Abstract: A device for processing wallpaper bonded to a surface, includes a rotatable, motor-driven carrier, on which the processing tools are provided; with a holder for the rotatable carrier, where the free ends of the processing tools act on certain areas of the wallpaper to be processed, and where the processing tools and the carrier are surrounded by a protective part. The processing tool is a perforating tool. After the perforating tool has been set against the wallpaper, the distance between the protective part and the wallpaper to be perforated can be adjusted. For this purpose, the holder of the carrier is constructed in the form of an adjusting sleeve with a clamping ring and by mounting the holder on the protective part, wherein the clamping ring mounted on the protective part surrounds the adjusting sleeve.

Abstract: A puncher having a double cutter linkage structure includes a driving shaft, a driving plate, a front linking rod, a rear linking rod, a front cutter seat, a rear cutter seat, a front cutter, a rear cutter, and a positioning seat. The driving plate is fixed to the driving shaft which has two ends connected to one end of the front linking rod and one end of the rear linking rod, respectively. The front linking rod is pivotally connected to the front cutter seat which is fixed to the front cutter. The rear linking rod has an curved arm at the other end to be connected to the rear cutter seat which is fixed to the rear cutter. The positioning seat is in a reverse U shape and has a front plate and a rear plate at respective sides.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are taught for cutting a sheet material comprising the steps of engaging a first side of the laminated web structure with a crack initiator having a high rake angle, the crack initiator extending from a first cutter base having a low rake angle; simultaneously engaging a second side of the laminated web structure with a second cutter; generating a first crack in the first side of the laminated web structure with the crack initiator, generating a second crack in the second side of the laminated web structure with the second cutter, and propagating the first crack and the second crack to intersect. The crack initiator extends from a cutter base to a height of at least 5 ?m. The high rake angle of the crack initiator is in the range of from about 30° to about 70°. The cutter base has a low rake angle that is at least about 15° less than the high rake angle of the crack initiator.

Abstract: The inventive clamping member is a rigid clamp having a generally “U”-shaped configuration the base of which is defined by two arms each terminating in an upwardly directed clamping finger adapted to engage the rim of a bottom of a violin or the like at opposed sides of the body of the instrument. A pivot, usually in the form of a threaded stem projects from the base of the “U” in a direction opposite to that of the projection of the clamping fingers. It normally secures free pivotal mounting of the clamping members at the ends of a shoulder rest bridge. The stem defines an axis of pivot of the clamping member which is offset to one of the clamping fingers, whereby the two arms are of uneven length. The shorter arm is relatively proximal to the tail of the instrument, while the longer arm is relatively distal from the tail.

Abstract: A stringed musical instrument includes a string which, when vibrated, produces sound. Both ends of the vibrating portion of the string touch glass.

Abstract: A musical instrument string having a tarnish resistant exterior surface, comprising a metal wire at least a portion of which has an ultra-violet (U-V) or electron beam (EB) radiation cured polymeric coating defining the exterior surface and having a coating thickness preferably less than 0.0004 inch (0.4 mil). A method of coating a musical instrument string, and a guitar having such coated strings, are also disclosed.

Abstract: A chemical preservative treatment for strings of a musical instrument. The chemical preservative treatment is a fluorochemical acrylate polymer coating carried in a hydrofluoroether solvent, which results in a film covering the strings that has low surface energy values and a thickness of less than 1 micron. The chemical preservative is non-toxic (low in toxicity), non-ozone depleting, non-flammable and contains no volatile organic compounds. The film is insoluble in solvents such as heptane, toluene, and water, and is strippable with fluorinated solvents. The film is resistant to oils and dirt, and provides virtually no interference with the natural sound generating properties of the musical instrument string.

Abstract: A device for restraining or anchoring the endpin of a floor-resting musical instrument such as a cello or a string bass is provided for allowing the musician to hold the musical instrument in a desired position and prevent the endpin from sliding around on the floor surface. The device also protects the surface of the floor from being damaged by a sliding endpin. The device also does not dampen the sound of the musical instrument.

