161 |
Means and method for removing foreign particles from lithographic press |
US3467008D |
1967-01-31 |
US3467008A |
1969-09-16 |
DOMOTOR JULIUS A |
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162 |
Method and apparatus for removing foreign matter from a planographic printing press plate cylinder |
US36315064 |
1964-04-28 |
US3252416A |
1966-05-24 |
ALLEN JAMES O |
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163 |
Means for washing lithographic printing surfaces |
US16081827 |
1927-01-13 |
US1640235A |
1927-08-23 |
JOHN GOULDING BENJAMIN JOSEPH |
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164 |
Means for washing lithographic printing surfaces |
US72532424 |
1924-07-11 |
US1576599A |
1926-03-16 |
JOHN GOULDING BENJAMIN JOSEPH |
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165 |
CLEANING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIGITAL OFFSET PRINTER |
US15448365 |
2017-03-02 |
US20180250929A1 |
2018-09-06 |
Anthony S. CONDELLO; Peter J. KNAUSDORF; Jack T. LESTRANGE |
A viscosity control unit provides improved and efficient residual ink removal from an imaging member following the transfer of the majority of the ink from the imaging member to a substrate, and prior to the application of a subsequent ink application to the imaging member. The viscosity control unit hardens the residual ink on the imaging member to produce a hardened residual ink. By increasing the viscosity of the residual ink before it is removed by a cleaning station, the removal of the residual ink from the imaging member becomes easier and more efficient. |
166 |
Printing apparatus and printing method |
US15592978 |
2017-05-11 |
US10016969B2 |
2018-07-10 |
Kenichi Kodama |
A printing apparatus applies ink to a surface of a printing plate in the shape of a predetermined pattern and then transfers the ink to a substrate. The printing apparatus includes: an image recording section that applies the ink to the surface of the printing plate; a plate surface observation unit that acquires information about the surface of the printing plate; a storage section that stores information about a reference shape serving as a reference of the surface of the printing plate; and a determination section that compares the information about the reference shape stored in the storage section with the information about the surface of the printing plate, which is obtained by the plate surface observation unit, and determines whether or not the surface of the printing plate to which the ink has been applied is present in a predetermined range of the reference shape. |
167 |
Apparatus for Cleaning Surfaces |
US15584184 |
2017-05-02 |
US20170341369A1 |
2017-11-30 |
Markus ETTLER |
An apparatus for cleaning surfaces of a printing press has an adjusting device having a pressing element for pressing a cleaning element against the surface to be cleaned when needed. The adjusting device has a drive for moving the pressing element relative to the surface to be cleaned between a home position, in which the cleaning element is positioned at a distance from the surface to be cleaned, and a cleaning position in which the cleaning element is in contact with the surface to be cleaned or, respectively, is in the direct proximity of the surface to be cleaned. An overload safety device is configured to respond upon a critical force acting on at least one of the adjusting device or pressing element being exceeded and to move the pressing element into an overload position. |
168 |
Apparatus, printers, and methods to remove material from a printer surface |
US15283992 |
2016-10-03 |
US09771653B2 |
2017-09-26 |
Daihua Zhang; Napoleon J. Leoni; Henryk Birecki; Omer Gila |
Apparatus, printers, and methods to remove material from a printer surface are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a fluid remover to remove printing material from a printer surface, and a coating material reservoir to store coating material and to apply the coating material to the fluid remover to reduce an amount of printing material transferred to the fluid remover from the printer surface. |
169 |
TUNABLE SURFACTANTS IN DAMPENING FLUIDS FOR DIGITAL OFFSET INK PRINTING APPLICATIONS |
US15496709 |
2017-04-25 |
US20170225452A1 |
2017-08-10 |
Naveen CHOPRA; Peter Gordon ODELL; Steven E. READY; Eric PEETERS; Timothy D. STOWE; Ashish PATTEKAR; David K. BIEGELSEN |
A dampening fluid useful in offset ink printing applications contains water and a surfactant whose structure can be altered. The alteration in structure aids in reducing accumulation of the surfactant on the surface of an imaging member. The surfactant can be decomposed, switched between cis-trans states, or polymerizable with ink that is subsequently placed on the surface. |
170 |
Apparatus, printers, and methods to remove material from a printer surface |
US14110686 |
2011-04-29 |
US09522525B2 |
2016-12-20 |
Daihua Zhang; Napoleon J. Leoni; Henryk Birecki; Omer Gila |
