| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| RE36977 |
Apparatus and method for attaching a flexible printing plate |
December 5, 2000 |
| A mechanism for securely clamping a .[.priming.]. .Iadd.printing .Iaddend.plate (6) to a form cylinder (1), in which a cylinder groove (2) formed in the form cylinder (1) has rotatably mounted therein a clamping spindle (7), which has a gripper edge (10) which clamps a V-shaped chamfer |
| D475739 |
Control console for a printing machine |
June 10, 2003 |
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| D470528 |
Control console for a printing machine |
February 18, 2003 |
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| D467268 |
Control console for a printing machine |
December 17, 2002 |
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| D467266 |
Control console for a printing machine |
December 17, 2002 |
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| D459390 |
Exterior surface of a printing machine |
June 25, 2002 |
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| 7411164 |
Device for inductive injection of thermal energy into a printing form for fixing an image |
August 12, 2008 |
| An image fixing device inductively injects thermal energy into a rotating printing form of a press for fixing an image formed on the rotating printing form by means of a digital imaging system. The fixing device has at least one inductor with at least one induction loop, a high-frequency |
| 7401553 |
Printing plate cartridge for a press and press |
July 22, 2008 |
| 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 of a press during a |
| 7399265 |
Apparatus and method for adjusting a folding-jaw cylinder of a folder for a printing press |
July 15, 2008 |
| A folding-jaw cylinder of a folder for a printing press is disclosed. Actuable folding-jaw cheeks are assigned to a first cylinder part of the folding-jaw cylinder and fixed folding-jaw cheeks are assigned to a second cylinder part. Both cylinder parts are assigned one shaft, via whi |
| 7395759 |
Sleeve for a printing machine |
July 8, 2008 |
| 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) and used for the print transfer, |
| 7393316 |
Longitudinal folding apparatus |
July 1, 2008 |
| A longitudinal folding apparatus for webs on a folder of a rotary press includes a variable-position folding former arranged behind a former roll and ahead of folding rolls in the web running direction, it being possible to adjust the folding former approximately in parallel in the d |
| 7393314 |
Folding former for a press |
July 1, 2008 |
| A folding former of a folder for a web-fed newspaper press has a former nose and a pivot point or pivot axis, the folding former being pivotable about the pivot point or the pivot axis. A former inclination angle is changed by pivoting the folding former to horizontally displace the |
| 7383771 |
Web-fed rotary printing unit |
June 10, 2008 |
| A web-fed rotary printing unit having a plurality of printing mechanisms is provided. Each printing mechanism includes a form cylinder (1, 5, 16-18, 27-30), a transfer cylinder (2, 6, 3, 7, 12-15, 22-25) and a separate or common impression cylinder (3, 7, 11, 26). Stress torques acti |
| 7370578 |
Inking or dampening unit including adjustable throw-on force for setting imprint width |
May 13, 2008 |
| An inking or dampening unit includes an applicator roll mounted on levers so that the application roll can be pivoted about a distributor cylinder onto a form cylinder with a controlled throwing-on force. |
| 7350464 |
Modular printing unit |
April 1, 2008 |
| In order to provide a printing unit (1; 50) of modular design with the lowest possible expenditure on construction and high flexibility, the printing unit (1; 50) of modular design for printing webs (29) has a stand (2; 2'; 54), which is provided with at least one crossmember (3; 4; |
| 7347144 |
Method for carrying out a production change on a printing press with automated change of a print |
March 25, 2008 |
| An automated method is provided for carrying out a production change, which is specific to the printing plate, on a printing press. After a first print job is printed on a printing press, the printing of the first print job is stopped automatically after a predefined print run level has |
| 7334522 |
Apparatus and method for reducing oscillations in a web-fed rotary press |
February 26, 2008 |
| An apparatus and method for reducing oscillations in a web-fed rotary press are disclosed. The apparatus includes a form cylinder of a web-fed rotary press, having at least one clamping device for fastening at least one printing plate on the form cylinder. The clamping device has at leas |
| 7331288 |
Apparatus for pulling a sleeve on and off |
February 19, 2008 |
| In order to make handling easier, an apparatus for pulling a sleeve onto and off a printing-press cylinder has a head piece (8) having a positioning device (13) for defining the position of the head piece (8) with respect to the cylinder (1), a connecting device (14, 15) for fixing t |
| 7328899 |
Device for guiding sheets |
February 12, 2008 |
| An apparatus for fixing a sheet on the surface of an electrically conductive cylinder of a printing machine for processing sheets, in particular, a sheet-fed offset printing machine. The apparatus includes an electrode that extends over the width of the cylinder for creating an elect |
| 7305922 |
Printing blanket having a rigid carrier plate |
December 11, 2007 |
| A printing blanket comprising a rigid carrier plate on which an elastic layer is arranged is provided. The elastic covering layer has a surface that can be inked and by which a printing image can be transferred onto a printing material. An end of the carrier plate is not covered by the |
