Abstract: An ink-applying device includes a rotary ink-application roller and a rotary dosing roller positioned between the ink-application roller and a funnel-shaped ink reservoir filled with ink. A bottom wall of the dosing roller is formed with a longitudinal row of conical holes of differing diameters.A number of dosing chambers of differing diameters are formed, respectively in the circumferential surface of the dosing roller to receive ink from the ink reservoir through those holes and to transmit it to an ink-application roller upon rotation of the dosing roller. A plurality of vertically movable plungers are mounted in the ink reservoir to selectively close or open the filling holes in the bottom wall communicated with respective dosing chambers in the dosing roller. A predetermined ink profile on the dosing roller may be obtained in each ink zone by selecting holes and dosing chambers to be closed and open.

Abstract: An ink-applying device having a funnel-shaped ink reservoir filled with ink is provided with an ink pick-up roller positioned below the ink reservoir and in communication therewith. A number of dosing chambers of differing diameters are formed in the circumferential surface of the roller to receive ink from the ink reservoir and to transmit it to an ink-transmitting roller upon rotation of the pick-up roller. The ink dosing chamber may be selectively closed after they have been filled with ink, in any required combination by a number of sliders or plungers adapted to move between a closing and opening positions and controlled by electromagnets or any suitable electronic device.

Abstract: Sheets are displaced from a supply to a continuously rotating receiver drum in a printing machine by means of a transfer drum having at least two angularly spaced grippers. The drum carrying the gripper is rotated at a relatively slow speed, and each of the grippers can be angularly displaced on the transfer drum and relative to the other gripper. Thus each gripper is accelerated after it picks up a sheet at the pickup station so that when it reaches a transfer station where it passes the sheet off to the receiver drum it is moving at the same speed as the receiver drum. Thereafter each gripper is uniformly decelerated so that when it has returned to the pickup station it is moving at the same speed as the sheet thereat.