Printing inventions 06/09

20090158943 - Screen printing device and screen printing method: A screen printing device configured to print a printing paste on a printed board, the printing paste being applied on a screen printing plate where openings corresponding to a pattern to be printed are formed, the screen printing device includes a first squeegee advanced and pressed downward so that the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090158944 - Screen printing apparatus and screen printing method: A screen printing apparatus includes mask supporting means 6 for supporting a mask 2 from the rear surface thereof, holding means 20 for holding a printing medium 3, posture changing means 30 for changing a posture of the printing medium 3 held by the holding means 20 between a parallel... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090158945 - Rotary endroser for document processing employing a shape memory alloy actuator: An actuation device for an endorsing roller in an automated document processing system is disclosed. The actuation device includes a shape memory alloy actuator interconnected with an endorsing roller, the shape memory alloy actuator interconnected with the endorsing roller and configured to be actuated to move the endorsing roller from... Agent: Unisys Corporation

20090158946 - Printing security features: A printing machine for printing security features onto a web. The machine has a first printing cylinder defining a first circumference and carrying a first number (m) of rows of first image elements, each adjacent row of first image elements having a first circumferential separation. The machine also has a... Agent: Charles Q. Maney Ncr Corporation

20090158947 - Stamp comprising a nanostamping structure, device and method for the production thereof: The invention relates to a stamp comprising a nanostructure for introducing and/or applying nanostructures into/onto components as well as a device and a method for producing said stamp. The inventive stamp is provided with a rigid support for the nanostamping structure while the nanostamping structure is joined to the support.... Agent: Kusner & Jaffe Highland Place Suite 310

20090158948 - Compressible printing sleeve carrier and method of making: The present invention provides a compressible printing sleeve carrier for use in offset lithography which is formed from a composite fiber-reinforced compressible polymer. The printing sleeve carrier is formed by coating reinforcing filaments with a compressible polymer and winding the filaments around a mandrel to form a hollow cylindrical base,... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl LLP

20090158949 - Screen printing apparatus: A screen printing apparatus according to the present invention includes a frame member that holds a screen with a pattern hole formed therein, a substrate positioning section located below the frame member to position a substrate located opposite the screen, and a cleaning unit that simultaneously cleans a back surface... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090158950 - Method and apparatus for re-registering a mechanical drive press: A method of re-registering a press job after disturbing the setup having the steps of recalling phase and compensator positions previously stored for the job; positioning compensators (113-116) to their nominal position; re-phasing the press color cylinders for the job; rerouting a web (117) through the press for the job;... Agent: Mesmer & Deleault, PLLC

20090158951 - Printed article and method of making same: An article is printed based upon predetermined artwork. The artwork includes the specification of a palette of ink colors to be used in printing the article. Each of the colors is specified by a full tone color target and an undertone color target. Each ink formulation has a combined full... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Global Legal Department - Ip

20090151577 - Device for dry-decoration: A device for dry-decorating comprising a mobile plane (2), predisposed for transporting ceramic bases (40) along a longitudinal direction (x); a silk screen (3), slidable in a transversal or longitudinal direction (y or x) along a tortuous trajectory in which at least an active tract (3a) of the screen (3)... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20090151578 - Method of and apparatus for mounting print screens and their use in printers, as well as a screen frame and a screen-printing machine: A screen-printing process uses screens each having a frame in which is tensioned a respective mesh. Each of the meshes is tensioned and data representing tensions in the respective meshes is stored in respective memories carried on the frames of the meshes. Subsequently one of the meshes is secured in... Agent: K.f. Ross P.C.

20090151579 - Doctor blade apparatus for printing press: The invention is to cope with the minute liquid pressure change due to drying of ink or paint, clogging due to minute dirt, and other problems occurring at the tip of the doctor blade by controlling the curvature of the doctor blade itself by applying a pressure in the direction... Agent: Fox Rothschild LLP

20090151580 - Xlf drum leading edge clamp: An apparatus for mounting and demounting a materials sheet onto and from a cylindrical surface of a drum (10) has clamps (40) pivotably arranged upon the sheet materials drum. The clamps have a first region (80) and a second region (70) either side of a pivot axis. The second region... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20090151581 - Blanket/plate mounting apparatus: A blanket/plate mounting apparatus includes a leading edge holding unit, trailing edge holding unit, and first drive unit. The leading edge holding unit is movably supported by a cylinder and holds the leading edge of a blanket/plate. The trailing edge holding unit is movably supported by the cylinder and holds... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090151582 - Printer device: A printer device having a detachable thermal head, the thermal head being precisely positioned relative to a platen, whereby the printer device is capable of printing characters or the like, of a stable quality, on printing paper having different thickness'. A head module of the printer an attachment member detachably... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090151583 - Tray surface cleaning device: An apparatus and method are disclosed in which printing material is printed upon a tray surface and transferred to a sheet supported by the tray surface. A cleaning device removes residual printing material from the tray surface.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090145313 - Decorative articles and printing registration method: A decorative article having a substrate with two opposing viewable surfaces. Each viewable surface has a screen print thereon which, in combination, provides a decorative article having a three-dimensional visual. Also, a method of registering the screen prints is provided. The method ensure that two or more panels having the... Agent: Armstrong World Industries, Inc. Legal Department

