| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7469636 |
Printing unit for a press |
December 30, 2008 |
| A printing unit having at least one press unit, the, or each, press unit having at least one form cylinder, a transfer cylinder, an inking unit and preferably a damping unit, and having at least one imaging device for imaging and/or de-imaging a rewritable and erasable printing form |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6973875 |
Printing machine with image-setting device for a rotary printing machine |
December 13, 2005 |
| A rotary printing machine having a plurality of printing-unit cylinders mounted one above another on a side wall, their axes lying in a plane inclined with respect to the plane of the printing-material web. An image-setting device is arranged wholly within the range of the obtuse ang |
| 6945169 |
Apparatus for producing printing plates |
September 20, 2005 |
| Apparatus for producing printing plates in particular a blank sleeve-like printing plate, includes a cylinder carrier for receiving a printing plate, the cylinder carrier being held in cantilever fashion at one end in a frame in a mounting and is driven by a motor, it being possible for |
| 6928930 |
Device for cleaning printing cylinders |
August 16, 2005 |
| A complete cleaning system for printing cylinders within a rotary printing press, by which a reactive erasing of ink-bearing layers, including the removal of filling materials from a gravure printing form, and a cleaning of ink from all form and transfer cylinders are possible during the |
| 6862986 |
Apparatus for setting the lateral register for printing units of rotary presses |
March 8, 2005 |
| An apparatus for setting the lateral register of a printing unit of a rotary press that prints on a paper web includes a first bearing block configured as a locating bearing arranged on the drive side of a forme cylinder; and a second bearing block configured as a floating bearing on |
| 6848362 |
Varnishing apparatus |
February 1, 2005 |
| To provide a varnishing apparatus for indirect printing with the lowest possible structural outlay, a varnishing mechanism of the varnishing apparatus for varnishing webs includes a form cylinder and a transfer cylinder, the web running between the transfer cylinders. At least one of |
| 6832555 |
Aligning apparatus for printing units of printing presses |
December 21, 2004 |
| An aligning apparatus for heavy loads, in particular a printing unit, includes at least one support plate, which is rotatably mounted on a base plate screwed to an erection surface and can be positioned on the base plate with regard to its horizontal position by means of adjusting screws |
| 6725774 |
Cylinder of a rotary printing machine |
April 27, 2004 |
| In order to manufacture a cylinder of a rotary printing machine cost-effectively, its cylinder body is assembled from a cylinder casing and a first and second side part located at the ends of the cylinder casing, one and the same first and second side part being capable of being comp |
| 6681694 |
Web-fed rotary printing machine |
January 27, 2004 |
| In order to provide a rotary printing machine for direct printing, in which the printing-assembly cylinders are guided in a stable manner by means of a cost-effective device, the forme cylinder and the impression cylinder of a printing assembly are mounted, adjustably in terms of their m |
| 6668717 |
Web-fed rotary printing machine |
December 30, 2003 |
| In order to provide a rotary printing machine for direct printing, in which the printing-assembly cylinders are arranged in a space-saving way, there is arranged in side walls at least one double printing assembly containing two form cylinders which are located one above the other, each |
| 6568322 |
Stand of printing unit |
May 27, 2003 |
| In order to provide a stand of a printing unit of a rotary printing machine, said stand being capable of being produced cost-effectively and having high inherent rigidity, a left-hand and a right-hand side wall are placed onto a bottom plate and screwed to the latter and are also provide |
| 6557467 |
Printing unit |
May 6, 2003 |
| A printing unit is provided for a web-fed rotary printing machine, having a plurality of cylinders with associated drive motor, an additional device for printing an at least two guide elements. At least one cylinder is a plate cylinder. At least one guide element corresponds to the plate |
| 6543356 |
Cylinder in equipment for producing printing plates |
April 8, 2003 |
| A cylinder in equipment for making printing plates is provided which allows exposure of a cylinder that is mounted on both sides to be detached at a point of separation on a via side opposite its drive, a journal can be detached. The cylinder is driven by a blocking device capable of bei |
| 6543352 |
Printing unit |
April 8, 2003 |
| A printing unit for a web fed rotary printing machine is provided including a machine frame support, two sets of printing unit cylinders, carriages, drive motors and guide elements. The two sets of printing unit cylinders, include a plurality of outer printing unit cylinders and a plural |
| 6520083 |
Apparatus for producing printing plates having movable journal for axial removal of plate |
February 18, 2003 |
| An apparatus for producing printing plates on a supporting cylinder is provided. Mountings arranged on a frame accommodate a blank printing plate arranged on a supporting cylinder. The supporting cylinder is driven by a motor. The apparatus allows the supporting cylinder to be exposed at |
| 6502509 |
Printing unit for a rotary printing machine with cross slide |
January 7, 2003 |
| Rotary printing machine with forme and impression cylinders for variable-format or variable-circumference printing and with service apparatus which are capable of being moved radially in relation to the printing-unit cylinders for throw-on or throw-off movements and in the axial dire |
| 6494135 |
Printing unit for a web fed rotary printing machine |
