Abstract: A printing press includes a plate cylinder, a plate making unit, and a detection unit. The plate cylinder is rotatably supported by a frame and has an outer surface on which a plate is mounted. The plate making unit is supported to be movable between an operative position where plate making is performed and a wait position to escape from the operative position to perform plate making for the plate. The plate making unit has an exposure unit and a support mechanism for supporting the exposure unit to be movable in an axial direction of the plate cylinder. The exposure unit has a head which irradiates the plate with a laser beam to print an image on the plate. The detection unit detects a position of the exposure unit with reference to the frame.

Abstract: A multi-color offset printing apparatus includes first and second plate cylinders 11 and 12 each having a plate mounted peripherally thereof, the plate defining two image areas, first and second blanket cylinders 13 and 14 equal in diameter to the first and second plate cylinders 11 and 12 and rotatable in contact with the first aid second plate cylinders 11 and 12, respectively, and an impression cylinder 15 having a gripper 83 disposed peripherally thereof for holding a forward end of printing paper, the impression cylinder 15 being rotatable in contact with the first and second blanket cylinders 13 and 14. In this multi-color offset printing apparatus, the impression cylinder 15 is rotated at least four times, with the printing paper held in place by the gripper 83, before starting a printing operation. This step creates a state of ink saturation on the first and second blanket cylinders 13 and 14 prior to the printing operation.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for guiding a print carrier upon feeding the print carrier to and guiding the print carrier away from a form cylinder of a rotary printing machine. Guide elements for the print carrier are disposed axially parallel to the form cylinder. The guide elements are disposed in two groups. One group serves to pull the print carrier into the printing unit, while the other group assists in the removal of the print carrier from the printing unit of the rotary printing machine. The guide elements assisting the feeding-in and exchanging of the print carrier are protected against contact with the print carrier by throw-on elements during exchange of a print carrier. A printing unit in a rotary printing machine having the apparatus is also provided.

Abstract: A safety apparatus for a rotary press comprises a detector disposed on a side of a plurality of printing units in order to detect entry of a foreign object between the printing units, the detector consisting of light projecting units and light receiving units; a push button provided on the printing unit and pushed after completion of checking performed before initiation of automatic plate-replacing operation of the printing units; and a controller for starting the automatic plate-replacing operation and detecting operation of the detector when a predetermined time elapses after operation of the button.

Abstract: The invention relates to a printing machine (1) having at least one printing unit (2) whose image cylinder (3) is driven by friction by an element (4) to which the image (5) is transferred.

Abstract: A printing press has a support arm that can move between lower and upper positions, first and second link plates swingably supported by a main frame and the support arm, respectively. A connection pin having a protruding end portion is provided to connect the link plates. A support lever, swingably supported by the main frame, has an engagement groove which disengageably engages with the protruding end portion of the connection pin. When the support arm moves from the lower position to the upper position, the protruding end portion of the connection pin comes into contact with the edge surface of a lower portion of the support lever, and swings the support lever. When the protruding end portion of the connection pin reaches the engagement groove of the support lever, the protruding end portion engages with the engagement groove, so that the support arm is held at the upper position.

Abstract: A printing press includes an L-shaped support arm swingably supported by a main frame such that a distal end thereof can move between lower and upper positions, a support frame swingably supported at the distal end of the support arm such that the other end thereof can move between upper and lower positions, swing arms swingably supported by the main frame such that the distal ends thereof can move between lower and upper positions, gas springs for applying force to the corresponding swing arms to move the distal end portions of the swing arms upward, an engagement pin attached to the support frame, and an engagement member attached to the swing arms and into which the engagement pin is inserted and has an engagement groove formed therein to open upward when the distal ends of the swing arms are situated at the upper position.

