Printing inventions 01/07

20070017391 - Pad printer: The invention relates to a pad printer comprising a rotary table (12), at least two printing blocks (16) that are located on the rotary table (12), a respective inking device (18) that is situated on each printing block (16) and can be displaced radially between an idle position and an... Agent: Dreiss, Fuhlendorf, Steimle & Becker

20070017392 - Doctor blade coated with polymeric material and coating method: e

20070017393 - Printing press arrangement: A printing press arrangement comprises at least one printing press including a control device and an input. At least one auxiliary system is provided that includes a control device. At least one system interface is provided for connecting the control device for the printing press to the control device for... Agent: Venable LLP

20070017394 - Device for fixing scraper strips to a printing roller scraper: The invention relates to a device for fixing scraper strips to a printing roller scraper. The inventive device comprises at least one magnetic element (3) which is configured and disposed such as to hold a first face of a longitudinal support portion (1a) of at least one scraper strip (1)... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070017396 - Dual heating system for high speed printing: A dual heating system and apparatus for high-speed printing is disclosed. A first heater that is a metal roller used in a printing machine. The outer surface of the metal roller may be covered by a silicone rubber coating material to enhance print transfer. This first heater is disposed adjacent... Agent: Fulbright And Jaworski LLP

20070017395 - Method and apparatus for uniformly heating a substrate: Disclosed in this specification is a method and apparatus for uniformly heating a substrate, comprising the steps of disposing a substrate over heating elements, irradiating the bottom side of the substrate, thus producing a non-uniformly heated substrate. Thereafter the transporter moves the substrate such that the unheated sections are disposed... Agent: Howard J. Greenwald P.C.

20070017397 - Image printing system, image printing method, and image printing program: This invention provides an image printing system including an image printing apparatus which prints an image on a sheet as a recording medium, a sheet post-processing section which performs post-processing with respect to the sheet on which an image is printed by the image printing apparatus, a storage section which... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070017398 - Registration correction system: In a method for registration correction for a multicolor rotary printing press in an acceleration phase, having at least one registration correction device with correction parameters for operation of constant speed, and having a motion controller for controlling the print roller speed, if the registration correction device is acted upon... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20070017399 - Dual heating system for high speed printing: A dual heating system and apparatus for high-speed printing is disclosed. A first heater that is a metal roller used in a printing machine. The outer surface of the metal roller may be covered by a silicone rubber coating material to enhance print transfer. This first heater is disposed adjacent... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070017400 - Magnetic color printer/copier: In a magnetic printer, magnetic needles (5) are arranged in a row on the outer periphery of a holding plate (4, 15) to form a magnetic head producing a magnetic pattern corresponding to magnetic information. Further, in the printer, an ultrafine pigment magnetic powder-jetting pipe (3), a heating pipe (22),... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070017401 - Polymer mixtures for printed polymer electronic circuits: In order to increase the viscosity of semiconductive polymers in solution, they are mixed with non-semiconductive polymers.... Agent: Carella, Byrne, Bain, Gilfillan, Cecchi, Stewart & Olstein

20070017402 - Vitreous printing by means of a silkscreen process: A enamel-free paste for use especially in ovens at temperatures of up to about 420° C. The paste contains a matrix based upon a silicon (Si) polymer that can be obtained by the hydrolysis and condensation of at least one silane of general formula RxSi(OR′)4-x with at least one polysiloxane... Agent: Bsh Home Appliances Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070017403 - Printing pins having selective wettability and method of making same: A method of forming a printing pin includes providing a printing pin having an exterior surface and an interior surface that defines a lumen or capillary tract. The pin is treated to render the exterior and interior surfaces hydrophilic. The lumen or capillary tract is filled with a blocking material.... Agent: VistaIPLaw Group LLP 9th Floor

20070012203 - Method for coloring gray level laser engraved object: A method for coloring an object engraved with gray level affect comprises steps of: storing an original draft of an image to be engraved as an image file, converting the image file into a gray level image; engraving an the object engrave according to the gray level image so that... Agent: Kun-cheng Lin

20070012204 - Stencil printer: A stencil printer of the present invention prints an image on a paper sheet or similar sheet by use of UV (UltraViolet)-curing ink. The stencil printer includes a UV radiating device including a casing 32. A first and a second sheet sensor are so located as to be able to... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070012205 - Printing machine and corresponding method: A rotary printing machine is provided which includes at least one printing unit suitable for printing on a continuous printing web of material to be printed and a cutting device which is suitable for cutting the web printed by the printing unit. The rotary printing machine further includes a traction... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070012206 - Self-inking hand stamp: The invention relates to a self-inking hand stamp (1) comprising a housing (2) and an actuating arc (3) that can be displaced in relation to the housing and in which a stamp type part with axial parts (10, 11) is mounted, said axial parts protruding through slit-type openings (25) in... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.C.

