Printing inventions 09/09

20090235832 - Numbering device for typographic numbering: There is described a numbering device (1) for carrying out numbering in sheet-fed or web-fed numbering presses, the numbering device (1) comprising a numbering unit (6) with rotatable numbering wheels (7) carrying alpha-numerical symbols thereon, which numbering wheels (7) are disposed next to each other and rotate about a common... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090235833 - Housing and method for making the same: A housing includes a substrate and a decorative layer formed on one surface of the substrate. The decorative layer includes two colored ink coatings, each of which is partially interlaced with the other and has a color depth decreasing from one end thereof towards the other colored ink coating to... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090235834 - Systems and methods for forming continuous ink images: A wheel assembly for applying ink to a target surface comprises a wheel member defining a support portion, at least one adhesive sheet, and at least one inking member. The at least one adhesive sheet is detachably attached to the support portion of the wheel member. The at least one... Agent: Schacht Law Office, Inc.

20090235835 - Method and apparatus for processing flexographic printing plates: A flexographic processing system provides a single workstation having a light exposure system for providing exposure of a flexographic plate and a thermal processing system for thermally processing the flexographic plate following exposure. The thermal processing system includes a heated element non-rotationally mounted to a press device that generates pressure... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20090229480 - Method and calibration tool for calibrating a rotary printing press: A method for calibrating a rotary printing press, in which a bearing structure for a printing cylinder is adjusted relative to another component of the printing press, and positions of the bearing structure are measured, including the steps of mounting a calibration tool on a mandrel that is supported in... Agent: Richard M. Goldberg

20090229481 - Stackable container systems and methods: A container system for containing a plurality of ink pads comprises a cover defining a cover mounting portion and a plurality of bases. Each base defines a support wall portion defining a support surface, a first wall portion defining a first base mounting portion, and a second wall portion defining... Agent: Schacht Law Office, Inc.

20090229482 - Cover for an automatically re-inked stamp: A cover for an automatically re-inked stamp is design to be mounted detachably on an automatic re-inked stamp and provides a function of preventing the automatic re-inked stamp from inadvertent stamping. The cover has a base having an inner surface and a surrounding edge and two mounting tabs being oppositely... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090229483 - Gravure printing roll and method of producing the same: The present invention provides: a novel gravure printing roll capable of improving plate fogging, being provided with a surface-reinforcing coating layer completely free from toxicity and the possibility of pollution, and of being excellent in printing durability; and a method of producing the roll. The gravure printing roll includes a... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20090223390 - Device and method for printing information on glass surfaces: A printing device transfers slide dependent information onto glass surfaces such as a glass slide for holding a medical specimen. A single slide is transferred from a storage section, passing under a thermal print head. The thermal print head defines and transfers an image from an ink media onto the... Agent: Gold & Rizvi, P.A.

20090223391 - Printing apparatus: A printing apparatus operatively connectable to a mounting arm that comprises an interchangeable pallet unit with a longitudinal axis and operatively connectable to the mounting arm for movement along the longitudinal axis, an indexing mechanism operatively connected to the interchangeable pallet so as to permit the interchangeable pallet indexed movement... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20090223392 - Device and method for printing objects: The invention relates to a device and a method to print objects employing a letterpress or offset printing method. The surface of the object to be printed or the holding device respectively is measured before printing so as to determine deviations of the distance and the parallelism between the impression... Agent: Raymond R. Ferrera

20090223393 - Printing press and method of operating a printing press, and printing press system and method of operating the printing press system: A printing press is comprised of at least one dry offset printing unit. At least two different webs can be fed through the dry offset printing unit. In a first production mode “C” of the printing press, a first web is fed through the dry offset printing unit without a... Agent: Jones, Tullar & Cooper, P.C.

20090223394 - Printing unit, printing press and process for producing labels in a printing press: A printing unit of compact construction includes an impression cylinder and a printing form cylinder to be pivoted around the impression cylinder about a pivot axis running parallel to an axis of rotation of the impression cylinder. A spacing between the axes of rotation of the printing form cylinder and... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090223395 - Ink fountain liner: Liner for a radial-type ink fountain in a printing machine; ie. the sloping ink fountain bottom's lower edge is, via a nip with gap-adjustment by edge-positioning for controlled metering of ink, opposed an ink roller dragging down ink adhering to the ink roller surface during downward rotational movement. The liner... Agent: Akc Patents

20090223396 - Printing device system and patterning method using the same: A printing device system comprises a printing roller that has a blanket adhered to an outer surface thereof. The printing device system further comprises a drying device that dries the blanket of the printing roller.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090223398 - 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

20090223397 - Printing plate making apparatus and printing plate making method: A printing plate making apparatus which scans a recording medium by light beam in a predetermined pixel pitch, thereby engraving a surface of the recording medium to make a printing plate, wherein an upper surface of a convex portion of light power of the light beam engraving all or part... Agent: Moss & Burke, PLLC

20090223399 - Transfer apparatus for printing plate trays and method of handling the printing plates: An apparatus and a method is provided for handling printing plates which are provided in the form of a printing plate stack on at least one storage plane. If printing plates having a particularly large format are required to set images on them in an exposer, loading cassettes for a... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090217830 - Screen printer print carriage: A squeegee or flood bar for the print carriage of a screen printing machine which consists of a mounting bracket and blade portion in which the bracket portion is adapted for quick attachment and detachment to the print carriage and the bracket is attached to the blade portion on one... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20090217829 - Screen printing device with ink control: An exemplary screen printing device includes a blade, a rotatable connecting element, a lower baffle, and an adjusting element. The rotatable connecting element is fixed to the blade. The lower baffle rotatably connects with the rotatable connecting element. The lower baffle and the blade cooperatively define a chamber for receiving... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090217831 - Printing screens, frames therefor and printing screen units: A printing screen unit (110), comprising: a printing screen (112), comprising a sheet, at least sections of at least one pair of opposite edges of which include one of engagement apertures (124) or engagement projections; and a supporting frame (114) including at least one pair of interface units (116, 117)... Agent: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090217832 - Printing unit and method for adjusting a print-on position: A printing unit is comprised of at least two cylinders which cooperate with each other in a printing group. At least one of these at least two cylinders is movably mounted so that it can be positioned against the other of the at least two cylinders by the use of... Agent: Jones, Tullar & Cooper, P.C.

20090217833 - Conveyor and method for changing the pitch of printed products: A printing press is provided. The printing press includes a print unit printing a stream of printed products, the printed products having a first pitch. The printing press also includes a pitch changing device. The pitch changing device includes an upper roller mounted on an upper axle, a lower roller... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20090217834 - Letterpress printing machine: A letterpress printing machine is disclosed including a rotary printing cylinder in which a relief printing plate is installed, a substrate surface plate on which a substrate is placed, an ink supply device supplying ink on the relief printing plate, a relief printing plate washing equipment washing the surface of... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090217835 - Web printing, web printers and related software: l