Abstract: A scent release system includes scent cartridges containing temperature activated scent media. The scent cartridges may bear machine-readable identification that specifies which scent media are carried by the cartridge. The scent release system can be controlled by a timer to initiate a phase change of the scent media to selectively release one or more scents, followed by a reverse phase change to selectively stop release of the respective scents. A scent release system in conjunction with a mobile electronic device, such as a smart phone, allows sending and receiving scent messages. The scent release system can be built into a case for the mobile electronic device, eliminating the need for a separate unit. A private scent delivery device in the form of a headset can be worn by users of a scent release system or by scent message recipients.

Abstract: A fluid container that includes body that provides a fluid reservoir. Additionally, the fluid container can also include an outlet structure. The outlet structure can include a conduit that extends from an outlet of the fluid container to the fluid reservoir. Moreover, the fluid container can include an outlet barrier and an interior barrier. The outlet barrier can be positioned within the conduit of the outlet structure in proximity to the outlet of the fluid container. Additionally, the outlet barrier can be structured to receive an inlet extension of a container device. The interior barrier can be positioned within the conduit of the outlet structure in proximity to the fluid reservoir. Additionally, the interior barrier can be displaceable relative to the outlet structure by the inlet extension.

Abstract: An ink supply bottle from which ink is to be supplied to a printer includes: an ink bag that contains the ink; a bottle unit that houses the ink bag and that has a bottleneck with an exit opening; and an ink conduit member disposed in the bottleneck of the bottle. The ink conduit member is in contact with an inner side of the ink bag and seals an opening of the ink bag to form an ink outlet. The ink bag is made of an elastic or stretchable material.

Abstract: The ink server includes at least one ink storage unit that stores ink to be supplied to a printer, a switching unit that switches whether to supply the ink stored in the at least one ink storage unit to the printer, a detection unit that detects a state of the ink stored in the at least one ink storage unit, a controller that controls the switching unit and the detection unit, and a power supply circuit that supplies a power supply voltage to the switching unit, the detection unit, and the controller.

Abstract: A cartridge for an aerosol-generating system includes a liquid storage portion configured to store a liquid aerosol-forming substrate. The liquid storage portion includes one or more flexible walls and is configured to change at least one of the shape and the size of the liquid storage portion upon a change of the volume of the liquid aerosol-forming substrate held in the liquid storage portion. The cartridge includes a sensor configured to detect data of a physical property. The data relates to at least one of a corresponding shape and a corresponding size of the liquid storage portion so that the volume of the liquid aerosol-forming substrate held in the liquid storage portion is determinable from the measured data.

Abstract: An ink tank is used for an ink jet recording apparatus and includes an ink storage bag storing an ink, and the ink storage bag has no mechanism for allowing a side wall portion to shrink into a preliminary defined shape but has a side wall portion to shrink as the ink flows out. The ink tank has no mechanism for adjusting the pressure in the ink storage bag, the ink storage bag is made from a resin, the ink is an aqueous ink containing a coloring material and a water-soluble organic solvent, and the difference between the average SP of the water-soluble organic solvent and the SP of the resin constituting the ink storage bag is 2.0 (cal/cm3)1/2 or more. An ink jet recording apparatus includes the ink tank and a recording head that ejects an ink supplied from the ink tank by an ink jet method.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for flexographic printing of a web of packaging material with printing ink and an inlet module for a flexographic printing apparatus. The apparatus may include an ink pan or chamber, and an anilox roll rotary at least partly inside the ink chamber for picking up and transferring printing ink from the ink chamber to an impression cylinder which is rotary in transfer contact with the anilox roll. The ink chamber may be elongated and extend axially along the anilox roll, the ink chamber having a first axial end and a second axial end opposite the first axial end. The apparatus may further include a first printing ink inlet arranged at the first axial end and a second printing ink inlet arranged at the second axial end.

Abstract: Generating mixed ink composed of at least two basic inks with a mixing ratio in a liquid electrophotography printing press by: determining (30) a volume of one of the basic inks according to the mixing ratio; calculating (31) an interval for opening a leak valve (17) based on an ink flow in a basic ink connection tube; draining (32) the volume to the mixing ink tank (14) from the basic ink connection tube (12) via a leak tube by opening the leak valve for the calculated interval.

