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Rotary patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.

01/03/08 - 20080000368 - Punching, embossing, engraving or printing system
A punching, embossing, engraving or printing system wherein a continuous strip of material (17), which extends along a certain run, interacts with a rotating element equipped with a punching, embossing, engraving or printing ring (12, 112, 212), having one or more metal punching sheets or cliches (15, 115; 16, 116), ...

12/06/07 - 20070277687 - Printing ink units of a printing machine and printing mechanism with a pump inking unit
A pump inking unit of a printing machine is usable to dose a predetermined amount of ink onto axially adjacent areas of a peripheral surface of a roller, by the provision of a discharge opening, with the aid of several dosing pumps. These several dosing pumps are arranged adjacent each ...

10/25/07 - 20070245911 - Drive for a rotary printing press
A drive for a rotary printing press has a clutch with improved reliability in the main drive gear train. The drive has a gearwheel mechanism for transmitting a rotational movement of transfer drums during delivery of a printing material. The gearwheel mechanism includes a gearwheel pair with a driving gearwheel ...

10/18/07 - 20070240591 - Machine with temperature monitoring of a roller
The temperature of a machine, which includes a rotating cylinder, and at least one roller that rotates with the cylinder, is maintained. The rotating cylinder carries a plate. The machine is provided with at least one temperature sensor for detecting the temperature of the roller. ...

08/09/07 - 20070181018 - Rotary element of a printing press, having an encoder and a synthesizer
A rotary element of a printing press is provided, in particular in a folding apparatus of the printing press, including an encoder for generating a first periodic signal in response to rotation of the rotary element, the encoder being linked to an evaluation unit which has at least one synthesizer ...

08/09/07 - 20070181017 - Transport device for sleeve-shaped covers
A transport device for sleeve-shaped covers for cylinders in printing units of a printing press includes a translation element and a number of carrier elements for sleeve-shaped covers. The carrier elements are received on the translation element. A movement of the translation element causes at least a group of carrier ...

08/02/07 - 20070175345 - Devices for mounting a cylinder, printing unit, and method for adjustment of a print on- position
A cylinder of a printing press is mounted using a bearing block. A radial bearing is movable in spaced linear bearings along an adjustment direction of the cylinder. The bearing is embodied as a modular bearing unit which may be a one piece assembly. The linear bearing is included in ...

08/02/07 - 20070175344 - Quick disconnect motor mount
A quick disconnect motor mount for use with hand operated adjustment wheels, such as used in a printing press. ...

07/26/07 - 20070169648 - Dressing on a cylinder, or a transfer cylinder, as well as printing units of a printing press
A blanket is located on an outer surface of a roller, such as a printing unit roller. The blanket has an elastic and/or a compressive layer with a surface pressure that depends on the degree of the impression. The layer is selected so that a depending of the surface pressure ...

07/26/07 - 20070169647 - Servomechanical inker for a container decorator
An improved inking apparatus is provided that omits the use of the bull gear generally known in the art. More specifically, bull gears have traditionally been used in inking apparatus to rotate pinion gears that rotate shafts interconnected to plate cylinders. Plate cylinders in turn apply ink to a blanket ...

07/19/07 - 20070163455 - Pad for embossing device
For transferring an image-forming layer from a transfer foil a printing sheet, an adhesive layer is first applied to the sheet to be printed. The transfer foil provided with the image-forming layer is guided past the printing sheet under pressure, in a coating module (2), such that the image-forming layer ...

06/14/07 - 20070131124 - Printing plate, method of manufacturing the printing plate, roll printing apparatus including the printing plate, and method of manufacturing display device using the roll printing apparatus
A printing plate, a method of manufacturing the printing plate, a roll printing apparatus including the printing plate, and a method of manufacturing a display device using the roll printing apparatus are provided. The roll printing apparatus includes a printing plate including an array of a plurality of grooves arranged ...

06/07/07 - 20070125249 - Arrangement and method for synchronizing printing presses and additional components
An arrangement for synchronizing printing presses and additional components, in which arrangement a printing press and/or an additional component form/forms a unit and are/is connected to further units, and the drives of the connected units are synchronized, the units having either AC drives and/or DC drives and being synchronized internally ...