20070012207 - Printing press equipped with movable inking unit: A printing press includes, a printing unit; a motor for driving the printing unit; a first drive system for drivingly connecting a blanketed impression cylinder, etc. of the printing unit to the motor; a first frame cover for covering the first drive system; an inker movable to be capable of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070012208 - Offset printing system: A offset printing system for maintaining printability of offset printing ink. The offset printing system includes a suction pipe formed to fit within an ink fountain, a pump connected to a connecting pipe, a valve connected to the connecting pipe, a heater, a filter including a first filter and a... Agent: Neustel Law Offices, Ltd.

20070012209 - Printing/coating machine: A printing/coating machine includes a blanket cylinder, impression cylinder, ultraviolet dryer, detector, and actuating plate. The blanket cylinder is supported rotatably. One of ink and varnish is supplied to an outer surface of the blanket cylinder. The impression cylinder is supported rotatably in contact with the blanket cylinder and prints/coats... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070012210 - Device for cleaning the cylinders of a printing machine: A device for cleaning cylinders of a printing machine is provided, with the device being provided with a driven washing roller 2 to contact a cylinder 1 to be cleaned. A doctor blade 4 at least temporarily engages the surface of the rotating washing roller 2. A collection trough 6... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070012211 - Method of preadjusting a web-machining and/or web-processing machine, method for selecting a leg direction means and preadjustment system: At least one unit of a web-machinery, or a web-processing machine is pre-adjusted in a method which influences a longitudinal register. An adjustment value is derived for that at least one unit based on previously-obtained data. The adjustment value is stored in a machine control unit.... Agent: Douglas R Hanscom Jones Tullar & Cooper

20070006745 - Peripheral device of user-specific performance monitor, user-specific performance monitor, and method: The invention relates to a peripheral device of a user-specific performance monitor, a user-specific performance monitor, and a method for changing the state of a peripheral device of a user-specific performance monitor. The peripheral device is configured to produce performance information characterizing the user's performance and transmit performance information wirelessly... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20070006746 - Seal with a detachable die: A seal may be applied to a slightly uneven surface of an article and has a base and a die. The base has a flat end surface and a resilient metal board. The resilient metal board is made of a mixture of metal and rubber or plastic and is attached... Agent: Patenttm.us

20070006747 - Screen printing apparatus: A screen printing apparatus having a base, a stator having a plurality of radially extending arms operatively connected to the base, a rotor having a plurality of radially extending arms operatively connected to the base, and a indexing drive mechanism for driving and indexing the rotor with respect to the... Agent: Hoffman, Wasson & Gitler, P.C. Crystal Center 2, Suite 522

20070006748 - Stencil strap for eyebrow stenciling: A stencil strap for eyebrow-stenciling is disclosed. The strap comprises a strap body having two ends mounted with a male and female adhesive plate, and a central upper and lower edge provided with an eyebrow center and nose positioning plate, wherein the two lateral sides of the positioning plate are... Agent: Leong C Lei

20070006749 - Cylinder for flexographic printing, with angular position control device: The invention relates to a machine roller for flexographic printing, comprising an angular position control device. The inventive roller (1) is of the type that is connected to an actuation assembly (2) by means of a coupling (3) between one end (4a) of a shaft (4) belonging to the roller... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070006750 - Hand proofer tool: A proofing tool including an anilox roll and an impression roll that are shiftable relative to each other between an engaged position and a disengaged position. The invention further includes a positive rotational linkage between the anilox roll and the impression roll whereby a pitch velocity of the anilox roll... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070006751 - Method for influencing lateral web spreading in a printing unit in a rotary printing press: 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 operation, and at least... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20070006752 - Printing method and a printing apparatus: A printing method comprising a process of forming an ink pattern on a silicone rubber blanket having a plate function, or a process of forming an ink pattern from a uniform ink on a silicone rubber blanket having no plate function, a process of transferring the pattern to a substrate,... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070006753 - Web-fed rotary press having sleeve-shaped printing blankets: A web-fed rotary offset press is disclosed. The press is designed for using sleeve technology, it being possible for sleeve-shaped rubber blankets to be pushed onto the rubber-covered cylinders in the axial direction. Finite printing plates are placed onto the plate cylinders in a conventional manner, it being possible to... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070006754 - Method for the cyclic conveyance of sheets through a printing machine: A method for cyclically conveying sheets through a printing-technological machine adjusts a sheet position with high accuracy. The sheets following one another are in each case held at the front edge in grippers of a gripper system during the conveyance, and wherein the sheet position is adjusted in that a... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070006755 - Adjusting device for positioning a load: An adjusting device for positioning a load comprises a threaded spindle, which is connected in the region of a longitudinal end to a carrier toothed wheel so as to be fixed with respect to rotation relative to it and so as to be fixed with respect to displacement axially, and... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20070006756 - Roller closing device with an inner and outer part: A roller closing device is provided with an inner element and with an outer element. These two elements are arranged at least partially in a coaxial manner. The inner element can be deflected radially with respect to the outer element by the use of at least one elastic body which... Agent: Douglas R Hanscom Jones Tullar & Cooper

