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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 1984
Filed:
Jul. 21, 1983
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
1013 / ; 101D / ;
Abstract
A device for fixing by suction a printing plate comprises: a casing whose interior is partitioned into a large number of compartments having open front faces; a perforated punching plate fixed to the casing to cover the open front faces of all compartments; a valve device mounted on a valve port formed on the rear side of each compartment; and a negative pressure source connected by way of the valve ports to respective compartments and applying suction to all valve devices, whereby the printing plate placed on the punching plate is fixed by suction tightly thereagainst.