Printing inventions 11/07

20070272097 - Method of batch embossing and product thereof: An embossed sheet of substrate material has a plurality of card portions defined thereon, each card portion having indicia embossed thereon. A first group of the plurality of card portions has first embossed indicia, and a second group of the plurality of card portions has second embossed indicia. The first... Agent: Wallenstein & Wagner, Ltd.

20070272096 - Mold for sweets with an imprint: A machine is provided for the production of sweets that are molded into a certain form and furnished with an imprint. The machine includes a mold with an exchangeable embossed stamp on which a negative of the imprint is provided.... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070272098 - Method of printing golf balls with radiation curable ink: The present invention relates to a method printing indicia that includes dynamically controlling viscosity within a sealed cup assembly that is used in pad printing radiation curable inks on game balls. The present invention further relates to a method of removing radiation ink from an uncured inked golf ball surface.... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070272099 - Self-inking hand stamp: A self-inking hand stamp (1) comprising a stamp housing (2) in which a stamp character(5)—carrying stamp unit (6) is arranged with a turning mechanism (7), which stamp unit is movable, by means of an actuating bow displaceably mounted on the stamp housing (2), from an inking position, in which the... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.C.

20070272100 - Ink residue lifting and transfer mechanism for screen printing machine: An ink residue lifting and transfer mechanism is provided on a printing mechanism of a screen printing machine to pneumatically horizontally drive an ink reclaiming blade, so that the ink reclaiming blade is in complete contact with a scraper of the printing mechanism to hold ink residue after one printing... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070272101 - Apparatus for the coating or flocking of articles, especially of textile materials and flocking machine: The invention relates to an apparatus for the coating or flocking of articles, especially of textile material, mats, ceramic, plastic, paper, wood, metal or the like, with a container (12) for receiving a flock or coating material, and with a setting device (16) which is arranged on the container (12)... Agent: Kriegsman & Kriegsman

20070272102 - Two-bar linkage fast elevating apparatus for screen printing machine: A two-bar linkage fast elevating apparatus for screen printing machine includes a two-bar linkage system and an eccentric shaft driving system connected to a rear side of a transverse slide base of the screen printing machine. A reduction motor is connected to a lower end of the eccentric shaft driving... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070272103 - Method and machine for aligning flexographic printing plates on printing cylinders: The present invention relates to a method for aligning at least two flexographic printing plates on at least one printing cylinder, which provides acquiring an image of a part of a first plate, memorising the acquired image, framing a part of a second plate, at the same time displaying the... Agent: Shoemaker And Mattare, Ltd

20070272104 - Coating device: A coating device for a printing press, comprises an anilox or other metering cylinder for ink or other coating material. A softer idler roller runs in contact with the metering cylinder and with a plate cylinder to transfer the ink or other coating material from the metering cylinder to the... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20070272105 - Apparatus and process for transporting lithographic plates to a press cylinder: Transportation of a lithographic plate uses an indexer to load plates into pods for delivery to a press cylinder via a pod elevator or a pod cart. The plates are imprinted with a bar code, imaged, punched, bent, sheared, corner notched, and registered to a press cylinder. The plates are... Agent: Gray, Plant, Mooty, Mooty & Bennett, P.A.

20070272106 - Method and apparatus for operating printing presses: A method for controlling operating processes or measuring processes in connection with a printed image applied to a printing material, includes acquiring image information from the printed image on the printing material with a camera device. The data acquired by the camera is compared in a computer with digital image... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070266867 - Embossing apparatus and method: The present invention relates to an embossing apparatus and method, and more particularly, to an embossing apparatus and method capable of forming an embossed portion by dropping melt and solidifying and pressing it into a predetermined shape. According to the present invention, an apparatus for forming an embossed portion on... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20070266868 - screen printing machines: A quick release pallet for a screen printing machine in which the pallet for supporting an item to be screen printed having having a longitudinal axis a top surface for supporting a garment to be printed and an underneath portion for attachment to a pallet arm; a top plate of... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP Suite 800

20070266869 - Photoinitiators for use in intaglio printing inks: An intaglio printing ink, curing by free radical acrylate chemistry, which does not fluoresce in at least the visible region under ultraviolet light is prepared by using an acylphosphine oxide as the photoinitiator.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro

