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Platen (other)
A platen is a printing plate. Platen may also refer to: * Platen (Pomeranian family) * Platen (surname) * Platen, Luxembourg Platen is a small town in the commune of Préizerdaul, in western Luxembourg Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duc ... See also * Platten (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platen
A platen (or platten) is a flat platform with a variety of roles in printing or manufacturing. It can be a flat metal (or earlier, wooden) plate pressed against a medium (such as paper) to cause an impression in letterpress printing. Platen may also refer to a typewriter roller which friction-feeds paper into position below the typebars or print head. It can refer to the glass surface of a copier, and the rotating disk used to polish semiconductor wafers. Gallery File:Gutenbergpresse 01.jpg, Replica of the Gutenberg press. The platen on the rights holds the paper, and is pressed down onto the typeset File:Large SMG00176993.jpg, Cyclindrical platen on a typewriter File:Star-LC-10-printer-02.jpg, Cyclindrical platen in a dot-matrix printer Other applications Office equipment In office copiers and scanners, the platen is a flat glass surface on which operators place papers or books for scanning. The platen is also called the flatbed. Platens are also used in some printers, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platen (Pomeranian Family)
The House of Platen is a feudal noble family originally from Pomerania. The branch of Platen-Hallermund was a mediatized one and as such was part of the small circle of families that belonged to the High nobility in Germany. History The family's earliest known ancestor is Otto "cum plata", who was first mentioned in 1252 as Vogt of Jaromar II, Prince of Rügen. The line of Platen-Hallermund (not actually related to the Platen family, but a bastard line of the Guelphs), which was raised to the rank of Imperial count in 1689 by Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, acquired the County of Hallermund in 1704 and therefore belonged to the high nobility since 1709. As a consequence of the Napoleonic wars the family was mediatized by Westphalia in 1807 and was later ceded to Hanover in 1813. The male line of the Counts of Platen-Hallermund exist until today and live in Germany. Swedish branch Several branches of the family live in Sweden, where members have been noted statesmen and high offici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platen (surname)
Platen is a German-language surname. People with the surname include: * Angelika Platen (born 1942), German photographer * August von Platen-Hallermünde (1796-1835), German poet and dramatist * Baltzar von Platen (inventor) (1898–1984), Swedish inventor * Dubislav Friedrich von Platen (1714–1787), Prussian officer in Frederick the Great's army * Filip Julius Bernhard von Platen (1732–1805), Swedish-German politician and field marshal * Flockina von Platen Flockina von Platen (14 May 1903 – 26 November 1984) was a German actress. She was born in Stolp, Pomerania, Germany (now Słupsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland) and died at age 81 in West Berlin, West Germany. Selected filmography * '' The D ... (1903–1984), German actress {{Surname, Platen German-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platen, Luxembourg
Platen is a small town in the commune of Préizerdaul, in western Luxembourg Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small lan .... , the town has a population of 507. Préizerdaul Towns in Luxembourg {{Luxembourg-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