Abstract: A gear pump includes a pump casing and a gear assembly. The gear assembly includes a driving gear, a driven gear, a driving gear shaft, a driven gear shaft, and a bearing frame. The bearing frame includes a frame main body, a pair of driving side bearing portions, and a pair of driven side bearing portions. The frame main body has a pair of bearing support portions, in which the driving side bearing portion and the driven side bearing portion are provided, and a connecting portion which connects the bearing support portions. The bearing support portions and the connecting portion are integrated together as a one-piece member.

Abstract: Certain examples of an apparatus, a printing system and a method are described that may be used for applying a fluid. In certain cases, an apparatus has a chamber arranged to receive fluid, the chamber being sealed at one or more ends by one or more respective end seals. In one case, at least one end seal is moveable along an axis of the chamber to adjust at least a volume of the chamber.

Abstract: An imaging device can include an imaging drum to support a carrier fluid. A roller can remove a portion of the carrier fluid from the imaging drum. A fluid container can collect the carrier fluid from the roller. A fluid remover on the container can be used to remove the carrier fluid from the roller.

Abstract: A gear pump for transporting a fluid includes a pump casing; and a gear assembly which is accommodated in the pump casing. The gear assembly includes a driving gear, a driven gear that mashes with the driving gear, a driving gear shaft to which the driving gear is attached, a driven gear shaft to which the driven gear is attached, and a bearing frame that rotatably supports the driving gear shaft and rotatably supports the driven gear shaft.

Abstract: A gravure kiss coater 1 includes a paint feeder 30 placed along a small-diameter gravure roll 10 having an outside diameter D in a range of 45-150 mm. The paint feeder 30 includes a doctor blade 32, a case 31, and a coating feed path 34, 35. A distal end 32a of the doctor blade 32 is directed in a direction opposite to a direction of rotation of the small-diameter gravure roll 10, and the small-diameter gravure roll 10 is capable of contacting the substrate S within a range of rotation angles equal to or less than 90° from the distal end 32a of the doctor blade 32.

Abstract: A color system of a rotary printing press includes a doctor blade device with a doctor blade chamber containing ink for a printing process, an ink reservoir from which ink is supplied to the doctor blade chamber, and a supply system which allows ink to be supplied inside the color system. The color system is connected to a storage reservoir into which ink from the color system is introduced, to a solvent reservoir containing solvent for cleaning the color system, and to a refuse container into which ink soiled by the solvent is introduced. The supply system cleans the color system by automatically pumping off ink to the storage reservoir, and automatically cleaning with the solvent, by collecting the ink in the ink reservoir and supplying the solvent to the refuse container.

Abstract: A profile correction module is comprised of a reinforced convex steel form accurately and firmly held in position to create a metering gap along the face of the pickup roller to control the liquid coating material that is applied to the pickup roller and subsequently transferred to the nip between the pickup and applicator rollers prior to being applied to the substrate or “strip”. By flushing stale material from the metering gap with fresh coating material, edge-to-edge temperature variations are eliminated resulting in a uniform film thickness across the width of the strip.

Abstract: A printing machine in which automatic supply of ink from different types of ink container to the ink fountain is possible, and in which further automation of replacement procedure, simplification of replacement procedure, and reduction of time required for replacement procedure are achieved is provided. The printing machine comprises an ink fountain member 2 having fountain-forming faces forming an ink fountain 1; an ink fountain roller 3 for applying an ink to the outer peripheral surface through an ink channel between the ink fountain roller 3 and the ink fountain member 2; a plurality of rollers 4, 15 for supplying the ink applied to the outer peripheral surface of the ink fountain roller 3 to a printing portion; a plurality of ink containers 65, accommodating different types of ink, and being stored in a predetermined container storage unit 66; and an ink supply device 68 for holding the desired ink container 65 and supplying the ink therein to the ink fountain 1.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an ink rail assembly having a key sharing provision. The ink rail assembly includes a page pack having an ink inlet for receiving ink from an ink source and an ink outlet; and an ink rail fluidly coupled to the page pack ink outlet. The ink rail includes at least two ink keys for delivering ink to a drum of a printing press, and a diverter assembly in fluid communication with the at least two ink keys and to the page pack to control the flow of ink from the page pack and selective divert the flow of ink between the at least two ink keys.