Abstract: An absorber for damping vibrations in a rotating component includes a primary part connectable to the rotating component so as to be fixed against rotation relative thereto; an absorber mass; the primary part and the absorber mass being couplable to one another via a damping and spring coupling so that the absorber mass is rotatable to a limited extent relative to the primary part; at least two antifriction bearings for mounting the absorber mass on the rotating component; the two antifriction bearings being nested within one another, so that one of the antifriction bearings is seated on a larger radius than the other; and an intermediate ring disposed in a radial direction between the two antifriction bearings.

Abstract: This connecting module (2), inserted between a printer and an enveloping machine, comprises a first zone (17) for receiving documents, a second zone (18) for receiving documents, a sheet outlet zone (19) and an envelope outlet zone (20), first conveying means (23-28, 31, 32) connecting the first receiving zone (17) to the sheet outlet zone (19), second conveying means (36-39, 41, 42, 45, 52, 54) connecting the first receiving zone (17) to the envelope outlet zone (20), and third conveying means (82, 53, 52, 54) connecting the second receiving zone (18) to the envelope outlet zone (20), controllable routing means (33) being located on a common inlet section of the first and second conveying means so as to select the path according to the type of document arriving in the receiving zone (17).

Abstract: A printer includes a printing mechanism and an ink container. The ink container includes a cylinder having a side wall and provided with an ink discharge port in its front end face, a piston received in the cylinder to be slidable along the side wall of the cylinder, and ink between the piston and the front end face in the cylinder. An LED projects light onto the side wall of the cylinder in a predetermined position in the longitudinal direction of the cylinder, and a phototransistor is positioned near a rear end face of the cylinder to be adapted to receive the light projected by the LED and passing through the side wall of the cylinder only once, and outputs an electric signal upon receipt of light. The remainder of ink in the ink container is detected on the basis of the output of the phototransistor.

Abstract: A printing form that can be used many times has a printing surface which is provided with a metallic titanium layer. For imaging, the printing form is selectively coated hydrophilically in point-by-point manner by supplying controlled energy. After the printing, the image on the printing form can be erased by supplying heat; a method for forming images on a printing form and for erasing them; and a printing unit and a printing press including the printing form.

Abstract: A printing press includes a printing unit, a plate making unit, and a control unit. The printing unit has a plate cylinder. The plate making unit is provided in the printing unit and performs plate making for a plate mounted on an outer surface of the plate cylinder. The plate making unit is supported to be movable between an operative position where it performs plate making while closing at least part of the printing unit, and a wait position where it opens at least part of the printing unit. The control unit selectively operates the printing press at a first speed at which normal printing is performed and a second speed lower than the first speed. The control unit serves to enable the printing press to operate at the first speed when the plate making unit is located at the operative position, and disable the printing press to operate at the first speed when the plate making unit is not located at the operative position.

Abstract: A sheet of elastomeric material that serves as a shock absorber and cushion for use between a printing plate, such as but not limited to a flexographic printing plate, and a printing cylinder during printing for compensating for variations in thickness, height and centricity of the printing cylinder and printing plate to prevent distortions in the image being printed that includes providing an elastomeric material having a longitudinal direction in the direction of circumferential travel of the cylinder circumference that includes a plurality or array of protrusions formed of the elastomeric material of predetermined cross-sectional shape and area and the material having a durometer to cushion the printing plate in such a way to provide the necessary compensation to ensure a high quality printed image at high speed.

Abstract: In a printing machine processing printing material along a processing path, an atmospheric changing device for altering atmospheric conditions in surroundings of the printing material includes a connection module, and a slide-in unit having a module end. The slide-in unit is to be joined to the connection module to form a functional unit. The functional unit is to be slid in an insertion direction into a working position in a printing machine and, in the working position, the functional unit extending transversely with respect to a processing path over printing material running through the processing path. For easy handling of the functional unit, the module end, pointing in the insertion direction, couples with the connection module as the slide-in unit is slid into the working position.

Abstract: A device for transversely sizing printed products that uses individual application devices such as nozzles that are provided on a roller. The method includes moving individual application devices in at least one sizing position where the relative speed between the application device and printed product is held at essentially zero.

