Patents by Inventor Michael Vöge

Michael Vöge 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: 8807027
    Abstract: An apparatus for metering printing ink includes an ink fountain roller, an ink fountain and a mounting for the ink fountain. The mounting permits an adjustment of the ink fountain relative to the ink fountain roller. The mounting has at least one elastic element for generating a holding force. The mounting is configured in such a way that a force flux which results from the holding force deflects the ink fountain roller in such a way that its longitudinal outer contour is adapted to the longitudinal outer contour of the ink fountain. A printing press having the apparatus is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Sebastian Krueger, Bernhard Roskosch, Michael Voge
  • Publication number: 20110100242
    Abstract: An apparatus for metering printing ink includes an ink fountain roller, an ink fountain and a mounting for the ink fountain. The mounting permits an adjustment of the ink fountain relative to the ink fountain roller. The mounting has at least one elastic element for generating a holding force. The mounting is configured in such a way that a force flux which results from the holding force deflects the ink fountain roller in such a way that its longitudinal outer contour is adapted to the longitudinal outer contour of the ink fountain. A printing press having the apparatus is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2010
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Applicant: HEIDELBERGER DRUCKMASCHINEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Sebastian Krüeger, Bernhard Roskosch, Michael Voge
  • Patent number: 6647877
    Abstract: An inking unit includes a first smoothing roller, an ink feed unit constructed as an ink droplet generator for applying a metered quantity of ink to the first smoothing roller, by one of an indirect and a direct path, respectively, the indirect path being via at least one additional roller interposing the ink feed unit and the first smoothing roller, and the direct path being directly to the first smoothing roller, and further including a second smoothing roller operatively connected to the first smoothing roller for distributing the application of ink, each of the first and the second smoothing rollers having a hard smoothing surface with a hardness of one of at least 80 Shore A and at least 30 Shore D, respectively, for forming a uniform film of ink; and an offset printing machine including the inking unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2003
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventor: Michael Voge
  • Patent number: 6612238
    Abstract: An inking unit in a printing machine, formed as a film inking unit, includes an ink duct with an ink duct film inserted between an ink metering system, which is subdivided into ink zones, and an ink duct roller. The ink duct film within each of the ink zones in a region of a settable metering gap is held out of contact with the ink duct roller during printing. The invention also includes a printing machine, such as a sheet-fed printing machine, particularly, provided with the inking unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Michael Voge, Bernhard Roskosch
  • Patent number: 6516721
    Abstract: An inking unit for a printing machine includes one or more distributor drums, ink transfer rollers, ink application rollers, an ink reservoir for printing ink and an ink metering device having at least one electrically controllable valve for metering the printing ink. In accordance with the invention, there are provided a high-pressure pumping device for supplying the ink metering device with printing ink at a predetermined high pressure from the ink reservoir, and a heating device for heating the printing ink to a predetermined temperature above room temperature. Moreover, the at least one valve of the ink metering device has a short reaction time and a flow rate with a low dependence upon viscosity. The invention also relates to a method for supplying printing ink to a printing machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2003
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventor: Michael Voge
  • Publication number: 20020020316
    Abstract: An inking unit includes a first smoothing roller, an ink feed unit constructed as an ink droplet generator for applying a metered quantity of ink to the first smoothing roller, by one of an indirect and a direct path, respectively, the indirect path being via at least one additional roller interposing the ink feed unit and the first smoothing roller, and the direct path being directly to the first smoothing roller, and further including a second smoothing roller operatively connected to the first smoothing roller for distributing the application of ink, each of the first and the second smoothing rollers having a hard smoothing surface with a hardness of one of at least 80 Shore A and at least 30 Shore D, respectively, for forming a uniform film of ink; and an offset printing machine including the inking unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2001
    Publication date: February 21, 2002
    Inventor: Michael Voge
  • Publication number: 20020002919
    Abstract: An inking unit in a printing machine, formed as a film inking unit, includes an ink duct with an ink duct film inserted between an ink metering system, which is subdivided into ink zones, and an ink duct roller. The ink duct film within each of the ink zones in a region of a settable metering gap is held out of contact with the ink duct roller during printing. The invention also includes a printing machine, such as a sheet-fed printing machine, particularly, provided with the inking unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2001
    Publication date: January 10, 2002
    Inventors: Michael Voge, Bernhard Roskosch
  • Patent number: 6116161
    Abstract: A method and devices for cleaning an inking system of a printing machine in which a further drive of the inking system (1) is used for the reverse transport of the ink into the ink fountain (4), while the clock-pulse movement of vibrator roller (5) between ductor roller (6) and distributor roller (7) continues to take place, and that only after this reverse transport of the ink is the customary cleaning of the inking system (1) carried out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2000
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Michael Voge, Carsten Kelm
  • Patent number: 6012389
    Abstract: An ink fountain for rotary offset printing presses with an ink dosing device which includes of a plurality of zone-width dosing elements located next to one another in close proximity. The dosing elements have support and dosing areas, and the support areas are in constant direct or indirect contact under spring pressure with an ink fountain roller. The dosing areas can be adjusted to different ink gap thicknesses by rotating the dosing elements. The hydrodynamic forces or the spring pressure on the dosing elements can therefore be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2000