06/07/07 - 20070125248 - Embossing drum system with removable outer sleeve and methods of use
In one embodiment, an embossing drum system comprise: a mandrel having outer surface with an external taper, a primary journal extending from a first end of the mandrel, a secondary journal extending from a second end of the journal, a sleeve having an inner sleeve surface with an internal taper, ...

05/31/07 - 20070119316 - Cylindrical body supporting device
A cylindrical body supporting device includes a pair of holders for respectively supporting both end sides in an axial direction of a rotary screen cylinder, and a pair of first eccentric bearings for rotatably supporting the pair of holders. The cylindrical body supporting device also includes an adjusting screw, a ...

05/24/07 - 20070113747 - Slip roller or ductor roller for a printing machine
A roller for a printing machine, such as a slip roller or a ductor roller, has a circumferential surface provided with a surface structure and formed of a nonmetallic material. The surface structure is irregularly structured with a plurality of elongate elevations extending substantially parallel to the roller axis and ...

05/17/07 - 20070107612 - Cylinder of a printing press and bearing arrangements for it
A cylinder assembly for a printing press includes a pair of bearing assemblies mounted in side frames of a printing press, and a cylinder body having a pair of opposed end surfaces with no axle stubs clamped between the bearing assemblies. Each end surface is fixed to a respective bearing ...

03/29/07 - 20070068407 - Sheet guiding device for sheet feeders
A sheet-guiding device in a feed region of a sheet-processing machine includes a suction head settable to a format length of a sheet and flexible sheet-guiding elements disposed above a sheet conveying plane. The sheet-guiding elements have a constant length, are disposed so as to be stationary and are deflectable ...

03/29/07 - 20070068406 - Printing unit for a press
A printing unit for a web-fed rotary press includes a forme cylinder which receives at least one printing forme, an inking unit applying printing ink to the at least one printing forme on the forme cylinder, and a damping unit, if required, applying a damping solution to the at least ...

03/22/07 - 20070062390 - Assembly for rotary press
An assembly for a rotary press is provided including a hub which is suitable for being rotatably mounted about a center axis in a rotary press, a format adaptation sleeve and means for fixing the adaptation sleeve to the hub. The hub and the adaptation sleeve each include a stop ...

03/08/07 - 20070051258 - Device for imaging cylinder
A cylinder-imaging device for imaging a surface of a rotating cylinder is provided. The cylinder imaging device comprises supporting/rotating means operative to support the cylinder with the central axis thereof leveled and rotationally drive the cylinder by impinging on the outer circumference of the cylinder from below at both ends; ...

02/15/07 - 20070034100 - Seals for an image forming apparatus
The present invention relates to seals which may be used in an image forming apparatus. The seals may prevent the leakage of image forming materials, e.g. as between a blade and an image forming apparatus housing. ...

02/15/07 - 20070034099 - Seals for an image forming apparatus
The present invention relates to seals which may be used in an image forming apparatus. The seals may prevent the leakage of image forming materials, e.g. as between a blade and an image forming apparatus housing. ...

02/08/07 - 20070028788 - Printing unit comprising a rapidly exchangeable roller mandrel of a printing roller or screen roller
The invention provides that either the roller mandrel (5), at its coupling location or the receiving location (20) [sic; 13] of the coupling device (7), tapers in the axial direction of the roller mandrel (5). ...

01/25/07 - 20070017393 - Printing press arrangement
A printing press arrangement comprises at least one printing press including a control device and an input. At least one auxiliary system is provided that includes a control device. At least one system interface is provided for connecting the control device for the printing press to the control device for ...

01/11/07 - 20070006751 - Method for influencing lateral web spreading in a printing unit in a rotary printing press
A method for influencing lateral web spreading in a printing unit in a rotary printing press, the printing unit having first and second transfer cylinders contacting each other along a contact zone for receiving a web to be printed on therebetween and undergoing a deflection during operation, and at least ...

01/11/07 - 20070006750 - Hand proofer tool
A proofing tool including an anilox roll and an impression roll that are shiftable relative to each other between an engaged position and a disengaged position. The invention further includes a positive rotational linkage between the anilox roll and the impression roll whereby a pitch velocity of the anilox roll ...