20070006757 - Inking device of printing press: An inking device of a printing press, including an ink ductor roller reciprocating between a receipt position, at which the ink ductor roller contacts an ink fountain roller to receive ink, and a transfer position, at which the ink ductor roller contacts an ink distribution roller or a first intermediate... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070006758 - Planarizing element for thermal printing of color filter: A planarizing element is described for use in a thermal imaging process. The planarizing element includes a support; a planarizing layer comprising a crosslinkable binder having a weight average molecular weight of about 20,000 to about 110,000.... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20070006759 - Plate inserting device: A plate inserting device includes a plate cylinder, roller, and rotation braking unit. The plate cylinder has a groove portion in its outer surface to extend in an axial direction. A plate is to be mounted on the outer surface of a plate cylinder. The roller is rotatably supported to... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070006760 - Hydrophilic substrate for lithographic printing plate: A hydrophilic substrate comprising: a hydrophilic layer; and a support, wherein the hydrophilic layer contains a hydrophilic particle having a surface area of from 1 to 1,000 m2/g.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070006761 - Method for producing printing plates: A method for producing a printing plate, especially inside a printing press, wherein a printing plate with a rewritable surface is provided, and wherein to produce a permanent as well as an erasable image on the surface of the printing plate, the erasing of the surface and/or the imaging of... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070006762 - Method and a device for controlling the quality of print: A method and a device for monitoring the quality of print formed in a printing process, in which a web running continuously in a printing machine is measured substantially continuously by at least one measuring means. In addition to the product to be printed, at least one image pattern, which... Agent: Venable LLP

20070006764 - Method for registering patterns on a web: A method for registering patterns on a web to provide independent scale control in both the lateral and longitudinal directions is provided. The method includes routing the web over a first roller; routing the web over a second roller and stabilizing the web; applying a pattern to the web using... Agent: Paul A. Leipold Patent Legal Staff

20070006763 - Printed cloth: A process is provided for printing a graphic image onto a cue sports cloth to form a cloth layout including a bed cloth and cushion cloths. The process comprises supplying the desired dimensions of the bed cloth and cushion cloths to a digital computer, accessing a digital image, and scaling... Agent: Milliken & Company

20070006765 - Decorating an elongated element: An apparatus comprises an advancing arrangement for advancing an elongated element in an advancing direction, a first decorating device for decorating a first surface of said elongated element, and further comprises a second decorating device for decorating a second surface of said elongated element, said second surface being distinct from... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070000399 - Printing apparatus and printing method: A printing apparatus includes a paper storage station, a paper feeder and an image pickup unit. The paper feeder has a sucker for sucking printing paper S, a conveyer belt for transporting the printing paper sucked by the sucker to a printing process, a plurality of rollers for assisting in... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070000400 - Sheet guide apparatus: A sheet guide apparatus includes a transfer cylinder, first vane members, and a lateral air blowing guide. The transfer cylinder conveys a sheet. The first vane members are arranged at at least one end of the transfer cylinder and rotate together with the transfer cylinder to discharge air in a... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070000401 - Sheet pressing apparatus: A sheet pressing apparatus includes a cam, lever, sheet press member, and first and second compression coil springs. The cam has a cam surface and is supported rotatably. The lever supports a cam follower that abuts against the cam surface and is pivoted by rotation of the cam. The sheet... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070000402 - Digital workflow processes for generating product proofs: Embodiments of the present invention provide digital workflow methods for generating product proofs that achieve the benefits of digital printing, including lower costs, and less production time, while also providing an appearance that accurately resembles the final product printed on, for example, conventional contact printing presses.... Agent: Weyerhaeuser Company Intellectual Property Dept., Ch 1j27

20070000403 - Printing apparatus and fabricating method thereof: A printing apparatus adapted for printing wide line width and narrow line width patterns with one printing plate when fabricating a liquid crystal display device is disclosed. The printing apparatus includes a printing roll having target pattern forming material spread thereon, a printing substrate have at least one pair of... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione