Patents Examined by Blake A Tankersley
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Patent number: 9114544Abstract: A cutting device includes a main body unit and a support unit. The main body unit includes a cutting unit on a lower side. The cutting unit cuts off an edge portion of paper. The support unit supports the main body unit in such a way that the main body unit rotates. The main body unit exposes a blade of the cutting unit at least on a lateral side by rotating.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2013Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Toshio Shida, Takuya Akabori, Ritsuo Fujii, Masaaki Ikeda, Hitoshi Uchida
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Patent number: 9114601Abstract: A clean running flexographic relief image printing element and a method of making the same is described. The relief image printing element comprises (a) a backing layer; (b) a floor layer disposed on the backing layer and comprising a photopolymer containing a silicone monomer or silicone oil, wherein the cured floor layer has a surface energy of between about 18 to about 25 dynes/cm; (c) a cap layer disposed on the floor layer and comprising a photocurable composition that is capable of being imagewise exposed to actinic radiation to create a relief image therein, wherein the cap layer has a surface energy of between about 30 and about 40 dynes/cm; and (d) a removable cover sheet. The differential of surface energies between the floor layer and the cap layer increases how clean the plate will print over time.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2012Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Inventors: Kyle P. Baldwin, Miguel A. Barboza
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Patent number: 9114603Abstract: An apparatus for printing a variable pattern on a substrate, a method using the apparatus, a product produced by using the apparatus are disclosed. The apparatus includes an ink bath containing a printing agent to be applied to the substrate, a roller that picks up ink from the ink bath, a doctor blade to wipe of excess printing agent on the roller, and a means for intentionally varying the design printed on the substrate from the roller.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2012Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: PERGO (EUROPE) ABInventor: Patrick George Smith
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Patent number: 9114654Abstract: Systems and methods for high-speed variable printing are provided. Ink jet technology and lithographic systems may be combined in such a way to create a fully variable and high-quality print system. Ink is applied to a first cylinder. Aqueous solution is applied to a second cylinder to produce a negative image. At least a portion of the ink from the first cylinder is transferred to the second cylinder. A positive image in ink is then transferred from the second cylinder to a print medium, and residue ink and aqueous solution is cleaned from the second cylinder. The systems and methods described herein may be used to create high-quality one-to-one marketing applications.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2007Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: R.R. Donnelley & Sons CompanyInventors: Theodore F. Cyman, Jr., Anthony B. DeJoseph, Kevin J. Hook, Henk Haan, Anthony V. Moscato
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Patent number: 9110424Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a roll body including a print medium wound around, the medium having an adhesive face, an image forming unit to form an image on the adhesive face, a conveyance unit having a pair of a conveyance rotor and an opposed rotor to convey the medium with the medium interposed between the conveyance rotor and the opposed rotor and an adhesive face guide unit to guide the medium when the conveyance unit returns the medium in a return direction opposite a conveyance direction of the medium. The adhesive face guide unit has a downstream rotor disposed downstream from the opposed rotor in the return direction and an endless adhesive face guide member wound around the opposed rotor and the downstream rotor. The adhesive face guide member is configured to receive and guide the adhesive face of the medium returned, in a separable state.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2013Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Kazuyoshi Kondo, Kazuyoshi Matsumoto, Makoto Kikura, Yuuzoh Obata, Norikazu Yanase, Gaku Hosono, Yoshinori Uchino, Masateru Ujiie, Shu Kanno
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Patent number: 9108398Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2014Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Kevin Benson McNeil, Thomas Timothy Byrne, Gustav André Mellin
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Patent number: 9102133Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2014Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Kevin Benson McNeil, Michael Scott Prodoehl, Gustav André Mellin, Thomas Timothy Byrne
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Patent number: 9102182Abstract: A contact printing system for printing X colors upon a web substrate is disclosed. The contact printing system comprises X-Y printing components where X and Y are whole numbers, 0<Y<X, and X>1. Each of the printing components comprises a gravure cylinder having a plurality of discrete gravure cells disposed within a surface thereof. A first portion of a fluid is displaceable into a first portion of discrete gravure cells from at least one channel extending from a position external to the gravure cylinder. A second portion of the fluid is displaceable into a second portion of the plurality of discrete gravure cells from the at last one channel. The gravure roll, including at least one channel and the plurality of discrete cells, is formed such that the gravure roll has a unibody construction and there are no moving parts interior to the gravure roll.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2014Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Kevin Benson McNeil, Thomas Timothy Byrne, Gustav André Mellin
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Patent number: 9102174Abstract: An image recording apparatus including: a first convey path; a support member which supports a first recording medium, a second recording medium, and a tray; a second convey path connected to the first convey path; a first guide member partly defining the second convey path; and a posture change mechanism which changes the support member and the first guide member between (a) a first posture in which the first convey path has a height allowing the first recording medium to pass therethrough, and the second convey path has a height allowing the first recording medium to pass therethrough and (b) a second posture in which the first convey path has a height larger than the first height and allowing the second recording medium or the tray to pass therethrough, and the second convey path has a height smaller than the second height.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2014Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Iwane Sano, Yasuhira Ota, Shota Iijima, Naokazu Tanahashi, Shingo Ito
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Patent number: 9096085Abstract: A printer has a carriage being movable between a first end and a second end of a reciprocating path; and a driving force transmitting path selecting mechanism provided at the second end of the reciprocating path. The selecting mechanism has: a common driving force outputting member; a plurality of force receiving members; a selecting member; and a position retainer for keeping the position of the selecting member. The selecting member connects the force outputting member to one of the plurality of force receiving members, and moves in association with the carriage when the carriage moves in a vicinity of the second end in a first direction extending from the first end to the second end. The position retainer keeps the position of the selecting member when the carriage moves in a second direction extending from the second end to the first end.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2014Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yuji Koga, Masatoshi Izuchi
