EP0406157A1 - Platen printing machine for printing security paper - Google Patents

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EP0406157A1
EP0406157A1 EP90810233A EP90810233A EP0406157A1 EP 0406157 A1 EP0406157 A1 EP 0406157A1 EP 90810233 A EP90810233 A EP 90810233A EP 90810233 A EP90810233 A EP 90810233A EP 0406157 A1 EP0406157 A1 EP 0406157A1
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Gualtiero Giori
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
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    • B41F31/00—Inking arrangements or devices
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
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    • B41F11/00—Rotary presses or machines having forme cylinders carrying a plurality of printing surfaces, or for performing letterpress, lithographic, or intaglio processes selectively or in combination
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    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
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    • B41F11/02—Rotary presses or machines having forme cylinders carrying a plurality of printing surfaces, or for performing letterpress, lithographic, or intaglio processes selectively or in combination for securities
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
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    • B41F9/00—Rotary intaglio printing presses
    • B41F9/02—Rotary intaglio printing presses for multicolour printing

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  • the invention relates to an intaglio machine for printing sheet or reel of security papers according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • This known machine therefore has a relatively complicated configuration because of the presence of a device indirect inking and at least one direct inking device.
  • this machine requires a very exact and careful adjustment of the collector-inking cylinder relative to the plate cylinder on the one hand and of the inking roller relative to the plate cylinder and the collector-inking cylinder on the other hand, to arrive at a correct register between the various parts of the image to be printed.
  • the object of the present invention is to produce a new machine of a simplified construction, capable of ensuring the intaglio printing, and in a single pass, of valuable paper having a finely engraved multicolored security background, and a deeply engraved main drawing; in this machine, the adjustment of the register between the elements inking the safety background and the main design is greatly simplified.
  • the same areas inked on the collector-inking cylinder always come into contact exactly with the same areas of the same engraved plate; on the other hand, the diameter of the plate cylinder and the collector-inking cylinder are relatively large since the plate cylinder must generally carry at least two engraved printing plates, preferably three or four engraved plates. For a plate cylinder carrying three plates, the diameter is for example 840 mm. Thanks to the large diameter of these two cylinders, the contact strip for good inking can be obtained with a lower compression force than with a smaller diameter collector-inking cylinder, and moreover, separation of the contact areas immediately after ink transfer is not as abrupt as with a collector cylinder - smaller ink pad.
  • the collector-inking cylinder allows not only to correctly and completely fill the fine sizes, representing the safety background, but also the deeper sizes representing the main design, and even, as we have seen, deep sizes up to 'at 250 to 300 ⁇ , this representing a depth almost twice greater than that generally used so far during the direct inking of the main drawings. It seems that this surprising advantage is due to the fact that during the operation, a sort of ink relief is formed on the periphery of the collector-inking cylinder which is sufficient to fill the deepest sizes and which is always renewed by inking with the color selector cylinders. We had always been convinced until now that, to obtain a correct filling of the deep sizes, it was absolutely necessary to have an ink roller which directly touches the plate with a considerable pressure. This prejudice could be overcome by the invention.
  • the machine shown comprises a printing cylinder 3, a plate cylinder 4 which cooperates with it and which has the same diameter as it, and a collector-inking cylinder 5 in contact with the plate cylinder 4.
  • the plate cylinder 4 is provided with several engraved printing plates, regularly distributed. In the case considered, it carries three plates and has a diameter of 840 mm.
  • the collector-inking cylinder 5, which has an elastic surface, has the same diameter as the plate cylinder 4 and is, in the example under consideration, fitted like the printing cylinder 3, with three blankets.
  • the collector-inking cylinder 5 and in contact therewith are mounted color selector cylinders 7, each being inked by its own inking device 8.
  • the direction of rotation of the different cylinders is represented by arrows in the drawing.
  • the three mentioned cylinders 3, 4 and 5 as well as the color selector cylinders 7 are installed in a main frame 6.