20090145314 - Intaglio printing methods, apparatuses, and printed or coated materials made therewith: Intaglio printing methods and apparatuses are disclosed, involving the use of a curable resin composition (e.g., curable by actinic radiation). The composition may be applied to a substrate, such as a printable material, at a depth of 250 μm or more, in order to create a desirable, three-dimensional effect. To... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090145315 - Printing groups of a printing press: A printing group of a printing press is comprised of a transfer cylinder, a forme cylinder and a first roller of an inking unit. That first inking unit roller cooperates, as an ink application roller, with the forme cylinder. The inking unit is provided with two axially traversing friction cylinders... Agent: Jones, Tullar & Cooper, P.C.

20090145316 - Letterpress printing plate: A letterpress printing plate, made of a material having flexibility, includes a plurality of raised parts to applying ink to, the raised parts including a raised part for solid shade, and a buildup part formed at a backside position of the raised part for solid shade with respect to the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090145317 - Method of fabricating image forming element using imprinting process, image forming element fabricated by the method, and imprinting system: A method of fabricating an image forming element includes preparing an image drum, transferring conductive ink as a pre-form of a plurality of ring electrodes on an outer circumference of the image drum using an imprinting process, solidifying the conductive ink on the outer circumference of the image drum to... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090145318 - Method for drying printing ink and printing ink: A method for drying printing ink containing an inactive active substance enclosed before drying in a reaction-inhibited form in a transport substance, for accelerating the drying of the printing ink on a print medium, includes applying the printing ink to a print medium being dried at a reaction site by... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090145319 - Apparatus for transporting a printing plate to or from a plate cylinder of a printing press and printing unit and printing press having the apparatus: An apparatus for transporting a printing plate to or from a plate cylinder of a printing press includes a first, driven transport roller that is stationarily disposed and a second transport roller that is disposed so as to be movable in the direction of the first transport roller. The second... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090139414 - Decorator carriage cam follower slide: An improved method of supporting a portion of an inker apparatus is provided. More specifically, a system for interfacing with cam followers that are interconnected to a carriage bed of the inker apparatus is contemplated wherein wear to the cam follower is eliminated by providing a surface for engagement to... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20090139415 - Intaglio printing press: An intaglio printing press includes an intaglio cylinder supported rotatably, an inking device for supplying ink to the intaglio cylinder, a wiping device for removing a surplus ink of the ink supplied to the intaglio cylinder, and a prewiping device, provided upstream of the wiping device and downstream of the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090139416 - Printer: A printer (1) is provided having two spaced apart pinions (29) that intermesh with two racks (31) which form frame elements of a stereotype printing assist system or which are fastened to the bottom side of the frame elements of the stereotype printing assist system. The pinions (29) allow movement... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090139417 - Rotary press: A rotary press with a stand, a rotor rotatably mounted around a vertical axis in the stand and being driven, which has an upper and a lower compression punch accommodation for upper and lower punches which co-operate with bores of a die plate of the rotor, and upper and lower... Agent: Vidas, Arrett & Steinkraus, P.A.

20090139418 - Gap filling member for blanket cylinder: A filling member for filling the concave portion of a blanket face which is generated along the opening portion of a groove of a blanket cylinder comprises a wedge-shaped limb portion and a head portion capable of filling the concave portion. The limb portion is inserted between the surface of... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090139419 - Printing plate attaching device: A tensing means for a tensing channel of a cylinder body comprises a clamping piece for clamping a first cover end and for clamping a second cover end between the clamping piece and a tensing piece, wherein at least one contact region of the clamping piece and/or tensing piece, used... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090139420 - Gripper for conveying a sheet through a printing technology machine: A gripper for conveying a sheet through a printing machine makes it possible to increase speed. The gripper includes gripper fingers with finger tips disposed at a rotary articulation or joint.... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090139421 - Metal pattern and process for producing the same: A metal pattern of the present invention is a metal pattern (13′) formed on a surface of a substrate by etching, and a monomolecular film containing fluorinated alkyl chains (CF3(CF2)n—, where n represents an integer) is formed on a surface of a metal film composing the metal pattern (13′), and... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson P.C.