Abstract: A liquid cartridge is configured to be inserted into a liquid consuming apparatus in a first direction along a horizontal direction against an urging force directed in a second direction opposite the first direction, and thereby to be mounted to the liquid consuming apparatus. The liquid cartridge is configured to pivot about a pivot center in the liquid consuming apparatus. The liquid cartridge includes a rear face, and the rear face includes a first portion and a second portion positioned further in an upward direction than the first portion. The first portion includes a portion positioned further in a downward direction than the pivot center, and the first portion is positioned further in the first direction than the second portion.

Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus comprises a head including a discharge port surface, a first reservoir that stores the liquid to be supplied to the head, a flexible member, separating an inner space of the first reservoir into a first chamber that stores the liquid and a second chamber that stores an operation liquid, a second reservoir communicating with the second chamber, the second reservoir storing the operation liquid to be supplied to the second chamber, the second reservoir being disposed in such a manner that a liquid surface of the operation liquid stored in the second reservoir is positioned below the discharge port surface, and an adjustment unit that performs adjustment in such a manner that a position of the liquid surface of the operation liquid in the second reservoir falls within a predetermined range in a state where the second reservoir is opened to atmosphere.

Abstract: A method for attributing an amount of resource consumption to an individual printed image that is printed in a printer comprising a print job controller and a print engine, wherein the print job controller is configured to compile a print job that comprises at least two images to be printed, the print job controller comprising an estimation section arranged to estimate a respective amount of resource consumption for each of the at least two images on the basis of print data that define the images, the method comprising the steps of: a) compiling a print job with at least two images; b) printing at least a part of each of the at least two images while monitoring a total amount of resource consumption; c) estimating the amount of resource consumption for the printed part of each of the at least two images on the basis of the print data; and d) proportioning the monitored total amount in proportion to the estimated amounts.

Abstract: A liquid supply device includes: a force sensor which outputs an output value corresponding to a force of expansion of a detection target site of a blockage detection tube communicating with a liquid election unit for ejecting a liquid; a pump for sending out a liquid in the blockage detection tube toward the liquid ejection unit; and a control unit which stops an operation of the pump when the output value reaches a threshold. The control unit decides the threshold, using, as a reference value, the output value acquired when a predetermined condition is satisfied including that the detection target site is filled with the liquid and that the pump is stopped.

Abstract: Provided are a valve unit, a printing apparatus, and a printing method capable of preventing sediment arising in the valve unit from flowing toward a discharge unit. The valve unit is used in a printing apparatus including a reservoir unit that holds ink, a discharge unit configured to discharge the ink, and a flow channel that connects the reservoir unit to the discharge unit and through which the ink flows from the reservoir unit to the discharge unit. The valve unit is disposed partway along the flow channel, and includes: a first chamber that configured to communicate with the reservoir unit; a second chamber configured to communicate with the discharge unit; a switching valve that switches between allowing and cutting off a flow of ink from the first chamber to the second chamber; and an expelling unit configured to expel sediment from the second chamber by suctioning the sediment.

Abstract: A print system or a method to apply a negative pressure to a substantially dry volume through at least one vent.

Abstract: Test patterns are printed by ink jet means for jetting ink containing a color material and transparent liquid jet means for jetting transparent liquid. In the test patterns, ink and transparent liquid are applied to different regions on the same medium and ink application regions and transparent liquid application regions are arranged adjacent to each other. A device for determining the amount of transparent liquid to be jetted includes information acquisition means for acquiring information representing the amount of medium deformation of a medium on which the test patterns are printed, and information processing means for determining the amount of transparent liquid to be jetted by the transparent liquid jet means for jetting the transparent liquid, from the information representing the amount of medium deformation acquired by the information acquisition means.

Abstract: A method is described in which a first color is detected at a user-selected arbitrary position of a first print; a second color is detected at a user-selected arbitrary position of a second print printed by a printer; a color difference between the first color and the second color is determined; and settings of the printer are changed to reduce the color difference in further prints printed by the printer.

Abstract: Method of controlling a laser marking matrix system, the matrix system comprising an N×M matrix of lasers to produce the laser marking, the method comprising the sequential transformation of at least two images to be marked into a series of marking commands according to an N×M matrix of dots, which comprises the following phases: division of a first image into a fixed portion and a variable portion, transformation of the fixed portion into a fixed matrix and the variable portion into a variable matrix, combination of said fixed and variable matrices, laser marking of the first image, processing of a second image, obtaining a new variable matrix which is added to the previous fixed matrix, producing a complete new matrix, laser marking of the second image.