20070266870 - Doctor blade system, doctor blade clamping device, chambered doctor blade system, printing unit, method for clamping a doctor blade, and method for attaching a clamping portion or a chambered doctor blade: A doctor blade system for printing units is disclosed, which is arranged for applying ink, or the like to a rotatable cylinder in a printing unit, comprising an elongated frame, having a support and at least one clamp, which frame is arranged parallel to and outside the cylinder and on... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070266871 - Diagnostic test media and methods for the manufacture thereof: The present disclosure relates to the manufacture of diagnostic test media used for measuring the concentration of analytes in a sample fluid. More specifically, the disclosure relates to using a method of microcontact printing or microtransfer molding for the manufacture of diagnostic test media.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070266872 - Apparatus for drying sheets in a sheet-fed printing press and sheet-fed printing press having the apparatus: An apparatus for drying sheets in a sheet-fed printing press includes a hot air dryer having a hot-air outflow temperature which is at least 300° C. A sheet-fed printing press having the apparatus is also provided.... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070266873 - Method for cleaning an anilox inking unit: In a method for cleaning an anilox inking unit, a doctor bears against a roller and an intermediate roller bears against the roller and on an engraved roller. During cleaning, the intermediate roller has been or is displaced axially. Because the intermediate roller can be displaced axially, edge regions of... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070266874 - Method and apparatus for optimally adjusting the infeed in a rotary flexographic printing press comprising multiple printing units: Provided are a method and apparatus for optimally adjusting a printing press having multiple printing units. In one example, for each printing unit, relative positions are calculated between an anilox roll and a form cylinder that form a first cylinder pair and between the form cylinder and an impression cylinder... Agent: Timothy F. Bliss

20070266875 - Imprint lithographic apparatus, device manufacturing method and device manufactured thereby: An imprint lithography apparatus is disclosed, the apparatus including a substrate table arranged to support a substrate having a first surface to be imprinted and a second surface, facing the substrate table, comprising a substrate alignment mark, a template holder arranged to hold a template to imprint the first surface... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Eric S. Cherry - Docketing Supervisor

20070266877 - Method for producing a same pattern using a simple print and device thereof: A method for producing a pattern, in particular a wood pattern, on the face of a woodbased-material board. The pattern is preset with the aid of a digital data set and applied to the woodbased-material board via an intaglio printing process. The pattern is covered with at least one synthetic... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070266876 - Printed article of metallized appearance: A printed article of metallized appearance, and method therefor, includes a matrix of dots on a substrate separated by spaces therebetween, and a matrix of metallization. A three dimensional printed article contoured profile implementation is enabled without the necessity of stretchable metallization.... Agent: Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP

20070266878 - Eye marks in image processing: Systems, methods, and devices for eye marks in image processing are provided. A method includes providing an eye mark having at least two sections arranged along a longitudinal axis, wherein each section includes a border common to both sections and a unique characteristic relative to other sections. The method also... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070266879 - Method and system for drive regulation in a printing press and/or processing machine: In a method for drive regulation in a printing press and/or processing machine, in which a web of material is processed by processing devices and fed by feeder devices; a device for register regulation adjusts the processing devices, and a device for web feed regulation adjusts the feeder devices, and... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20070261574 - Microcontact printing: A microcontact printing tool having a print unit including a stamp head with a stamp and a wafer chuck for retaining a substrate. The stamp contained by the stamped head movable relative to the substrate by an actuator and a stage. A plurality of sensors detect the position of the... Agent: Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green, PA C/o Peter Nieves

20070261575 - Screen printing machine and screen cylinder: The invention relates to a screening machine comprising a frame and two bearing arrangements which are arranged thereon for the rotational positioning of a screening cylinder, whereby the bearing arrangements comprise rings which are rotationally driven around a common axis and which support catches on the sides opposite to each... Agent: Krieg Devault LLP

20070261576 - Reel-fed rotary printing press: A reel-fed rotary printing press including printing units for printing at least one web, wherein each printing unit includes a form cylinder with a circumference defining a circumferential direction and a length defining a longitudinal direction. The form cylinder can be lined with at least two broadsheet pages extending upright... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070261577 - Printing roll with dead band helical pattern: A cylindrical roll, which may be an anilox roll, for receiving a fluid for subsequent transfer is provided. The cylindrical roll includes a body that is configured for rotation about an axis. A transfer zone is on the body and is configured for receiving a fluid for subsequent transfer therefrom.... Agent: J. Bennett Mullinax, LLC

