Printing inventions

20090266249 - Intaglio plate wiping system: An intaglio plate wiping system includes a wiping member which forms a nip with the intaglio plate in use and onto which excess intaglio ink is transferred during relative movement between the wiping member and the intaglio plate. A heated doctor blade unit is located downstream of the nip and... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090266250 - Infinitely variable cut off printing press and method of varying cut off: A variable cutoff printing press is provided including a first plate cylinder with a first plate disposed about the first plate cylinder and having a first image portion. A first blanket cylinder transfers the first image portion to a web at a first location. A second plate having a second... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20090266252 - Infinitely variable cut off printing press: A variable cutoff printing press is provided that includes a plate cylinder, a first blanket cylinder including a first circumferential section movable with respect to a second circumferential section, and a second blanket cylinder including a third circumferential section movable with respect to a fourth circumferential section. The first, second,... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20090266251 - Variable cut off printing press having flexible plate and blanket: A printing press is provided including a plate cylinder having an outer perimeter of a first length. A removable flexible continuous tubular plate having an inner perimeter of a second length is disposed about the plate cylinder. The second length is greater than the first length so that the inner... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20090266253 - Roller of a printing machine comprising a device for generating an axial oscillating movement of the rotating roller: A roller of a printing machine includes a device for use in the generation of an axial oscillating movement of the rotating roller. The device includes a drive that is comprised of a pump which pressurizes a working fluid. The pump is arranged inside of the roller.... Agent: Jones, Tullar & Cooper, P.C.

20090266254 - Gravure printing roll and method of manufacturing the same: Disclosed is a novel gravure printing roll which has no toxicity, causes no deterioration of the environment, has a surface-reinforcing coating layer and is excellent in print durability and printing performance. Also disclosed is a method of manufacturing of the gravure printing roll. The gravure printing roll includes a hollow... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20090266255 - Doctor blade chamber: At least one additional doctor blade (13) can be inserted into the ink chamber doctor blade (1) and can be fixed by means of holding devices (9, 14) inside the ink chamber (2). The holding devices comprise at least one element (14), which is pretensioned by elastic force against at... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20090266256 - Doctor blade system: A doctor blade system utilizes a lightweight doctor blade chamber to apply ink to an inking roller. The doctor blade chamber is removably positioned on a support plate which is, in turn, carried by linear guides on pivotable end plates. A rigid box beam is also attached to the end... Agent: Jones, Tullar & Cooper, P.C.

20090266257 - Printing plate handling device: A printing plate handling device for holding a printing plate (11) adjacent to one edge (12) of the plate, especially adjacent to a bent-over leading edge or a bent-over trailing edge of the printing plate, with a mechanism for holding the printing plate (11) in a flat, frictionally-engaged manner along... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090266258 - Method and system for optimally drying ink on a substrate material: A method and system for optimally drying ink printed on the face of a substrate material. According to the method and system, a variable output dryer is provided having at least one variable output element for producing a plurality of dryer configurations. The method further includes the steps of depositing... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc.

20090260528 - Cleaning device and method for silk-screen printing of plate elements for electronics or the like: A cleaning device for cleaning a silk-screen printing station able to effect a silk-screen print, by means of a print paste, of impressions on silicon or alumina-based plate elements, such as of the type for electronics, or other types of plate for electronics, and comprising a net with incisions coherent... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20090260529 - Color-gradient printing system: An inker for applying ink to a transfer roll of a printing machine has an inking chamber extending longitudinally along the transfer roll and having an outlet also extending longitudinally along the transfer roll and open against the transfer roll and a first generally cylindrical mixing chamber centered on an... Agent: K.f. Ross P.C.