Abstract: A mobile printing system including a handheld printing device including at least two navigation sensors, a transmitter, a processor, and a print nozzle, and a distance sensing module including at least two distance sensors, the distance sensing module to be mountable to a print media at a distance from the handheld printing device, the distance sensing module to sense positional data of the handheld printing device, wherein the processor determines current, past, and anticipated positions of the handheld printing device based on positional data information received from the distance sensing module and navigation information received from the at least two navigation sensors and controls the handheld printing device to cause print fluid to be dispensed according to a print request and the anticipated positions of the handheld printing device.

Abstract: A holding apparatus including an object holding wall and a plurality of pressing members which is movable in a first direction to the object holding wall. An insertion space is formed by the plurality of pressing members and the object holding wall, and an object that is a finger or a toe having a nail is inserted into the insertion space, and the object holding wall is provided in a position that restricts movement of the object inserted into the insertion space in the first direction. An end of the object inserted into the insertion space is closer to one of the plurality of pressing members than the other of the plurality of pressing members, and each of the plurality of pressing members applies a biasing force to the object inserted such that the biasing force applied by the one of the plurality of pressing members is greater than biasing forces applied by the other of the plurality of pressing members.

Abstract: A printing system facilitates the printing of articles of manufacture. The system includes an array of printheads, a support member positioned to be parallel to a plane formed by the array of printheads, a member movably mounted to the support member, an actuator operatively connected to the movably mounted member, an object holder configured to mount to the movably mounted member, and a controller operatively connected to the plurality of printheads and the actuator. The controller is configured to operate the actuator to move the object holder past the array of printheads and to operate the plurality of printheads to eject marking material onto objects held by the object holder as the object holder passes the array of printheads. The support member and printhead array are oriented vertically to enable the printing system to be installed in a vertical cabinet that provides a small footprint in a non-production environment.

Abstract: A peeling device includes a driving roller that transports backing paper and a drive transmission mechanism that transmits driving force from a driving motor to the driving roller. The peeling device also includes a peeling plate (a peeling portion) located between the driving roller, and a printhead and platen (a printing section) in a transport path of the backing paper, and bends the transport path. The drive transmission mechanism includes a first torque limiter and a second torque limiter. The drive transmission mechanism changes to a first state in which the first torque limiter is included between the driving roller and the driving motor in a transmission system of the driving force or a second state in which the second torque limiter is included therebetween.

Abstract: In one example, a heat system includes a fluid movement device, a heater device, and a channel structure to direct fluid from the fluid movement device to a preheat zone.

Abstract: A droplet ejection apparatus includes: a droplet ejection head; an irradiation part that irradiates a recording medium with infrared laser light for evaporating a water content of a droplet landed on the recording medium; a supply part that includes a rectifying part disposed along a conveyance direction of the recording medium and causes the rectifying part to supply, above the recording medium, air flowing toward a downstream side in the conveyance direction of the recording medium; and a vent part that vents at least a part of air flown above the recording medium toward the downstream side in the conveyance direction of the recording medium.

Abstract: A droplets drying device includes: a drying mechanism having a plurality of light sources that are arranged in a width direction of a recording medium, and dry droplets ejected onto the recording medium by emitting light toward the droplets; a moving mechanism that moves the drying mechanism in the width direction; a light shield member that is opposed to at least part of the drying mechanism being moved by the moving mechanism, and interrupts light emitted from the light sources disposed in the part, opposed to the light shield member, of the drying mechanism; and a measuring member that is disposed in a light shield region where the light shield member interrupts incoming light, and receives light emitted from each of the light sources and measures a light quantity of the light source as the measuring member is moved relative to the drying mechanism in the width direction.

Abstract: A drying device includes: a plurality of laser elements that emit laser beams with controllable intensity and respectively emit the laser beams such that the emitted laser beams partially overlap one another; and a controller that controls the intensity of the laser beams emitted from the plurality of laser elements so as to obtain intensity corresponding to drying intensity set as intensity for drying liquid droplets in a case where at least a part of an image region formed by the liquid droplets ejected in accordance with image information is included in an irradiation region of the laser beams emitted from the plurality of laser elements.

