Patents by Inventor Reinhold Chmielnik

Reinhold Chmielnik 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).

  • Printing plate mounting device
    Patent number: 5666188
    Abstract: A novel printing plate mounting device and procedure are provided. A small-scale single-color representation of a carton blank or other substrate and a complete usually multi-color image to be printed thereon is projected from an acetate film or other suitable substrate onto a carrier sheet to provide a full-scale single-color representation of the substrate and the image to be printed thereon. A small-scale usually multi-color representation of the carton blank and the complete usually multi-color image to be printed thereon is used as a template to determine which ones of a plurality of individual printing plate elements is used to print which ones of the color of the multi-color image. The individual printing plate elements for each color then are affixed to separate carrier sheets in the position shown by the full-scale single-color representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1997
    Assignee: Napp Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Reinhold Chmielnik
  • Printing plate mounting device
    Patent number: 5638154
    Abstract: A novel printing plate mounting device and procedure are provided. A small-scale single-color representation of a carton blank or other substrate and a complete usually multi-color image to be printed thereon is projected from an acetate film or other suitable substrate onto a carrier sheet to provide a full-scale single-color representation of the substrate and the image to be printed thereon. A small-scale usually multi-color representation of the carton blank and the complete usually multi-color image to be printed thereon is used as a template to determine which ones of a plurality of individual printing plate elements is used to print which ones of the color of the multi-color image. The individual printing plate elements for each color then are affixed to separate carrier sheets in the position shown by the full-scale single-color representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 10, 1997
    Assignee: Napp Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Reinhold Chmielnik
  • Apparatus for producing flexographic printing plates
    Patent number: 5617790
    Abstract: A multicolor half-tone image of an original object is formed on a recipient printing surface, such as a preformed plastic container, by printing such image in a series of individual one-color images from flexographic printing plates directly onto the recipient surface, so as to provide thereon overlying one-color half-tone images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 8, 1997
    Assignee: P.R. Graphics Limited
    Inventor: Reinhold Chmielnik
  • Printing process overlaying multi-color dot images
    Patent number: 4774885
    Abstract: A multicolor half-tone image of an original object is formed on preformed plastic containers or other recipient surface by printing such image while wet from an offset blanket cylinder on which the image is formed by overlying a plurality of one-color half-tone images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1988
    Inventor: Reinhold Chmielnik