Abstract: An ink supplying unit supplies a water-based ink having a predetermined water content set in advance. An ink form roller receives the water-based ink from the ink supplying unit. A plate cylinder is in contact with the ink form roller, and receives the water-based ink from the ink form roller. A water-content decreasing unit decreases the water content of the water-based ink on the ink form roller.

Abstract: A cleaning device that cleans an ink-supply path of a printer including a plurality of cylinders that constitute the ink-supply path. The cleaning device supplies cleaning solution from a cleaning nozzle to an ink-transfer cylinder in the state where the ink-transfer cylinder is not in contact with an ink-source cylinder, and a blanket cylinder is not in contact with a recording medium. After the cleaning solution is supplied to all the cylinders, a cleaning-solution collecting cylinder is brought into contact with an inking cylinder to collect waste cleaning solution therefrom. A cleaning-solution removing blade removes the waste cleaning solution from the cleaning-solution collecting cylinder.

Abstract: An ink-transfer roller is brought into contact with an ink-source roller so that ink is transferred from the ink-source roller to the ink-transfer roller. The ink-transfer roller includes an ink-transfer member, an ink-transfer roller body, an elastic member, and a rotation axis. The elastic member is provided between the rotation axis and the ink-transfer roller body.

Abstract: An offset rotary printing machine which includes a first printing cylinder and a second printing cylinder in which printing is performed on a web at a nip between the pair of printing cylinders, the second printing cylinder contacting the first printing cylinder and being shifted downstream from the first printing cylinder. The printing machine includes an angle adjustment mechanism for adjusting an angle of a plane connecting center axes of the pair of printing cylinders which is inclined to a plane perpendicular to the moving direction of the web, and a controller for controlling the angle adjustment mechanism, based on parameters interrelating to a delamination occurrence probability that is caused as printing is performed by the downstream second printing cylinder.

Abstract: A re-treading method and an apparatus therefor can detect a deviation amount of the position distant by a required tread length from the leading edge of the tread material from a predetermined pattern position near that position planned to be cut, cut the tread material at the at the predetermined position, wind the cut-out tread material on the outer circumference of the base tire while adjusting the length of the tread material by applying thereto a substantially uniform tensile or compressive force, and unite the leading and trailing edges of the tread material wound on the base tire.

Abstract: A fluctuation characteristic of registration between images printed by individual printing units (4A, 4B, 4C, 4D) while changing print speed is predicted for each of particular printing conditions that affect the registration fluctuation characteristic. Based on the predicted fluctuation characteristic of registration, a control characteristic of the phase between plate cylinders (5, 5, 5, 5) of the individual printing units (4A, 4B, 4C, 4D) is preliminarily set so as to compensate for vertical image misregistration between images printed by the individual printing units (4A, 4B, 4C, 4D), and is stored in a database (32).

Abstract: A re-treading method and an apparatus therefor, which are capable of winding a tread material on a base tire automatically and efficiently to realize an adequate joint condition of the leading and trailing edges of the tread material, are configured to take a photograph of a zone of the tread material including its cut position to compare the picture with a stored tread pattern image to detect a deviation amount between them, then moves the tread material or the cut position relative to each other by the deviation amount, next cut the tread material at the cut position after the relative movement, wind the tread material on a base tire, and unite the leading and trailing edges of the tread material.

Abstract: A re-treading method and an apparatus. An image of a zone of the tread material including its cut position is compared with a stored tread pattern image to detect a deviation amount. The tread material or the cut position are moved relative to each other by the deviation amount. The tread material is cut at the cut position after the relative movement. The tread material is wound on a base tire, and the leading and trailing edges of the tread material are united. The tread material or cut position may not be moved relative to each other if the deviation amount is within an allowable range.

Abstract: A re-treading method and an apparatus therefor, which are capable of winding a tread material on a base tire automatically and efficiently to realize an adequate joint condition of the leading and trailing edges of the tread material, are configured to take a photograph of a zone of the tread material including its cut position to compare the picture with a stored tread pattern image to detect a deviation amount between them, then moves the tread material or the cut position relative to each other by the deviation amount, next cut the tread material at the cut position after the relative movement, wind the tread material on a base tire, and unite the leading and trailing edges of the tread material.

Abstract: A method of measuring a gauge of used rubber portion of a buffed tire with an enhanced efficiency and high accuracy is disclosed, and in this method, workability of a buffing process can be improved. A buffing method is also disclosed which enhances a production efficiency of recaps, maintaining high levels of workability of the buffing process and quality of the recaps. An eddy-current sensor is used to measure a gauge g of used rubber portion or a thickness from an outer circumferential surface to a belt layer in a buffed tire to recap the tire, and voltages detected by the eddy-current sensor is converted in accordance with a conversion method designated to each of types of belt configuration to compute a real distance of the gauge of the used rubber portion.

Abstract: A resin composition for sealing liquid crystal cells which contains as essential components a rubber-modified unsaturated compound obtained by grafting a monomer having at least one polymerizable ethylenically unsaturated bond in a molecule with at least one rubber selected from acrylic rubber, silicone rubber, urethane rubber and conjugated diene rubber, and a coupling agent, a filler and a photopolymerization initiator. The rubber contained in the rubber modified unsaturated compound has a particle diameter of 0.2-5 .mu.m and a number average molecular weight of 1000-100,000, and the rubber content in the compound is 0.5-45% by weight based on the rubber modified unsaturated compound.

Abstract: A wetting apparatus for offset printing machines comprising a first wetting roller immersed in a pan having dampening solution, a metering roller contacting with the first wetting roller, a second wetting roller contacting with the metering roller and with a printing surface, an ink application roller contacting with the printing surface, an ink receiving roller rotatably in contact with the second wetting roller and movable toward and away from at least one of the metering roller and the ink application roller, a vibrating roller rotatably in contact with the ink application roller, and an ink transferring roller rotatably in contact with the vibrating roller and movable toward and away from the ink receiving roller.

Abstract: The uneven wear produced in the tread side rib in the heavy duty pneumatic radial tire is prevented by arranging a peripheral fine groove on a particular region of the side face of the tread portion in a particular form.

Abstract: A main circumferential groove for a pneumatic tire having asymmetrical side walls. One of the side walls has three segments each inclined differently to a line normal to the tread surface. The angle of the inner segment is larger than that of an outer segment.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire having a tread of a lug type pattern is disclosed. In this type of the tire, the tread rubber has a composite structure of a cap rubber and a base rubber having a heat build-up property lower than that of the cap rubber and arranged on at least a shoulder portion of the tread just beneath the cap rubber. The base rubber has a thickness that an average thickness just beneath the lug is larger than that just beneath the lug groove in a conical plane imaged by taking as a general line a normal line drawn from the tread end to the inner surface of the tire in the radial section inclusive of a rotational axis of the tire.

Abstract: A pneumatic radial tire comprising a belt portion disposed between the tread portion and the carcass portion wherein the belt portion is constituted by at least a pair of first belts, a second belt and a third belt which are arranged from radially inward to outward, the first, second and third belts having a first series, second series and third series of parallel cords embedded therein, respectively. The first belts being laterally spaced apart a predetermined lateral space symmetrically with respect to the mid-circumferential centerline and the cords thereof are disposed at an angle of between 40 to 60 degrees with respect to the mid-circumferential centerline. The spaced-apart first belts have opposite lateral ends which are located within less than 5 percent of a belt width of the third belt from the corresponding opposite lateral ends of the third belt, respectively.