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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:
Dec. 09, 1997
Filed:
Sep. 17, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Egon Kleist, Hanover Park, IL (US);
Assignee:
Trans Tech America, Inc., Carol Stream, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
101170 ; 101169 ; 101333 ;
Abstract
Ink cups of pad printing machines are produced by insert molding a flanged plastic cup body directly on a hard doctor knife blade ring of carbide whereby the mounting portion of the blade ring is embedded and mold-bonded with the cup flange. The resulting cup is included in a pad printing machine that includes an annular hold-down ring that engages directly and uniformly on the cup flange.