Abstract: A droplet ejection device includes: a droplet ejection head that ejects a droplet to a recording medium; an irradiating portion that evaporates moisture of the droplet landed on the recording medium by irradiating the recording medium with infrared laser beam; and a light shielding member that includes an upper light shielding member provided on a perimeter of the irradiating portion and a lower light shielding member provided on a position facing the irradiating portion and the upper light shielding portion while placing the recording medium therebetween, in which the upper light shielding portion and the lower light shielding portion are in contact with each other at an outside of the recording medium in the width direction so that the light shielding member shields the infrared laser beam at least in the width direction of the recording medium.

Abstract: A print method includes applying a first ink to a recording medium to form a first ink print layer, drying the first ink print layer to a drying ratio of 30 percent or less, and applying a second ink having a color different from that of the first ink to the first ink print layer to form a second ink print layer thereon, wherein the first ink includes a urethane resin particle and a water-soluble organic solvent having a boiling point of from 100 to 180 degrees C. or ?-alkoxy propionamide of Chemical formula I, where R1 represents a methyl group, an ethyl group, a propyl group, or a butyl group and R2 and R3 each, independently represent alkyl groups having one to six carbon atoms, and the first ink and the second ink includes no organic solvent having a boiling point of 280 degrees C. or higher under 1 atm.

Abstract: There is provided a recording device including a transport section that transports paper along a support surface; a recording section; a determination region setting section; a liquid volume ratio calculation section; a determination section; and a recording position adjustment section that, when the determination section determines that the average value is larger than the threshold, adjusts a distance of the recording section from the support surface to a distance which is longer than a case in which the average value is not larger than the threshold.

Abstract: A treatment liquid applicator includes a storage container and an outlet. The storage container stores a treatment liquid. The outlet is disposed at the storage container. The outlet includes an outlet opening through which the treatment liquid flows from the storage container to an outside of the storage container. The outlet extends from an inner wall surface of the storage container.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a pattern includes providing a pattern of a first liquid on a medium, applying a powder material to the provided pattern, and providing a second liquid to the powder material applied to the first liquid.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a media processing apparatus for enabling a plurality of discharge sections disposed one side of the apparatus to be disposed parallel inside saved space, the media processing apparatus is provided with a plurality of discharge sections (correct card discharge section and error card discharge section) disposed on one side of an apparatus housing, and a discharge member (card reverse section) that discharges a card C to each discharge section. In such a card processing apparatus, a width dimension (length dimension in the discharge direction of the card) of a discharge stacker of the first card discharge section is wider than a width dimension of the card C, and a width dimension of a frame body of the error card discharge section is narrower than the width dimension of the card C.

Abstract: The peeling device has a pressing roller that comes into contact with a label attaching surface (a first surface) of the backing paper and a driving roller that comes into contact with a back surface of the backing paper. The peeling device includes a peeling plate that is provided on the upstream side of an interposing roller pair in a transport direction of the backing paper when the label is peeled off from the backing paper and that bends a transport path of the backing paper. The pressing roller is a split roller including a roller shaft and a plurality of rollers. The peeling device includes support frames that support the pressing roller, and coil springs that come into contact with the roller shaft in an area on the pressing roller between the support frames and that bias the pressing roller toward the driving roller.

Abstract: A printer includes an acquisition device that acquires printing data and identification information that identifies at least one of a user who sent the printing data and a device that generated the printing data, a first cutting device that cuts a printing medium that has been printed on, and a processor. When the acquisition device acquires first printing data and first identification information of the first printing data and then acquires second printing data and second identification information of the second printing data, the processor determines, in accordance with the first identification information and the second identification information, whether to use the first cutting device to separate one or more first printed materials created on the printing medium in accordance with the first printing data from one or more second printed materials created on the printing medium in accordance with the second printing data.

Abstract: A printer includes a conveying device that conveys a printing medium and a cutting device that makes a trim cut in at least one of a plurality of corners of a region where a printed material has been printed. The conveying device conveys the printing medium to the cutting device before the cut is made.

