# US 2014/0360392 A1 · Apparatus for applying indicia on web substrates > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2014/0360392 A1 - Document ID: US20140360392A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 14/469,950 - Filed: 2014-08-27 - Published: 2014-12-11 - Earliest claimed: 2011-03-04 - Assignees: The Procter & Gamble Company - Applicants: The Procter & Gamble Company - Inventors: Kevin Benson MCNEIL; Michael Scott PRODOEHL; Gustav André MELLIN; Thomas Timothy BYRNE - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20140360392A1 ## CPC - B41F 13/187: for rotogravure - B41F 3/54: Impression cylinders; Supports therefor - B41F 9/003: {Web printing presses (B41F9/023 takes precedence)} - B41F 9/028: {of the satellite type} - B41F 9/061: {Inking devices} - B41F 13/11: Gravure cylinders {(attaching cylindrical formes B41F27/105)} - B41F 31/22: for inking from interior of cylinder - D21H 19/68: uneven, broken, discontinuous - D21H 27/002: {Tissue paper; Absorbent paper (D21H21/22, D21H27/02, D21H27/20 take precedence; toilet paper A47K10/00; absorbent pads for physiological fluids A61L15/16; making on paper-making machines D21F11/00)} - Y10T 428/24802: Discontinuous or differential coating, impregnation or bond [e.g., artwork, printing, retouched photograph, etc.] - B41F: PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES (manifolding devices or office printing machines B41L) - D21H: PULP COMPOSITIONS; PREPARATION THEREOF NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES D21C OR D21D; IMPREGNATING OR COATING OF PAPER; TREATMENT OF FINISHED PAPER NOT COVERED BY CLASS B31 OR SUBCLASS D21G; PAPER NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR - Y10T: TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION ## Abstract A contact printing system is disclosed. A gravure cylinder having a plurality of discrete cells disposed upon an outer surface thereof. A first portion of a first fluid and a second portion of a second fluid are disposed from a respective channel disposed internal to the gravure cylinder. The gravure cylinder, including the first and second at least one channels and the plurality of discrete cells, is formed so that the gravure cylinder has a unibody construction and has no moving parts interior to the gravure cylinder. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A contact printing system comprising: a gravure cylinder having a plurality of discrete cells disposed upon an outer surface thereof, a first portion of said plurality of discrete cells receiving a first portion of a first fluid at a first pressure from a first at least one channel disposed internal to said gravure cylinder and extending from a first position external to said gravure cylinder to said first portion of said plurality of discrete cells; a second portion of said plurality of discrete cells receiving a second fluid at a second pressure from a second at least one channel disposed internal to said gravure cylinder and extending from a second position external to said gravure cylinder to said second portion of said plurality of discrete cells; said first and second at least one channels each having a single entry point at said respective first and second position external to said gravure cylinder and discrete exit point at said respective first and second portion of discrete cells of said plurality of discrete cells; said first and second portions of discrete cells being disposed adjacent each other upon said outer surface of said gravure cylinder; wherein said first pressure is different from said second pressure; wherein a second portion of said first fluid is disposable from said first channel to a third portion of said plurality of discrete cells; wherein a first and second portion of said first at least one channel supplies said first and second portions of said first fluid to each of said first and third portions of said discrete cells, respectively. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The contact printing system of claim 1 wherein said plurality of discrete gravure cells disposed upon said surface of said gravure cylinder are arranged in an array. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The contact printing system of claim 2 wherein said array is a pattern. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The contact printing system of claim 1 wherein said first portion of said plurality of discrete cells are arranged in a first array and a second portion of said plurality of discrete cells arranged are in a second array. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The contact printing system of claim 4 wherein said first array is a first pattern and said second array is a second pattern, said first and second patterns being different. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The contact printing system of claim 1 wherein said gravure cylinder is formed such that said gravure cylinder has a unibody construction. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The contact printing system of claim 1 wherein said first and second fluids are fluidly communicateable from said outer surface of said gravure cylinder to a web substrate when said web substrate is in contacting engagement with said outer surface of said gravure cylinder. ### Claim 8 A contact printing system comprising: a gravure cylinder having a plurality of discrete cells disposed upon an outer surface thereof; a first of said plurality of discrete cells being capable of receiving at least one fluid at a first pressure from a first channel having a single entry point and a single exit point and extending from a position external to said gravure cylinder; a second of said plurality of discrete cells being capable of receiving a first portion of a second fluid at a second pressure and a third fluid at a third pressure from a second and third channel each respectively extending from a second and third position external to said gravure cylinder; wherein said first, second, and third pressures are different; said first portion of said second fluid and said third fluid being mixed internally to said gravure cylinder prior to deposition into said second of said plurality of discrete cells; each of said fluids being fluidically displaced into said first and second cells from said channels at a position internal to said gravure cylinder and wherein a second portion of said second fluid is disposable into a third of said plurality of discrete cells. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The contact printing system of claim 8 wherein said first, second, and third fluids are fluidly communicateable from said outer surface of said gravure cylinder to a web substrate when said web substrate is in contacting engagement with said outer surface of said gravure cylinder. ### Claim 10 (depends on 8) The contact printing system of claim 8 wherein said plurality of discrete gravure cells disposed upon said surface of said gravure cylinder are arranged in an array. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The contact printing system of claim 10 wherein said array is a pattern. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The contact printing system of claim 11 wherein said first portion of said plurality of discrete cells are arranged in a first array and a second portion of said plurality of discrete cells arranged are in a second array. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The contact printing system of claim 12 wherein said first array is a first pattern and said second array is a second pattern, said first and second patterns being different. ### Claim 14 (depends on 8) The contact printing system of claim 8 wherein said gravure cylinder is formed such that said gravure cylinder has a unibody construction. ### Claim 15 A contact printing system comprising: a gravure cylinder having a first plurality of discrete cells disposed upon an outer surface thereof; each cell of said first plurality of discrete cells being capable of receiving a fluid that is a first combination of at least two primary fluids; a first portion of a first of said at least two primary fluids being provided at a first pressure and being mixed with a second of said at least two primary fluids provided at a second pressure at a first position internal to said gravure cylinder and a second portion of said first primary fluid being mixed with a third primary fluid provided at a third pressure at a second position internal to said gravure cylinder, said first, second, and third pressures being different; said fluid being fluidically displaceable through a discrete channel having a single entry point at said first position and a single exit point into a first cell of said first plurality of discrete cells; wherein a discrete channel for each respective fluid of said at least two primary fluids provides fluid communication of said respective fluid from a position external to said gravure cylinder to said first position internal to said gravure cylinder; said discrete channel for each respective fluid having a single entry point at said position external to said gravure cylinder and a single exit point at said first position internal to said gravure cylinder. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The contact printing system of claim 15 wherein said first, second, and third fluids are fluidly communicateable from said outer surface of said gravure cylinder to a web substrate when said web substrate is in contacting engagement with said outer surface of said gravure cylinder. ### Claim 17 (depends on 15) The contact printing system of claim 15 wherein said plurality of discrete gravure cells disposed upon said surface of said gravure cylinder are arranged in an array. ### Claim 18 (depends on 17) The contact printing system of claim 17 wherein said array is a pattern. ### Claim 19 (depends on 18) The contact printing system of claim 18 wherein said first portion of said plurality of discrete cells are arranged in a first array and a second portion of said plurality of discrete cells arranged are in a second array. ### Claim 20 (depends on 19) The contact printing system of claim 19 wherein said first array is a first pattern and said second array is a second pattern, said first and second patterns being different.