Abstract: One embodiment of the invention is an overlay that includes a sheet comprising a first substantially flat surface and a second substantially flat surface opposite the first surface, an image disposed on the first surface, an adhesive disposed on the second surface, and a backing layer adjacent, and removably adhered to, the second surface, wherein the sheet comprises a plurality of substantially rectangular-frame forming channels that correspond with the image. The sheet may optionally include the substantially rectangular-frame forming channels arranged to define a plurality of neck sections disposed along a longitudinal axis. The plurality of neck sections may optionally have a width along the longitudinal axis and a height perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, and the widths become generally larger while moving along the longitudinal axis from a first end of the neck sections to a second end of the neck sections.

Abstract: A turn-on tuning system which uses threaded tuning rims in place of lugs used by conventional drums, and a spherical acoustic chamber to provide both acoustic and visual improvements over prior art instruments. The turn-on tuning system uses a drum head which is secured to the drum when sandwiched between a threaded drum shell and a threaded rim. The drum is tuned by rotating the rim to increase pressure on the drumhead. A further feature of the invention is the spherical acoustic chamber which replaces the drum shell. The spherical acoustic chamber provides an enhanced audio quality, and also provides a housing for electronic equipment which may be held within the spherical chamber. In addition, the spherical chamber provides numerous visual improvements in that it allows for lighting which may be programmed for entertainment purposes.

Abstract: A drum bracket including an adjustment rod and three support bars pivotally connected with upper end of the adjustment rod at equal angular intervals. Each support bar has a swinging end. An L-shaped claw section is pivotally connected with the swinging end of each support bar and fixable with the support bar. A bush is axially movably fitted on the adjustment rod. Three links are pivotally connected with the bush at equal angular intervals. Each link is also pivotally connected with a middle section of each support bar. A bottom of the adjustment rod is formed with outer thread under the bush. An adjustment nut is screwed on the outer thread.

Abstract: A pivotal mechanism of the swinging structure of cymbal pedal comprises a moving element, the upper portion of the moving element having a pair of mounting plates, the front end of the mounting plate connected to the front end of a pedal stand through a first chain, the back end of the pedal stand pivotally connected to a pedal, the front end of the pedal having a second chain and the second chain again connected to the back end of the moving element, the mounting plate of the moving element pivotally connected to a suspension element, the top of the suspension element connected to a coupling rod at the interior of a cymbal stand, a guiding wheel located below the suspension element which allows the moving element to swing, and through the connection of a bearing on a shaft resulting the pedal to be depressed smoothly.

Abstract: The present invention provides a drum accessory that may be connected to a drum and used by a drummer to impart a flipping motion to his/her drum stick. The drum accessory generally comprises a body member that includes an elongated channel formed on its upper surface, an intermediate clamping member, and a base mechanism connected to the body member and the clamping mechanism for interconnecting the accessory to a drum. A spring interconnects the body member to the clamping member and provides the user initiated force that imparts the flipping motion to a drumstick.

Abstract: Musical instruments are formed of a conductively doped resin-based material. The conductively doped resin-based material comprises micron conductive powder(s), conductive fiber(s), or a combination of conductive powder and conductive fibers in a base resin host. The percentage by weight of the conductive powder(s), conductive fiber(s), or a combination thereof is between about 20% and 50% of the weight of the conductively doped resin-based material. The micron conductive powders are metals or conductive non-metals or metal plated non-metals. The micron conductive fibers may be metal fiber or metal plated fiber. Further, the metal plated fiber may be formed by plating metal onto a metal fiber or by plating metal onto a non-metal fiber. Any platable fiber may be used as the core for a non-metal fiber. Superconductor metals may also be used as micron conductive fibers and/or as metal plating onto fibers in the present invention.