  • the collector-inking cylinder 5 and the selector cylinders 7 can also be installed in a mobile carriage which can be separated from the frame main 6.
  • the main drawing to be printed formed by sizes of variable dimensions and relatively deep, with a depth of up to 250 to 300 microns, and the safety bottom formed by very fine sizes, especially consisting of very fine lines or even dots, these sizes being less deep than those constituting the main design.
  • a wiping device 10 which cleans the surface of the engraved plates outside their sizes and which compresses the ink in sizes.
  • an automatic washing device 11 for blankets which is put out of contact with this cylinder during the printing operation.
  • the collector-inking cylinder 5 comprises, as has been mentioned, three rubber blankets, as used for offset blanket cylinders. On this collector-inking cylinder 5 are transferred all the different colors for the complete inking of the engraved plates. This is why it cooperates with as many color selector cylinders 7 as there are different colors.
  • the collector-inking cylinder 5 cooperates with four color selector cylinders 7 the surface of which is made of hard material, for example plastic, metal or hard rubber, each selector cylinder being sectioned so to present areas in relief whose contours correspond exactly to those of the surfaces to be printed in the respective color. These raised areas are obtained by any known means, for example by laser cutting.
  • the surface of the color selector cylinders is hard, there is no limit as to the fineness of the design that one wants to obtain. It is even possible to create a safety background with not only very fine lines, but also dots, which was previously impracticable.
  • Each color selector cylinder 7 is associated with an inking device 8 comprising the inkwell proper and the color transfer rollers.
  • the lower inking device in order to make it more convenient for the user, further comprises two intermediate transfer rollers 8b and 8c between the inkwell cylinder 8a and the rollers 8d. All the inking devices 8 with the rollers are installed in a mobile inking carriage 9 which can be separated from the main frame 6, this withdrawal position is indicated in phantom in the figure.
  • the collector-inking cylinder 5 and the color selector cylinders are installed in a separate mobile carriage, the mobile inking carriage 9 can of course be separated from the latter.
  • the ratio between the diameters of the color selector cylinders 7 and the collector-inking cylinder 5 is 1: 3.
  • the sheet-shaped paper is brought to the machine by a sheet feeder 1 and a transfer cylinder 2 which gives the sheets to the printing cylinder 3.
  • the paper held on this cylinder by clamps, passes between this cylinder and the plate cylinder 4 where it receives the impression, and it is then transported by another transfer cylinder 12 on a transport device 13.
  • the procedure is as follows: one of the selector cylinders 7 not yet sectioned is mounted on the machine; then the printing plate is mounted on the plate cylinder 4 and ink and wiped; its image is then transferred, via the collector-inking cylinder 5, to the selector cylinder 7, so that the image of the plate remains printed on this cylinder which has not yet been cut.
  • the selector cylinder 7 is then removed from the machine and the image of the plate is used to cut the surface by any suitable means.
  • the image of the plate serves as a basis for coordinates to be introduced into the laser machine so that the cut perfectly follows the design in register with the plate.
  • the same operation is naturally repeated for the other selector cylinders 7 representing the other colors. Under these conditions, we arrive at an automatic register of the inking of the security background and the main design.
  • the arrangement of the machine is preferably such that the line connecting the axes of the printing cylinder 3 and the plate cylinder 4 is perpendicular to the line connecting the axes of the plate cylinder 4 and collec cylinder teur-inker 5 and that the printing cylinder 3 is located at least approximately vertically above the plate cylinder 4. Under these conditions, even if the plate cylinder were to yield to the bending of a few fractions of millimeters, due at the great pressure necessary for intaglio printing, this would in no way interfere with the collector-inking cylinder 5.
  • collector-inking cylinder 5 instead of having individual blankets, is provided with a flexible, continuous and smooth surface, especially if it is a spool printing machine.
  • the diameter of the collector-inking cylinder 5 has a diameter equal to twice, even three times, the diameter of the plate cylinder 4, if a reduced dimension of the latter allows, for practical reasons, a such size of the collector-inking cylinder 5. This would give even more room to install a greater number of color-selecting cylinders, with their inking device.
  • the number of blankets on the collector-inking cylinder 5 is twice, respectively three times, the number of plates on the plate cylinder 4.
  • the invention is not limited to the embodiment which has just been written, but also covers different embodiments in particular as regards the number of printing plates and the number of colors printed.

