Printing inventions 03/09

20090078132 - Method and apparatus for tool bit marking: A method and apparatus for imprinting text on items such as tools. The imprinting process involving employing a roll forging assembly including a large-sized roller plate and a multi-angle vise.... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20090078133 - Thin-walled hot foil stamping cylinder and method of fabrication: A thin-walled hot foil stamping cylinder of predetermined diameter is formed from an extruded cylindrical tube having a wall of initially uniform cross-sectional thickness. Portions of the outer cylindrical surface of the wall are relieved to define raised, outwardly-projecting hot foil stamping indicia. End caps close opposed ends of the... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20090078134 - Flexographic printing press: A flexographic printing press is comprised of at least four printing cylinders which are each driven by a respective drive motor. These at least four printing cylinders cooperate directly with a common satellite cylinder during the printing of a web of material. Each of these printing cylinders supports at least... Agent: Jones, Tullar & Cooper, P.C.

20090078135 - Printing unit, printing press and method of producing labels or self-adhesive labels in a printing press: A compact printing unit includes a plate cylinder, an impression cylinder, and an ink applicator roller in a printing press, in particular a label printing press. In the printing unit, the plate cylinder is disengageable from cylinders contacting the plate cylinder for the purpose of format variation. The plate cylinder... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090078136 - Printing press with bearer rings: A printing press includes a first rotary body with a first bearer ring and a second rotary body with an axle which eccentrically supports a second bearer ring. The second bearer ring is in rolling contact with the first bearer ring and is rotatably coupled to the second rotary body.... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090078137 - Method of winding up transfer film and device for performing transfer printing on printed sheets of paper: There is provided a method of winding up a transfer film and a device for performing transfer printing on printed sheets of paper, capable of eliminating the need to frequently replace the transfer film, thereby allowing the transfer film to be used over a prolonged time. According to the method... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20090078138 - Printing groups of a printing press: A printing group of a printing press is comprised, at leasdt, of a transfer cylinder, a forme cylinder and of a first roller ink form roller of an inking unit which cooperates with the forme cylinder as an ink application roller. the first ink form roller has substantially the same... Agent: Jones, Tullar & Cooper, P.C.

20090078139 - Magnetic plate retention: A magnetic plate retention system especially suitable for use in retaining a lithographic plate material to a conventional plate cylinder utilizes one or more magnetic retention devices each having a curved surface complementary to the cylinder. When disposed on the plate, the retention devices magnetically adhere the plate to the... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20090078140 - Fountain solution composition for lithographic printing and heat-set offset rotary printing process: A fountain solution composition for lithographic printing characterized by comprising at least one acyclic hydrocarbon diol compound, having 9 carbon atoms in total and two —OH groups, wherein the number of carbon atoms existing between said two —OH groups via minimal distance is from 2 to 6; said fountain solution... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090078141 - Method of performing transfer printing on sheets of paper: There is provided a method of performing transfer printing on sheets of papers capable of stopping a film from running while the film is kept apart from a cylinder and patterns of the film are not transferred onto the sheets, and of joining the film to the cylinder with the... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20090078142 - Web offset printing press and method for operating a web offset printing press: A web offset printing press that prints and processes at least one material web and has printing units and/or printing unit assemblies, at least one folder, and transport elements operates by transporting the at least one material web by the transport elements through a web of the printing press into... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20090071352 - Printing device, adjustment method and printing method: second means (48, 68, 72) for moving the motor (86), the second movement means (48, 68, 72) extending in a second direction (Y) perpendicular relative to the first direction (X), the first movement means (46, 52, 63) carrying the second movement means (48, 68, 72).... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090071353 - Flexographic printer: A flexographic printing machine including at least one printing unit with an ink roller mounted at one end to a first sliding support and a plate-holding roller mounted at one end to a second sliding support, and at least one guide member for guiding the movements of the supports in... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090071354 - Quick stop controlling mechanism in surface treatment device of printing press: There is provided a surface treatment device of a printing press that does not cause adverse affect on a transfer film in the surface treatment device at a quick stop of the printing press. The transfer film is wound around a plurality of rollers in the surface treatment device, and... Agent: Tips Group C/o Intellevate LLC

