US Patent Issued to Stolle Machinery on Dec. 17 for "Printing plate pressure adjustment system and can decorator employing same" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,168,342, issued on Dec. 17, was assigned to Stolle Machinery Co. LLC (Centennial, Colo.).

"Printing plate pressure adjustment system and can decorator employing same" was invented by Bryon Lee Kajfosz (Littleton, Colo.), David Matthew Sebesta (Larkspur, Colo.) and Karl Scott Fleischer (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing plate pressure adjustment system for a can decorator including a printing plate cylinder assembly having a printing plate cylinder drive shaft, and a blanket wheel. The system, includes an actuator, a control system structured to control operation of the actuator to adjust a pressure, between the printing pl...