Patents Assigned to Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
  • Method for driving a satellite offset press and satellite offset press
    Patent number: 7240613
    Abstract: A method for driving a satellite offset press, and a satellite offset press which, with little expenditure, permits multicolor printing in one pass. A satellite offset press, in which form cylinders and associated transfer cylinders are driven synchronously, while in each case segments located in the circumferential direction of the form cylinders and of the transfer cylinders and also of the transfer cylinders and of an impression cylinder interacting with the latter roll on one another in accurate register with a sheet held thereon, following each full revolution. The speed of the impression cylinder is reduced and increased again, so that the transfer cylinders lead by at least one segment length in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2007
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventor: Bernd Herrmann
  • Device for collating laminar workpieces
    Patent number: 7232125
    Abstract: A device for the assembly of brochures from folded sheets includes a continuous conveyor which defines a direction of conveyance, feeders which deliver the folded sheets to the continuous conveyor, and controls for controlling the operation of the feeders and the continuous conveyor. In order to avoid waste and operational malfunctions, the controls provide the feeders located downstream from a first feeder with a law of motion which is dependent on the format of the folded sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2007
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Lutz Richter, Andreas Steinert
  • Apparatus for conveying sheets through a printing machine
    Patent number: 7232123
    Abstract: An apparatus for conveying sheets from a printing machine to a stack has highly rigid gripper bars that can be produced with relatively little expense, and the gripper assembly permits great flexibility in the use of the apparatus. The apparatus has at least one gripper bar carrying one or more grippers which, during the conveyance, holds a sheet at its edge between a gripper finger and a gripper pad. Endless chains move the gripper bar on a path between a cylinder belonging to the machine and the stack. An actuating mechanism opens and closes the gripper as a sheet is picked up from the cylinder and as it is allowed to fall onto the stack. In the opened state, the gripper finger is located below a path described by the upper edge of the gripper pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2007
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Peter Förch, Markus Möhringer, Paul Nicola
  • Method of determining a color profile for printing with N printing inks
    Patent number: 7233412
    Abstract: A method of determining a printing color profile for printing with N printing inks, which form a color solid of the printable inks in a device-independent color system, includes the steps of selecting one or more printing inks, and defining an inner reference curve in the device-independent color system. The inner reference curve is preferably selected such that it lies in the vicinity of the neutral colors. Using first test forms, which are printed and measured calorimetrically, boundary surfaces between the inner reference curve and the outer envelope of the color solid are defined, which subdivide the color solid into color sectors. With second test forms for the color sectors, a projection of the color sectors in the device-independent color system is determined and, from this, the printing color profile is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2007
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventor: Helmut Siegeritz
  • Method for roller adjustment in a printing press
    Patent number: 7225735
    Abstract: Methods for performing a roller adjustment in a printing press include an axial spacing adjustment and an oblique position adjustment. The oblique position adjustment is carried out along a straight line of movement which extends perpendicularly relative either to another straight line of movement of the axial spacing adjustment or to a tangential line of a pivoting circular arc of the axial spacing adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2007
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Mathias Zuber, Ulrich Luckhardt
  • Sheet punching and embossing machine
    Patent number: 7225731
    Abstract: A sheet punching and embossing machine includes a device for stripping waste from a punched and embossed sheet at a stripping station, the device having a stripping plate for supporting the sheet. Also included are gripper carriages fixed to revolving chains, for gripping the sheet at a leading edge thereof and for then pulling the sheet intermittently through the stripping station and further stations in the machine. The stripping plate has, in an inlet region for the sheet and before stripping openings, at least one suction opening to which vacuum is applicable from below.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2007
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Günther Bayer, Gerhard Klaassen
  • Apparatus for transporting flat work pieces
    Patent number: 7222724
    Abstract: An apparatus for transporting flat work pieces has a first conveyor and a second conveyor. An inlet mouth is formed from the first conveyor and the second conveyor. The apparatus is distinguished by a geometry of the inlet mouth which can be optimized with regard to different, jointly assumed pivoting positions of the conveyors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2007
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Robert Friessnegg, Udo Ganter
  • Sheet-processing machine with a pneumatic sheet-guiding device
    Patent number: 7219889
    Abstract: A sheet-processing machine, particularly a rotary printing press, includes a blast-air supply system and a pneumatic sheet-guiding device connected thereto. The sheet-guiding device has a sheet-guiding surface formed with air passage openings and serves for having the sheets dragged thereover in a sheet travel direction. The air passage openings serve for expelling sheet-carrying air flows during operation. The sheet-guiding device further includes flow ducts for aligning sheet-carrying air flows. The air passage openings in the sheet guiding surface form opening cross-sections of the flow ducts in the form of slots having a length which is many times greater than the width thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2007
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Peter Hachmann, Christian Hieb, Sven Kerpe, Günter Stephan, Ralf Weiser, Thorsten Eckart, Karl-Heinz Helmstädter
  • Method for controlling a program run of a central data processor
    Patent number: 7216261
    Abstract: A method for controlling a program run of a central data processor includes the step of starting a master program by an operating system. In accordance with given data, the master program starts a number of programs in a given sequence. The master program also checks the correct functioning of the start and initialization phase of the programs and the correct functioning of the programs after the start and initialization phase. If an error function is recognized, the master program initiates a reaction function. For example, a reaction function is when a following program is not started, when the previous program has not completed the start and initialization phase correctly. A printing press and a storage medium are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventor: Thomas Schilf
  • Tilt head cleaner
    Patent number: 7213901
    Abstract: A cleaning member is pivotally fixed to a support member to clean ink-jet print heads that are positioned on a print-head receptor module. The cleaning member pivots from a cleaning position to an idle position and the print-head receptor module is pivotally fixed to a support member to allow the module to pivot from a printing position to a cleaning position. The pivotal supports are positioned such that, when the module and the cleaning member are each in their respective cleaning positions, the cleaning member is positioned to clean ink jets inserted into the receptors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignees: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, Dimatix, Inc.