Abstract: A preamp for use with a musical instrument includes a processing circuit that processes an electrical signal and an output device that outputs the electrical signal to an external device. The preamp also includes a battery that supplies electric power to the processing circuit. A switch switches in those cases where a voltage of the battery has dropped below a specific voltage, such that the electrical signal is output from the output device instead of an output of the processing circuit.

Abstract: A display device that displays a selected pickup is provided in a volume control that adjusts the volume of a performance. The display device is formed by a light guiding body, and by two types of LED that emit light in different colors, for example, a green LED and a blue LED, and are packaged on a printed circuit board. The green LED is turned on when the front pickup on the neck side is selected, so that a display portion on the light guiding body is displayed in green. In contrast, the blue LED is turned on when the rear pickup on the bridge side is selected, so that the display portion is displayed in blue. When both pickups are selected, both LED are turned on so that the display portion is displayed in both green and blue or in a combination of these colors (i.e., in cyan).

Abstract: An exemplary retainer ring for a head of an acoustic drum can produce a visual display that allows an observer to visualize timing associated with percussive sound. An exemplary retainer ring includes a vertical wall disposed at a radius about a central axis and a laser diode module that includes a lens to emit visible radiation as a fan-beam. In such an exemplary retainer ring, the lens is positioned such that the fan-beam crosses the central axis and terminates as an arc in a groove in the vertical wall. When an object interrupts the fan-beam, the object reflects visible radiation of the fan-beam to thereby produce a visual display that allows an observer to visualize timing associated with percussive sound (e.g., sound produced by the object contacting a head of an acoustic drum). Various other exemplary arrangements, devices, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.

Abstract: A hydraulic control apparatus includes two oil flow control valves (30, 32) each provided with a supply control portion (36, 38, 52, 54) for controlling an oil supply from a pressurized oil source, and a discharge control portion (40, 42, 56, 58) for controlling connection with a discharge passage. One of those oil flow control valves supplies/discharges oil to/from one of hydraulic chambers (22, 24) that are oppositely formed in a hydraulic servo mechanism. An operation direction of the hydraulic servo mechanism is performed by operating one of the oil flow control valves. The other operation direction of the hydraulic servo mechansim is performed by operating the other oil flow control valve.

Abstract: The invention relates to an axial piston machine (1) having a rotatably mounted cylinder drum (5) which in turn has a center recess (38) and a plurality of cylinder bores (6) that extend substantially axially relative to the center bore (38) and in which pistons (7) are movably guided and are supported on a pivoting plate (11) via sliding shoes (8). Said sliding shoes (8) are guided in recesses (23) of a withdrawal plate (22) in whose contact inner bore (25) a withdrawal body (26) is guided with an outer surface that corresponds to the inner bore (25) of the withdrawal plate (22). The withdrawal body (26) is subject to an axially directed pretension force which is exerted by a tension spring (26) via the pressure pins (28). Every pressure pin (28), on its base side (40), is provided with an enlarged portion (43) radially in relation to its longitudinal axis (34).

Abstract: A lubricating structure for a hydrostatic continuously variable transmission. The structure includes an oil path arranged at an outer circumferential side of a clutch valve, and a lubricant oil ejection hole communicating with the outer circumferential side oil path of the clutch valve and formed in the transmission shaft toward the outer circumference of the transmission shaft. In addition, the structure includes a communicating oil path that is also formed in the transmission shaft for communicating between an oil feeding passage communicating with an lubricant oil feeding source and the outer circumferential oil path of the clutch valve. A single orifice is arranged in the communicating oil path, rather than in the lubricant oil ejection hole. This configuration provides for efficient manufacturing and a high degree of freedom in setting of the lubricant oil ejection hole.

Abstract: A swing cylinder having a body and an end cap on each end of the body. The cylinder also has a piston arranged within the body. The cylinder has a rod engaged with the piston and has an arm attached to one end thereof. A guide is arranged on the opposite end of the rod. The guide is also attached to one of the end caps.