Apparatus, printers, and methods to remove material from a printer surface are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a fluid remover to remove printing material from a printer surface, and a coating material reservoir to store coating material and to apply the coating material to the fluid remover to reduce an amount of printing material transferred to the fluid remover from the printer surface. |
171 |
Systems and methods for implementing advanced single pass cleaning of a reimageable surface in a variable data digital lithographic printing device |
US14318651 |
2014-06-29 |
US09507266B2 |
2016-11-29 |
Timothy D Stowe; Bruce Earl Thayer; Sourobh Raychaudhuri; Gregory B Anderson; Marty J. Sheridan |
A system and method are provided for enclosing a plurality of cleaning unit components in a moist cleaning unit environment, the plurality of cleaning unit components cooperating to employ a cleaner roller in an image forming device to facilitate effective cleaning of a reimageable surface in an image forming device using a proposed variable data digital lithographic image forming architecture. A range of solvents may be applied to a hard smooth high surface energy surface of the cleaner roll and a cleaning unit component internally positioned within the cleaning enclosure to clean the surface of the cleaner roll. Mechanical components are properly placed prior to the cleaner roll-reimageable surface nip to ensure that residual liquid on a surface of the cleaner roll is removed. |
172 |
Method and apparatus for cleaning printing presses for three dimensional objects |
US14522373 |
2014-10-23 |
US09421757B2 |
2016-08-23 |
Ronald G. Egan |
An apparatus and method cleans rollers on printing presses that print indicia on three dimensional objects such as candies, confectionaries and other comestible items. The cleaning apparatus moves in three axes to position itself alternately opposite an engraved roller and a blanket roller. The cleaning apparatus dry cleans one roller and dry and/or wet cleans the other roller. The apparatus has a cleaning pad that extends toward a web of cleaning material to press the cleaning material against a roller. The apparatus moves across the roller to wipe ink and/or debris from the surface of the roller. |
173 |
Apparatus, assembly and method for dry cleaning a flexographic printing plate carried on a plate cylinder that includes optimized cleaning functionalities |
US14499928 |
2014-09-29 |
US09302465B2 |
2016-04-05 |
Jack Roberts; Jeffrey M. DeVries |
A dry cleaning apparatus, assembly and method provides for a dry flexographic plate cleaner apparatus that is configured as a unitary subassembly to be used within a printing press assembly. The cleaner apparatus and subassembly comprise a plurality of motorized drives such that, among other things, a cleaning roller can be moved towards and away from the rotating printing plate so as to achieve optimum spacing. This also allows the press operator to make adjustments to the cleaner apparatus and subassembly without having to stop the printing press assembly. The apparatus and subassembly is further removable from the printing press assembly as may be desired or required for service. Additionally, the apparatus, assembly and method of the present invention also provides for use of at least one controller for electronically controlling the apparatus in accordance with the method and implementing optimized cleaning capabilities and functionalities. |
174 |
Numbering and imprinting machine |
US13738722 |
2013-01-10 |
US09227390B2 |
2016-01-05 |
Yutaka Endo; Kenji Ida; Hiroto Nagura |
This invention discloses a numbering and imprinting machine including a number cylinder, moving inker, first cleaning device, second cleaning device, inker position detector, and control device. The number cylinder includes at least one numbering device. The moving inker includes a number inker which supplies ink onto the number cylinder, and is movable between a printing position at which the number inker comes into contact with the number cylinder, and a retraction position at which the number inker separates from the number cylinder. The first cleaning device cleans the number cylinder. The second cleaning device cleans the number inker. The inker position detector detects the position of the moving inker. When the inker position detector detects that the moving inker is set at the printing position, the control device rotates the number cylinder, drives the number inker and controls cleaning operations by the first cleaning device and the second cleaning device. |
175 |
Systems and methods for implementing a release film for a cleaning unit in an image forming device using digital offset lithographic printing techniques |
US14266498 |
2014-04-30 |
US09156248B1 |
2015-10-13 |
Bruce Earl Thayer |
