B41F 25/00
Devices for pressing sheets or webs against cylinders
Official title: Devices for pressing sheets or webs against cylinders, e.g. for smoothing purposes
B41F25/00 (Devices for pressing sheets or webs against cylinders) appears on 51 US grants and 39 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B41F- Granted patents
- 51
- Published applications
- 39
- Assignees
- 18
- Inventors
- 92
- Latest grant
- 17 Feb 2026
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| 2024 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Large area laser printing system and method17 Feb 2026US 12,552,179 B2Reophotonics, Ltd.
- Folding apparatus of an offset web-fed printing press and offset web-fed printing press23 Sep 2025US 12,420,544 B2manroland Goss web systems GmbH
- Machine arrangement with printing unit for the sequential processing of sheet-type substrates1 Nov 2022US 11,485,131 B2Koenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
- Machine arrangement for sequential processing of sheet-type substrates3 May 2022US 11,318,732 B2Koenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
- Machine arrangement with printing unit for the sequential processing of sheet-type substrates27 Apr 2021US 10,987,917 B2Koenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
- Calendering Unit and Method for Adapting the Reflective Properties of a Printed Recording Medium30 Oct 2025US 2025/0332826 A1Canon Production Printing Holding B. V.
- Large area laser printing system and method8 Feb 2024US 2024/0042773 A1Reophotonics, Ltd.
- Folding apparatus of an offset web-fed printing press and offset web-fed printing press16 Nov 2023US 2023/0364903 A1manroland Goss web systems GmbH
- Optical media sensor with blower13 Jan 2022US 2022/0011093 A1Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P.
- Machine arrangement with printing unit for the sequential processing of sheet-type substrates15 Jul 2021US 2021/0213727 A1Koenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
Most cited
By later US patents
- Sheet guiding device for printing presses35US 5,816,155 AHeidelberger Druckmaschinen AG · 1998
- Device for smoothing a sheet on an impression cylinder of a sheet-fed rotary printing machine34US 5,086,698 AHeidelberger Druckmaschinen AG · 1992
- Sheet-fed rotary prime and verso offset printing machine & method24US 4,414,896 AMAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG · 1983
- Device for achieving a flat contact of stocks or printing materials20US 5,398,925 AHeidelberger Druckmaschinen AG · 1995
- Process and device for the qualitative assessment of processed sheets19US 6,192,140 B1Koenig & Bauer-Albert Aktiengesellschaft · 2001