Abstract

La machine taille-douce comprend un cylindre porte-plaques (4) avec plusieurs plaques d'impression gravées munies de tailles qui représentent les éléments d'un dessin principal et de tailles moins profondes et plus fines représentant les éléments d'un fond de sécurité, un cylindre d'impression (3), un dispositif d'essuyage (10) et un système d'encrage en plusieurs couleurs. Ce système d'encrage est constitué par un cylindre collecteur-encreur (5) ayant une surface élastique coopérant avec les plaques gravées montées sur le cylindre porte-plaques (4) et ayant le même diamètre que celui-ci. Le cylindre collecteur-encreur (5) est encré par autant de cylindres sélecteurs des couleurs (7) qu'il y a de couleurs à imprimer, ces cylindres sélecteurs des couleurs (7) présentant des reliefs correspondant aux zones colorées du fond de sécurité et du dessin principal, un dispositif d'encrage (8) étant associé à chaque cylindre sélecteur des couleurs (7). Le cas échéant, le diamètre du cylindre collecteur-encreur peut aussi être le double ou le triple du diamètre du cylindre porte-plaques.The intaglio machine comprises a plate cylinder (4) with several engraved printing plates provided with sizes which represent the elements of a main design and with shallower and finer sizes representing the elements of a safety background. , a printing cylinder (3), a wiping device (10) and an inking system in several colors. This inking system is constituted by a collector-inking cylinder (5) having an elastic surface cooperating with the engraved plates mounted on the plate cylinder (4) and having the same diameter as the latter. The collector-inking cylinder (5) is inked by as many color selector cylinders (7) as there are colors to be printed, these color selector cylinders (7) having reliefs corresponding to the colored zones of the security background and of the main drawing, an inking device (8) being associated with each color selector cylinder (7). If necessary, the diameter of the collector-inking cylinder can also be double or triple the diameter of the plate cylinder.

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L'invention concerne une machine taille-douce pour l'impression à la feuille ou à la bobine des papiers valeurs selon le préambule de la revendication 1.The invention relates to an intaglio machine for printing sheet or reel of security papers according to the preamble of claim 1.

Afin d'augmenter le facteur de sécurité contre les falsifications des papiers valeurs de toute sorte, on a été amenés à fabriquer des papiers valeurs entièrement au moyen du procédé taille-douce, car il est beaucoup plus difficile de falsifier un papier valeur produit totalement en taille-douce, donc également pour les fonds de sécurité.In order to increase the security factor against falsification of security papers of all kinds, it has been necessary to manufacture security papers entirely by means of the intaglio process, since it is much more difficult to falsify a security paper produced entirely in intaglio, therefore also for security funds.

Pour cette raison, la demanderesse a déjà proposé dans le document EP-B 091 709 une machine taille-douce telle que décrite dans le préambule de la revendication 1. Dans cette machine connue, on a prévu un cylindre col­lecteur-encreur d'un diamètre inférieur à celui du cy­lindre porte-plaques et ce cylindre collecteur-encreur, avec les cylindres sélecteurs des couleurs qui lui sont associés, n'encre sur la plaque d'impression que des tailles moins profondes qui représentent le fond de sé­curité. Pour l'encrage des tailles profondes représen­tant le dessin principal, cette machine est équipée d'un rouleau encreur conventionnel muni d'un dispositif d'encrage pour l'encrage direct de la plaque. En effet, on a cru que pour remplir correctement les tailles pro­fondes d'un dessin principal il était indispensable d'utiliser un encrage direct avec une pression relati­vement forte du rouleau encreur contre la plaque.For this reason, the applicant has already proposed in document EP-B 091 709 an intaglio machine as described in the preamble of claim 1. In this known machine, a collector-inking cylinder with a diameter is provided lower than that of the plate cylinder and this collector-ink cylinder, with the color selector cylinders associated with it, only ink on the printing plate the shallower sizes which represent the security background. For the inking of the deep sizes representing the main design, this machine is equipped with a conventional inking roller provided with an inking device for the direct inking of the plate. Indeed, it was believed that to correctly fill the deep sizes of a main design it was essential to use direct inking with a relatively strong pressure of the inking roller against the plate.

Cette machine connue a donc une configuration relative­ment compliquée à cause de la présence d'un dispositif d'encrage indirect et d'au moins un dispositif d'encra­ge direct. En outre, cette machine nécessite un ajuste­ment très exact et soigneux du cylindre collecteur-­encreur par rapport au cylindre porte-plaques d'une part et du rouleau encreur par rapport au cylindre porte-plaques et au cylindre collecteur-encreur d'autre part, pour arriver à un registre correct entre les diverses parties de l'image à imprimer.This known machine therefore has a relatively complicated configuration because of the presence of a device indirect inking and at least one direct inking device. In addition, this machine requires a very exact and careful adjustment of the collector-inking cylinder relative to the plate cylinder on the one hand and of the inking roller relative to the plate cylinder and the collector-inking cylinder on the other hand, to arrive at a correct register between the various parts of the image to be printed.

La présente invention a pour but de réaliser une nou­velle machine d'une construction simplifiée, apte à assurer l'impression totalement en taille-douce, et en un seul passage, d'un papier valeur ayant un fond de sécurité multicolor finement gravé, et un dessin prin­cipal profondément gravé; dans cette machine, l'ajuste­ment du registre entre les éléments encrant le fond de sécurité et le dessin principal étant largement simpli­fié.The object of the present invention is to produce a new machine of a simplified construction, capable of ensuring the intaglio printing, and in a single pass, of valuable paper having a finely engraved multicolored security background, and a deeply engraved main drawing; in this machine, the adjustment of the register between the elements inking the safety background and the main design is greatly simplified.

