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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:
Aug. 06, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 22, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Gotthard Schmid, Malsch, DE;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41F 3/100 ; B41J 3/00 ; B41J 2/01 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41F 3/100 ; B41J 3/00 ; B41J 2/01 ;
Abstract
An inking unit for a printing machine, which includes at least one ink roller rolling on a plate cylinder of the printing machine, an ink jet printing apparatus with a plurality of ink jets that can be controlled selectively, and an ink transfer device with a rotating mantle surface for transferring printing ink from the ink jet printing apparatus to the at least one ink roller. A compact and stencil-free inking unit for high-quality printing is achieved and the at least one ink roller and the ink transfer device, and have the same outside circumference as the plate cylinder.