December 17, 2002 |
| A printing unit for a web-fed rotary printing machine is provided including a plurality of cylinders; a corresponding drive motor for each of the cylinders; a machine frame includes at least one load bearing wall, including two mutually facing wall surfaces perpendicular to a plane t |
| 6463648 |
Method for the installation and removal of a cylinder of a printing machine and device for this |
October 15, 2002 |
| In the installation and removal of a cylinder of a printing machine, in which the cylinder has a middle drum and two lateral bearing, stubs which are capable of being secured releasably to the drum and of being connected to one another by means of a central spindle which passes through t |
| 6443060 |
Device for feeding a pressure medium to a cylinder bearing a printing plate or a rubber blanket |
September 3, 2002 |
| A feed assembly is provided which feeds a pressure medium to a cylinder and fixes the cylinder in position, independently of whether or not the pressure medium to be connected is supplied. A feed part can be placed on a feed opening of the cylinder by an actuating element which can be |
| 6397743 |
Printing unit |
June 4, 2002 |
| A printing unit for a web-fed rotary printing machine is provided having at least one carrying wall, a plurality of cylinders mounted on the carrying wall, a drive motor corresponding to each cylinder and a slide corresponding to each cylinder. Each slide carries its corresponding cy |
| 6357354 |
Method and apparatus for fitting a printing plate to a plate cylinder |
March 19, 2002 |
| A method and apparatus for fitting a printing plate to a plate cylinder where the printing plate is bent into a circular shape and fixed in this form by leading and trailing legs of the plate being firmly connected to each other. The printing plate shaped in this way is subsequently axia |
| 6314882 |
Printing unit for a web-fed rotary printing machine |
November 13, 2001 |
| A printing unit enabling format variability, is distinguished by substantial component standardization and simple stand design. For this purpose, printing unit cylinders are mounted in slides which are arranged on at least one carrier and which, for distance adjustment, can be displa |
| 6095045 |
Device for filling depressions in a cylinder; doctor blade device for this purpose and process f |
August 1, 2000 |
| A device for filling depressions in a cylinder of a printing machine with a fluid, e.g., an ink, which permits a quick change to a different fluid, includes at least two doctor blade devices arranged on the cylinder which doctor blade devices can be selectively moved individually into ef |
| 6085650 |
Printing unit for a web-fed rotary printing machine |
July 11, 2000 |
| A printing unit enabling format variability, is distinguished by substantial component standardization and simple stand design. For this purpose, printing unit cylinders are mounted in slides which are arranged on at least one carrier and which, for distance adjustment, can be displa |
| 6070528 |
Process and device for gravure printing with an erasable gravure form |
June 6, 2000 |
| Starting from a blank gravure form, a filling step and a subsequent imaging step are carried out to produce a printing form. In the filling step, depressions are evenly filled with a UV printing ink by an application device, and the UV printing ink is then solidified by a UV drier. In th |
| 6041707 |
Web-fed rotary printing machine |
March 28, 2000 |
| A web-fed rotary printing machine having a plurality of directly adjacent printing units. Each of the printing units has only one side wall, in which the printing group cylinders are float mounted. The printing units are arranged in-line with no working space between them. |
| 5950537 |
Float-mounted printing-group cylinder |
September 14, 1999 |
| Disclosed is an apparatus to insure the most even linear force possible in the contact zone across the breadth of cylinder bodies of apparatus positioned next to each other. The printing group cylinders are positioned and maintained via the disclosed arrangement in such a way that adjace |
| 5832821 |
Driven cylinder |
November 10, 1998 |
| In a compact drive for a float-mounted cylinder of a rotary printing machine, the spindle carrying the cylinder is housed together with a motor in a carrier tube mounted in the side wall. |
| 5437442 |
Single or plural sheet folding apparatus for use with rotary printing presses |
August 1, 1995 |
| In a folding apparatus that follows web-fed rotary printing presses, folded or unfolded sheets (9) are folded after the printed web has been severed. The folded or unfolded sheets (9) are delivered in parallel from a transport apparatus with a gripper chain or with storage cassettes and |
| 5388816 |
Method and apparatus to open folded sheets or packages of sheets |
February 14, 1995 |
| Folding and transport devices wherein the crease of a folded sheet (5) does not extend completely over the length of the fold so that an open loop is formed at one end of the crease. Fingers (25 to 28) can be laterally inserted into the open loop in order to be able to open the folded sh |
| 5293698 |
System for temporarily storing printed products removed from a printing machine |
March 15, 1994 |
| To provide for temporary storage of freshly printed signatures (6), transported by a continuously moving product transport gripper chain (4, 5), a plurality of pocket structures (12), each of which includes a plurality of connected sheet-like elements (16,17) which, between each othe |
| 5195731 |
Method and apparatus for stacking folded products, especially newspapers, having longitudinal fo |
March 23, 1993 |
| To form a stack of essentially uniform height of folded products, typically newspapers, in which each one of the folded products (1, 2) may include a plurality of sheet elements, such as newspaper sections, the folded products being formed, for example, with a longitudinal fold (3, 4) an |