    Inventors: Andreas Bibl, John A. Higginson
  • Method for conveying sheets through a printing machine and apparatus for implementing the method
    Patent number: 7210679
    Abstract: A method for conveying sheets through a printing machine and an apparatus for conveying the sheets permit adaptation of a sheet brake to various sheet thicknesses by reducing a speed of the sheets in the direction of advance by bringing the sheets individually one after another into contact with at least one suction element moved in the direction of advance, and by holding each sheet by the action of a suction apparatus on the suction element along a conveying section, dependent upon the sheet thickness, the suction action of the suction element along the conveying section is changed locally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2007
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Thomas Schäfer, Jürgen Fürbass, Andrew McLellan
  • Devices for turning sheets in a sheet-fed rotary printing machine
    Patent number: 7207265
    Abstract: Devices for turning sheets in a rotary printing machine are described. The devices have a storage drum for handling sheets, which are each held by a holding device, and a turning drum is disposed downstream of the storage drum and has a holding device for engaging a rear edge of the sheet to be turned. An operation of detaching the sheet to be turned from the storage drum and carrying it along by the turning drum leads to the formation of a pressure reduction in an area formed between the sheet to be turned, the storage drum and the turning drum. The pressure reduction is compensated for by supplying ambient air, blast air and/or compressed air. The turning device has a channel and/or a passage orifice connected to an inner chamber of the turning drum. Via the channel and/or passage orifice air can be sucked and/or blown into the reduced-pressure area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventor: Karl-Heinz Helmstädter
  • Apparatus for banderoling or banding stacks of flat workpieces
    Patent number: 7207161
    Abstract: An apparatus for forming stacks of flat workpieces and for banding or banderoling the stacks includes a stacking station, a banding or banderoling station, and an endless conveyor for cyclically conveying stacking shafts provided to the endless conveyor. A respective first band guide is formed on a respective one of the stacking shafts and a second band guide is disposed in the banding station. The second band guide together with the respective first band guide form an at least approximately intrinsically closed guide path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Markus Belmann, Udo Ganter
  • Printing press
    Patent number: 7207266
    Abstract: A printing press contains a distributor roller, an oscillating roller which has a roller axle and a roller barrel, and a switching device for optionally releasing, in a first operating mode, and locking, in a second operating mode, an oscillating movement of the roller barrel. The oscillating movement is driven frictionally by the distributor roller. The switching device is disposed separately from the roller axle and the roller axle is mounted so as to be adjustable relative to the switching device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Gerhard Heppenstiel, Ulrich Luckhardt, Mathias Zuber
  • Apparatus for the transport of sheets
    Patent number: 7207558
    Abstract: A conveying apparatus for transporting sheets to a sheet processing machine, in particular a printing press, has a suction belt table between a sheet in-feed and the sheet-processing machine. A transport belt of the suction belt table is formed with at least two rows of suction openings that exert a holding force on the sheet. Ventilation openings that reduce a frictional force of the suction belt on the feed table are provided below the transport belt in a region between the rows of suction openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventor: Holger Edinger
  • Feeder, gatherer-stitcher and method for index punching
    Patent number: 7201089
    Abstract: A feeder for feeding flat products to a conveyor device includes a magazine for storing the products, a separating device for separating the products from the magazine and a device for producing an index in the products. A gatherer-stitcher includes a plurality of the feeders. A method is provided for producing an index cut in a product being fed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventor: Lutz Richter
  • Sheet processing machine with a sheet decurler
    Patent number: 7198267
    Abstract: A sheet-processing machine, such as a rotary press, has normally closed grippers that circulate during operation. The grippers transport the sheets along a conveying section and guide the sheets at their leading and trailing edges. The conveying section is assigned a sheet decurler and a sheet guide device that follows the latter in the conveying direction. The conveying section further has a gripper opener assigned thereto for opening the trailing edge grippers carrying the trailing edges of the sheets in order to decurl the sheets. After the sheets have traversed the decurler and decurling has been carried out, the trailing edges are once more grasped with the trailing edge grippers for renewed positive guidance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Peter Förch, Sven Kerpe, Markus Möhringer, Paul Nicola
  • Helical mechanism cutting unit and method for operating for the same
    Patent number: 7191690
    Abstract: A cutting unit is described that contains a pair of cylinders disposed opposite one another with a gap formed there-between for receiving a ribbon. The pair of cylinders include a first cutting cylinder having a periphery with a cutting knife disposed helically about the periphery and a second cylinder. A drive rotates the first cutting cylinder for cutting the ribbon such that a signature cut from the ribbon has a smooth, straight edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: David Clarke Pollock, Charles Francis Svenson
  • Device for controlling printed products
    Publication number: 20070052159
    Abstract: A tape transport system for printed products includes a tape having a tape width, a pulley, and a lever arm supporting the pulley, the lever arm having a first side and a second side. The pulley has a first section disposed on the first side of the lever arm and a second section disposed on the second side of the lever arm, the first and second sections supporting the tape so that the lever arm is within the tape width.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2003
    Publication date: March 8, 2007
    Applicant: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Mark Wingate, Matthew Wingate
  • Twin stacker delivery
    Patent number: D538846
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventor: Bernd Reibl