Abstract: A sheet detection device includes a sheet guide disposed between a sheet feeding opening into which a sheet is inserted and a printing mechanism of printing on the sheet, the sheet guide including a guide surface through which the sheet passes, a sheet detector including an optical sensor that detects a predetermined position of the sheet, an opening formed in the guide surface, the sheet detector being disposed inside the opening and the optical sensor being exposed through the opening, and a transparent guide cover provided in the guide surface to cover at least a first border position between the sheet detector and the opening on an upstream side in a sheet transport direction.

Abstract: A sheet conveyor is provided for transporting a sheet. The sheet conveyor includes a supplying conveyor, a receiving conveyor and a sheet guidance unit. The receiving conveyor includes a support surface arranged for supporting the sheet on a contact side of the sheet and an attraction unit arranged for attracting the sheet to the support surface. The supplying conveyor includes a transport belt being arranged for advancing the sheet in a transport direction along a transport path towards the support surface of the receiving conveyor; the sheet having two side edge portions relative to the transport path. The sheet guidance unit is arranged at a downstream end of the transport path for guiding the sheet towards the receiving conveyor, wherein said sheet guidance unit includes a lifting element arranged for lifting both side edge portions of the sheet away from the support surface while a middle portion of the sheet in between both side edge portions is guided towards the support surface.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a plurality of droplets ejecting members that are opposed to a continuous sheet being conveyed, are arranged in a sheet conveying direction, and eject droplets onto the continuous sheet; movement restriction members that restrict movement, in a sheet width direction, of one end portion, in the sheet width direction, of a portion, opposed to the droplets ejecting members, of the continuous sheet; and tension application members that give tension in the sheet width direction to the portion, opposed to the droplets ejecting members, of the continuous sheet in a state that movement, in the sheet width direction, of the portion, opposed to the droplets ejecting members, of the continuous sheet is restricted by the movement restriction members.

Abstract: A recording apparatus for which it is easy to release a lock of a carriage and perform maintenance.

Abstract: A method for processing an object for printing, the object comprising a plurality of properties defined at each of a plurality of locations within the object, each property represented by a metamer set of possible combinations of proportions of at least one of a set of printing materials, the method comprising: selecting a combination of the metamer sets of a given location within an object that provides all of the plurality of properties defined for the given location.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes an ink tank, a recording head, a monitor, an operation panel, and a controller. The ink tank forms an ink chamber and including an injection inlet. The recording head ejects ink from the ink chamber to record an image on a sheet. The operation panel receives user input. The controller controls operation of the recording head, the monitor, and the operation panel. The controller performs receiving a completion signal indicating completion of ink injection, decision processing deciding whether an initial processing has been completed, and inquiry processing based on receipt of the completion signal.

Abstract: A reliable electronic circuit board is provided, which maintains the quality and electrical conduction of an electronic circuit thereof even if being produced at an ordinary temperature at an atmospheric pressure. The electronic circuit board includes an ink receiving layer formed from a resin composition containing a polyvinyl acetal resin as a main component, and an electronic circuit formed in a pattern from an electrically conductive ink. An electronic circuit board production method includes the steps of: applying a liquid resin composition containing a polyvinyl acetal resin as a main component to form a layer of the liquid resin composition; heat-drying the liquid resin composition to form an ink receiving layer; and forming an electronic circuit in a predetermined circuit pattern from an electrically conductive ink by a printing method or a transferring method.

Abstract: A laminated construct such as a ticket or game piece includes an internal on-demand thermally printable layer hidden between substantially opaque substrates. One of the substrates is a metallized film and the other substrate is a direct thermal print medium. The construct can be arranged in various ways including an arrangement for presenting some thermally printed information for immediate viewing and other thermally printed information that is temporarily hidden from view beneath the metallized film. The arrangements include arranging the metallized film as a plurality of island that are individually peelable apart from the direct thermal print medium for revealing the temporarily hidden information.

