Patents by Inventor Andreas Krispin

Andreas Krispin has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8162023
    Abstract: An apparatus for film transfer includes at least one printing press and at least one transfer film supply roller, a transfer film guiding device for guiding the transfer film web from the transfer film supply roller to a transfer nip. In order to ensure a variable film transfer in different printing units of the printing press, up to now the transfer film supply roller is moved with a film module into the region of the desired printing unit. In order to make a variable film transfer possible without complicated moving, the guiding device has web guiding elements at least in the region of the at least one printing press and the web guiding elements are enabled to selectively guide the transfer film web to different positions on the at least one printing press, such as to possible potential transfer nips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Alexander Weber, Andreas Krispin, Joachim Sonnenschein
  • Patent number: 8105455
    Abstract: A printing machine contains a transfer unit for transferring a transfer layer onto a print carrier in a transfer nip. The printing machine further has at least one applicator unit for applying an adhesive to the print carrier. The applicator unit precedes the transfer unit, and the transfer layer is detached from the carrier film in the transfer unit in the regions in which adhesive is applied. By printing units being converted into transfer units or applicator units, the functionality of the printing unit for a printing operation is lost. If the applicator device and the transfer device are located in this order on an impression cylinder of a printing unit, the applied adhesive is not predried sufficiently. To overcome these disadvantages, the transfer unit is a further processing unit and has at least one further processing device which follows the transfer nip and which acts on the print carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Alexander Weber, Andreas Krispin, Joachim Sonnenschein
  • Patent number: 7793697
    Abstract: An apparatus for film transfer includes at least one printing press and at least one transfer film supply roller, a transfer film guiding device for guiding the transfer film web from the transfer film supply roller to a transfer nip. In order to ensure a variable film transfer in different printing units of the printing press, up to now the transfer film supply roller is moved with a film module into the region of the desired printing unit. In order to make a variable film transfer possible without complicated moving, the guiding device has web guiding elements at least in the region of the at least one printing press and the web guiding elements are enabled to selectively guide the transfer film web to different positions on the at least one printing press.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Alexander Weber, Andreas Krispin, Joachim Sonnenschein
  • Publication number: 20100200171
    Abstract: An apparatus for film transfer includes at least one printing press and at least one transfer film supply roller, a transfer film guiding device for guiding the transfer film web from the transfer film supply roller to a transfer nip. In order to ensure a variable film transfer in different printing units of the printing press, up to now the transfer film supply roller is moved with a film module into the region of the desired printing unit. In order to make a variable film transfer possible without complicated moving, the guiding device has web guiding elements at least in the region of the at least one printing press and the web guiding elements are enabled to selectively guide the transfer film web to different positions on the at least one printing press, such as to possible potential transfer nips.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2010
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Applicant: HEIDELBERGER DRUCKMASCHINEN AG
    Inventors: Alexander Weber, Andreas Krispin, Joachim Sonnenschein
  • Publication number: 20080251190
    Abstract: A printing machine contains a transfer unit for transferring a transfer layer onto a print carrier in a transfer nip. The printing machine further has at least one applicator unit for applying an adhesive to the print carrier. The applicator unit precedes the transfer unit, and the transfer layer is detached from the carrier film in the transfer unit in the regions in which adhesive is applied. By printing units being converted into transfer units or applicator units, the functionality of the printing unit for a printing operation is lost. If the applicator device and the transfer device are located in this order on an impression cylinder of a printing unit, the applied adhesive is not predried sufficiently. To overcome these disadvantages, the transfer unit is a further processing unit and has at least one further processing device which follows the transfer nip and which acts on the print carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2007
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Inventors: Alexander Weber, Andreas Krispin, Joachim Sonnenschein
  • Publication number: 20070215288
    Abstract: An apparatus for film transfer includes at least one printing press and at least one transfer film supply roller, a transfer film guiding device for guiding the transfer film web from the transfer film supply roller to a transfer nip. In order to ensure a variable film transfer in different printing units of the printing press, up to now the transfer film supply roller is moved with a film module into the region of the desired printing unit. In order to make a variable film transfer possible without complicated moving, the guiding device has web guiding elements at least in the region of the at least one printing press and the web guiding elements are enabled to selectively guide the transfer film web to different positions on the at least one printing press.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2007
    Publication date: September 20, 2007
    Inventors: Alexander Weber, Andreas Krispin, Joachim Sonnenschein
  • Publication number: 20070095483
    Abstract: A print finishing unit has an application system for applying an adhesive to some areas of a two-dimensional material, in particular sheet or web printing materials. The print finishing unit further has a transfer system for transferring a transfer layer, adhering to a carrier film by a release layer, under the action of pressure to the two-dimensional material, such that the transfer layer adheres to the two-dimensional material only in the areas coated with the adhesive. The print finishing unit also has a press cylinder and a transfer cylinder which form a common transfer nip. The application system has a further press nip with the press cylinder for the application of the adhesive to some areas of the two-dimensional material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2006
    Publication date: May 3, 2007
    Inventors: Andreas Krispin, Alexander Weber