Abstract: An ink delivery system includes a closed or closable ink container holding an ink supply. The ink container ink has an inlet and outlet. The inlet and outlet are arranged in the ink container to hold pressurized air when the ink container is closed and partially filled with ink. An air delivery system supplies pressurized air to the ink container via the inlet. A pump is connected to the outlet of the ink container, the pump receiving ink from the ink container; and an ink fountain receives ink from the pump. Preferably, the ink is ultraviolet or electron beam ink.

Abstract: A consumable supply item for an imaging device holds an initial or refillable volume of ink. An interior retains the ink while exit and return ports define openings through a housing to fluidly communicate the interior to the imaging device. The opening of the return port is larger than the opening of the exit port. The design slows the return of fluid to the housing which minimizes air bubbles or frothiness in the fluid. During use, ink depletes toward a bottom surface of the interior beneath which the ink is prevented from occupying. A housing section below the interior retains a portion of the exit port so that a bottom of the opening of the exit port is substantially horizontally aligned with the bottom surface. It prevents stranding ink beneath the exit port. Further embodiments include port configuration, construction, and modular components, to name a few.

Abstract: An ink chamber doctor blade for acting upon an ink transfer roll of a rotary press with a fluid, in particular with a printing ink, has an ink chamber, which is filled with ink during printing, and which extends in an axial direction of the ink transfer roll, and two doctor blades which are in physical contact with the ink transfer roll during printing and which extend in the axial direction of the ink transfer roll. At least one additional doctor blade can be inserted into the ink chamber doctor blade and can be fixed by holding devices inside the ink chamber. The holding device has at least one element, which is pretensioned by elastic force against at least one counter holder, and with which the additional doctor blade can be pressed against the counter holder.

Abstract: A roll for distributing printing liquid in a printing press is provided. The roll includes a roll core having at least a first and a second axial zone, a first liquid feed for feeding liquid to the first axial zone, a second liquid feed for feeding the liquid to the second axial zone independent of the first axial zone and a porous shell covering the first and second axial zones. A printing press, a method for providing printing liquid through a porous shell of a printing liquid supply roll to a cylinder of a printing press, an inking apparatus and a method for providing ink to an anilox roll are also provided.

Abstract: An apparatus for printing active materials, such as adhesives, onto articles, such as absorbent articles or release paper, using a coater with a multitude of applicators. The applicators coat a surface (roll) with a multitude of beads of the active material. The apparatus also includes a specific coating blade, which contacts the surface with the active material at a certain angle and thereby coats the surface even better.

Abstract: A doctor blade system utilizes a lightweight doctor blade chamber to apply ink to an inking roller. The doctor blade chamber is removably positioned on a support plate which is, in turn, carried by linear guides on pivotable end plates. A rigid box beam is also attached to the end plates and is spaced from the support plate. A plurality of membrane cylinders are mounted on the rigid box beam and engage a surface of the support plate opposite to the surface that supports the doctor blade chamber. Through the application of suitable force, the support plate and its supported doctor blade chamber can be moved, by sliding motion on the linear slides, into uniform engagement with the surface of the ink roller. The system uses pivotable end plates which are supported by exterior plates that are, in turn, pivotably supported by press side frames.

Abstract: A system to remove most or substantially all of the residual ink from an ink chamber prior to post print washing, said ink chamber comprising an ink chamber profile provided with a space for ink, at least one inlet and at least one outlet, and with upper and lower doctor blade members detachably mounted on the ink chamber profile, said blades bounding an opening which, in operation, faces and engages with the outer circumference of an engraved cylinder and which extends over the length of the ink chamber profile, the ink chamber profile being sealed at its extremities by flexible seals, said ink chamber profile, end seals, doctor blades and engraved cylinder demarcating an ink cavity, characterized in that there is further provided a shuttle member within the ink cavity, said shuttle member being movable substantially along the entire length of the ink chamber profile in order to aid purging of residual ink from said ink cavity, said shuttle member further being provided with associated drive means to induce

Abstract: A series of pumps for precise metering of ink to all zones of a web press. One set of the ink pumps is operated by a set of motors, one motor for every two zones. The motors are reversible, preferably with a toothed belt driving each pump. The other units include one motor for each pump, with the motor driving a shaft which drives a link arm, the link arm driving a pivot shaft with a variable stroke, ranging from zero to a full output. The link arms are driven individually or as a group, and each has its own stroke. In one case, the pivot shafts are operated by link arms which can be in or out of phase with each other. In another case, an eccentric on the drive shaft can be adjusted to produce a variable stroke of the link arms and the pivot shafts.