| 7305921 |
Combined printing press |
December 11, 2007 |
| In order to process inexpensive printing materials in connection with the processing of an extremely wide range of coating media, such as solvent-containing printing inks, and, moreover, in connection with variable format configuration and extremely flexible processing processes, pro |
| 7290488 |
Apparatus and method for changing printing sleeves on a printing machine |
November 6, 2007 |
| The invention provides an apparatus for the mounting and/or demounting of at least two printing sleeves outside a printing unit of a printing machine. The printing sleeves include an outer printing sleeve forming a printing surface and an inner printing sleeve providing diameter comp |
| 7284483 |
Self-contained independent inking unit for printing press |
October 23, 2007 |
| An inking unit for printing units of rotary presses is independent of the printing unit and is configured as a self-contained unit. The linking unit can be removed from the printing unit and has a dedicated drive for a plurality of rolls, the drive being arranged on side walls which are |
| 7267053 |
Delivery device for a sheet-processing machine |
September 11, 2007 |
| The invention relates to a delivery device for a sheet-processing machine. The object of the invention is providing a delivery device on a sheet-fed rotary printing machine, that can be universally used and permits quality control of the printed and/or laminated sheets. to this end the d |
| 7255043 |
Apparatus and method for pulling off sleeves |
August 14, 2007 |
| In an apparatus for pulling off sleeves (11, 14) which are applied to cylinders (10, 15) of a printing press, a force for pulling off the sleeve is applied in a gentle manner, in that a retaining rod (5), having a retaining head (1) which can be fixed to the sleeve (11, 14), and a ha |
| 7243602 |
Device for positioning further processing devices on printing machines |
July 17, 2007 |
| An apparatus for positioning further or auxiliary processing devices, such as folders, cross cutting devices, sheet stackers or roll winding-up systems, on printing presses, includes a first positioning device which interacts with a further positioning device fixed to the floor in such a |
| 7240614 |
Method for influencing lateral web spreading in a printing unit in a rotary printing press |
July 10, 2007 |
| A method for influencing lateral web spreading in a printing unit in a rotary printing press, the printing unit having first and second transfer cylinders contacting each other along a contact zone for receiving a web to be printed on therebetween and undergoing a deflection during o |
| 7228798 |
Printing machine |
June 12, 2007 |
| A web-fed printing machine is provided. The printing machine includes a plurality of printing units. A first work station precedes the printing units. A second work station follows the printing units. At least one lifting device is assigned to the printing units for transporting prin |
| 7224490 |
Method of producing a printing plate on a cylindrical printing-plate carrier in a rotary printin |
May 29, 2007 |
| A method of producing a printing plate on a cylindrical printing-plate carrier includes subdividing the printing-plate carrier by computation in terms of its width and axial length into at least two circumferential subareas. Then an actual transfer characteristic curve for each subarea |
| 7220223 |
Printing press having an apparatus for measuring a printed product |
May 22, 2007 |
| A printing press having an apparatus for determining the product thickness of a folded product which is fed to folding rolls for making a fold known as the third fold. The apparatus has measuring heads that are arranged on both sides of a folding roll bearing levers. For the purpose of |
| 7213514 |
Extension arm for a sheet-processing printing machine |
May 8, 2007 |
| A sheet delivery mechanism for a sheet-fed printing machine which is adapted to reduce changes in the position of sheet material in a stack during a stack changeover operation and which facilitates the formation of a stack with properly aligned edges. The sheet-delivery mechanism inc |
| 7204189 |
Method and apparatus for controlling the web tensions and the cut register errors of a web-fed r |
April 17, 2007 |
| To control the cutting register of a web in a web-fed rotary press and to control the tension in a web section, in a manner decoupled from each another, at least one partial cutting register error is controlled at least one web tension is controlled. The press has controlled driven c |
| 7199387 |
Apparatus and method for detecting a predetermined pattern on a moving printed product |
April 3, 2007 |
| An apparatus and method for detecting a relatively narrow predetermined pattern, such as a trigger mark, on a moving printed product uses a plurality of sensor elements arranged linearly in an array and a switching apparatus for selecting a properly located subset of the sensor eleme |
| 7191703 |
Web-fed press |
March 20, 2007 |
| A web-fed press is provided. The web-fed press includes a reel carrier and a plurality of printing units arranged one after another for printing a printing material with a static printed image. The web-fed press includes a folder superstructure that is arranged after the printing units a |
| 7185587 |
Method and apparatus for controlling the web tensions and the cut register errors of a web-fed r |
March 6, 2007 |
| To control the cutting register of a web in a web-fed rotary press and to control the tension in a web section, in a manner decoupled from each another, at least one partial cutting register error is controlled at least one web tension is controlled. The press has controlled driven c |