20070261578 - Transfer drum production method and transfer drum: A method for producing a transfer drum simply, rapidly, at low cost and with high accuracy. A pair of end plates are coaxially arranged at a predetermined distance and in parallel with each other. A plurality of aluminum profiled members are bridged between the end plates and their end portions... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070261579 - Fixture for anti-marking coverings for printing presses: A flexible anti-marking system for use on a printing press transfer cylinder is resilient to compressive forces. The system includes an outer flexible substrate layer having a textured surface protruding from a first side for supporting the freshly printed sheet material. The system further includes an inner flexible material that... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20070261580 - Automatic mounting system: The invention relates to a method and a device for positioning a flexible printing plate on a carrier, comprising the following steps of: placing on a table the flexible printing plate for positioning; determining the position of the printing plate by means of a visual display device; and depending on... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070261581 - Methods and apparatus for controlling impurity levels in an enclosed printing press environment: Methods and apparatus for controlling impurity levels in an enclosed printing press environment are disclosed. A disclosed system controls impurity levels by using variable speed fans to control the intake of air into the enclosed environment and the exhausting of air from the enclosed environment. The exhaust fan is used... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070256582 - Processing device: A processing device includes a transport cylinder, processing cylinder, and press roller. The transport cylinder includes a hold device which holds a sheet, and a plate support device which supports a plate to be mounted on an outer surface of the counter cylinder. The processing cylinder opposes the counter cylinder... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070256583 - Intermediate sleeve: An intermediate sleeve is provided which is adapted to be mounted on a print cylinder. The intermediate sleeve includes a base layer, a reinforcing layer, a barrier layer, and a surface layer. The sleeve further includes at least one air channel extending longitudinally, circumferentially, or spirally along the interior of... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl LLP

20070256584 - Photosensitive planographic printing plate and method of producing the same: In a method of producing a photosensitive planographic printing plate according to the present invention, a web is coated with a coating solution, and a coating solution film thus formed is rapidly dried. For this drying, fresh air is blown onto the web W heated with a heat roll such... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070256585 - Machine for washing flexographic printing plates: A machine for washing flexographic printing plates, comprising a footing which forms at least one chamber for washing the printing plates, at least one shaft for supporting at least one printing plate in a cylindrical configuration arranged inside said washing chamber and associated with a first rotary actuation, at least... Agent: Modiano & Associati

20070256586 - Printing and copying fault monitoring using cover sheets: The disclosed method identifies potentially faulty sheets that were printed when the parameters were outside the predetermined normal parameter range and maintains one or more locations of the potentially faulty sheets within the stacks of sheets. If one or more of the stacks of sheets contain one or more of... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20070251401 - Method and device for marking an ophthalmic lens: A method for marking an ophthalmic lens according to predetermined patterns includes supplying a plate (1) provided with engravings (4), filling the engravings (4) with marking ink, applying a pad (7) to the engravings (4), applying the pad (7) to the ophthalmic lens (5). The method involves a stage for... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070251402 - Stencil printing apparatus: A stencil printing apparatus which suppresses master consumption by switching between simplex printing using a simplex master and single-step duplex printing using a duplex master automatically in accordance with master information and sheet information comprises a printing drum and pressing means, and can be made to switch between duplex printing,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070251403 - Printing and curing apparatus system and method: A printing and curing apparatus, system and method is provided, wherein the printing apparatus includes an imager and a curing unit and prints design images acquired by the printing and curing apparatus. The printed images are cured according specific parameters of the print design being correlated with the governing operation... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20070251404 - Method for custom imprinting plastic identifier tags: The invention is of an improved method and process for printing plastic tag blanks for producing plastic identifier tags (such as cattle ear tags). By printing images on tag blanks using conventional ink jet printers and thereafter “welding” the image to be plastic of the printed tag blank, a durable... Agent: David G. Henry Cox Smith Matthews Incorporated

20070251405 - Image forming device: An image forming device has: a cassette that accommodates a recording medium and that can be pulled out from a front surface of a device main body; and a lock unit locking the cassette to a rear surface of the device main body. The lock unit may have: a lock... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC