EP0324140A2 - Dispositif d'encrage - Google Patents

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EP0324140A2
EP0324140A2 EP88121338A EP88121338A EP0324140A2 EP 0324140 A2 EP0324140 A2 EP 0324140A2 EP 88121338 A EP88121338 A EP 88121338A EP 88121338 A EP88121338 A EP 88121338A EP 0324140 A2 EP0324140 A2 EP 0324140A2
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Norbert Köbler
Helmut Puschnerat
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
    • B41F31/00—Inking arrangements or devices
    • B41F31/02—Ducts, containers, supply or metering devices
    • B41F31/027—Ink rail devices for inking ink rollers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
    • B41F31/00—Inking arrangements or devices
    • B41F31/02—Ducts, containers, supply or metering devices
    • B41F31/06—Troughs or like reservoirs with immersed or partly immersed, rollers or cylinders

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  • the invention relates to an inking unit, in particular a short inking unit, for printing machines, in particular offset printing machines, with at least one anilox roller, which is assigned a chambered doctor blade arrangement with two doctor blades, which are preferably accommodated on a doctor blade holder and are offset with respect to one another in the circumferential direction of the anilox roller and which delimit an ink chamber which can be acted upon by ink.
  • the anilox roller is colored only when the ink chamber is completely filled with ink. It must therefore be ensured that the ink is present in the ink chamber with overpressure.
  • a paint pump is required for this that circulates the color. Accordingly, there is a lot of color in circulation in such arrangements. However, this is always uneconomical and accordingly undesirable if the color consumption is very low.
  • This object is achieved in that a rotatable scoop roller which can be set on the anilox roller is arranged in the ink chamber.
  • the ink chamber advantageously only requires a pressurized ink filling up to a height that ensures that the scoop roller is acted upon. There is therefore advantageously no expenditure for pressurizing the ink chamber and ink circulation. Rather, the color can be applied by hand. Accordingly, the arrangement according to the invention manages with a minimal amount of ink and accordingly proves to be economical wherever small areas with low ink consumption have to be printed, for example in impression works. Nevertheless, the scoop roller provided in the ink chamber ensures complete, bubble-free filling of the cells of the anilox roller with ink.
  • the scoop roller can be mounted with its circumference in half-shells provided in the ink chamber, which are arranged so as to be adjustable in the radial direction with respect to the anilox roller.
  • This type of storage of the anilox roller advantageously does not require any space in the axial direction.
  • the scoop roller can therefore advantageously extend over the entire length of the respectively assigned ink chamber.
  • the adjustability of the bearing shells enables the scoop roller to be tracked in accordance with the wear of the squeegee and thus ensures that the scoop roller is reliably in contact with the anilox roller.
  • a further advantageous measure can consist in that the half-shells receiving the scoop roller engage with lateral guide strips in associated guide grooves and are underpinned by an adjusting device provided in the doctor blade holder and containing an extension piston supported on a spring.
  • a further advantageous embodiment of the superordinate measures can consist in that the scoop roller can be driven at a lower speed than the anilox roller and in the same direction as the anilox roller.
  • the scoop roller can simply have a toothed ring which is cut into its circumference and into which a drive wheel arranged in the ink chamber engages and which is connected by means of a sealed drive shaft to a drive motor arranged outside the farmer chamber.
  • the scoop roller can expediently be designed as a metal roller, which simplifies the circumferential mounting and the aforementioned molding of a toothed ring.
  • the short inking unit on which FIG. 1 is based consists of a rubberized application roller 2 cooperating with a plate cylinder 1 covered with hard offset printing plates, of the same diameter as the plate cylinder, and an anilox roller 3 interacting with the application roller 2, which has a smaller diameter Applicator roller 2 together with a dampening unit designated as a whole by 4.
  • the circumference of the anilox roller 3, which can have a metal core with a ceramic coating, is provided with cups 5 indicated in FIG. 1 and the webs 6 delimiting them. These cells 5 are filled with paint, the webs 6 are scraped off, so that there is an exact dosage of the color corresponding to the capacity of the cells 5.
  • the ink supply to the anilox roller 3 and the doctoring take place by means of a chamber doctor blade arrangement designated as a whole in FIG.
  • a plurality of chamber doctor blade arrangements 7 arranged next to one another can be provided over the length of the anilox roller 3.
  • the use of a plurality of chamber doctor blade arrangements arranged side by side facilitates handling and enables the ink supply of the anilox roller 3 to be shut down zone by zone.
  • the chambered doctor blade arrangement 7 comprises, as can best be seen from FIGS. 2 and 3, one for fixed to the frame Carriers 8 receivable, bar-shaped doctor holder 9, on which two doctor blades 11 and 12 held in the direction of rotation of the associated anilox roller 3 and held by jaws 10 are accommodated.
  • the jaws 10 can be designed as clamping jaws, with the aid of which the respectively assigned doctor blade 11, 12 can be clamped onto a corresponding crank of the doctor holder 9.
  • the jaws 10, together with the respective offset of the doctor blade holder 9, are each intended to limit an insertion slot for the associated doctor blade 11 or 12.
  • the doctor blades can be loosely inserted in the respective assigned slot and can accordingly expand in the longitudinal direction in the event of heating, so that even with low contact forces there is no wave formation.
  • the two doctor blades 11, 12 offset from one another form the rear and front boundaries of an ink chamber 4 in the direction of rotation of the anilox roller 3, the radial boundaries of which are formed by the doctor holder 9 or the circumference of the anilox roller 3 immersed in the ink chamber 13.
  • the ink chamber 13 is closed on the face side by sealing jaws 27, which can be pressed against the ends of the doctor blades 11 and 12 by abutments 34.
  • the two doctor blades 11, 12 are here arranged symmetrically to a central longitudinal plane passing through the axis of the anilox roller 3 and are inclined toward one another in a roof shape. This symmetrical arrangement makes it possible to reverse the direction of rotation of the anilox roller 3 without changing the doctoring conditions.
  • the illustrated embodiment has a direction of rotation of the grid roll 3 clockwise.
  • the doctor blade 11, which is at the rear in the direction of rotation of the anilox roller 3, lies against the anilox roller 3 with a positive angle of attack.
  • the doctor blade 12 in the direction of rotation of the anilox roller 3 has a negative angle of attack. Even in the case of a reversal of the direction of rotation, the doctor blade that is at the rear in the direction of rotation is negative and the doctor blade that is then at the front in the direction of rotation is set to be positive.
  • the doctor blade 12 which is in the front in the direction of rotation and acts negatively, acts as the main or working doctor blade which, after the inking of the circumference of the anilox roller 3 has been inked, scrapes the webs 6.
  • the paint stripped off can be returned to the ink chamber 13.
  • the scoop roller 42 in the ink chamber 13 delimited by the doctor blades 11, 12, which scoops over the entire length of the ink chamber 13 on the circumference of the anilox roller 3.
  • the scoop roller 42 can be designed as a rubber or metal roller. In the illustrated embodiment, a steel version is used.
  • the scoop roller 42 ensures that the ink chamber 13 does not have to be completely filled with overpressure paint. Rather, a comparatively small filling of the ink chamber 13 is sufficient. Nevertheless, the scoop roller 42 ensures complete, bubble-free filling of the cells 5 of the anilox roller 3. Accordingly, comparatively little color is used, which results in good economic efficiency, particularly when producing smaller impression areas.
  • the scoop roller 42 extends over the entire length of the respectively assigned ink chamber 13 and rests with its end faces, as can best be seen from FIG. 3, on the sealing jaws 27 or on support plates 56 adjacent to them.
  • half-shells 43 are provided in the ink chamber 13, in which the scoop roller 42 is inserted with its circumference.
  • the half-shells 43 like the sealing jaws 27, can be adjusted in the radial direction with respect to the anilox roller 3, so that in any case a reliable contact of the scoop roller 42 on the anilox roller 3 can be achieved.
  • the half-shells 43 are guided in the region of their lateral edge strips by slotted pins 44 arranged in the doctor blade holder 9 and undercut by an actuating device 45 which engages in the ink chamber 13 and can be actuated from the outside.
  • the pins 44 protrude into the undercut ink chamber 13, so that the width of the half-shells 43 can be adapted to the width of the narrowed chamber entrance, which facilitates assembly.
  • the actuating device 45 each has an ejection pin 46 which engages on the assigned half-shell 43 and is gripped by an ejection spring 47.
  • the off is based thrust spring 47 on an externally actuated adjusting screw, whereby in the case of existing doctor blade wear an adjustment of the contact pressure acting on the scoop roller 42 is possible.
  • the scoop roller 42 inserted with its circumference into the half-shells 43 is driven in the exemplary embodiment shown by means of a drive motor 48 which is accommodated on the doctor blade holder 9 outside the ink chamber 13.
  • the drive motor 48 can be reversed so that the scoop roller 42 can be driven in every direction of rotation of the anilox roller 3 so that there are smooth movements in the contact area, so that the ink is drawn into the contact slot between the anilox roller 3 and scoop roller 42.
  • the peripheral speed of the scoop roller 42 is, however, significantly lower than the peripheral speed of the anilox roller 3 corresponding to the web speed.
  • the scoop roller 42 To drive the scoop roller 42, the latter is provided with a worm gear rim 49 arranged approximately in the middle and cut into its circumference, into which a worm 50 arranged with an axis perpendicular to the axis of the scoop roller 42 engages in the ink chamber 13, via a screw from the ink chamber 13 led out drive shaft 51 is connected to the drive motor 48.
  • the shaft 51 is sealed against a pipe inserted into the doctor holder 9, to which the drive motor 48 can be flanged, by means of a sealing ring 52, which is gripped by a spring and bears against the lower end face of the upright screw 50.
  • the drive of the scoop roller 42 over one in its scope incised toothed ring also results in a simple construction in the case of a plurality of ink chambers 13 arranged side by side.
  • the groove 53 is connected to the ink chamber 13 via a drain hole 54, so that the ink doctored by the anilox roller 3 is returned to the ink chamber 13.
  • the scoop roller 42 provided in the ink chamber 13 ensures good mixing of the coming, possibly color contaminated with contaminants causes new color.
  • a channel connected to the ink chamber 13 is also provided in the area of the opposite doctor blade 12, which serves as a pre-doctor in the opposite direction of rotation of the anilox roller 3, so that full reversibility is ensured.
  • the ink chamber 13 is depressurized, ie the ink is not under excess pressure.
  • a paint pump is therefore not required. Rather, the paint can be poured into the paint chamber 13.
  • a hopper 55 which is indicated on the left in FIG. 2 and is molded onto the doctor holder 9, is provided and is connected to the ink chamber 13.
  • the present arrangement accordingly works with comparatively little color, which leads in particular to excellent economy where only small areas are to be printed, for example wise in impression works.
  • doctor blade which acts as the main doctor blade in the direction of rotation of the anilox roller 3 is made negative.
  • both doctor blades with a negative angle of attack, provided the reversibility of the direction of rotation of the anilox roller 3 is dispensed with.

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