| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 101153000 | Rotary | 47 |
| 20080271619 | Printing Blanket - In order to subject optically variable elements to lower stresses in a printing blanket ( | 11-06-2008 |
| 20080289520 | PRINTING ROLLER APPARATUS AND METHOD - A printing roller apparatus and method are for use with ink and a gel carried on an operatively rotating casting drum. The apparatus and method include a print roller and a drive member. The print roller has an exterior print surface rollably engaging the gel. The drive member directly engages the casting drum and operatively rotates the print roller, such that the print surface moves coincident with the gel carried on the operatively rotating casting drum. An even distribution of the ink is transferred from the print surface to the gel, so as to clearly print at least one print indicium thereon. | 11-27-2008 |
| 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 produce this type of printed or coated substrate, the composition is first transferred to cells or recesses, having a depth of these dimensions, onto a printing surface (e.g., a gravure cylinder) and then at least partially cured. The at least partially cured composition is then transferred to the substrate (e.g., paper or plastic) where additional curing may occur, to produce the final printed or coated article. | 06-11-2009 |
| 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 part-cylindrical printing plate fitted over the roll body has angularly adjacent ends extending radially into the recess. These ends of the plate are fastened to the roll body in the recess. The plate also has an outer surface with a part-cylindrical central part centered on the axis and a pair of end parts flanking the recess and angled inward from the central part so as to define with the axis radii that are increasingly shorter from the central part to the recess. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090249971 | Printing machine and method for its calibration - The printing machine comprises a central roller ( | 10-08-2009 |
| 20100294149 | INTAGLIO PRINTING PRESS - An intaglio printing press includes: an intaglio cylinder; an ink collecting cylinder which has a blanket attached to a circumferential surface of the collecting cylinder, is in contact with the intaglio cylinder, and transfers ink onto the intaglio cylinder; multiple chablon rollers which are in contact with the ink collecting cylinder and transfer ink onto the ink collecting cylinder; and an inking device which feeds ink to the chablon rollers. In the intaglio printing press, a work space is formed between the chablon roller located at the highest position and the chablon roller immediately below the highest chablon roller. The work space allows an access to the ink collecting cylinder without detachment of the chablon rollers. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20110192297 | PRINTING SYSTEM HAVING A RAISED IMAGE PRINTING CYLINDER - A printing arrangement having a rotatable printing cylinder and raised image and non-raised non-image portions on the circumference of the printing cylinder. The arrangement has an array of smooth rollers for applying an ink onto the image on the printing cylinder and not applying ink onto the non-image portion. A first smooth roller is mounted for rotation near the printing cylinder and a second smooth roller mounted for rotation near the first roller forming an ink gap between the two smooth rollers. Ink is dispersed across the first smooth roller and applied onto the image on the printing cylinder. The arrangement has a rotatable counter pressure cylinder mounted with the printing cylinder such that when a web is passed through a gap between the printing and counter pressure cylinders, and when ink applied to the image portion on the printing cylinder, ink is transferred from the image onto the substrate material. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110283905 | GRAVURE OFFSET PRINTING PRESS - A gravure offset printing press includes a first gravure plate cylinder, second gravure plate cylinder, blanket cylinder, and impression cylinder. The first gravure plate cylinder includes, on its circumferential surface, a first recess to be filled with ink. The second gravure plate cylinder includes, on its circumferential surface, a second recess which is to be filled with ink and has a width in its circumferential direction, that is larger than that of the first recess. The blanket cylinder comes into contact with the first gravure plate cylinder and the second gravure plate cylinder to receive the inks from the first and the second gravure plate cylinders. The contact position between the second gravure plate cylinder and the blanket cylinder is located upstream, in the rotation direction of the blanket cylinder, of the contact position between the first gravure plate cylinder and the blanket cylinder. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20120192736 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MOUNTING PARTICLES ON A CARRIER - Method and apparatus for individually positioning and mounting particles on a target carrier according to a predefined pattern. In particular the particles are spheres of an electrically chargeable material with a diameter in the range of 10 micrometer up to one millimeter and are electrically conductive. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120222569 | APPARATUS FOR APPLYING INDICIA HAVING A LARGE COLOR GAMUT ON WEB SUBSTRATES - A gravure printing system is disclosed. The gravure printing system has a central roll with a plurality of discrete cells disposed upon an outer surface thereof. A first of the plurality of discrete cells are capable of receiving at least one fluid and a second of the plurality of discrete cells are capable of receiving at least two fluids. Each of the fluids is fluidically displaced into the first and second cells from a position internal to the central roll. | 09-06-2012 |