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Patent number: 9096051Abstract: A multilayer structure having at least two different print materials pattern is formed on a receiver element using an elastomeric relief element having a relief pattern. Multiple different printable material compositions are sequentially applied only to the uppermost relief surface of the elastomeric relief element and at least at least 50 weight % of a carrier liquid is removed from each printable material composition. During contact of the multilayer structure on the uppermost relief surface and the receiver element, the elastomeric relief element is compressed by at least 10 ?m of its original thickness. The elastomeric relief element is then separated from the receiver element to leave a pattern of the multilayer structure on the receiver element, wherein at least 70 weight % of the multiple print materials is transferred to the receiver element.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2014Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANYInventors: Elsie Anderson Fohrenkamm, Gregory Lloyd Zwadlo, Charles W. Simpson
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Patent number: 9090091Abstract: The invention relates to equipment for printing on containers (B), such as bottles, having a printed design (D) on at least one printing machine having at least one print head (1), and is characterized in that the at least one print head (1) is automatically adjustable by means of an electrical controller. An adjustment value from the controller moves the print head (1) according to spatial co-ordinates and/or an angular position into a position that is determined or calculated by means of a measuring device having e.g. sensors from the surface contour and the position relative to the print head (1) of the container (B) to be printed upon.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2010Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: KHS GmbHInventor: Heinz Till
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Patent number: 9090053Abstract: An air dispenser attached to a printing press has a tube with a plurality of holes for directing air toward sheet material moving toward the gripper of the printing press to ensure registration and accurate feeding of the sheet material to the gripper of the printing press.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2010Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Inventor: Bruce A. Franke
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Patent number: 9090422Abstract: A recording device includes a recording head for recording on a sheet; a first paper roll accommodating part for accommodating the first paper roll; a second paper roll accommodating part for accommodating the second paper roll; and a conveyance mechanism for conveying a sheet unwound from the first paper roll or a sheet unwound from the second paper roll to the recording head. The first paper roll accommodating part is provided inside the device body and is capable of being pulled to the outside of the device body by being slid in relation to the device body; and the second paper roll accommodating part is provided outside the device body, and can be rotated in relation to the device body.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2011Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Hideshi Horikawa
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Patent number: 9090054Abstract: Method of printing and printing apparatus whereby the repeat length is greater than the circumference of the rotary printing screen (5). This may be achieved by controlling the rotation of the screen as a non-printing zone (2) of the screen passes a moving web (w) such that an associated non-printed region formed on the screen has a length that is greater than the non-printing zone. This, in turn, may be achieved by suspending the rotation of the screen or reducing the speed of rotation when the non-printing zone is in registration with the web and then increasing the speed of rotation to a predetermined printing speed as a printing zone (1) of the screen comes into registration with the web.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2009Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: Emerson & Renwick LTDInventors: Colin Hargreaves, David Hargreaves
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Patent number: 9090423Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a movable belt and a recording mechanism. The movable belt is configured and arranged to convey a recording medium. The recording mechanism is configured and arranged to record onto the recording medium. The movable belt has a mark serving as a reference for when the recording medium is being set thereon.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2014Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Hirotaka Ishizuka
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Patent number: 9090118Abstract: A transfer film 316 which has a print pattern 340 comprising a first area 312A having an ink layer and a second area 312B having no ink layer and has no whole surface fixture layer formed thereon is prepared, an activating agent is applied onto the surface of the transfer film 316 to collect a surplus portion of the activating agent in a convex form in the second area by a repelling operation of the ink player 312I in the first area 312A and a collecting power of the activating agent 320, the convex collection portions 320C of the activating agent in the second area 312B have a concave-convex reversal made on the surface of the article 10 when the water pressure transfer is performed, and the convex collection portions of the activating agent are shrunk and protruded when the print layer is hardened whereby a three-dimensional unevenness is imparted onto the surface of the article.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2014Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: TAICA CORPORATIONInventor: Wataru Ikeda
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Patent number: 9090090Abstract: The invention relates to a printing apparatus for printing bottles or similar containers, having several printing positions on a transport element, which can be driven in rotation, by which the printing positions and/or the containers are moved on a closed path of movement between at least one container take-up and at least one container drop, having rotating print heads for applying at least one print image, preferably multi-color, onto a region to be printed on the external container surface of the containers, in the event of relative movement of the external container surface and at least one print head, wherein at least one enclosure is present, into which each of the containers, which are provided at a print position, is housed during the printing process with at least the region to be printed thereof.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2010Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: KHS GmbHInventors: Frank Putzer, Katrin Preckel, Manfred Pschichholz, Martin Schach
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Patent number: 9085132Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2012Date of Patent: July 21, 2015Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF MACHINERY & MATERIALSInventors: In Young Kim, Taik Min Lee, Jeong Dai Jo, Dong-Soo Kim
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Patent number: 9079322Abstract: A diecutting device, in particular for cutting labels, includes a diecutting cylinder that rotates about an axis of rotation, a counterpressure cylinder that rotates about an axis of rotation essentially parallel to the axis of rotation of the diecutting cylinder and has a cylinder body, and bearer rings assigned to the cylinders and rolling off on each other. A spacing between the diecutting cylinder and the counterpressure cylinder is adjustable. A respective bearer ring assigned to the counterpressure cylinder is connected to a counterpressure cylinder shaft and each end of the cylinder body of the counterpressure cylinder is connected to the counterpressure cylinder shaft by a respective connecting link guide.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2011Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: Gallus Druckmaschinen GmbHInventor: Thomas Demand
