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Article: Nevada Inventor Develops Digital Decorating Apparatus
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- June 28, 2008
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 28 -- Joseph Finan of Las Vegas has developed a decorating apparatus.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digitally controlled can decorating apparatus including digitally controlled print heads arrayed around the blanket cylinder of an offset type decorating apparatus for delivering ink in a selected pattern from each print head to each blanket section of the blanket cylinder, and the blanket cylinder sections thereafter transferring the ink to the cans being decorated."
The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. 7,373,878 on June 20.
The patent has been assigned to Ball Packaging Europe Holding GmbH & Co. KG, Ratingen, Germany.
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