| 20120222570 | APPARATUS FOR APPLYING INDICIA HAVING A LARGE COLOR GAMUT ON WEB SUBSTRATES - A gravure printing system is disclosed. The gravure printing system of the present disclosure is provided with a central roll having a plurality of discrete cells disposed upon an outer surface thereof. A first of the plurality of discrete cells receives a first fluid from a first position internal to the central roll and a second of the plurality of discrete cells receives a second fluid from a second position internal to the central roll, the first fluid being different from the second fluid. The first and second cells are disposed adjacent each other upon the outer surface. | 09-06-2012 |
| 20120222571 | APPARATUS FOR APPLYING INDICIA HAVING A LARGE COLOR GAMUT ON WEB SUBSTRATES - A contact printing system is disclosed. The contact printing system is provided with a central roll having a plurality of discrete cells disposed upon an outer surface thereof. Each of the plurality of discrete cells is in fluidic communication with a respective fluid delivery channel. Each of the fluid delivery channels are formed in situ with the formation of the central roll and the plurality of cells. | 09-06-2012 |
| 20120222572 | APPARATUS FOR APPLYING INDICIA HAVING A LARGE COLOR GAMUT ON WEB SUBSTRATES - A contact printing system is disclosed. The contact printing system has a central roll having a plurality of discrete cells disposed upon an outer surface thereof. Adjacent cells of the plurality of discrete cells each have a fluid disposed therein from a respective location internal to the central roll. Each fluid is disposable from each of the cells to a web substrate and provides a resultant color upon the web substrate having a 2-D gamut boundary represented by a defined system of CIELab equations. | 09-06-2012 |
| 20120312179 | INTAGLIO PRINTING PRESS WITH INK-COLLECTING CYLINDER - There is described an intaglio printing press comprising (i) a stationary machine frame ( | 12-13-2012 |
| 20130008328 | REVERSE GRAVURE OFFSET PRINTING METHOD AND APPARATUS USING DISPOSABLE CLICHE - Disclosed are a reverse gravure offset printing method and apparatus using a disposable cliche, which do not require cleaning of the cliche and do not require a large quantity of high-definition cliches because the cliche used in reverse gravure offset printing can be discarded after used once or several times and replaced with a new one, thereby achieving cost reduction. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130092038 | APPARATUS FOR DIGITAL FLEXOGRAPHIC PRINTING - A digital flexography system includes an imaging member with a charge generating layer formed from an array of addressable pixels and a charge transport layer thereon. Ink is delivered to the imaging member using a simple rough donor roll, rather than an anilox roll. Instead of controlling the amount of ink delivered using the anilox roll, the amount of ink is controlled by the pixels on the imaging member. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130104757 | PROCESS FOR COLOR VARIABILITY IN PRINTING TO SIMULATE COLOR VARIATION OF NATURAL PRODUCT | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130104758 | INTAGLIO PRINTING PRESS | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130112095 | INTAGLIO PRINTING PRESS WITH MOBILE CARRIAGE SUPPORTING INK-COLLECTING CYLINDER - There is described an intaglio printing press comprising (i) a stationary machine frame ( | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130312625 | SECURITIES PRINTER - A printer is provided with: offset printing units ( | 11-28-2013 |
| 20140096693 | APPARATUS OF FORMING PATTERN, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME - A pattern forming apparatus includes a substrate receiving part on which a printed substrate formed with an organic layer thereon is disposed, and a rotation roll that removes portions of the organic layer to form a pattern. The rotation roll includes a rotation body having a cylindrical shape, a pivot engaged with the rotation body to transfer a rotational force to the rotation body, and a blanket attached to an outer surface of the rotation body. The blanket includes an embossed pattern formed on a surface thereof. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140182465 | INTAGLIO PRINTING PRESS - An intaglio printing press includes: a first intaglio printing unit; a second intaglio printing unit; a dryer for drying a printed surface of a sheet subjected to printing by the first intaglio printing unit; a convertible unit which holds and conveys the sheet received from the first intaglio printing unit and passes the sheet to the second intaglio printing unit in such a way that a surface of the sheet to be subjected to intaglio printing by the second intaglio printing unit is switchable between one surface and another surface of the sheet; and a second skewing adjustment cylinder and a second circumferential adjustment cylinder which are disposed between the convertible unit and the second intaglio printing unit and which adjust a position of a pattern to be intaglio-printed on the sheet by the second intaglio printing unit. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140360392 | APPARATUS FOR APPLYING INDICIA ON WEB SUBSTRATES - A contact printing system is disclosed. A gravure cylinder having a plurality of discrete cells disposed upon an outer surface thereof. A first portion of a first fluid and a second portion of a second fluid are disposed from a respective channel disposed internal to the gravure cylinder. The gravure cylinder, including the first and second at least one channels and the plurality of discrete cells, is formed so that the gravure cylinder has a unibody construction and has no moving parts interior to the gravure cylinder. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20140360393 | APPARATUS FOR APPLYING INDICIA ON WEB SUBSTRATES - A contact printing system is disclosed. A gravure cylinder having a plurality of discrete cells disposed upon an outer surface thereof. A first portion of a first fluid and a second portion of a second fluid are disposed from a respective channel disposed internal to the gravure cylinder. The gravure cylinder, including the first and second at least one channels and the plurality of discrete cells, is formed so that the gravure cylinder has a unibody construction and has no moving parts interior to the gravure cylinder. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20150027329 | APPARATUS FOR APPLYING INDICIA ON WEB SUBSTRATES - A gravure printing system is disclosed. A gravure cylinder having a first and a second plurality of discrete cells disposed upon an outer surface. A cell of the first plurality of discrete cells receives a first portion of a fluid from a first reservoir and a cell of the second plurality of discrete cells receives a second portion of the fluid from a second reservoir. The first and second portions of the fluid is fluidically displaceable into the respective first and second reservoirs through a discrete channel having a single entry point at a position external to the gravure cylinder, a first exit point into the first reservoir, and a second exit point into the second reservoir. The discrete channel provides fluid communication of the first and second portions of the fluid from the position external to the gravure cylinder to each of the respective first and second reservoirs. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150040783 | FLEXOGRAPHIC PRINTING USING FLEXOGRAPHIC PRINTING ROLL CONFIGURATIONS - In a flexographic printing system, the both the process parameters and equipment setup and configuration may play a role in producing the desired printed pattern. One component of the equipment setup is the printer roller assembly which may comprise a roller and a flexoplate as well as tape. The properties of the flexoplate and the tape as well as the relative dimensions of each in the assembly may affect the geometry and quality of the transferred pattern, as well as the ability of the system to produce a pattern on a repeatable, consistent basis. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150090138 | OPTIMIZED INTERNALLY-FED HIGH-SPEED ROTARY PRINTING DEVICE - A rotary device for high-speed printing or coating of a web substrate is disclosed. The printing system provides a gravure roll rotatable about an axis at a surface velocity, ν, and a fluid channel having a pressure drop throughout the fluid channel due to friction, P | 04-02-2015 |
| 20150135977 | INTAGLIO PRINTING PRESS - There is described an intaglio printing press ( | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150314587 | DEVICE PRINTING INTENDED PATTERN AND METHOD THEREOF - Configurations of a device that prints an intended pattern, and methods thereof are disclosed. The proposed device that prints the intended pattern includes a first roller used to print a first pattern having a first pattern direction on a printable media, wherein the first pattern direction and a first print direction have a first included angle of no larger than 50 degrees therebetween, and a second roller used to print a second pattern having a second pattern direction on the printable media, wherein the second pattern direction and a second print direction have a second included angle of no larger than 50 degrees therebetween, the first print direction and the second print direction are perpendicular to each other, and the first and the second patterns form the intended pattern. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150352829 | GRAVURE OFFSET PRINTING METHOD, GRAVURE OFFSET PRINTING DEVICE, AND GRAVURE PLATE - Provided are a gravure offset printing method, a gravure offset printing apparatus, and a gravure plate that allow a fine wiring pattern to be accurately printed on the material to be printed. A gravure offset printing method executed by a gravure offset printing apparatus includes a step of filling a groove on a gravure plate with a printing paste, a step of offsetting the printing paste from the groove on the gravure plate to the blanket, and a step of transferring the printing paste from the blanket to a substrate. The groove on the gravure plate includes a region having a width of 100 to 700 μm in a direction perpendicular to a print direction. The region has a leading end tapered forward in the print direction and a trailing end split into a pair of branches by a notch tapered forward in the print direction. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20160144610 | INTAGLIO PRINTING MACHINE AND INTAGLIO PRINTING METHOD - An intaglio printing machine provided with a plate cylinder ( | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160152019 | INTAGLIO PRINTING PRESS SYSTEMS FOR RECTO-VERSO INTAGLIO-PRINTING OF SHEETS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF BANKNOTES AND LIKE SECURITIES | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160159072 | METHOD FOR PREPARING A COATING OF A CYLINDRICAL SURFACE OF A SCANNING SLEEVE FOR A PRINTING MACHINE AND SCANNING SLEEVE THAT IS PREPARED BY THIS METHOD - A method for manufacturing and regenerating a functional surface of an anilox sleeve or anilox roller for a printing machine with a coating protecting against wear and corrosion. The anilox sleeve is preferably made out of a lightweight plastic on which an intermediate layer is applied and has a metal tube located above the intermediate layer. During a first phase, the worn engraving and the old layer are ground off from the cylindrical surface of the anilox sleeve, that is to say from the metal tube, and a coating, a carbidic tungsten carbide-cobalt-chromium layer (WC—Co—Cr) is subsequently applied. This carbidic layer is applied by a high-speed flame spraying (HVOF) process and subsequently functionalized by laser. | 06-09-2016 |
| 101154000 | Transfer with scraper wiper | 3 |
| 20090090259 | Segmented Gravure Print Cylinder System - A print station has print cylinder with axially spaced segments for printing different coating materials on a substrate at a single print station. The coating material is stored in adjacent wells separated by walls within a trough. The walls may be notched to receive the shaft of the print cylinder with each of the print cylinder segments disposed in one of the wells for receiving the coating material. Each of the print cylinder segments can receive the coating material from its respective well and then simultaneously in the respective well and applying it to a substrate. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090288567 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING ROLL-TO-ROLL ROTARY PRESSING PROCESS - The present invention discloses an apparatus for manufacturing electronic devices using a roll-to-roll rotary pressing process, comprising a winding roll around which flexible printing paper is wound; a plurality of printing units arranged in a straight line; at least one coating unit; a rewinding roll to rewind the printing paper when printing has been completed; a plurality of guide rolls arranged between the winding roll and the rewinding roll, thus guiding the printing paper; a plurality of drying units, each drying unit being provided on a printing paper-path between the printing unit and the adjacent guide roll to dry ink transferred to the printing paper or on a printing paper-path between the coating unit and the adjacent guide roll to dry the printing paper on which coating agent is supplied; and tension regulating units installed around the winding roll and the rewinding roll, respectively, for regulating tension of the printing paper. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20120227598 | PLATE CYLINDER, PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD - A plate cylinder includes a base body with a cylindrical shape which is rotated in a predetermined direction and a pattern plate which is provided on an outer circumference surface of the base body and is rotated integrally with the base body and where a plurality of concave sections, which configures a predetermined printing pattern and is filled with conductive ink, is formed, where a blade, which wipes away the conductive ink which protrudes from the concave sections, contacts the outer circumference surface of the pattern plate, a blanket roll, to which the conductive ink is transferred and which performs printing by transferring the transferred conductive ink to a printing medium, contacts the outer circumference surface of the pattern plate, and a wall, which regulates infiltration of the blade and the blanket roll into the concave sections, is provided in the concave sections. | 09-13-2012 |
| 101155000 | Wiper | 11 |
| 20150040784 | PROOF PRINTING PRESS - A proof printing press includes an impression cylinder, a collecting cylinder, and a wiping roller, which are positioned relative to a plate cylinder such that a length of an outer circumference of the plate cylinder at a downstream side of a facing position P1 in a rotation direction of the plate cylinder is longer than a length in a circumferential direction of a mounting surface of the plate cylinder, where the length of the outer circumference of the plate cylinder extends between the facing position P1 where the plate cylinder faces the collecting cylinder and a facing position P2 where the plate cylinder faces the wiping roller, and that a length of the outer circumference of the plate cylinder at a downstream side of the facing position P2 in the rotation direction of the plate cylinder is longer than the length in the circumferential direction of the mounting surface of the plate cylinder, where the length of the outer circumference of the plate cylinder extends between the facing position P2 where the plate cylinder faces the wiping roller and a facing position P3 where the plate cylinder faces the impression cylinder. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150336376 | CONTACT PRESSURE ADJUSTING METHOD AND CONTACT PRESSURE ADJUSTING APPARATUS FOR PRINTING PRESS - A contact pressure adjusting method and a contact pressure adjusting apparatus for a printing press, which can adjust a contact pressure automatically and always highly accurately without the influence of mechanical oscillations (disturbance such as noise), are provided. For this purpose, the contact pressure (load) of a wiping roll on an intaglio cylinder is converted into the torque value (electric current value) of a wiping roll drive motor, and given as feedback to a wiping roll contact pressure adjusting motor. | 11-26-2015 |
| 101156000 | Web | 2 |
| 20100139511 | Intaglio Printing Press Systems for Recto-Verso Intaglio-Printing of Sheets for the Production of Banknotes and Like Securities - Intaglio printing press systems for recto-verso intaglio printing of sheets, in particular for the production of banknotes and the like securities, wherein first and second intaglio printing presses ( | 06-10-2010 |
| 20140338549 | INTAGLIO PRINTING PRESS SYSTEMS FOR RECTO-VERSO INTAGLIO-PRINTING OF SHEETS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF BANKNOTES AND LIKE SECURITIES - Intaglio printing press systems for recto-verso intaglio printing of sheets, in particular for the production of banknotes and the like securities, wherein first and second intaglio printing presses are operatively-coupled to one another by a sheet processing and transporting system comprising an automated guided vehicle system for automatically transporting sheets from a sheet delivery station of the first intaglio printing press where recto printing is performed to a sheet feeding station of the second intaglio printing press where verso printing is performed. | 11-20-2014 |
| 101157000 | Scraper | 7 |
| 20080216683 | Apparatus for Coating a Cylinder in Particular a Wiping Cylinder of an Intaglio Printing Press - There is described an apparatus ( | 09-11-2008 |
| 20100116158 | DOCTOR BLADE SYSTEM FOR PRINT UNIT INTENDED FOR A PHOTOGRAVURE PRINTING MACHINE - A doctor blade system intended for a print unit includes a doctor blade support provided with a blade, an edge of the blade is able to come into contact with a peripheral surface of an engraved printing cylinder, a supporting hub, on which the doctor blade support is mounted, a structure fixing the supporting hub to a frame of the print unit. Apparatus provides a reciprocating motion of the blade along the peripheral surface of the engraved cylinder roughly parallel to the axis of revolution of the engraved cylinder. Thrust elements drive movement of the blade along the direction of the peripheral surface of the engraved cylinder. The reciprocating apparatus directly drives the doctor blade support. The thrust element or elements move the supporting hub and the doctor blade support and the blade to maintain a constant contact over the entire length of the edge of the blade with the peripheral surface of the engraved cylinder. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100258015 | INK PAN SYSTEM FOR A ROTOGRAVURE PRINTING PRESS - An improved ink system for a single pan design of a rotogravure printing press includes: the reservoir enclosing a substantial portion of the gravure cylinder; the intake section bottom having a slope at the bottom of the intake section; an intake port through the bottom of the intake section; an outtake port through the bottom of the outtake section; the outtake section bottom having a slope at the bottom of the outtake section sloping toward the outtake port; a dam release lever connected to the gate and extending outside of the reservoir, a plurality of channels through the vortex promoter; a pre-wipe bar located between the doctor blade and the vortex promoter; journal port seals located on each side of the gravure cylinder; and an angled doctor blade holder. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100319558 | CHAMBER DOCTOR BLADE ON A PRINTING MACHINE - The invention describes a chamber doctor blade ( | 12-23-2010 |
| 20110219968 | Printing Unit with Curved Sealing Doctor Blade - A printing unit with a rotary roller and an ink chamber with an elastic sealing doctor blade ( | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110259220 | GRAVURE PRINTING PRESS - A gravure printing press includes a gravure plate cylinder which includes, on its circumferential surface, a plurality of recesses that form image areas upon being filled with ink, an ink supply device which supplies the ink onto the circumferential surface of the gravure plate cylinder, a first blade which comes into contact with the circumferential surface of the gravure plate cylinder at a contact angle of less than 45°, and a second blade which comes into contact with the circumferential surface of the gravure plate cylinder at a contact angle of more than 45°. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20140174311 | DOCTOR BLADE - A doctor blade has a strip shaped body ( | 06-26-2014 |
