31, 2005 |
| A sheet guide apparatus comprises gripper devices for holding and transporting a printed sheet, an impression cylinder and a transfer cylinder for holding and transporting the printed sheet received from the gripper device, and a first guide device for guiding the printed sheet being |
| 6892641 |
Plate holding apparatus |
May 17, 2005 |
| A plate holding apparatus includes a plate holding device and an air cylinder. The plate holding device holds an old plate discharged from a plate cylinder. The air cylinder moves the plate holding device between the first position of holding the discharged old plate and the second p |
| 6883429 |
Quality inspection apparatus for double-sided printing machine |
April 26, 2005 |
| A quality inspection apparatus for a double-sided printing machine which includes a rubber impression cylinder and a rubber cylinder; inking unite for supplying ink to the rubber impression cylinder and the rubber cylinder; and a transport mechanism for transporting the printed paper to |
| 6877429 |
Roller holding apparatus of printing press |
April 12, 2005 |
| A roller holding apparatus of a printing press comprises roller arms swingably supported by a metal roller, holders swingably supported by the roller arms for holding a rubber roller so as to be detachably mounted on the roller arms, and pressing members provided in the holders for press |
| 6874416 |
Printing press |
April 5, 2005 |
| A printing press comprises an oscillating roller capable of rotating circumferentially and moving axially in a reciprocating manner, and does rainbow printing on a sheet, supplied from a feeder, in a printing unit. The printing press includes an oscillation width control device and an |
| 6868784 |
Form roller apparatus for printing press |
March 22, 2005 |
| A form roller apparatus for a printing press includes an ink form roller, compression coil spring, bolt, and U-groove. The ink form roller is in contact with an oscillating roller, and slides in an axial direction to follow motion of the oscillating roller in an axial direction. The ink |
| 6854392 |
Plate changing apparatus |
February 15, 2005 |
| A plate changing apparatus includes a loader, air cylinder, and removed plate recovery section. The loader is supported by a frame to be movable substantially parallel to a sheet convey direction, and feeds a new plate to a plate cylinder. The air cylinder moves the loader from a retreat |
| 6837161 |
Ink removal method for printing press |
January 4, 2005 |
| An ink removal method for a printing press includes an ink removal step of bringing ink form rollers and a dampening form roller into a throw-on state relative to a plate cylinder, and bringing the dampening form roller into a throw-off state relative to a ductor roller of a dampening un |
| 6822590 |
Printing quality checking apparatus of printing press |
November 23, 2004 |
| A printing press comprises transport means for transporting a printed sheet to a delivery unit, face-side and reverse-side UV devices for drying an ultraviolet curing ink printed on the sheet transported by the transport means, and a printing quality checking apparatus for checking the p |
| 6820549 |
Rotary press |
November 23, 2004 |
| A rotary press includes a printing unit, folding machine, dancer roller, motor, tension detection unit, and control unit. The printing unit prints on a web supplied from a winding roll. The folding machine folds the printed web supplied from the printing unit. The dancer roller retreats |
| 6814003 |
Plate handling method and apparatus for printing press |
November 9, 2004 |
| A plate handling method and apparatus for a printing press that includes printing units, each having a plate cylinder, a main unit motor for driving the plate cylinders, and electromagnetic clutches disposed between the main unit motor and the printing units for transmitting and cutting |
