Method and apparatus for ultrasonic etching of printing plates
CA 1209018 A · Owner: Urbanik, John C. · Inventors: Urbanik, John C.
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Method and apparatus for etching light-sensitive photopolymerisable surfaces of printing plates. The apparatus includes a bath of etching fluid (32) a, conveyor (38,40,42,52) for conveying printing plates (10) in a prescribed path (54), and transducers (46) mounted above the plates as they are conveyed within the bath and capable of forming longitudinal waves in the etching fluid at generally right angles to the surface of the printing plates. The invention is characterized by directing cleaning fluid between the acoustical radiating surface of the transducers (46) and the surface of the plates (10) in such a manner that the surface to be etched is swept with cleaning fluid of a sufficient …
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- Granted August 5, 1986. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended August 5, 2003.
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