01/11/07 - 20070006749 - Cylinder for flexographic printing, with angular position control device
The invention relates to a machine roller for flexographic printing, comprising an angular position control device. The inventive roller (1) is of the type that is connected to an actuation assembly (2) by means of a coupling (3) between one end (4a) of a shaft (4) belonging to the roller ...

12/14/06 - 20060278105 - Positioning device for printing device of printing apparatus for paperboards for making paper boxes
A printing apparatus for paperboards includes two movable frame plates, a printing device mounted between the movable frame plates, two side frames each having an opening in an upper portion thereof to allow hoisting of the movable frame plates, and at least one positioning device mounted on each side frame. ...

12/07/06 - 20060272523 - Direct drive for a printing-press cylinder
This drive is distinguished by the fact that the rotor (6.1) is connected to an end side of the roller bearing (4), and the stator (6.2) is accommodated by a housing (9) which can be fastened to the connecting construction (3) via a bearing housing (5). The advantage of this ...

11/30/06 - 20060266237 - Printing-material-carrying surface with micro-elevations, printing press cylinder and printing press having the surface and process having the surface and process for applying a fluid additive and printing process using the surface
A printing-material-carrying surface, having micro-elevations which make contact with a printing material provided with printing ink, is at least partly provided, preferably substantially only at peaks of the micro-elevations, with a fluid additive to improve print quality, in particular in recto and verso printing. The fluid additive, in particular a ...

11/30/06 - 20060266236 - Mandrel locking unit for printing roller mandrels in a rotary printing machine
The present invention relates to a mandrel-locking unit (1) for a rotary printing machine in which (1) a mandrel-mounting element (9)—preferably, a sleeve—surrounds print roller mandrels (13) in its inner bearing (11) for mounting the mandrel-supporting surface (12) and into which (1) the mandrel-mounting element (9) can be slid in ...

11/23/06 - 20060260484 - Sheet forming apparatus and roller gap control method
An sheet forming apparatus selectively uses two control modes: a constant roller gap control mode where a roller gap is controlled by a roller gap adjustment means so that the roller gap converges a predetermined control target value; and a constant pressing load control mode where the roller gap is ...

11/23/06 - 20060260483 - Device for elastically stabilizing vertebral bodies
A device for elastically stabilizing vertebral bodies includes at least two bone anchoring means, each having a central axis and a head segment. The device also includes elastic means that can be joined to the head segments of two adjacent bone anchoring means in such a manner that the longitudinal ...

11/23/06 - 20060260482 - Roller device for an image forming apparatus
A roller device for an image forming apparatus includes a rotary roller having a shaft; and a driving gear connected with the shaft to rotate together with the roller and integrally including a gear unit for power transmission and a bushing unit for position control of the roller. The shaft ...

11/16/06 - 20060254442 - Compensation of cylinder vibration in printing material processing machines
A compensation device (9) for vibrations of an angle variable in a printing material processing machine (1) having an associated actuator (6) which acts on the angle variable, the compensation device (9) receiving a signal representative of the angle variable characteristic, and the compensation device (9) generating an output signal ...

10/05/06 - 20060219110 - Distributor unit for liquid substances
Distributor unit, comprising a reservoir (7) containing a liquid substance, an anilox cylinder (8) and a cliché cylinder (9) onto which is movably fitted a cliche jacket (18), the reservoir (7), the anilox cylinder (8) and the cliche cylinder (9) being movable from and to a cylinder (2) on which ...

09/28/06 - 20060213384 - Sheet quality control device
The invention relates to a device for checking the quality of articles to be checked, comprising a first inspection device which detects image data of a surface on the front side of the article to be checked and an evaluation device which evaluates the quality of the article to be ...

09/28/06 - 20060213383 - Printing tower comprising at least two printing groups
A printing tower includes at least two printing groups which can each be controlled independently of the other by the entry of data into an operating unit. The operating unit is configured independently of the printing groups and can selectively exchange data with different printing groups. ...

09/21/06 - 20060207451 - Mobile navigator having locked braces
By using hooks and slots, the present invention strengthens the robustness of a support used in a navigator for a mobile and the support is assembled with ease. Moreover, problems on assembling the support are solved by the guidance of the hooks. ...

09/21/06 - 20060207450 - Drive device and method for controlling a unit of a printing press
A drive device of a printing press comprises a virtual guide axle (a, b) for specifying a set angular position of a drive (08) of at least one unit (01, 02, 03, 04, 06, 07) driven by its own drive motor (M). At least one circuit (15, 20) is connected ...