Abstract: A printing press includes a plate cylinder, a plate making unit, and an adjuster. The plate cylinder is rotatably supported by a frame and has an outer surface on which a plate is mounted. The plate making unit performs plate making for the plate mounted on the plate cylinder. The plate making unit has a support member supported by the frame and an exposure unit. The exposure unit is supported by the support member to be movable in a direction to come close to and separate from the outer surface of the plate cylinder, and has a head which irradiates the plate with a laser beam to print an image on the plate. The adjuster is supported by the plate making unit to be detachable to adjust a position of the exposure unit with respect to the support member.

Abstract: A sheet-fed printing press is provided to shorten the operation time thereof for feeding the printing plate on the plate cylinder in a printing operation without the tail edge of the printing plate clamped. For this purpose, the sheet-fed printing press is operable in the standard-sized printing plate feeding mode and the shorter-sized printing plate feeding mode. When the shorter-sized printing plate feeding mode is selected, the plate cylinder is rotated in the forward direction with the leading edge of the printing plate clamped by the first clamp device, so that the printing plate is wound around the plate cylinder. In this operation, the second clamp device is not actuated.

Abstract: The invention relates to a cylinder with a functional layer (23) and with a supporting body (1), which passes through the cylinder. On the supporting body (1), a sleeve that accommodates the functional layer (23) is supported at ends (2, 5, 25). The supporting body (1) is for its part accommodated on supporting elements (10, 11, 13) provided on the frame side. The cylinder sleeve (3) that accommodates the functional layer (23) can be centered in relation to the axis of rotation (8) by centering faces (6, 7) formed at the ends (2, 5, 25). One end of the cylinder can be exposed at the supporting element (13).

Abstract: A printing plate changing device prevents a new printing plate from being damaged even if an abnormal attachment has occurred during/before attaching the printing plate on a plate cylinder. Various sensors detect a rear end of the new printing plate located near an extrusion member when a phase of the lower plate cylinder forwardly rotating is positioned at a predetermined position, an actuator of the lower printing plate holding device is extended by a control device in accordance with a signal from the sensors to release a hook from an engaged pin. A claw portion is rotated by force energized by a spring to advance into a stored portion. The claw portion of the hook is engaged with the rear end of the new printing plate so that the new printing plate can be returned into the stored portion by extending the actuator.

Abstract: A printing press includes a plate cylinder, a plate making unit, at least one first engaging member, a first regulating member, a second engaging member, and a second regulating member. The plate cylinder is rotatably supported by a frame and has an outer surface on which a plate is mounted. The plate making unit is supported to be movable between an operative position where plate making is performed and a wait position to escape from the operative position. The first engaging member is fixed to one of the frame and the plate making unit. The first regulating member is fixed to the other of the frame and the plate making unit to engage with the first engaging member, and the first regulating member has a recess extending in an axial direction of the plate cylinder. The second engaging member is fixed to one of the frame and the plate making unit, and the second regulating member is fixed to the other of the frame and the plate making unit to engage with the second engaging member.

Abstract: A printing press includes a plate cylinder, a plate making unit, a detection switch, and a control unit. The plate cylinder has an outer surface on which a plate is mounted. The plate making unit performs plate making for the plate mounted on the outer surface of the plate cylinder. The plate making unit is supported to be movable between an operative position where plate making is performed and a wait position to escape from the operative position. The detection switch detects the plate making unit positioned at the wait position. The control unit controls plate change operation in accordance with a detection output from the detection switch.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for setting register, with detection of the entry of a printing substrate (2) into a printing machine (1) and calculation of the beginning of digital production of color separations (3, 3′, 3″, 3′″) to achieve an in-register position of the color separation prints (4, 4′, 4″, 4′″) on a printing substrate (2).