20090071355 - Printing unit of a web-fed rotary printing press: A printing unit of a web-fed rotary printing press with several printing couples is disclosed. Each printing couple features a transfer cylinder, a plate cylinder, an inking couple and preferably a dampening unit, where the transfer cylinder and the plate cylinder of each printing couple are positioned jointly on side... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090071356 - Rotary printing press: A rotary printing press is disclosed. The press includes at least one plate-free printing unit for printing a substrate web with a static print image for print copies of a print job and at least one plate-free printing unit, in particular an inkjet printing unit for printing the substrate web... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090071357 - Printing unit of a web-fed rotary printing press: A printing unit of a web-fed rotary printing press with several printing couples is disclosed. Each printing couple features a transfer cylinder, a plate cylinder, an inking couple and preferably a dampening unit, where the transfer cylinder, the plate cylinder, and rollers of the inking couple and if applicable of... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090071358 - Printing cylinder cleaning system: A printing cylinder cleaning cylinder in one embodiment includes a base and a module reversibly attaching to the module. The module includes a housing, a module engagement-disengagement assembly, a reciprocating wiper and brush assembly, a spray discharge assembly and a discharge assembly. The reciprocating brush and wiper assemblies produce a... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20090071359 - Printing plate unloading apparatus and method: Apparatus for removing printing plates (8) having leading and trailing edges located in a lock-up slot in a plate cylinder (2) of a rotary printing press, from said plate cylinder (2) is disclosed. The apparatus comprises means for extracting the trailing edge from a lock-up slot which is also operable... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20090071360 - Method for controlling a processing machine for sheet material: The invention relates to a method for controlling a machine processing sheet material. The processing machine has at least one printing or coating group and a cylinder that is coupled to a direct drive and is decoupled mechanically from a main drive acting on a gear train of a plurality... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20090064878 - Fixing mechanism and printing apparatus using the same: A fixing mechanism (2) includes a base (50), an air pump (70) and an air pipe assembly (60). The base defining a connecting hole (522) and a locating groove (542) therein. The air pipe assembly (60) includes a first pipe (62) communicating with the connecting hole, a second pipe (64)... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20090064879 - Method for operating a shaftless printing press and shaftless printing press: The present invention relates to a method for operating a shaftless printing press (1), in which a product (5) is processed during a processing operation by at least one processing device (4a, 4b, 4c), wherein the processing device has at least one driven processing axle (6) as well as at... Agent: Michael J. Striker

20090064880 - Printing machine system: A printing machine system includes a first printing machine which has at least one first printing unit and a first fold forming funnel and that is arranged in the machine alignment of the at least first printing unit. A second printing machine, which has at least one second printing unit,... Agent: Jones, Tullar & Cooper, P.C.

20090064881 - Variable cutoff printing unit and method of printing: A variable cutoff printing unit is provided including a first upper plate cylinder carrying a first upper image, a first upper blanket cylinder including a first upper blanket print area for transferring the first upper image to a web and a first upper blanket non print area, a second upper... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20090064882 - Apparatus and method for forming cross folds in a web-fed printing press: An apparatus and method for forming cross folds in a web-fed printing press is disclosed. A folding unit has a longitudinal folding device and a cross folding device, which is arranged downstream from the longitudinal folding device, as seen in the transport direction of the printing substrate. The longitudinal folding... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090064883 - Printing machine system: A printing system includes a first printing machine that is provided in the form of a newspaper printing machine and which comprises at least two first printing units that are provided in the form of printing towers and with a number of printing machines arranged one above the other for... Agent: Jones, Tullar & Cooper, P.C.

20090064884 - Nanoparticle-based compositions compatible with jet printing and methods therefor: Apparatus and methods for controlling application of a substance to a substrate involve the use of a nanoparticle-based gating agent that blocks the substance from or attracts the substance to the substrate. The apparatus and methods may utilize ink jet technology to apply the gating agent directly to the substrate... Agent: Mccracken & Frank LLP

20090064885 - Printed material and manufacturing method thereof: A printed material as an embodiment of the invention comprising a substrate, partition walls for partitioning the surface of the substrate into a plurality of regions, and an ink film formed by printing in the plurality of regions by using a printer, in which the partition wall comprises an ink... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090064886 - Apparatus and methods for controlling application of a substance to a substrate: Apparatus and methods for controlling application of a substance to a substrate involve the use of a functional agent that blocks the substance from or attracts the principal substance to the substrate. The apparatus and methods may utilize ink jet technology to apply the functional agent directly to the substrate... Agent: Mccracken & Frank LLP

20090056566 - Tape processing apparatus and method of tape processing: A tape processing apparatus has: mode selecting device for selecting among a print processing, a Braille-emboss processing, and a complex processing of the ink-character printing and the Braille embossing; tape-type detecting device for detecting the mounted tape type; and informing device for informing the discrepancy in a tape type, as... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090056567 - Printing apparatus: A printing apparatus for printing on a print substrate by sequentially conducting a plurality of processing operations. The printing apparatus includes a pallet configured to receive the print substrate, and work station units each comprising a conveyer mechanism configured to convey the pallet and a work mechanism configured to conduct... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20090056568 - Apparatus and method for imprinting vials: An apparatus for printing onto closed vial units. The vial units are formed in a series and the vial units have a drug therein. The apparatus comprises a conveyor belt for moving the vial units, with the conveyor belt having spaced cleats. A first side of the vial units is... Agent: Longman Russo A Professional Law Corporation