Abstract: Provided in one example herein is a method of printing. The method includes disposing onto a transfer paper an ink composition to form thereon an image, the ink composition including pigments and latex particulates. The method includes transferring the image from the imaged transfer paper onto a substrate comprising fabric by a lamination process. The lamination process includes: laminating together the substrate, the imaged transfer paper, and a release paper, whereby the image is transferred from the transfer paper onto the substrate.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of multi-pass inkjet printing comprising: (i) providing an inkjet ink comprising a radiation-curable monomer and a photoinitiator; (ii) jetting the ink via a printhead on to a substrate, wherein the ink is applied in multiple passes of the printhead with respect to the substrate, with each pass jetting a portion of ink in a layer on the substrate, with a first layer being jetted directly on to the substrate and subsequent layers being jetted onto the preceding layer, to build an image formed of the multiple layers; and (iii) exposing all of the layers of ink to actinic radiation to cure the ink, wherein the order of jetting the layers and curing is that pairs of layers are applied to the substrate without exposing the first layer of the pair to actinic radiation prior to the second layer of the pair of layers being applied, curing the pair of layers simultaneously by exposing the pair of layers to actinic radiation, and repeating until the image is formed.

Abstract: A pressure-printed material preparing apparatus includes an attachment unit that attaches, powder which exhibits adhesiveness when pressure is applied, to a surface to be bonded of a recording medium; a fixation unit that applies pressure to the recording medium to which the powder is attached to fix the powder to the recording medium as an adhesive layer; a folding unit that folds the recording medium of which the adhesive layer is formed on the surface to be bonded, such that two portions of the surface to be bonded are opposed to each other; and an application unit that applies pressure to the recording medium in which the surfaces to be bonded are opposed to each other, to thereby bond the adhesive layer on one surface and the adhesive layer on the other surface.

Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a sheet binding device comprises a sheet shift section, a tape attaching section, an information acquisition section and a controller. The sheet shift section shifts a plurality of sheets forming a sheet bundle from each other at an edge of the sheet bundle. The tape attaching section attaches a tape to the edge of the sheet bundle. The information acquisition section acquires information relating to at least one of the plurality of the sheets, the tape, and a binding method of the sheet bundle by the tape. The controller changes a shift amount between sheets in the plurality of the sheets that is shifted by the sheet shift section based on the information acquired by the information acquisition section.

Abstract: A mechanism that makes it possible to output a saddle-stitched brochure in a correct page order when a post-processing apparatus that executes a saddle-stitching process by switching back a sheet is caused to execute the saddle-stitching process. Sheets discharged from a printing apparatus are switched back by reverse rotation of a conveying roller pair, and are conveyed into a conveying path for a saddle-stitch bookbinding process. The sheets are accumulated in an accumulation tray for the saddle-stitch bookbinding process. When the saddle-stitch bookbinding process is caused to be executed on the accumulated sheets by the post-processing apparatus, the order of image formation is decided such that the order of pages of images printed on the saddle-stitched sheets becomes correct. The images are printed on the sheets in the decided order of image formation.

Abstract: A security element (1) for a security paper, value document or the like, having a carrier (8) which has an areal region (3) which is divided into a multiplicity of pixels (4) which respectively includes at least one optically active facet (5), whereby the majority of the pixels (4) respectively have several of the optically active facets (5) of identical orientation per pixel (4), and the facets (5) are so oriented that the areal region (3) is perceptible to a viewer as an area that protrudes and/or recedes relative to its actual spatial form.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide an optical information medium having a colored glossy effect which is single- or multi-colored in regions where a reflective layer is present, but colorless in regions where the reflective layer is absent.

Abstract: A security device includes an array of lenses and a plurality of first and second segments disposed under the array of lenses. At a first viewing angle, the array of lenses presents a first image for viewing without presenting the second image for viewing, and at a second viewing angle different from the first viewing angle, the array of lenses presents for viewing the second image without presenting the first image for viewing. At least one first or second segment can include one or more microstructures or one or more nanostructures configured to produce one or more colors for the first or second image.

Abstract: A support structure has two side panels and two support frame assemblies maintaining the side panels in a mutually spaced relationship and at an elevation to enable suspension of hanging file folders from upper surfaces of the side panels. Each side panel has a top member having the upper surface and a bottom member spaced apart from the top member. Terminal ends of each of the top and bottom members are provided with vertical slots. Each support frame assembly has two support legs that extend into the vertical slots of the respective terminal ends of the side panels and has a transverse support member having opposite terminal ends releasably mounted to respective ones of the support legs. Each support leg has first and second leg portions spaced apart from one another by a bend serving as a seat that positions and holds the transverse support member.