Abstract: An inner space connected to a power source and an inner space connected by way of a pressure loss part with respect to the flow of compressible fluid are provided, thereby obtaining effects similar to when the volume occupied by the compressible fluid with respect to the entire inner space is reduced when the pressure of the pressure source is rapidly changed, and effects similar to when the entire inner space is one space when static load is applied from the outside.

Abstract: A gas-separation membrane module assembly and a gas-separation process using the assembly. The assembly includes a set of tubes, each containing gas-separation membranes, arranged within a housing. The housing contains tube sheets that divide the space within the housing into three separate, gas-tight spaces, with the tubes mounted in the central space. Within this space, each tube has an aperture or hole in its wall that enables gas that has been retained on the feed side of the membranes to flow out of the tubes and into the space. The assembly can be used in various ways to carry out gas separation processes.

Abstract: A self-cleaning air purifier for use with a central air conditioning device includes at least one ion generator made up of at least one ionizer bar and an electrically grounded water reservoir with an exposed surface, where the surface of the water is parallel and proximate to the at least one ionizer bar. Contaminants in the air flow path are charged and driven to the grounded water surface. This grounded water surface (ground plane) is comprised of a container with a submerged grounding plate or is comprised of a grounded electrically conducting container. The grounding plate may also be comprised of metals such as Cu, Zn, Sn, Ni, and Ag, or alloys containing these metals, which will also act as biocides in the water. Materials such as tablets or packets may also be added to the electrically grounded water reservoir so as to provide the biocide materials. The tablets or packets can be comprised of metal biocide salts with chelating agents to retain the dissolved biocide metals in solution.

Abstract: The present invention is a method for operating a rapid cycling pressure swing adsorption (RCPSA) having a cycle time, T, to separate a feed gas into a non-adsorbed gas and tail gas. The method includes the steps of passing the feed gas having a purity of F % at high pressure into a first end of a bed which selectively adsorbs the tail gas and passes the product gas out a second end of the bed for a time, F. The product gas has a purity, P %, and a rate of recovery of R %. Then the bed is cocurrently drpressurized for a time, tCO, followed by countercurrently depressurizing the bed for a time, tCN. The bed is then purged for a time, tP, wherein desorbate (tail gas) is released at the first end of the bed at a pressure greater than 30 psig, Subsequently the bed is repressurized for a duration, tRP. R>80%, P/F?1.1 or R?90%, 0<P/F<1.1.

Abstract: A hydrogen permeation membrane is provided having a cP2 Pearson symbol (Pm3m space group) structure. Suitable alloys include an “A” element from Periodic Table groups 3b-5b and an “M” element from the Periodic Table groups 6b-1b present at a stoichiometry that achieves the inventive crystal structure. Zr and Nb are the preferred A elements followed in preference by Ti and V. First Periodic Table row elements from groups 6b-1b are the preferred B elements. The inventive alloys also find applications as hydrogen getters, Ni-metal hydride battery materials, and hydrogen storage materials.

Abstract: A hydrogen separator comprising a porous substrate having a large number of pores communicating from one surface thereof to other surface, and a hydrogen-separating layer disposed on the one surface of the porous substrate in a state that the hydrogen-separating layer has a penetrated portion formed so as to extend through the pores from the one surface to a particular depth, wherein an average pore diameter at the one surface of the porous substrate is 0.02 to 0.5 ?m, a thickness of the hydrogen-separating layer is 1 to 5 ?m, and a penetration depth of the penetrated portion is 0.05 to 1 ?m, is at least equal to the average pore diameter at the one surface of the porous substrate, and is not larger than the half of the thickness of the hydrogen-separating layer. The hydrogen separator hardly generates defects such as cracks, peeling and the like in the hydrogen-separating layer, is superior in durability, and satisfies both of good hydrogen-separating ability and good hydrogen permeability.

