Flexible tubular printing blanket
AssigneeHeidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
InventorsJames Brian Vrotacoe, Roland Thomas Palmatier
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Abstract
A method for forming a tubular printing blanket includes the steps of applying a application layer to a base, applying a polymer over the application layer so as to form as flexible inner tubular sleeve, at least one of the application layer and the polymer being an innermost layer of the tubular sleeve, and applying a print layer over the tubular sleeve. The interior of the flexible tubular sleeve can collapse to permit better storage of the blankets.
Claims10
A method for forming a tubular printing blanket comprising the steps of:
- applying an application layer to a base;
- applying a polymer over the application layer so as to form a flexible inner tubular sleeve, the application layer being an innermost layer of the tubular sleeve;
- applying a print layer over the tubular sleeve, the tubular printing blanket being reversibly deformable;
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- forming a compressible layer over the flexible tubular sleeve and under the print layer.
A method for forming a tubular printing blanket comprising the steps of:
- applying an application layer to a base;
- applying a polymer over the application layer,
- removing the application layer so that the polymer layer defines an innermost layer of a flexible tubular sleeve;
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- applying a print layer over the tubular sleeve, the tubular printing blanket being reversibly deformable.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.