Abstract: The present invention concerns an extrudable, unexpanded paper pencil lead, comprising, by weight relative to the total weight of the lead, between 40 and 60%, and advantageously between 44 and 50%, of graphite; between 15 and 40%, and advantageously between 20 and 35%, of a polyolefin; between 5 and 15%, and advantageously between 6 and 10%, of a colourless mineral filler; between 5 and 20%, and advantageously between 5 and 15%, of carbon black coated with or mixed with a polyolefin wax or a polyolefin; between 0 and 16%, and advantageously between 5 and 15%, of an additive. It further concerns the paper pencil comprising a lead according to the invention.

Abstract: The present invention discloses an automatic carving device for a wheel, mainly consisting of a rack, a chassis, a lifting cylinder, brackets A, bearing blocks, linear bearings, mounting plates, guide shafts, a lifting shaft, a servo motor A, a synchronous pulley A, a connection plate, a synchronous belt, a synchronous pulley B, a pedestal, a connection shaft A, a servo motor B, a shaft sleeve A, a lower end cover, a connection shaft B, a shaft sleeve B, and an oil cylinder. The automatic carving device for the wheel provided by the present invention can meet the requirement of automatically carving characters on the wheel, meanwhile has the characteristics of simple structure, convenience for manufacturing, stable performance and high precision that can meet the machining requirement, and can also meet the requirement of automatic production.

Abstract: The invention relates to a component having a plate-shaped or profile-shaped support and a decorative surface layer connected to the support, the surface layer being formed of thermally curable resin and comprising a three-dimensional surface structure that is produced by embossing and is irregular. According to the invention, in order to inexpensively obtain a decorative surface which has good wear resistance and largely prevents disturbing finger prints, the surface structure comprises regions that are alternately ordered and non-ordered and that are formed by a ribbed and/or grooved structure, ordered regions having parallel and/or quasi-parallel ribs and/or parallel and/or quasi-parallel grooves being interrupted by non-ordered regions or structural breaks, and the width of the respective rib or groove being in the range of from 0.5 ?m to 100 ?m. Furthermore, a method for manufacturing a component of this type using a corresponding embossing tool is disclosed and claimed.

Abstract: An apparatus for wetting a roller (e.g. with paint) includes a liquid containment area having a first side wall, a second side wall, a first end wall and a second end wall, and a sloping bottom section connected to form a rectangular container capable of holding a liquid. The sloping bottom section slopes such that a first end of the rectangular container is deeper than a distal opposing end such that the liquid tends to drain and pool in the first end. A lip extends inwardly continuously around the top edges of the side walls. The lip reduces spilling of paint, adds stiffness to the tray, and provides a base for the attachment of a roller cleaning mesh. In some embodiments, a roller cleaning mesh is mounted to the lip above the first end for rolling a roller over to remove debris from the roller.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a lightweight wheel with high strength flexible spokes of the present invention, includes providing a rim and hub, and a plurality of lightweight, flexible and resilient spokes between the rim and hub made of fibrous material that causes the spokes to be both lighter in weight and stronger than comparable steel spokes. The wheel includes a nipple within the rim that receives the high strength spoke and allows for flexibility in adapting the spoke to wheels having differing shapes and sizes.

Abstract: There is provided a non-pneumatic tire (1) including: an attachment body (11) that is attached to an axle; a ring-shaped body (13) that surrounds the attachment body (11) from an outside in a tire radial direction, a plurality of connection members (15) that are disposed between the attachment body (11) and the ring-shaped body (13) along a tire peripheral direction and connect the attachment body (11) and the ring-shaped body (13) to each other, and a cylindrical tread member (16) that is externally mounted on the ring-shaped body (13), in which the ring-shaped body (13) and the connection member (15) are integrally formed by a injection molding in which a molding material is injected from the connection member (15) side toward the ring-shaped body (13) side, in which the tread member (16) includes a base rubber portion (41) that is positioned at an inside in the tire radial direction and a cap rubber portion (42) that is positioned at an outside of the base rubber portion (41) in the tire radial direction,

Abstract: This disclosure concerns wheels for industrial vehicles, including scissor lift vehicles and aerial platform vehicles. More particularly, this disclosure concerns a wheel fabricated with a substantially cylindrical wheel rim and a front face surface which includes a center hub section that is inwardly offset from the front edge by an amount and at an angle providing flexibility to recover from incidences that can damage the wheel.