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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:
Apr. 28, 1992
Filed:
Mar. 22, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, Heidelberg, DE;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
356380 ; 356381 ; 356445 ; 356448 ;
Abstract
A method of establishing a measuring location lying in an ink-free area for determining the thickness of a layer of dampening medium on the surface of an offset printing plate, which includes scanning the surface of the plate in a search run with a measuring head, and evaluating the thus obtained measurement data in a manner that a measuring location lies in a vertical zone of the offset printing plate with the smallest possible average area coverage, and a device for performing the method.