Abstract: An inking system for an offset printing press having a stationary portion and a movable portion that is movable toward and away from a roller. A plurality of hinge pins form a pivot axis between the stationary and movable portions. Each of the hinge pins having at least one hollow end portion communicating axially with one of the stationary and movable portions permitting ink flow. Each of the hinge pins also having a radial passage for ink, whereby the ink may pass from the stationary portion to the movable portion, and whereby the ink may be supplied to the movable portion during change of the relative positions of the stationary and movable portions.

Abstract: A doctor blade system utilizes a lightweight doctor blade chamber to apply ink to an inking roller. The doctor blade chamber is removably positioned on a support plate which is, in turn, carried by linear guides on pivotable end plates. A rigid box beam is also attached to the end plates and is spaced from the support plate. A plurality of membrane cylinders are mounted on the rigid box beam and engage a surface of the support plate opposite to the surface that supports the doctor blade chamber. Through the application of suitable force, the support plate and its supported doctor blade chamber can be moved, by sliding motion on the linear slides, into uniform engagement with the surface of the ink roller. The system uses pivotable end plates which are supported by exterior plates that are, in turn, pivotably supported by press side frames.

Abstract: A pump control mechanism includes a pump unit for feeding liquid to container, a position detector for detecting the position in the reciprocating motion of the pump member, a control table having control information of many time zone sections, an information memory for storing target information corresponding to a target driving speed, a driving information calculator for calculating driving information of a motor on the basis of the reciprocating position detection, a correcting information calculator for calculating correction information for reducing the difference between the driving information and the target information, and a corrector for correcting the control table.

Abstract: It is intended to prevent ink from leaking through the ink outlet of the ink rail while the printing press is at halt. To achieve this object, a motor control section 40 shown in FIG. 4 controls the rotation of a stepping motor 15 driving a plunger 13 and, every time the stepping motor 15 is stopped, the outer circumference 13c of the plunger 13 except a cut portion 13a blocks at least a discharge port 18, thereby enabling the pressure ink invading from an intake port 17 into the main hole 11 of a cylinder 12 to press the plunger 13 against the discharge port 18 opening into the inner circumferential face of the main hole 11.

Abstract: A process and a device supply printing ink to and remove link from a doctor blade device of the inking system of a rotary printing press. The device has a doctor blade support provided with a linearly extending groove and with doctor blades that are contacted with an inking roller or screen roller, the blades forming together with the inking roller and the groove an inking chamber. The device has conduits and motor-driven pump devices that supply ink to and remove ink from the inking chamber. The motors are preadjusted in terms of their parameters and are not modifiable during operation. A portion of the ink from the flow of ink supplied to the doctor blade device can be diverted to an ink supply source, and/or a portion of the ink from the flow of ink removed from the doctor blade device can be returned to the ink supply conduit.

Abstract: A series of pumps for precise metering of ink to all zones of a web press. One set of the ink pumps is operated by a set of motors, one motor for every two zones. The motors are reversible, preferably with a toothed belt driving each pump. The other units include one motor for each pump, with the motor driving a shaft which drives a link arm, the link arm driving a pivot shaft with a variable stroke, ranging from zero to a full output. The link arms are driven individually or as a group, and each has its own stroke. In one case, the pivot shafts are operated by link arms which can be in or out of phase with each other. In another case, an eccentric on the drive shaft can be adjusted to produce a variable stroke of the link arms and the pivot shafts.

Abstract: An inking system for an offset printing press having a stationary portion and a movable portion that is movable toward and away from a roller. A plurality of hinge pins form a pivot axis between the stationary and movable portions. Each of the hinge pins having at least one hollow end portion communicating axially with one of the stationary and movable portions permitting ink flow. Each of the hinge pins also having a radial passage for ink, whereby the ink may pass from the stationary portion to the movable portion, and whereby the ink may be supplied to the movable portion during change of the relative positions of the stationary and movable portions.

Abstract: A dual-doctor blade assembly that can accurately meter ink delivery to the anilox cells on the anilox roll of a flexographic printing system. The system utilizes a retractable dual-blade configuration in conjunction with an ink chamber and a gap between the lower doctor blade and the anilox roll. The entire configuration can be adjusted for anilox rolls of various diameters. The upper blade in this system contacts the anilox roll at a point after its rotation through the application tray and scrapes ink from the surface of the anilox roll directly into the ink chamber. As the chamber fills with ink, the hydraulic pressure created by the spinning of the anilox roll increases to a point where the anilox cells are filled to the appropriate volume. The gap created between the lower doctor blade and the anilox roll serves two functions.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for metering a printing fluid include a pump driven by the printing fluid. The printing fluid can be printing ink or varnish. A printing press and a system having the apparatus as well as a method for driving a pump, are also provided.

