Compressible printing sleeve carrier and method of making
AssigneeDay International, Inc.
InventorsJoseph L. Byers, William H. Haddock, J. Ron Yarbrough, Samuel R. Shuman
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Abstract
A compressible printing sleeve carrier for use in offset lithography which is formed from a composite fiber-reinforced compressible polymer is provided. The printing sleeve carrier is formed by coating reinforcing filaments with a compressible polymer and winding the filaments around a mandrel to form a hollow cylindrical base, where the first portion of the base adjacent the inner surface contains the wound reinforcing filaments coated with the compressible polymer and the second portion of the base adjacent the outer surface contains the compressible polymer.
Claims7
A compressible printing sleeve carrier comprising:
- a hollow cylindrical base having inner and outer surfaces, a first portion of said hollow cylindrical base adjacent said inner surface thereof comprising a first non-compressible layer of continuous reinforcing filaments coated with a substantially void-free polymer and wound around said hollow cylindrical base and a second compressible layer on said first layer comprising continuous reinforcing filaments coated with a volume compressible polymer and wound around said hollow cylindrical base.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.