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SECTION B - PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING

PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES

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Apparatus or machines for carrying out printing operations combined with other operations (auxiliary perforating apparatus associated with printing devices B 41 G 7/00; coding or marking in association with packaging B 65 B 61/00; label dispensers having printing equipment B 65 C) [2]

with embossing (printing with a printer's forme combined with embossing B 41 M 1/24)

using intaglio printing formes and wipers

Printing and embossing between a negative and a positive forme after inking and wiping the negative forme; Printing from an ink band treated with colour or "gold"

Simultaneous moulding and printing

Common details of printing machinery

Devices for conveying sheets through printing apparatus or machines (through platen presses B 41 F 1/28; feeding sheets to or from printing apparatus or machines B 65 H)

In-feed grippers [3,5]

Suction-operated grippers

Combinations of endless conveyers and grippers

Combinations of transfer drums and grippers [3]

Adjusting leading edges, e.g. front stops [3]

Adjusting lateral edges, e.g. side stops [3]

Means preventing smudging of machine parts or printed articles (B 41 F 23/00 takes precedence) [6]

Devices for treating the surfaces of sheets, webs, or other articles in connection with printing (cleaning in general B 08 B; as a final step in the manufacture of such articles, see appropriate subclasses, e.g. B 29 C 71/00, D 21 H 23/00 or D 21 H 25/00; surface treatment in general, see the relevant places, e.g. applying liquids or other fluent materials B 05, of metals C 23 G)

by dampening (in rotary lithographic machines B 41 F 7/24)

by heat drying, by cooling, by applying powders

Powdering devices, e.g. for preventing set-off

Print-finishing devices, e.g. for glossing prints

Devices for pressing sheets or webs against cylinders, e.g. for smoothing purposes (apparatus for taking-out curl from webs in general B 65 H 23/34)

Devices for attaching printing elements or formes to supports (attaching by chemical means B 41 N 6/00) [5]

Magnetic devices

for attaching printing elements to flat type-beds

for attaching printing elements to forme cylinders

for attaching printing formes to flat type-beds

for attaching non-deformable curved printing formes to forme cylinders

for attaching flexible printing formes

for attaching printing formes to intermediate supports, e.g. adapter members

Devices for attaching coverings or make-ready devices; Guiding devices for coverings (make-ready devices B 41 N 6/00; blankets or like coverings B 41 N 10/00) [5]

attaching to impression cylinders [5]

attaching to transfer cylinders [5]

attaching of endless or like continuously-fed coverings [5]

Inking arrangements or devices (inking units for platen presses B 41 F 1/40; inking units for cylinder presses B 41 F 3/81; applying liquids or other fluent materials to surfaces, in general B 05; for typewriters or selective printing mechanisms B 41 J)

Ducts, containers, supply or metering devices (level control in general G 05 D 9/00) [3]

Ink agitators [6]

with duct-blades or like metering devices

Positioning devices therefor [6]

Troughs or like reservoirs with immersed, or partly immersed, rollers or cylinders

for rotogravure [6]

with ink-ejecting means, e.g. pumps, nozzles

Applications of feed or duct rollers (messenger or moving transfer rollers B 41 F 31/14)

adjustable for regulating supply

Means for driving fountain rollers [6]

Applications of messenger or other moving transfer rollers

Devices for moving vibrator-rollers [6]

Continuous, e.g. endless, band apparatus

for inking selected parts of printing formes

Ink-removing or collecting devices

for inking from interior of cylinder

Construction of inking rollers (inking-rollers serving also to apply ink repellent in rotary lithographic machines B 41 F 7/36)

Spray apparatus, e.g. containing brushes

Arrangements for tripping, lifting, adjusting, or removing inking rollers; Supports, bearings, or forks therefor

Lifting or adjusting devices (for damping rollers B 41 F 7/40)

Cam, eccentric, wedge, or like devices

fluid-pressure operated

magnetically operated

Indicating, counting, warning, control, or safety devices (ink supply or metering devices B 41 F 31/02; such devices in general, see the relevant subclasses, e.g. counting in general G 06 M) [3]

Arrangements of indicating devices, e.g. counters (arrangements of counting devices in platen presses B 41 F 1/00, e.g. B 41 F 1/58, in cylinder presses B 41 F 3/84, in typewriters or selective printing mechanisms B 41 J 29/20) [2]

Tripping devices or stop-motions (cylinder-tripping devices of rotary presses or machines B 41 F 13/24; arrangements for tripping inking rollers B 41 F 31/30) [2]

for starting or stopping operation of sheet or web feed

for starting or stopping operation of cylinders

for starting or stopping operation of damping or inking units

for starting or stopping the machine as a whole

Automatic control of tripping devices by feelers, photoelectric devices, pneumatic devices, or other detectors

Programming systems for automatic control of sequence of operations

Web break detection (B 41 F 33/04 takes precedence) [6]

Cleaning arrangements or devices

for forme cylinders

for inking rollers

for offset cylinders

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