20090056569 - Printing apparatus: A printing apparatus including a pallet configured to receive a print substrate, a conveyer mechanism configured to convey the pallet, and a working device configured to conduct a processing operation for printing on the print substrate on the pallet. The printing apparatus further includes a locating mechanism configured to stop... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20090056570 - Device for printing flat work pieces: A device for printing flat work pieces having a transportation device for the work pieces and having at least one printing device, in which an inking roll rolls on the work pieces transported through the printing device and thereby applies a print image to a surface of the work piece,... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090056571 - Stencil: A stencil system including a stencil frame having a plurality of openings formed therein for guiding the drawing of a user. The stencil system further includes a hand cue on the stencil frame for cuing a user to place the user's hand thereon to manually stabilize the stencil frame during... Agent: Thompson Hine L.L.P. Intellectual Property Group

20090056572 - Turner bar assembly of a web-fed printing press: A turner bar assembly of a web-fed printing press is disclosed. The turner bar assembly includes at least one turner bar, which is mounted so that it is translatorily movable on a linear guide and can be acted upon with blast air. The blast air flows through the linear guide... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090056574 - Closable ink cartridge for printer roll: A printer having a roll with a radial outer roll surface has an ink cartridge having a housing itself having a pair of side walls and a pair of end walls bridging the side walls and defining therewith a downwardly open mouth juxtaposed with the roll surface. One of the... Agent: K.f. Ross P.C.

20090056573 - Ink-supply cartridge for printer roller: A printer has a press frame and a roll rotatable in the frame about an axis and having a radially outwardly directed roll surface. An ink cartridge has a housing having a pair of support plates juxtaposed with and angularly spaced along the roll surface. Doctor blades supported on the... Agent: K.f. Ross P.C.

20090056575 - Pattern transfer apparatus: A pattern transfer apparatus including an inflatable membrane is described.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090056576 - Apparatus for printing using high performance two-component reactive inks and coatings with flexographic printing processes: An apparatus for flexographic printing for use both with inks/varnishes that are not compatible with hydroxyl groups and with inks/varnishes that are compatible with hydroxyl groups. The apparatus includes pumps, viscometers, viscosity adjusters and washing systems that are dedicated to each of the two types of solutions. In addition, the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090056577 - Compositions compatible with jet printing and methods therefor: Apparatus and methods for controlling application of a substance to a substrate involve the use of a gating agent that blocks the substance from or attracts the substance to the substrate. The apparatus and methods may utilize ink jet technology to apply the gating agent directly to the substrate or... Agent: Mccracken & Frank LLP

20090056578 - Apparatus and methods for controlling application of a substance to a substrate: Apparatus and methods for controlling application of a substance to a substrate involve the use of a gating agent that blocks the substance from or attracts the substance to the substrate. The apparatus and methods may utilize ink jet technology to apply the gating agent directly to the substrate or... Agent: Mccracken & Frank LLP

20090056579 - Print substrate-contacting element having an ink-repellent coating and method for coating a print substrate-contacting element: A print substrate-contacting element having an ink-repellent coating on a surface of a microstructured carrier is described, the coating including at least one derivative of an amphiphilic organic compound whose polar region has an acidic character. A method for coating a surface of a microstructured carrier of a print substrate-contacting... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20090056580 - Method to obtain a truly processless lithographic printing plate: A method to obtain a lithographic printing master comprising: a) an imaginable element is formed from a radiation sensitive coating on a base, said coating comprising: (1) hydrophilic polymer particles; (2) hydrophobic polymer particles; and (3) a converter substance capable of converting radiation into heat; b) the imaginable element forms... Agent: Yisong Yu

20090056581 - Method to obtain processless printing plate from ionic polymer particles: A method to obtain a lithographic printing master comprising: a) an imaginable element is formed from a radiation sensitive coating on a base, said coating comprising: (1) anionic polymer particles; (2) cationic polymer particles; and (3) a converter substance capable of converting radiation into heat; b) the imaginable element forms... Agent: Yisong Yu

20090056582 - Printing apparatus, a method to indicate necessity of exchanging exchangeable parts, and a computer usable medium therefor: A printing apparatus for forming an image on fabric is provided. The printing apparatus includes a plurality of exchangeable fabric holders, a recording head, which is driven according to printable data including image information representing the image to be printed and holder information concerning a type of the fabric holder... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090056583 - Printing method, printing apparatus, and print producing method: A printing method that alternately repeats a transport operation that transports a continuous medium in a transport direction and an image forming operation that moves a head to form an image to thereby print out a first image and a second image, which has a smaller length in the transport... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP