Printing inventions 08/09

20090211468 - Method for disposing of used embossing foil webs and embossing apparatus with continuously operating disposal device: In a method for disposing of used embossing foil webs during the operation of an embossing apparatus, in which at least one embossing foil web is moved with the aid of a foil feed device with varying web speeds through an embossing gap and is subsequently supplied to a disposal... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090211469 - Double shuttle configuration for digital printers: A printhead positioning system is provided wherein the shuttle assembly is split up in a printing shuttle, having a high accuracy positioning capability and a utility shuttle needing only a low accuracy positioning system. Due to this split-up the mass of components which have to be positioned accurately is greatly... Agent: Agfa C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20090211470 - Stencil printing apparatus: A stencil printing apparatus which is capable of reducing difficult cleaning work even when two-sided printing is performed continuously and is capable of improving printing efficiency comprises a printing portion, a paper discharge portion, paper re-feeding means for re-feeding paper to the printing portion, and a displaceable switching member which... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090211471 - Support system and method for a screen printing unit: A support system and method for supporting a printing screen unit in a screen printing machine. The support system includes a support assembly comprising a support unit for supporting a printing screen unit comprising a printing screen including printing apertures through which printing medium is printed onto a workpiece; and... Agent: Don W. Bulson, Esq. Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090211472 - Gravure printing method with exchangeable printing plate: A gravure printing system has a roll body extending along and rotatable about a roll axis and formed with a radially outwardly open and axially extending recess. The roll body has an outer surface with a region outside the surface lying on a cylinder centered on the axis. A generally... Agent: K.f. Ross P.c.

20090211473 - Printing press and method for register correction: The invention relates to a drive device for a printing press (100), especially a shaftless printing machine by intaglio engraving, which comprises a plurality of individually driven printing groups (111 to 114) provided with linear register adjusting devices. The first printing group is provided with means for simultaneously adjusting the... Agent: Michael J. Striker

20090211474 - Printing press inking systems: An apparatus and method for feeding U.V.-curable inks without causing them to cure prematurely. The apparatus includes plural Moineau style pumps each with an elastomeric stator and a rigid rotor. The pumps are driven by electric motors and flexible drive shafts enabling the stator and rotor to be slight offset... Agent: Vedder Price P.c.

20090211475 - Extended print sleeve and method for preparing a printing form from the sleeve: The invention provides an extended print sleeve having a longitudinal axis and adapted to form a printing form having a circumferential seam with no printing surface disposed a distance D along said longitudinal axis from one end thereof, comprising: a first print element; and a second print element; wherein each... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20090211476 - Method for printing on spherical object and pad to be used therefor: There are provided a printing method in which at least approximately hemispherical portion of a spherical object to be printed can be printed by pressing a pad against the portion one time, and which can prevent an image printed on the spherical object to be printed from being elongated or... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20090211477 - Cleaning device for rollers in lithographic plate manufacturing: An apparatus and related method for preparing a lithographic web during manufacturing by incorporating a cleaning device cleaning device capable of being in contact with one or more web rollers. The cleaning device including a cleaning applicator to apply the cleaning solution such that the cleaning solution connected to the... Agent: Raymond L. Owens Patent Legal Staff

20090211478 - Handling device of a printing press: A handling device for handling printing plates during an automated change of printing plates on a printing unit of a printing press includes a manipulator arm and a manipulator head with a suction device mounted on its free end. The suction device includes a crossbeam and a plurality of suction... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090211479 - Device and methods for identifying modules in a graphics machine: A method for detecting a type of one of plurality of devices attached to a graphics machine, each device being one of at least a first type and a second type. The method includes detecting at a controller the type of device attached to or to be attached to the... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, Llc

20090211480 - Flexo cushion: A method of improving performance of a relief image printing plate on a printing cylinder which includes mounting a compressible cushion element on a surface of the printing cylinder. The surface of the cushion element that is contactable with the relief image printing plate is a low friction surface that... Agent: Arthur G. Schaier Carmody & Torrance LLP

20090205515 - Rfid tag that provides a flat print area and a pinch that enables the same: A radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag includes a face stock and an RFID device. The face stock has a printable side and an inlay side, with the RFID device mounted to the inlay side. A layer of adhesive is coated on the inlay side of the face stock. A liner is... Agent: Avery Dennison Corporation Amanda Wittine

20090205516 - Method and apparatus for the circumferential printing onto individual bottles in a run of bottles where the individual bottles in the run have at least one varying dimension due to manufacturing tolerances, the method and apparatus providing more consiste: A method and apparatus for the circumferential printing onto individual bottles in a run of bottles where the individual bottles in the run have at least one varying dimension due to manufacturing tolerances, the method and apparatus providing more consistent artwork on individual containers in the run of containers. The... Agent: Nils H. Ljungman & Associates

20090205517 - Stencil printing apparatus: The present invention provides an adjusting mechanism in which a paper feed timing adjustment member (95) is moved around the axis of a rotary shaft of a cam by an adjustment member drive means so as to adjust the position of an end of a second arm and then the... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090205518 - Method and apparatus for applying an accurate print pressure during production: A stencil printer includes a frame, a stencil coupled to the frame, a substrate support coupled to the frame to support a substrate in a print position, and a print head, coupled to the frame, to deposit and print viscous material over the stencil. The print head may include a... Agent: Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20090205519 - Protective device for holding a printing stencil and a stencil stretcher frame: A stencil stretcher frame unit comprises a stencil stretcher frame for stretching a printing stencil, the stencil stretcher frame including a seat; a protective device accommodated in the seat and holding the stencil stretcher frame, the protective device including a plurality of protective bars configured to hold the printing stencil... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090205520 - Drive units of a rotating component of a printing press: A drive unit is provided for a rotating component of a printing press, which rotating component is disposed between spaced lateral frames. A bearing assembly supports the rotatable component so that it is movable in a direction of movement which is perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the rotatable... Agent: Jones, Tullar & Cooper, P.C.

20090205521 - Method and apparatus for coupling and uncoupling a plate cylinder in a sheetfed printing press and sheetfed rotary printing press having the apparatus: A method and an apparatus for coupling or uncoupling a cylinder, in particular a plate or blanket cylinder, to or from a gear train of a printing press or for coupling and uncoupling the cylinder to and from an auxiliary drive, for example for service work or during changeover processes,... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090205522 - Printing machine: The printing machine comprises an ink fountain member 2, an ink fountain roller 3, a pair of barrier plates 53 attracted to the fountain-forming face 37a of the ink fountain member 2 and the outer peripheral surface of the ink fountain roller 3 by a permanent magnet, and a barrier... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090205523 - Plate inserting apparatus: A plate inserting apparatus includes a plate cylinder, press roller, and braking unit. A plate is to be mounted on the outer surface of the plate cylinder. The press roller is rotatably supported to oppose the outer surface of the plate cylinder, and inserts the leading edge bent portion of... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090205524 - Automatic feeder for planographic printing plates: An automatic feeder for planographic printing plates is provided with a storage shelf mounting a plurality of predetermined number of layered and bundled planographic printing plates therein, a conveying unit conveying the planographic printing plate, a sliding friction reducing member, and a separating operation unit for forming a gap between... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090205525 - Plate inserting apparatus: A plate inserting apparatus includes a plate cylinder, press roller, and braking unit. A plate is to be mounted on the outer surface of the plate cylinder. The press roller is rotatably supported to oppose the outer surface of the plate cylinder. When the leading edge bent portion of the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090199729 - Position matching method and screen printer: A printer has a mask sheet 25, a movable print stage 3, a camera head 40 provided with a mask recognition camera 41 and a board recognition camera 42, and a controller that controls the foregoing members. The controller drives the camera head 40 under its control so that mark... Agent: Studebaker & Brackett PC

20090199730 - Apparatus and method for driving a printing press: An apparatus and method for driving a printing press, which are capable of easily and properly performing a water process on a processless plate so that the labor of an operator can be lessened, and also capable of printing that employs the processless plate in order to suppress an increase... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20090199731 - Method for setting up an ink fountain of a printing press and printing press having an ink fountain: A method for setting-up or making-ready an ink fountain of a printing press includes setting side walls of the ink fountain against an ink fountain roller of the ink fountain, while simultaneously tensioning or stressing springs so that the springs press the side walls against the ink fountain roller. A... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090199732 - Cylinder for a printing unit of a printing machine and method for replacing a sleeve for such the cylinder: A cylinder for a printing unit of a printing machine includes a hollow support shaft with first and second tensioning elements arranged thereon at a distance to each other. A replaceable printing sleeve is positioned on the support shaft. First and second force transfer elements respectively cooperate with the first... Agent: Venable LLP