09/14/06 - 20060201352 - Roller rotary drive transmitting apparatus
A roller rotary drive transmitting apparatus includes an internal gear, sun gear, at least one planet gear, carrier, anilox roller, and controller. The internal gear is rotatably driven by a printing press motor. The sun gear is rotatably driven by an anilox roller motor. The planet gear meshes with the ...

09/14/06 - 20060201351 - Self-propelled imaging system
Printing cylinder supporting unit for a printing machine, with a supporting frame (27) and supporting means mounted on said supporting frame for rotatably supporting one of several printing cylinders (1), which are designed so that in the operating state they make contact along a contact line (6) with a substrate ...

08/24/06 - 20060185537 - Method for positioning a sleeve on a printing-press cylinder, and printing-press cylinder
A method for positioning a sleeve on a printing-press cylinder includes providing a printing-press cylinder, a sleeve which is to be positioned on the printing-press cylinder, and a polyvinyl alcohol. The polyvinyl alcohol is applied to at least one of an outer surface of the printing-press cylinder and an inner ...

08/24/06 - 20060185536 - Printing press roll and cylinder
A press pull roll for moving a printing web through a printing press, especially through a folder, includes a roll body which moves the web, and a motor inside the roll body for driving the roll body in rotation. The motor includes a stationary spindle having stator windings, and rotor ...

08/17/06 - 20060180038 - Pressurizing device
A reciprocating body 12 is reciprocably housed in a cylinder body 6, and a pressure rod 20 is reciprocably attached to this reciprocating body 12. A pressure end 20a of the pressure rod 20 protrudes from the cylinder body 12 toward the outside. By the reciprocating body 12 and diaphragms ...

07/20/06 - 20060156934 - Rotary printing press
A rotary printing press that is selectively usable for different printing technologies. The rotary printing press contains a printing platform that can receive a printing head for a standard flexographic printing process or a printing head for a silk-screen printing process. Therefore, different printing technologies can be realized with the ...

06/08/06 - 20060117973 - Machine for in-register mounting of flexographic printing plates
A machine for in-register mounting of flexographic printing plates with a virtual data-processing system, having a supporting footing for a printing plate cylinder, on which a respective flexographic printing plate is mounted, suitable for printing a predefined image, and at least one television camera, which is connected to a monitor, ...

06/08/06 - 20060117972 - Printing module, and printing machine provided with such printing module
A printing module provided with an impression roller, a plate cylinder assembly (22), an anilox roller (33) and a doctor roller, the impression roller (13) being rotatably bearing-mounted in a main frame, the plate cylinder being rotatably bearing-mounted in a first subframe (15) which is movably connecte, with the main ...

06/08/06 - 20060117971 - Printing module, and printing machine provided with such printing module
A printing module provided with a frame (12), an impression roller (13), a plate cylinder assembly (22), an anilox roller and a doctor roller, wherein the printing module comprises two receiving units disposed on opposite sides of the plate cylinder, which are connected with the frame, while fixation means are ...

04/06/06 - 20060070538 - Printing machine, and plate recording apparatus
An image recording apparatus includes a recording head, a recording head move mechanism, and a light quantity correcting device. The recording head has a light source, an optical lens, a light emitting portion and a contact portion. The light quantity correcting device has a light quantity sensor with a light ...

02/02/06 - 20060021531 - Printing cylinder support unit, positioning element, printing cylinder provided with positioning element, printing machine provided with printing cyliner support unit, and its use
The printing cylinder support unit for a printing machine according to the invention comprises a support frame, supporting means mounted on the support frame, and one of a plurality of positioning elements. The supporting means comprise displacement means and at least three support elements for each axial end of a ...

02/02/06 - 20060021530 - Apparatus and method of enhancing printing press cylinders
A printing press cylinder and a method of manufacturing the same. The printing press cylinder includes a rigid base member having a reduced radius section and a polymer layer formed about the rigid base member generally within the reduced radius section. The polymer layer is operable to absorb forces and ...

12/29/05 - 20050284316 - Drive devices and method for driving a processing machine
A processing machine for webs includes second units which are driven independently of each other by drives. Signals for a lead axle position of a virtual lead axle are supplied to at least one signal line that connects the drives for these several units. The drives are each provided with ...

