Stork Screens B.v.

Hendricus J Van Der Velden

The invention concerns a printing sleeve made from a cylindrical supporting surface 4 upon which a knitted fabric 2' is applied as a gas-permeable means, providing a sheet of a thermoplastic elastomeric compositions thereupon, and applying a pressure difference and heat so as to press the sheet upon the surface and to obtain a fusion of the sheet with the fabric.

Printing sleeve

The invention concerns a method of forming a printing sleeve, comprising the steps of starting from a cylindrical supporting surface 4 upon which a knitted fabric 2' is applied as a gas-permeable means, providing a sheet of a thermoplastic elastomeric composition thereupon, and applying a pressure difference and heat so as to press the sheet upon said surface and to obtain a fusion of the sheet with the fabric.

Method of forming a printing sleeve

Sleeve for a printing cylinder, said sleeve comprising a thin-walled cylindrical sieve, for instance a non-designed (plain-mesh) screen functioning as a support element, upon the outer face of which a photopolymer sheet is directly attached, said sheet being hardenable under the influence of radiation.

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Cuyk, Netherlands

Hendricus J Van Der Velden