Abstract: A particulate filtration system for removing particulates suspended in a fluid include, in an exemplary embodiment, a filter element and a pre-collector body component operably connected to the filter element. The pre-collector body component is capable of receiving an electrical charge to attract and remove particles suspended in the fluid.

Abstract: A method for preparing a beverage or a liquid foodstuff from a capsule containing a product with a substance to be extracted, the capsule having a flexible membrane (17) capable of deforming elastically or permanently to a considerable extent, comprising the steps of perforating a plurality of holes (26) distributed over the flexible membrane and of injecting water onto the flexible membrane, in such a manner that it deforms in the direction of the product inside the capsule and in that the water penetrates into the capsule via said holes. The size of the holes perforated by the perforating spikes is controlled by the level to which the capsule is filled or by the compactness of the product inside the capsule, so as to influence the hydraulic pressure differential ?P between the two sides (17a, 17b) of the flexible membrane, in such a manner as to achieve an automatic adjustment of the compression of the product contained in the capsule.

Abstract: The coffee output of a domestic espresso coffee machine has a pump which impels pressurized hot water so that it passes through a dose of ground coffee deposited in a filter (1) accommodated in a housing (2), fitted in a filter holder (3) provided with one or more outlet pipes (4) for the infusion of coffee. In the center of the base of this housing (2), is secured a ball (6) valve (5) fitted against a helical compression spring (7) such that the ball (6) and spring (7) are thrust upward in a chamber (11) of the valve (5). This chamber (11) communicates with the interior of the housing (2) and with the cavity in the filter holder (3). Ball (6) is installed between the lower side of the upper aperture (9) and the upper end of the spring (7). Spring (7) is installed between the ball (6) and a lower aperture (10) having a conical shape narrowing in the downward direction and obtained by pressure forming.

Abstract: An assembly for creating milk froth and/or for heating milk is disclosed. It comprises a milk container, a foaming device and a valve assembly. The foaming device is provided with a steam supply channel, an air supply channel, a milk supply channel and a discharge opening. In order to be in a position to vent the foaming device after milk having been heated or foamed, a venting channel is provided, adapted to be closed by means of the valve assembly, and to communicate with the ambient air, respectively.

Abstract: An assembly for creating milk froth and/or for heating milk is disclosed. It comprises a foaming device and optionally a milk container and a valve assembly. The foaming device is provided with a steam supply channel, an air supply channel, a milk supply channel and a discharge opening. In order to provide for an easy cleaning of the assembly and its microbicity, at least the components and/or cavities coming into contact with milk are provided with a hydrophobic and oleophobic surface consisting of nano-particles which consist partially of silver or a silver compounds.

Abstract: A system for dispensing a metered volume of heated water from the storage tank to the brew chamber of a single serve beverage brewer comprises a metering chamber, a supply conduit connecting the storage tank to the metering chamber, and a delivery conduit connecting the metering chamber to the brew chamber. An air pump coacts with associated valves to alternately withdraw heated water from the storage tank into the metering chamber via the supply conduit, and to expel heated water from the metering chamber via the delivery conduit to the brew chamber.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a system for cooking and then cooling food products by immersion in a heat transfer fluid, the said system consisting of a vessel (200) intended to contain the said heat transfer fluid and a system (500) for homogenisation by blowing gas bubbles into the said heat transfer fluid by means of a gas bubble formation system (530). According to the present invention the said vessel (200) is closed by a cover (250) so as to leave a space above the maximum level of the free surface of the heat transfer fluid, and the said homogenisation system (500) comprises a system (520) for the closed circulation of the gas contained in the said space to the said system (530) provided for generating gas bubbles in the said heat transfer fluid.

Abstract: The method and apparatus of this invention enable tracing of cooking process in substantially any cooking oven or pot by inserting at least two electrodes into meat to be cooked, measuring sequentially values of at least one component or parameter of complex electrical impedance between the electrodes in certain frequency storing said values, comparing current momentary measured value to the initial measured value, and identifying meat readiness according to criteria of impedance based on said comparison.

