Abstract: Image forming apparatuses and methods are disclosed. Image forming apparatuses and methods include a plate member including an upper plate surface to receive media on which to form images, an ink absorber member to receive ink in a form of ink build-up, and a blotter unit to periodically contact and press at least a portion of the ink build-up formed on the ink absorber member therein.

Abstract: Various methods and apparatuses are disclosed for handling a sheet, wherein at least one projection extends across a stack of sheets such that corners of the sheet are bent when being lifted from the stack.

Abstract: A system and method for using nanoparticles for antimicrobial activity. An antimicrobial coating can be provided, which can include a plurality of discrete first particles that can have an average diameter of less than approximately 400 nanometers and, in a preferred embodiment, 10 nanometers or less. The plurality of discrete first particles can include pure silver metal. In an embodiment, the plurality of discrete first particles can also include a physiologically inert stabilizer. The antimicrobial coating can also include a polymeric film, in which the plurality of discrete first particles can be directly embedded therein.

Abstract: An apparatus and method transport a sheet on a tray. In one embodiment, feet carried by an endless member contact a bottom and edge of the sheet to move the sheet off of the tray. In one embodiment, the sheet is arced while it is being engaged by the feet.

Abstract: A system and method for using nanoparticles for antimicrobial activity. The coding may include a polymeric film and a plurality of discreet first particles. The discreet particles may include silver metal, silver oxide or a combination of both. The discreet particles may be in contact with the polymeric film.

Abstract: Various methods and apparatuses are disclosed for handling a sheet.

Abstract: Various methods and apparatuses are disclosed for handling a sheet.

Abstract: A device for delivering flat products, such as signatures or the like, having a plurality of fan wheels rotatably mounted on a fan wheel shaft. The fan wheels each have a plurality of fan pockets for receiving signatures emerging from a transporting device, the fan wheels being mounted on the fan wheel shaft in spaced relation to one another in an axial direction. Adjustably mounted deceleration devices, each having a curvature for diving between the spaced-apart fan wheels, allow for a desired deceleration of the signatures upon rotation of the fan wheels.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to an apparatus, such as a folder apparatus of a web-fed printing press, having a printed product delivery with two fan wheel arrangements overlapping each other. An exemplary embodiment includes a mechanism for continuously conveying flat products. The mechanism has devices attached thereto in a timed arrangement for positioning each flat product to be delivered, in its entirety, off a centerline of the fan wheel arrangements prior to the entry of the flat product into a pocket of the fan wheel arrangements.

Abstract: A device for diverting signatures into pockets of at least two slow-down devices is provided. The device includes a set of high-speed tapes (3) arranged downstream of a pair of cutting cylinders (2). A set of diverting belts (6) comprises raised surface portions (6.3) and non-raised surface portions (6.4). The set of high-speed tapes (3) is assigned to the diverting belts (6) to ride on the raised and non-raised surface portions (6.3, 6.4) thereof, thus, periodically altering a signature conveying path (1) of signatures.

Abstract: A web transporting device usable in a rotary printing press or folder, includes a rotatably driven transport roller having a fixed axis and at least one engagable nip roller having an axis substantially parallel to the fixed axis and being engagable with the driven transport roller. The engagable nip roller has a length corresponding to a maximum width of the web processable in the printing press. A removable nip sleeve is provided which is axially mounted on the engagable nip roller. The removable nip sleeve has an least one ring-shaped annular gap disposed axially along its length which allows the web to ripple as it passes through the web transporting device without causing permanent wrinkles or creases to form in the web. A counterbalancing mechanism is also provided which stabilizes the engagable nip roller in a maintenance position as the removable nip sleeve is replaced.

Abstract: A web transporting device usable in a rotary printing press or folder, includes a rotatably driven transport roller having a fixed axis and at least one engagable nip roller having an axis substantially parallel to the fixed axis and being engagable with the driven transport roller. The engagable nip roller has a length corresponding to a maximum width of the web processable in the printing press. A removable nip sleeve is provided which is axially mounted on the engagable nip roller. The removable nip sleeve has at least one ring-shaped annular gap disposed axially along its length which allows the web to ripple as it passes through the web transporting device without causing permanent wrinkles or creases to form in the web. A counterbalancing mechanism is also provided which stabilizes the engagable nip roller in a maintenance position as the removable nip sleeve is replaced.

Abstract: A method of assuring orderly web travel in a folder includes stamping out of a layered structure formed of mutually superimposed web surface portions, along respective strips thereof, a plurality of tongue-like elements remaining appendant to the web surface portions and projecting through respective holes simultaneously stamped out of the web surface portions so as thereby to hold the web surface portions together at the respective strips thereof; and a device for performing the method.

Abstract: A delivery device in a folding apparatus of a printing press includes a fan wheel or several fan wheels disposed next to one another. The fan wheels are formed of individual fan blades, between which fan wheel pockets are formed. Leading edges of the fan blades have a first profile and trailing edges of the fan blades have a second profile.

Abstract: A fan delivery for a rotary printing press, includes a drive shaft, a fan arrangement including a plurality of fan blade assemblies disposed adjacent and spaced from one another on the drive shaft, signature guides formed with arcuate recesses, respectively mounted between mutually adjacent fan blade assemblies of the fan arrangement, and a device for adjusting at least some of the signature guides with respect to the fan blade assemblies for varying formats of signatures in accordance with the size of the signatures.