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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:
Sep. 02, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 26, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Michael Voge, Malsch, DE;
Bernhard Roskosch, Wiesloch, DE;
Assignee:
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, Heidelberg, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41F 3/102 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41F 3/102 ;
Abstract
An inking unit in a printing machine, formed as a film inking unit, includes an ink duct with an ink duct film inserted between an ink metering system, which is subdivided into ink zones, and an ink duct roller. The ink duct film within each of the ink zones in a region of a settable metering gap is held out of contact with the ink duct roller during printing. The invention also includes a printing machine, such as a sheet-fed printing machine, particularly, provided with the inking unit.