Abstract: A cooking pot including a container (1) and a lid (2) that each has at least one handle. The lid handle (4) has a handle detent section (6) projecting beyond a lid edge (5), and the detent section can be inserted into a recess (7) or depression of the container handle (3) such that the cover (2) is held in an upright position on the container (1). While in the upright position, at least a lowermost zone (17) of the inside of the lid (10) lies over or in the container opening (11).

Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed for the perpetration of a variety of foods in Satay style. The apparatus comprises two manually positioned platens (upper and lower) and a plurality of food elongated retaining spikes or skewers. The foodstuff is held in the retaining protrusions on the upper and lower platens and spikes or skewering device are pushed into the guiding slots to secure the foodstuff on the spikes or skewers. This unique apparatus can be made of wood, stainless steel, aluminium, carbon fibre, plastic, or any material, which can be worked or machined into the correct configuration, that provide a textured or smooth surface, which can be cleaned and sanitized. The invention provides a quick and safe method of preparing Satay style food.

Abstract: Many kinds of dispensing devices for drinks or similar fluid foodstuffs, especially for coffee and/or milk are already known. Said devices comprise supply means for supplying at least two different hot drinks, filling outlets for dispensing hot drinks into at least one cup and valve means for stopping and releasing drink pipelines between the supply devices and the filling devices. According to the invention, in order to improve hygiene and product quality, the valve means are embodied in such a manner that additional pipelines for supplying and/or discharging flushing agents for cleaning, hot water or steam for preheating or other similar fluids, can be connected to the valve means instead of to the drinks pipelines in order to treat the valve means in the areas through which hot drinks flow. As a result, a rinsing process can be automatically controlled between two dispensing steps.

Abstract: A coffee maker has a water reservoir, a water heater, a coffee holder for holding coffee grounds and a pump for pumping water from the reservoir through the heater to deliver pressurized water to the coffee holder. The coffee holder has a sieve holder and two exchangeable sieves including a first, drip-coffee, sieve and a second, espresso-coffee, sieve. The coffee maker can be used for preparing alternatively drip-coffee or espresso-coffee.

Abstract: A flexible strap guide for an overhead strapper of the type for feed a strapping material around a load, positioning, tensioning and sealing the strapping material around the load, the overhead strapper having a feed head for feeding the strapping material from a supply to a strapping head, the feed head being stationary and spaced from a strapping head, the strapping head being mounted to a movable platen, the extends between the feed head and the strapping head. The guide includes an elongated flexible spine formed from a plurality of hinged elements. Each of the elements is hingedly connected to and independently movable relative to each adjacent element. The elements define a central channel therein defined by a contiguous inner periphery. A hollow tubular element is positioned within the flexible spine and is flexible with the spine. The tubular element defines a pathway for movement of the strapping material therethrough between feed head and the strapping head.

Abstract: Screw press for separation of liquid from solid liquid mixtures, especially pulp suspensions, with a casing with perforations for liquid and a screw shaft provided in it between which a circular gap is formed through which the solid liquid mixture is pressed. Furthermore, a counter pressure device in the area of the discharge end of the circular gap is provided. To reduce the space requirement in the discharge area at the discharge end of the circular gap, which makes it possible to reduce the size of the discharge casing and cut costs due to a less complicated design, the counter pressure device has a counter pressure surface, the radius of which is decreasing in the conveying direction of the solid liquid mixture.

Abstract: A plastics waste processor is provided for efficiently compacting and melting plastics waste, so as to form easily disposable compact plastic units having a volume considerably smaller than the unprocessed plastics waste. The plastics waste processor has a waste containment chamber, a rotating chamber door, a jam breaker bar to facilitate opening of the door when jammed by melted plastic waste, pneumatically driven waste compaction means with plastic shedding rams, a waste containment chamber heating system, a processor temperature monitoring means, a cooling means, and a control means. Further a cable and hose management system is provided for protection of moving cables and hoses, as well as a washdown system for automatic cleaning of the processor.