Abstract: An ink removal method for a printing press includes an ink removal step of bringing ink form rollers and a dampening form roller into a throw-on state relative to a plate cylinder, and bringing the dampening form roller into a throw-off state relative to a ductor roller of a dampening unit. The ink removal method has high general purpose properties, and can remove ink from the dampening form roller with high accuracy by simple means, i.e., changing throw-on and throw-off timings for existing rollers without using a rider roller or the like.

Abstract: A printing press includes a blanket cleaning controller, automatic plate change unit, image exposing section, pre-inking controller, and CPU. The blanket cleaning controller cleans a blanket mounted on a blanket cylinder. The automatic plate change unit changes a printing plate mounted on a plate cylinder to a new printing plate. The image exposing section exposes an image on the printing plate mounted on the plate cylinder. The pre-inking controller forms, on an ink roller group, an ink film thickness distribution corresponding to an image to be exposed next. The CPU automatically drives the blanket cleaning controller, automatic plate change unit, image exposing section, and pre-inking controller in an operation order set by a start command.

Abstract: In a color management method for a printing press, the first profile representing color reproduction characteristics of a first printing press is generated using color data of a number of patches printed by the first printing press and the dot area percent of each of a plurality of ink colors defined for each patch. The second profile representing color reproduction characteristics of a second printing press is generated using color data of a number of patches printed by the second printing press and the dot area percent of each of a plurality of ink colors defined for each patch. The dot area percent of each ink color to be used to print a printing product by the second printing press is obtained on the basis of the first and second profiles. A color management apparatus for a printing press is also disclosed.

Abstract: A printing press includes an ink roller group, image exposing section, pre-inking controller, and CPU. The ink roller group supplies ink stored in an ink fountain to a printing plate mounted on a plate cylinder. The image exposing section exposes an image on a printing plate before plate making which is mounted on the plate cylinder. The pre-inking controller forms an ink film thickness distribution corresponding to the image to be exposed on the printing plate on the ink roller group. The CPU performs image exposing and ink film thickness distribution formation concurrently at least partly by controlling the image exposing section and the pre-inking controller. A control method for a printing press is also disclosed.

Abstract: Supplying a predetermined amount of electric energy to a fine metal wire 4 in a short time causes the fine metal wire 4 to melt and evaporate. Following this phenomenon, a blasting substance 10 expands in volume, so that the evaporative expansion force resulting from the melting evaporation of the fine metal wire 4 is transmitted to and blasts a to-be-blasted object 5.

Abstract: A shot cup 20 for a shotgun cartridge 10 is disclosed which is made of paper or other biodegradable fibrous material. The shot cup 20 serves to contain shot 26, particularly non-lead shot which may be abrasive, during firing, and to prevent such shot contacting the gun barrel.

Abstract: A track maintenance vehicle having a workhead that is pivotally mounted to the superstructure at its upper end. The workhead includes a blowing tube mounted at its lower end and a vertical cylinder that is selectively extendable and retractable to control the height of the blowing tube. The vehicle includes a control system that controls the height of the blowing tube as well as the left/right and fore/aft positions of the workhead. The track maintenance vehicle further includes an automated height control system that automatically extends and retracts the vertical cylinder to position the blowing tube at a uniform height despite its lateral disposition.

Abstract: An improved system for transporting vehicles and passengers from one destination to another using pallets, trains and guideways. The automobile uses ramp 1 to enter station 2 and park in port 3. The port then rotates 45 degrees 4 and parallel to a pallet guideway 5. The system then moves the pallet 6 along the pallet guideway next to a port 7 and parks. A mechanism on the pallet transfers the vehicle from the port 7 to the pallet 6. The pallet accelerates on a pallet guideway 8 and moves next to a train 9 that is traveling in the same direction on a train guideway 10. The pallet docks with an empty slot 11 on said train while both are moving. The pallet moves the automobile onto said train and undocks. The empty pallet continues along the pallet guideway 12 back to the station to pick up another vehicle. As said train approaches the next station, an empty pallet docks with the train at the said slot that contains the automobile. The pallet transfers the automobile from the train to the pallet.

