Press dampening system
CA 2046166 C · Owner: Sun Graphic Technologies, Inc. · Inventors: Macconnell, Edward Payne; King, Robert; Frank, Donald L.
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A dampening system has a pan for containing dampening fluid, and transfer and metering rollers for bringing dampening fluid up out of the pan. A transition roller contacts one of the transfer and metering rollers. The transition roller is movable between first and second positions. In the first position, the transition is off of the plate cylinder and dampening fluid is applied to the plate cylinder by ink form rollers. In the second position, the transition roller is on the plate cylinder. Another version of the dampening system has a bridge roller between the transition roller and a ink form roller, which bridge roller is movable between third and fourth positions. In the third position …
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- Filed July 3, 1991 and granted September 20, 1994. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 3, 2011.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by July 3, 2013.
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