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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.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 1995

Filed:

Apr. 18, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:

Peter Heiler, Forst, DE;

Jurgen Rautert, Heidelberg, DE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41F / ; B41F / ; B41F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
101142 ; 101148 ; 101484 ; 101352 ;
Abstract

A printing press has at least one printing stand with a plate cylinder, an inking unit for providing ink to the plate cylinder, a blanket cylinder, an impression cylinder, a sheet feed device for feeding printing stock into the print stand, and a dampening unit for feeding dampening medium to the printing plate of the plate cylinder. The dampening unit has at least one form roller engageable with the plate cylinder, a dipping roller dipping into dampening medium contained in a dampening-medium tank, at least one intermediate roller provided between the form roller and dipping roller, adjusting means through which the form roller is engageable with the plate cylinder and the intermediate roller with the form roller and the dipping roller, and a device for preventing any permanent deformation on the elastic outer cylindrical surface when the printing press is at a standstill.


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