20090260530 - Method for operating a printing press and printing press implementing the method: A method for operating a printing press having a printing unit and a cleaning apparatus includes, in a first step, starting up the printing unit in order to print therewith, and in a subsequent, second step, displacing the cleaning apparatus into the printing unit running in printing operation and/or out... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090260531 - Aluminum alloy plate for lithographic printing plate, lithographic printing plate support, presensitized plate, method of manufacturing aluminum alloy plate for lithographic printing plate and method of manufacturing lithographic printing plate support: An aluminum alloy plate for a lithographic printing plate capable of obtaining a lithographic printing plate having an excellent resistance to spotting, a method of manufacturing such aluminum alloy plate, a lithographic printing plate support obtained by using such aluminum alloy plate, and a presensitized plate and in particular an... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090255422 - Apparatus for printing poultry eggs: Disclosed is a stamp head (1) for printing uneven surfaces, especially agricultural products such as poultry eggs, by means of screen printing. The stamp ink is stored in a tampon (5) within a stamp chamber (2) and is transferred to the egg surface with the aid of structures of a... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20090255423 - Printing device for printing cylindrical or spherical objects: The present invention provides for a printing device for printing the surface of a cylindrical or spherical object, including a drive mechanism, a printing mechanism, and a rolling mechanism, wherein the rolling mechanism includes a first shaft and a second shaft positioned in a spaced-apart relationship for receiving the object... Agent: John B. Stevens, Jr.

20090255424 - Squeegee for printing device, printing device, and printing method: [Means for Solving the Problems] A squeegee for a printing device applies paste on a stencil 7 onto a substrate W by spreading the paste by sliding a tip end 22a along a surface of the stencil 7 disposed on the substrate W. The squeegee is formed of an expanded... Agent: Studebaker & Brackett PC

20090255425 - Screen printing apparatus and screen printing method: The invention provides a screen printing apparatus and a screen printing method with which the separability of the printing member just after printing a print material has been improved. This invention relates to a screen printing apparatus comprising: a printing means including, a printing member with elasticity and with soft... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090255426 - Method and apparatus for placing substrate support components: An apparatus for depositing viscous material on an electronic substrate includes a frame, a dispensing unit coupled to the frame, and a substrate support assembly coupled to the frame. The substrate support assembly includes a plurality of support elements, a table coupled to the frame. The table has a support... Agent: Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20090255427 - Hand-stamp with upper inking: A hand stamp with upper inking and comprising a housing displaceably accommodating an ink pad, an actuating part displaceably guided on the housing and pivotably supporting a character unit, which character unit includes at least one loop-shaped character band with stamp characters and is arranged within the housing and which,... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.C.

20090255429 - Printing press: A printing press includes an apparatus for handling or manipulating varnishing plates or printing plates, having a plate feed channel which is at least temporarily disposed in a plate feed position for feeding a varnishing or printing plate out of the plate feed channel to a plate cylinder. A seat... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090255428 - Printing units comprising several printing groups, and printing tower: The invention relates to a printing unit (16; 17) comprising several printing groups (03; 04; 21; 22; 28; 29; 31; 32), each of which is provided with at least one plate cylinder (07) and at least one transfer cylinder (06) that is arranged so as to cooperate directly with the... Agent: Jones, Tullar & Cooper, P.C.

20090255430 - Printing press: It is the object to provide a printing press having no fear of interruption of printing operation and also having a structure by which the utilization efficiency thereof is increased. A printing press is provided that includes a plurality of blowers each having an air supply tube for supplying air,... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20090249969 - Printer having increased solution volume of printing and increased print quality and speed: A printer for digital printing in which ink is deposited in metered amounts on a substrate. The printer includes a wheel rotatable by a shaft of a motor, an idler disposed in a paint reservoir, and a segment of wire disposed around the wheel and the idler. A computer controls... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20090249970 - Dampening device of a spray-dampening unit: A dampening device of a spray-dampening unit includes a dampening-unit housing, with a positioning element and a spray bar, the positioning element having a mounting region and an abutment region, and being mounted exchangeably on the dampening-unit housing via the mounting region, and the abutment region configured such that the... Agent: Richard M. Goldberg

20090249971 - Printing machine and method for its calibration: The printing machine comprises a central roller (3); at least one printing unit (5) with a cliché roller (7) and means (9, 13) for applying ink to the cliché roller. A control unit (50) in also provided, interfaced with at least one actuator (19) to move the printing unit towards... Agent: Breiner & Breiner, L.L.C.

20090249972 - Method for making a lithographic printing plate: e