| 5165674 |
Folded sheet product opening and transfer system, and method of opening folded sheet products |
November 24, 1992 |
| The folded products are not completely creased across their width in a folding apparatus but, rather, leaving an open loop or bulge or end portion (101). A separating cylinder (100) includes gripper or holding elements (38-41) located spirally about the circumference of the cylinder, |
| 5129781 |
Apparatus for receiving, storing and processing printed products |
July 14, 1992 |
| To transport, store, process and handle and distribute a plurality of printed products, retained in cassettes on a minimum of space, the cassettes are vertically stored, preferably in pairs. Transport can occur in a predetermined plane, of full and empty cassettes, respectively, the |
| 5125304 |
Cutting system for cutting three sides of printed products, particularly folded printed products |
June 30, 1992 |
| To trim a plurality of printed products, which may have different thicknesses, first and second cutting assemblies are provided, each cutting assembly having a cutting knife (98, 59) and a cutting counter element (115, 65). The printed products are held in receivers formed of a fixed |
| 5110116 |
Apparatus to remove folded products, particularly folded newspaper products or newspaper section |
May 5, 1992 |
| Folded products, supplied in dual-comb like interdigited form are transported by a transport chain system (75) carrying grippers (84, 85) in a vertical direction to form a vertical stack. Grippers engage alternate products about their fold line, and hold the interdigited intermediate |
| 5042230 |
System, apparatus and method of packaging flat product, particularly folded printed products, in |
August 27, 1991 |
| To provide for simultaneous wrapping or packaging of products, particularly flat, and especially folded printed products (1), in pockets, a foil or web (29) is pulled from a supply roll in a predetermined path over a plurality of cutter rails (23, 118) associated with pairs of holder |
| 5031891 |
Method and system for selectively collating subjectively different printed copy products, partic |
July 16, 1991 |
| To permit placement of selected copy products having different subject matter together in specifically collated copy product assemblies, for association of individualized copy product assemblies with delivery addresses in a specific sequence, for example specific to subscribers or di |
| 4949948 |
Addressing system for products located in or on a plurality of storage holders particularly fold |
August 21, 1990 |
| To permit essentially simultaneous application of a plurality of address labels provided on address fields (2) on an address carrier (6) formed as an elongated strip rolled up on an address roller (31), a plurality of products 59, typically folded newspapers, are provided, in parallel an |
| 4948109 |
Method and system of assembling and addressing individualized composite printed products |
August 14, 1990 |
| To permit preparation of inserts or special sections for newspapers, selected in accordance with individual subscriber, distributor or regional dealer wishes, inserts or sections (100,102) are selected in accordance with these wishes, under control of a computer-controller (112) and |
| 4871159 |
Sheet insertion apparatus |
October 3, 1989 |
| To insert a plurality of insert sheets (2') simultaneously into multi-sheet products (2), for example folded inserts into already folded newspapers, a first carrier structure (3,3') retains the multi-sheet products in essentially open V-shaped position. A second carrier structure, locate |
| 4844432 |
Stapling apparatus for stapling folded sheet products |
July 4, 1989 |
| To permit simultaneous stapling of a plurality of folded sheet products (3) in compact space, the sheet products are opened in V shaped formation by carrying them on zig-zag or accordion-pleat carrier elements (1, 1'). The folded elements are transported to stapling systems (8-13), in a |
| 4844237 |
Adjustable storage cassette system for printed products |
July 4, 1989 |
| To permit adjustment of the width of storage cassettes (1) adapted to hold sheet holding elements (2, 2'), while the cassettes are being moved along a transport path, the cassettes (1) formed of two facing L-shaped elements (1', 1") connected together by a central bolt-and-nut connection |
| 4840365 |
Apparatus for receiving and transporting folded sheets or sheet packages |
June 20, 1989 |
| To provide for a space-saving, yet high-capacity storage system for sheet elements, for example folded printed paper sheets or the like, a plurality of segments (6) are slidable along a guide track. The segments are interconnected, for example by welding, hinges or the like, in zig-zag o |
| 4828242 |
Transport system for paired sheet elements |
May 9, 1989 |
| To move a plurality of interconnected segments which a zig-zag, accordeon or bellows pleat arrangement on or between which sheet elements such as projecting elements from a folded sheet are located along a transport path and to permit, selectively, expansion or compression of the segment |
| 4807865 |
Paper handling apparatus for receiving adjacently positioned paper sheets, transporting and depo |
February 28, 1989 |
| To permit introduction of adjacently located sheet elements (20, 22), for example folded sheets (24), received from a folding flap cylinder (2), with the fold line or spine leading and with the sheet elements spread apart, a guide belt (13) has laterally projecting fingers (12) which |
| 4775136 |
Sheet folding and transport system, particularly for printed paper copy sheets, and folded sheet |
October 4, 1988 |
| To permit introduction of spreading fingers or insert sheet or sheet packages between essentially adjacent positioned sheet elements or halves (4a, 4b) of a folded sheet, the sheet is folded incompletely by extending a fold or spine or crease line or partly across the sheet while leaving |