Abstract: A printing press includes a frame that supports one or more printing units. Each printing unit includes a retractable inker module cantileverly supported by the frame, an ink injection system having a pump, a sidelay registration mechanism for one or more plate cylinders of the printing unit, an extension sleeve extending a length of a plate cylinder sleeve, and an expandable layer for each blanket cylinder and plate cylinder that provides changing the inner diameter of the blanket cylinder and the plate cylinder.

Abstract: An integrated ink rail assembly includes at least one page pack mounted directly to a manifold, an ink rail mounted to the manifold, and an orifice rail mounted to the ink rail. An ink source is connected to the page pack. The page pack, manifold, ink rail, and orifice rail define a plurality of ink passages to deliver ink from the ink source to a drum. The ink passage may be directed towards the middle of the assembly such that a web smaller than the page pack can be printed.

Abstract: A spray device for a printing press includes a liquid inlet orifice for receiving a liquid, a gas inlet orifice for receiving a gas disposed downstream from the liquid inlet orifice, and an exit orifice disposed at a distance from a surface of the printing press. In addition, a method for applying a liquid to a surface of a printing press, includes the steps of providing a liquid to a liquid inlet orifice of a spray device, providing a gas to a gas inlet orifice of the spray device; and spraying a mixture of the liquid and gas onto the surface of the printing press.

Abstract: An inking unit for the printing couple of a double width printing press includes at least one roller. The inking unit consists of at least one, and possibly two chamber doctor blades. If there are two such chamber doctor blades, they are positioned side-by-side in an axial direction of the roller and they can operate independently of each other. If there is only one chamber doctor blade, it can have a length sufficient to enable the side-by-side positioning of at least four newspaper pages. The chamber doctor blade or blades can be positioned against or out of contact with the roller.

Abstract: An integrated ink rail assembly includes at least one page pack mounted directly to a manifold, an ink rail mounted to the manifold, and an orifice rail mounted to the ink rail. An ink source is connected to the page pack. The page pack, manifold, ink rail, and orifice rail define a plurality of ink passages to deliver ink from the ink source to a drum. The ink passage may be directed towards the middle of the assembly such that a web smaller than the page pack can be printed.

Abstract: A cream solder cartridge used in a screen printing apparatus which prints cream solder on a board through pattern holes by sliding, on a mask plate, a closed squeegee that is stored with cream solder inside is composed of a long and narrow concave portion made of a flexible film-like material, a brim portion projecting from the outer periphery of the concave portion, and a film-like cover sheet that is stuck to the brim portion and thereby closes the opening of the concave portion. This configuration makes it possible to supply paste at a low cost and to perform a viscosity adjustment easily by externally stirring the paste accommodated inside.

Abstract: A cardboard sheet printing apparatus including: a rotating body that freely rotates inside an ink circulation passage through which ink flows, and a rotation-imparting assembly which is magnetically coupled with the rotating body outside the ink circulation passage and imparts rotation to the rotating body. When the rotating body is caused to rotate by the rotation-imparting assembly, the variation in the load current value that occurs upon changes in the viscosity of the ink that contacts the rotating body is detected; and this variation is compared with load current values that correspond to respective changes in the ink viscosity value stored in memory beforehand and is converted into an ink viscosity value and then displayed, so that the viscosity of the ink is adjusted based upon the calculated results.

Abstract: The invention relates to a spray damping unit for printing machines, with a spray housing attached to a machine frame which extends parallel to and along the roller to be dampened, and a spray bar carrying spray valves, which is adjustably attached on the spray housing in a direction radial to the roller. The spray bar can be additionally adjusted in its longitudinal direction parallel to the roller.

Abstract: A container is provided which comprises a cylindrical main body having an end wall at an end thereof; an outlet projecting from an outer surface of the end wall for allowing a content to be supplied; and a protecting member disposed on the outer surface of the end wall so that it surrounds the outlet and defines a groove portion between the outlet and the protecting member. The protecting member is preferably a continuous or discontinuous annular projection. A conduit of a pump can be coupled to the groove portion by engaging an inner circumferential surface of the protecting member with an outer circumferential surface of the conduit, or by engaging an outer circumferential surface of the outlet with an inner circumferential surface of the conduit.