Abstract: In order to provide a high-safety step apparatus for a platform which is easy to be installed, eliminates a difference between the top of a platform and a train floor, and fills a gap between a train body and an edge of a platform, a step 1 is placed on the top of the platform 10, an arm is connected to the step pivotally in the horizontal direction, a cover 7 is placed over the step 1, and the step 1 is moved from the home position to the extended position.

Abstract: A railroad locomotive includes traction motors for propelling the locomotive, and an isolation switch disposed in signal communication with at least one of the traction motors for isolating a faulting motor from the other traction motors.

Abstract: The present invention has for its object to provide a nonchromate metallic surface-treating agent which is suited for metallic substrates, and despite the absence of chromium therein, is capable of imparting high processability and corrosion resistance in preparation for a coating or other procedure.

Abstract: This invention relates to a process for preparing conditioned organic pigments by

Abstract: Dispersions of pyrogenic oxides, doped using an aerosol, are prepared by mixing the oxide with a suspending agent and milling. The dispersions can be used to prepare inkjet paper.

Abstract: A manufactured granular substrate composition suitable for use as a carrier for active chemical agents. The composition includes one or more mineral components having a bulk density greater than about 70 pounds per cubic foot. The composition also contains about one or more light weight additives and one or more water soluble binders. The resulting manufactured granular substrate has a bulk density of less than about 55 pounds per cubic foot with a size guide number of about 75 to about 300.

Abstract: A modular, low cost pallet and shelf assembly and a method for assembling the assembly is disclosed. The shelf assembly comprises a plurality of support members arranged so as to releasably accept a pallet therebetween, each vertical support member comprising a plurality of apertures disposed therethrough, wherein each aperture is configured so as to accept and releasably hold tabs inserted through the aperture, and a plurality of pallet securing members, each pallet securing member comprising at least one pallet securing member tab releasably securable within a vertical support member aperture and a securing surface for restraining the pallet between the vertical support members.

Abstract: To effectively separate and recover solid dust and volatile or molten components while preventing solid dust and volatile or molten component dust from being adhered to inner walls of a temperature control tower.

Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided including a sheet formed of a transparent material. The sheet defines a template capable of having a pattern printed thereon. During use, the template is adapted for being removed from the sheet. Also included is at least a pair of alignment designators that are positioned on the template of the sheet for marking the material. The markings facilitate alignment of the material in a support frame that is adapted for use when embroidering the pattern on the material.

Abstract: A surfboard-based powered water craft is propelled by gas or electric power plant. A water jet pump supplies water under pressure, which is exhausted through a steering nozzle. A steering shaft, carried by the surfboard-based body, pivots in response to movement of a steering arm. The steering arm pivots about a vertical axis and a horizontal axis. The weight of the power plant is carried forward the center, whereby a rider on top of the surfboard based body tends to balance the weight of the power plant.

Abstract: An improved planing watercraft hull having reduced surface area in contact with the water resulting in a minimization of drag said hull capable of being adapted for use with a small, easily transportable waterjet propelled watercraft.

Abstract: A boat fender storage device which includes a strip of metal radiused at each end to form first and second U-shape ends. The U-shaped ends have an opening which is sufficient to fit over a safety rail so that the boat fender can be secured to the safety rail by a pair of the boat fender storage devices.

Abstract: A temperature sensor and manufacturing method therefor using a shape memory alloy comprise a strip unit constituted in an aggregate as a plurality of shape memory alloys including a removal member and/or an elastic member made of another shape memory alloy, in which the temperature sensor is fixed on a container of products or goods by stapler to have a second shape under critical temperature or a first shape when exposed, even temporarily, to temperatures above critical temperature of the shape memory alloy, thereby to indicate a damage of the product or being escaped from the product and/or a removal function portion to indicate a damage of the product.