12/22/05 - 20050279232 - Method for reducing vibrations in rotating components
Undesirable bending vibrations in at least one rotating component are reduced. An undesirable vibration is counteracted by the use of at least one actuator. A required sequence of signals to be applied to the actuator and/or an intensity level of those signals is based on an angle of rotation position ...

12/15/05 - 20050274268 - Apparatus for pulling a sleeve on and off
In order to make handling easier, an apparatus for pulling a sleeve onto and off a printing-press cylinder has a head piece (8) having a positioning device (13) for defining the position of the head piece (8) with respect to the cylinder (1), a connecting device (14, 15) for fixing ...

11/24/05 - 20050257705 - Apparatus for the transportation of printing sleeves
An apparatus for transporting printing sleeves is provided. The transport apparatus includes a housing with a bottom wall, a plurality of side walls, and at least one cover. A plurality of reception devices are mounted in the housing. Each reception device receives a printing sleeve in a vertically oriented transport ...

11/24/05 - 20050257704 - Method for lateral adjustment of a directly driven load without shifting the entire drive assembly
This invention uses a combination of a rotor (rotating) component of an electromagnet motor that is integrated as part of a driven rotational load and immersed within an longer stator (stationary) component of the motor allowing for axial motion of the load (rotor) independent of the motor stator and housing. ...

11/24/05 - 20050257703 - Printing cylinder supporting unit, use of printing cylinder supporting unit, and printing machine provided with printing cylinder supporting unit
Printing cylinder supporting unit for a printing machine, with a supporting frame (27) aid supporting means mounted on said supporting frame for rotatably supporting one of several printing cylinders (1), which are designed so that in the operating state they make contact along a contact line (6) with a substrate ...

11/17/05 - 20050252396 - Method and apparatus for managing box finishing machine
A computer network is used to manage and monitor operation of a box-finishing machine which prints information on and cuts or creases corrugated boards to be formed into boxes. The equipment used on the machine is provided with radio frequency information tags detected by an electronic reader which transmits the ...

10/13/05 - 20050223921 - Devices for supporting and adjusting a form cylinder in a printing group of a rotary printing press
A forme cylinder is supported and adjusted in a printing group of a rotary printing press, which group includes a transfer cylinder and a counter-pressure cylinder, which two cylinders include interacting support elements. The forme cylinder does not include a support element which interacts with the transfer cylinder. The forme ...

10/06/05 - 20050217522 - Rolls and cylinders with a steel core for offset presses
A cylinder for an offset printing press comprising a steel core and a heat-conducting layer arranged on the steel core in order to uniformly distribute localized steel core heating. The heat can consist of copper and can be arranged in or underneath a functional layer on the cylinder. ...

09/29/05 - 20050211117 - Inking system for flexographic printing presses
It is considered as inventive that all the motors (11, 21) are mounted on the machine frame (2) on the side (turned toward the impression cylinder (1) of the two rollers (10, 20) involved in color transport. ...

09/22/05 - 20050204940 - Printing press cylinder
A multipart printing press cylinder. A pair of hubs have an inner bore for mounting on a press shaft. Each hub is made in two parts which may be positioned about the press shaft and attached to each other by, e.g. screws. Each hub has a profile section. A pair ...

08/04/05 - 20050166774 - Printing machine
The bearings of a printing roller of a printing machine, preferably of a flexoprinting machine, with at least one counter-pressure cylinder and with at least one printing roller, which on one end is taper bore mounted in the frame, are conveyable in guideways relative to the counter-pressure cylinder. A bearing ...

07/07/05 - 20050145124 - Printing unit arrangement in a web-fed rotary printing press
A printing unit arrangement in a web-fed rotary printing press includes at least one printing unit 2a having a first and second plate cylinder 4, 6 and associated first and second blanket cylinders 8, 10 which are mechanically coupled via meshing gear wheels and which are commonly driven by one ...

06/02/05 - 20050115427 - Bearing support system for a printing press having cantilevered cylinders
A bearing assembly for use on a printing press is disclosed. A printing press includes a support frame. A shaft having a first end and a second end fixedly attached to the support frame, the shaft arranged to define a longitudinal axis relative to the support frame. A cylinder, the ...



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