20090199733 - Apparatus for forming a printing form having a cylindrical support: The invention pertains to an apparatus and a process for forming a printing form from a photosensitive element having a cylindrical support, and in particular, to an apparatus and a process for thermally treating the photosensitive element to form a relief pattern and particularly to form a cylindrically-shaped flexographic printing... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20090199734 - Printing production plan generation system: A system for generating printing production plans (81) includes providing a first printing product specifications and generating a plurality of print production economics sets (62) from the printing product specification. A preferred print production economics set is selected from the print production economics sets and the preferred print production economics... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20090199729 - Position matching method and screen printer: A printer has a mask sheet 25, a movable print stage 3, a camera head 40 provided with a mask recognition camera 41 and a board recognition camera 42, and a controller that controls the foregoing members. The controller drives the camera head 40 under its control so that mark... Agent: Studebaker & Brackett PC

20090199730 - Apparatus and method for driving a printing press: An apparatus and method for driving a printing press, which are capable of easily and properly performing a water process on a processless plate so that the labor of an operator can be lessened, and also capable of printing that employs the processless plate in order to suppress an increase... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20090199731 - Method for setting up an ink fountain of a printing press and printing press having an ink fountain: A method for setting-up or making-ready an ink fountain of a printing press includes setting side walls of the ink fountain against an ink fountain roller of the ink fountain, while simultaneously tensioning or stressing springs so that the springs press the side walls against the ink fountain roller. A... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090199732 - Cylinder for a printing unit of a printing machine and method for replacing a sleeve for such the cylinder: A cylinder for a printing unit of a printing machine includes a hollow support shaft with first and second tensioning elements arranged thereon at a distance to each other. A replaceable printing sleeve is positioned on the support shaft. First and second force transfer elements respectively cooperate with the first... Agent: Venable LLP

20090199733 - Apparatus for forming a printing form having a cylindrical support: The invention pertains to an apparatus and a process for forming a printing form from a photosensitive element having a cylindrical support, and in particular, to an apparatus and a process for thermally treating the photosensitive element to form a relief pattern and particularly to form a cylindrically-shaped flexographic printing... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20090199734 - Printing production plan generation system: A system for generating printing production plans (81) includes providing a first printing product specifications and generating a plurality of print production economics sets (62) from the printing product specification. A preferred print production economics set is selected from the print production economics sets and the preferred print production economics... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20090193986 - Printing device and printing method: A printing device of the invention applies paste on a stencil 51 onto a substrate by spreading the paste by sliding a squeegee 61 along a surface of the stencil 51 disposed on the substrate W. Outer attracting means for holding the stencil 51 by attracting an undersurface side thereof... Agent: Studebaker & Brackett PC

20090193987 - Method for coloring a coloring card: A coloring method has acts of: (a) preparing a substrate having at least one display surfaces and each display surface printed with an ink layer to form a coloring area having multiple resin units mounted in the coloring area; (b) coloring the coloring area of the substrate with water-based colorants;... Agent: Patenttm.us

20090193988 - Printing press having an anilox inking unit with an associated washing device: A printing press includes an anilox inking unit having an engraved roller and a washing device with a feed device for introducing detergent and a removal device for removing the detergent and printing ink. Further rollers are disposed between the feed device and the engraved roller and between the engraved... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090193989 - Web offset press and operation method for the same: An object of the present invention is to provide a web offset press that is capable of reducing costs and reliably preventing wrinkles that occur in a web during low-speed operation. A web offset press includes a printing section that prints on a web that is transported; an in-feed drag... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20090193990 - Seal for an ink chamber with improved blade/seal area: A seal adapted to seal an end of a fluid chamber which supplies fluid to a roll, includes at least one supporting wall and an upper concave surface on the at least one supporting wall and adapted to engage an outer surface of the roll. First and second, sloping, upper... Agent: Richard M. Goldberg

20090193991 - Blanket sleeve and cylinder and method of making same: A sleeve is provided to be drawn over a rotary support in order to define a blanket cylinder of an indirect or offset printing machine in which the blanket cylinder cooperates with a lithographic plate cylinder from which the sleeve receives the data to be printed onto a substrate which... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.A.