Abstract: A method of self-assembling silicon quantum dots comprises the steps of providing a substrate, forming a thin amorphous Si film, and forming a plurality of Si quantum dots by controlling the energy and the shooting numbers of an excimer laser during an annealing process, wherein the excimer laser emits light on the thin amorphous Si film.

Abstract: A method for forming low defect density epitaxial layers on lattice-mismatched substrates includes confining dislocations through interactions between the dislocations and the stress field in the epitaxial layer. This method is applicable to any heteroepitaxial material systems with any degree of lattice mismatch. The method includes choosing the desired epilayer and the top substrate layer for epitaxial growth, determining the lattice constant and thermal expansion coefficient of the final epilayer and the top substrate layer, bonding an additional substrate layer under the top substrate layer to form a composite substrate so that the desired epilayer has negative (positive) or zero thermal mismatch to the composite substrate if the lattice mismatch between the epilayer and the top substrate layer is positive (negative), and choosing a buffer layer to be deposited before the desired epilayer which is lattice matched to the epilayer.

Abstract: A first step models a hot zone in a pulling apparatus of a single crystal as a mesh structure, and a second step inputs physical property values of each member corresponding to meshes combined for each member of the hot zone into a computer. A third step obtains the surface temperature distribution of each member on the basis of the calorific power of a heater and the emissivity of each member, and a fourth step obtains the internal temperature distribution of each member on the basis of the surface temperature distribution and the thermal conductivity of each member, and then further obtains the internal temperature distribution of a molten liquid being in consideration of convection. A fifth step obtains the shape of the solid-liquid interface between the single crystal and the molten liquid in accordance with an isothermal line including a tri-junction of the single crystal. A sixth step repeats said third to fifth steps until the tri-junction becomes the melting point of the single crystal.

Abstract: Methods of forming a layer on a substrate using complexes of Formula I. The complexes and methods are particularly suitable for the preparation of semiconductor structures. The complexes are of the formula LyMYz (Formula 1) wherein: M is a metal; each L group is independently a neutral ligand containing one or more Lewis-base donor atoms; each Y group is independently an anionic ligand; y=a nonzero integer; and z=a nonzero integer corresponding to the valence state of the metal.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for spray coating selected areas of a circuit board with a liquid coating material without coating regions of the circuit board to be left uncoated. In one mode of operation, a bead of liquid coating material dispensed from an elongated nozzle tip is atomized by directing jets of air pressurized against the bead to form a conical, swirling spray pattern which is sprayed on selected areas of a circuit board. In a second mode of operation, the non-atomized bead of liquid coating material dispensed through the elongated nozzle tip is applied on selected areas of the circuit board. In a third mode of operation, jets of pressurized air are directed against the bead of liquid coating material to create a soft swirl pattern, without atomizing the bead of coating materia. In a second embodiment of the invention, the bead of liquid coating material is dispensed from a nozzle without the elongated nozzle tip.

Abstract: A device for applying adhesives, in particular adhesives which have a tendency in particular to produce deposits even while they are being processed for adhesive bonding, has an application head with a slot nozzle of variable cross section and with a slide for setting the width of the nozzle slot. To keep the nozzle slot and the slide free from remains of adhesive, in particular adhesive coatings and deposits, the application head is provided in the region of the slide with a feed for a cleaning agent, which can be used to detach remains of adhesive and consequently remove them.

Abstract: The invention relates to an improved design for a spray gun and application system for cold gas dynamic spraying of a metal, alloy, polymer, or mechanical mixtures thereof. The gun includes a rear housing comprising a powder inlet and a gas inlet, a front housing removably affixed to the rear housing and comprising an mixing cavity therein for mixing of the powder and gas and an exit therefrom, a nozzle holder having a bore disposed therethrough and removably affixed to the front housing, and a nozzle positioned within the nozzle holder, an interior taper of the nozzle holder bore complementing an exterior taper of the nozzle, said nozzle having an initially converging, subsequently diverging centrally disposed bore therein adapted to receive the mixed powder and gas from the mixing chamber.