A system and method are provided for depositing a release layer/film on a cleaner roller in an image forming device to facilitate effective cleaning of a reimageable surface in an image forming device using a proposed variable data digital lithographic image forming architecture. A borax or other solute solution is deposited on a surface of a cleaner roller and an air knife is used to evaporate a liquid component of the solution causing the liquid to come off and a thin-film of borax or other solute to remain on the surface of the cleaner roller. The thin film layer is then dry at a point of contact with the reimageable surface to recover residual ink from the reimageable surface with the surface of the cleaner roller on top of the thin film layer. The thin film layer is re-wetted to support efficient transfer of the ink to a web. |
176 |
Method for changing edition on a rotary press |
US12863557 |
2009-01-14 |
US09027475B2 |
2015-05-12 |
Nicolas Sebastien Rousseau; Christophe Jean Olivier Noiret; Christophe Maurice Lambert |
A method for successive printing of a first print job and a second print job on the same web using at least one printing group of the rotary press to print the first print job and the second print job is provided. The printing group includes at least a plate cylinder, a plate, a blanket cylinder and a blanket. Between the first print job and the second print job, a plate-changing stage occurs in which the blanket is held away from the web and the plates of the plate cylinder are changed. According to one aspect of the invention, between the first print job and the second print job, the web is kept traveling through the rotary press. |
177 |
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING DIGITAL OFFSET LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTING TECHNIQUES WITH A PLURALITY OF INTERMEDIATE TRANSFERS |
US13874465 |
2013-04-30 |
US20140318397A1 |
2014-10-30 |
Steven R. MOORE; Chu-heng LIU |
A system and method are provided for optimizing a multi-color variable digital data lithographic image forming system by controlling characteristics of one or more individual color inks to maximize ink transfer of a particular color ink layer onto the surface of an image receiving medium substrate, or onto other color ink layers deposited on the surface of the image receiving medium substrate when producing digital output images, including multi-color digital output images, with a proposed variable digital offset lithographic architecture. Ink characteristics and ink transfer parameters are particularly optimized in the proposed variable digital data lithographic systems to promote high efficiency ink transfer from an ink donor surface to an ink receiver surface in order that excessive amounts of untransferred ink do not remain on the ink donor surface requiring extensive cleaning of the reimageable surface in the image forming system between cycles of a multi-color ink system. |
178 |
GHOST-FREE INKING METHODS, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEMS WITH REDUCED FOUNTAIN SOLUTION CONTAMINATION |
US13192137 |
2011-07-27 |
US20130025487A1 |
2013-01-31 |
Chu-heng LIU |
A digital offset inking system includes an ink supply, a soft transfer roll, and a hard form roll. A cleaning blade cleaning ink and fountain solution from the surface of the hard form roll that is leftover after transferring ink to a digital imaging member. A fountain solution removal system processes the ink to remove the fountain solution from the ink. The processes ink is resupplied to the inking system for transfer to the digital imaging member. |
179 |
Relief Printing Apparatus, Printed Matter Using the Same, and Method of Manufacturing Organic Electroluminescent Element |
US13627882 |
2012-09-26 |
US20130019768A1 |
2013-01-24 |
Noritaka Mihashi; Katsuyuki Kano; Shunsuke Komuro |
A relief printing apparatus includes: a rotary plate cylinder; a relief plate disposed on the plate cylinder; an anilox roller of which a surface is subjected to unevenness processing and which supplies an ink to the relief plate; and a coating device which forms an ink coating film by applying the ink to a surface of the anilox roller. Furthermore, a printed matter is manufactured using the relief printing apparatus. |
180 |
Cleaning Method for a Variable Data Lithography System |
US13095778 |
2011-04-27 |
US20120103221A1 |
2012-05-03 |
Timothy Stowe; Eric Peeters; Martin Sheridan; Ashish Pattekar; Gregory Anderson |
An cleaning method for a variable data lithography system employs a first cleaning member having a conformable adhesive surface disposed for physical contact with an imaging member such that residual ink remaining on the imaging member, such as following transfer of an inked latent image from the imaging member to a substrate, adheres to the conformable adhesive surface and is thereby removed from the imaging member. The cleaning method may further employ a second cleaning member, in physical contact with the first cleaning member, having a relatively hard, smooth surface such that residual ink removed from the imaging member and adhering to the adhesive surface of the first cleaning member may split onto the second cleaning member. |