Abstract: A new and improved roller press for embellishing media includes a pair of spaced apart roller press members having convex shaped radially outer press surfaces. A handle having a ratchet mechanism is connected to a first roller for turning the roller during pressing. A gear set connects the rollers for turning a second roller in a rotational direction opposite of the first roller for moving the media between the rollers for pressing. A feed bed and exit bed slope away from the rollers to provide a stable base for supporting the press.

Abstract: A packing or dressing is mounted on a cylinder of a rotary printing press. A dressing suspension leg, situated at an end of the dressing extending in the production direction of rotation of the cylinder, is positioned in an opening in the surface of the cylinder. That suspension leg is retained in the cylinder opening predominantly by its own weight.

Abstract: The present invention provides an improved printer and recording device having an improved design for providing efficient operation and improved print and recording speed to one or more storage devices. In one aspect, the present invention meets the above needs by providing a printer having printing means adapted to operate independently from a transportation mechanism of a storage device. In another aspect, the present invention provides a printer having one or more removable cartridges for the supply and/or removal of completed storage devices from the print device. In yet another aspect, the present invention provides a new and improved engaging feature, of the transportation mechanism, for the selection and transportation of the storage device through the recording and/or printing process of the storage device.

Abstract: A printing unit consists of at least two printing groups, which are placed vertically above each other, in a printing machine. Each of the printing groups includes a printing cylinder, an inking unit with at least one inking roller, a dampening unit with several dampening rollers arranged in a line, and a transfer cylinder that cooperates with the printing cylinder. The inking cylinder and the dampening roller, in an operational state in which they are adjacent the printing cylinder, form an obtuse opening angle with the printing cylinder. The rollers of the dampening unit are arranged with at least the first and last rollers in the roller train arranged inside an acute angle depending from the transfer cylinder. A horizontal line extending from the transfer cylinder defines an opening angle of less than 45° with the rollers of the dampening unit. A printing forme is fed to the printing cylinder through an obtuse angle between the dampening roller and the inking roller.

Abstract: A hand stamp that has a frame member that holds an ink cartridge. The cartridge has an ink storage layer and an image forming layer. An upstanding wall surrounds the ink storage layer forming an ink reservoir. There is a ledge surrounding the inside of the stamp frame that has an adhesive applied to it. The top of the upstanding wall on the ink storage layer is attached to the frame member by the adhesive. There is an ink impervious coating applied to the top of the upstanding wall where the ink cartridge attaches to the stamp frame so that the bond between the ink cartridge and frame is not compromised.

Abstract: An apparatus for applying a conditioning solution, a rubber-covering solution, or a medium for producing an image-differentiating layer, to a surface to be coated, in particular to a rewritable and erasable printing forme positioned on a forme cylinder of a press, includes a coating roller which applies the fluid to the surface to be coated. The coating roller rolls on the surface to be coated and simultaneously executes a translational movement along an axis of rotation of the coating roller relative to the surface to be coated. A smoothing roller which evens out a layer thickness of the fluid on the coating roller rolls on the coating roller. The coating roller has a dry or fluid-free section at the front, in the direction of the translational movement, and a rear section, wherein a device applying the fluid to the coating roller applies to fluid only to the rear section.

Abstract: A structured, elastic stamp device is disclosed for producing the physical contact of the reactant with the substrate. More specifically, the device comprises a stamp device for carrying out soft-lithographic processes which comprises a base, which is produced from a polymer material, and at least one structured stamp surface of the base, which has a definable surface relief, the stamp surface being structured by means of an impression of a master element which has a defined primary surface relief.

Abstract: One or more embodiments of the present invention relate generally to systems and methods that remove an interleaf sheet interposed between plate sheets from a material stack used, for example, in a computer-to-plate imaging system and/or environment.