Abstract: A printing press having a number of identical inking systems for delivering ink to said press. The individual inking systems comprises an ink source including an ink reservoir held under a positive pressure. The ink travels from the manifold through a valve mechanism and to one or more piston mechanisms which undergo rotary and reciprocating motion, and thence to the ink outlets. Two piston and single-piston mechanisms are described.

Abstract: A stencil printing ink container comprises a cylinder, an area of one end of the cylinder, which area is other than an ink discharge opening section, being closed with an end wall, the other end of the cylinder being open, and a piston, which undergoes a sliding movement in an axial direction of the cylinder and along its inner circumferential surface. The ink container is filled with ink having a viscosity of at most 7.5 Pa·s with respect to a shear rate of 100 sec−1 and at 23° C. and satisfies a specific relationship among an inside radius of the cylinder, an inside radius of the ink discharge opening section, a length of the ink discharge opening section, a weight of the ink filled in the ink container, a sliding movement starting load of the piston, and the viscosity of the ink.

Abstract: The invention concerns an inking device, called doctor blade chamber, for a flexographic printing machine anilox roll (2). Said doctor blade chamber, which comprises a closed box (4, 6) borne mobile (10) by a frame (8) for being sealingly pressed against anilox roll (2), box (4, 6) defining a main chamber equipped with a couple of positive (16) and negative (18) blades. The invention is characterized in that the main chamber, equipped with means (32, 34) for being the seat of ink circulations at atomsphere pressure, is divided into two superposed chambers (20, 22) communication with each other through channels (24) circulating ink by simple gravity, from an upper supply chamber (20) to a lower delivery chamber (22), the two chambers (20, 22) being separated from each other by retaining blade (26) which provides an ink reserve (28) between two chambers (20, 22) and upstream of the negative blade (18).

Abstract: A wiring substrate, in which a wiring stacked portion including a conductor layer and a resin layer is stacked on a principal face of a core substrate including a substantially cylindrical through hole conductor in a through hole extending therethrough and a filling material filling the hollow portion of said through hole, comprising: a cover-shaped conductor portion covering an end face of said through hole just over a principal face of said core substrate and connected to said through hole conductor; and an initial conductor layer provided in said wiring stacked portion and across at least one of said resin layer from sad cover-shaped conductor layer, wherein a connection portion composed of via conductors buried in said resin layer brings said cover-shaped conductor portion and said internal conductor layer into conduction, and said via conductors composing said connection portion are provided not above said through hole.

Abstract: A method of preventing an ink from increasing in viscosity is praticed by repeatedly performing the steps of supplying provided from an ink supply-aspiration nozzle to an ink reservoir provided between an inking roll and a squeeze roll pressed into contact with the inking roll, moving the nozzle toward one end of the reservoir and causing the nozzle to aspirate a predetermined amount of ink to produce a flow of ink in the reservoir toward the end thereof, and moving the nozzle toward the other end of the reservoir and similarly causing the nozzle to aspirate a predetermined amount of ink to thereby produce a flow of ink toward the other end. A diluting liquid is supplied to the reservoir while performing these steps.

Abstract: An inking pump for an offset printing press has a cylinder defining a bore in which a plunger is received for both rotation and linear reciprocation, creating a first and a second opposed fluid chamber. The cylinder has formed therein a first and a second suction port with a spacing therebetween axially of the bore, and, angularly spaced 180 degrees from the suction ports, a first and a second discharge port with an axial spacing therebetween. The plunger has formed in its surface a first recess for placing the first fluid chamber in successive communication with the first suction port and the first discharge port during each complete revolution of the plunger, and a second recess for placing the second fluid chamber in successive communication with the second suction port and the second discharge port during each complete revolution of the plunger.

Abstract: An ink pump for a punp inking unit of a rotary printing press utilizes a two piece coupling between the ink pump and an ink pump drive unit. The ink pump is part of a replaceable inking unit while the ink pump drive unit is supported in the frame of the press. The two piece coupling operatively connects the ink pump and the ink pump drive unit. Each piece of the coupling is a permanent magnet. These engage in a non-positive fit to provide a robust coupling.