| 7172547 |
Variable-circumference folder |
February 6, 2007 |
| A variable-circumference folder includes a gathering cylinder fitted with pin systems for reliably holding products of different thickness fed to the gathering cylinder by an accelerating device without any adjustment effort. |
| 7159513 |
Offset printing machine |
January 9, 2007 |
| The invention relates to the drive of a printing machine. Cylinders and functional groups are to be driven with low technical expenditure. To this end, all form cylinders in a printing unit, for example, are driven respectively by separate electric motors and are not in mechanical drive |
| 7150226 |
Apparatus for positioning a roll in an inking or damping unit of a rotary press |
December 19, 2006 |
| An apparatus is provided for positioning a roll in an inking or damping unit of a rotary press with respect to at least one adjacent roll. The axle of the first roll is mounted in at least one bearing arrangement that is movable with respect to a side wall of the printing unit, and m |
| 7150224 |
Rubber blanket plate for clamping onto a cylinder |
December 19, 2006 |
| The rubber-blanket plate comprising a carrier plate (2) on which functional layers (3) are arranged. The functional layers (3) include a covering layer (4), a woven-fabric layer (5) and a compressible layer (6). At the two ends of the rubber-blanket plate (FIG. 4a), only the ends of |
| 7146908 |
Offset printing machine |
December 12, 2006 |
| The invention relates to the drive of a printing machine. Cylinders and functional groups are to be driven with low technical expenditure. To this end, all form cylinders in a printing unit, for example, are driven respectively by separate electric motors and are not in mechanical drive |
| 7143694 |
Method and apparatus for cleaning and erasing printing surfaces, in particular printing surfaces |
December 5, 2006 |
| The amount of cleaning media needed for cleaning the printing forme is determined with regard to the level of coverage with ink and/or image carrier material of a printing surface and/or from image data about the printing surface. An erasing and hydrophilizing apparatus includes a cl |
| 7143693 |
Washing and cleaning device for cylinders, especially printing form cylinders and offset blanket |
December 5, 2006 |
| An erasing and cleaning apparatus for cylindrical surfaces including a cleaning cloth transporting device which can be packaged with a cleaning cloth in a cassette. The cassette is exchangeably inserted between side walls of a positioning unit, the positioning unit being connectable with |
| 7137338 |
Method and apparatus for controlling the web tension and the cut register of a web-fed rotary pr |
November 21, 2006 |
| To control the cut register of a web in a web-fed rotary press and to control the web tension decoupled from the control of the cut register, a specific item of image information or measuring marks of the printed web are registered by at least one sensor and the web tension is registered |
| 7134394 |
Printing cylinder with clamping channel and rotatable spindle clamping mechanism |
November 14, 2006 |
| The printing cylinder such as a rubber blanket cylinder of a web fed offset printing machine is provided. The printing cylinder includes a rotatable clamping mechanism in a clamping channel. A side of the clamping channel is configured so as to be movable such that the clamping chann |
| 7127991 |
Method and printing unit for influencing lateral web spreading in particular in rotary presses |
October 31, 2006 |
| A printing unit for influencing lateral web spreading in particular in rotary presses, which makes constant contact conditions possible across the width in the rubber-rubber nip and improves the lateral-register quality and the web run without using concave or convex blanket cylinder |
| 7117793 |
Apparatus for the transportation of printing sleeves |
October 10, 2006 |
| An apparatus for transporting printing sleeves is provided. The transport apparatus includes a housing with a bottom wall, a plurality of side walls, and at least one cover. A plurality of reception devices are mounted in the housing. Each reception device receives a printing sleeve |
| 7114440 |
Method for setting the cut register in a web-fed rotary press |
October 3, 2006 |
| A method for setting the cut register in a web-fed rotary press includes assigning a cut register function to a predetermined speed function, wherein the predetermined speed function describes a time curve of an operating speed of the rotary press starting from a predetermined initial |
| 7107902 |
Sheet-guiding device for a printing machine |
September 19, 2006 |
| The invention relates to a sheet-guiding device in a printing machine. The object of the invention is to provide such a sheet-guiding device which in a printing/varnishing unit that is not involved in the printing/varnishing process, permits the smear-free passage of the printing mat |
| 7104195 |
Packing for a sheet-guiding cylinder in a processing machine |
September 12, 2006 |
| A printing and/or varnishing machine having a plurality of sheet-guiding cylinders in which at least one of the cylinders has an outer detachable packing which has enhanced ink repellent characteristics and which significantly reduces wear. The packing has a layered structure which i |
| 7100502 |
Device for fixing a cover on a cylinder of a printing unit |
September 5, 2006 |
| To provide a device for fixing a covering to a printing-unit cylinder in which, while implementing a narrow gap in the cylinder circumferential surface, the legs of the covering can be tensioned easily and reliably, a spindle bears a trailing channel edge of a tension channel the trailin |