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bernhard Roskosch, Michael Voge
  • Patent number: 5960715
    Abstract: An ink duct for rotary printing presses with zone-wide metering elements disposed side by side and adjustable a variable spaced distance from an ink duct cylinder, each of the metering elements having support and metering regions disposed in the axial direction of the ink duct cylinder, the support regions resting independently of one another, under spring pressure, at least indirectly on the ink duct cylinder, and the metering regions extending in a wedgelike manner, the metering elements being swivelably supported and being coverable by an elastic foil secured to the ink duct, comprising support bodies disposed on the metering elements at both sides of the metering regions, the metering regions being cylindrical and being formed on the metering elements, the support bodies having a circumference formed with a flattened contact surface portion by which the support bodies at least indirectly rest, under the spring pressure, on the jacket surface of the ink duct cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1999
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Michael Voge, Bernhard Roskosch
  • Patent number: 5896814
    Abstract: An ink dosing device for inking units of printing presses has several dosing elements that are adjustable independently of one another. The dosing elements are provided for over the length of an ink fountain, whereby each dosing element shows a dosing area that is adjustable in its clearance to the ink fountain roller, and in each zone the smallest amounts of ink can be adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1999
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rudi Junghans, Bernd Muller, Bernhard Roskosch, Michael Voge
  • Patent number: 5857412
    Abstract: An ink dosing device in the inking unit of rotary or offset printing press is disclosed with an inking roller which corresponds to an ink fountain. The ink dosing device also has dosing elements which are divided into zones. The dosing elements can be adjusted individually with respect to the cylindrical surface of the inking roller. The dosing elements are realized as tongue-shaped and are fastened to a base body. Each dosing element is adjustably fastened to the base body by elastic intermediate shims.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1999
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Bernhard Roskosch, Michael Voge
  • Patent number: 5823526
    Abstract: Sheet delivery for a sheet-fed printing press having gripper systems arranged on conveyor chains or toothed belts revolvingly guided and driven by guide wheels, the gripper systems being activatable by a locally fixed control member for gripping sheets individually at respective leading edges thereof and for releasing the sheets in vicinity of a sheet pile, and including guideways for slidingly guiding the conveyor chains, includes rollers with roller bearings fastened to the conveyor chains or toothed belts, the rollers, in regions of increased load, being movable into separate roller guides arranged on a frame of the printing press, for transmitting to the printing-press frame forces which act upon the conveyor chains or toothed belts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1998
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Michael Voge, Roland Hirth, Gerhard Pollich
  • Patent number: 5758576
    Abstract: Gripper bar for a delivery of a printing press, the gripper bar being carried at respective ends thereof by transport chains and having a multiplicity of grippers with gripper fingers for transporting sheets includes a hollow profiled member having a boxlike profile wherein a gripper shaft is receivable, the boxlike profiled member being formed with lateral openings through which the gripper fingers of the grippers extend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1998
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Richard Mack, Martin Mayer, Michael Voge, Norbert Thunker, Roland Hirth, Bernd Maul
  • Patent number: 5727465
    Abstract: A side wall of a printing unit of a sheet-fed rotary printing press is composed of a plurality of in-line printing units in accordance with unit construction principles. The side wall has a torsionally rigid side-wall body formed with a boxlike cross-sectional profile open on one side thereof and has a frame extending somewhat transversely to a plane wherein the side wall is disposed. The frame is formed with at least one recess through which gear wheels of a gear-wheel drive train are at least engageable or possess a kinking and back-springing course, respectively, between an upper structural region and a lower structural region of the side wall, including a removable lid ribbed on an inner side thereof and being disposed on the frame in the lower structural region wherein bearings for printing cylinders are received and at an open side of the boxlike cross-sectional profile for stiffening the frame. The frame is formed with recesses in the lower structural region thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1998
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Carsten Kelm, Oliver Koch, Norbert Thunker, Michael Voge
  • Patent number: 5579691
    Abstract: A sheet transfer drum of a multi-color sheet-fed rotary printing press. A central drum body with flat portions carries at least one gripper system which extends over the sheet width. Jacket segments are mounted on the flat portions of the drum body. The jacket segments are exchangeably attached and they are formed with an inflatable interior. When they are deflated, the jacket segments fold into the flat portions of the drum body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1996
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventor: Michael Voge
  • Patent number: D468756
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2003
    Assignee: The Chamberlain Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Coullahan, Howard Nuk, Michael Vöge
  • Patent number: D469114
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2003
    Assignee: The Chamberlain Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Coullahan, Howard Nuk, Michael Vöge
  • Patent number: D469115
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2003
    Assignee: The Chamberlain Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Coullahan, Howard Nuk, Michael Vöge
  • Patent number: D477619
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2003
    Assignee: The Chamberlain Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Coullahan, Howard Nuk, Michael Vöge