A cet effet, la machine selon l'invention est caractéri­sée par la clause caractérisante de la revendication 1.To this end, the machine according to the invention is characterized by the characterizing clause of claim 1.

Par les mesures selon l'invention, on arrive à deux effets favorables: d'une part, les mêmes zones encrées sur le cylindre collecteur-encreur viennent toujours en contact exactement avec les mêmes zones de la même plaque gravée; d'autre part, le diamètre du cylindre porte-plaques et du cylindre collecteur-encreur sont relativement grands puisque le cylindre porte-plaques doit en général porter au moins deux plaques d'impres­sion gravées, préférablement trois ou quatre plaques gravées. Pour un cylindre porte-plaques portant trois plaques, le diamètre est par exemple de 840 mm. Grâce au grand diamètre de ces deux cylindres, la bande de contact pour un bon encrage peut être obtenue avec une force de compression plus petite qu'avec un cylindre collecteur-encreur d'un diamètre plus petit et, de plus, la séparation des zones de contact immédiatement après le transfert de l'encre n'est pas aussi brusque qu'avec un cylindre collecteur-encreur plus petit.By the measures according to the invention, two favorable effects are achieved: on the one hand, the same areas inked on the collector-inking cylinder always come into contact exactly with the same areas of the same engraved plate; on the other hand, the diameter of the plate cylinder and the collector-inking cylinder are relatively large since the plate cylinder must generally carry at least two engraved printing plates, preferably three or four engraved plates. For a plate cylinder carrying three plates, the diameter is for example 840 mm. Thanks to the large diameter of these two cylinders, the contact strip for good inking can be obtained with a lower compression force than with a smaller diameter collector-inking cylinder, and moreover, separation of the contact areas immediately after ink transfer is not as abrupt as with a collector cylinder - smaller ink pad.

Il s'est révélé que de ces deux effets découlent plusieurs avantages surprenants:It has turned out that these two effects have several surprising advantages:

- Le cylindre collecteur-encreur permet non seulement de remplir correctement et complètement les tailles fines, représentant le fond de sécurité, mais aussi les tailles plus profondes représentant le dessin prin­cipal, et même, comme on a pu le constater, des tailles profondes allant jusqu'à 250 à 300 µ, cela représentant une profondeur presque deux fois supérieure à celle généralement utilisée jusqu'ici lors de l'encrage di­rect des dessins principaux. Il semble que cet avantage surprenant est dû au fait qu'au cours de l'opération, il se forme sur la périphérie du cylindre collecteur-­encreur une sorte de relief d'encre qui est suffisant pour remplir les tailles les plus profondes et qui est toujours renouvelé au moyen de l'encrage par les cylin­dres sélecteurs des couleurs. On avait toujours été convaincus jusqu'ici que, pour obtenir un remplissage correct des tailles profondes, il était absolument né­cessaire d'avoir un rouleau encreur qui touche directe­ment la plaque avec une pression considérable. Ce pré­jugé a pu être surmonté par l'invention.- The collector-inking cylinder allows not only to correctly and completely fill the fine sizes, representing the safety background, but also the deeper sizes representing the main design, and even, as we have seen, deep sizes up to 'at 250 to 300 µ, this representing a depth almost twice greater than that generally used so far during the direct inking of the main drawings. It seems that this surprising advantage is due to the fact that during the operation, a sort of ink relief is formed on the periphery of the collector-inking cylinder which is sufficient to fill the deepest sizes and which is always renewed by inking with the color selector cylinders. We had always been convinced until now that, to obtain a correct filling of the deep sizes, it was absolutely necessary to have an ink roller which directly touches the plate with a considerable pressure. This prejudice could be overcome by the invention.

- En outre, avec cet encrage indirect selon l'inven­tion, le fait de pouvoir découper les cylindres sélec­teurs des couleurs, en matière plus ou moins dure, de façon très fine et très précise, et le fait que les plaques soient encrées avec le cylindre collecteur-­ encreur en matière plus ou moins souple, font que la quantité d'encre est le minimum nécessaire pour obtenir en encrage optimal, ce qui représente une économie non négligeable d'encre par rapport à un encrage direct, donc moins d'encre à essuyer sur la surface des plaques et par conséquent on décharge ainsi le dispositif d'es­suyage, ce qui est très important.- In addition, with this indirect inking according to the invention, the fact of being able to cut out the color selector cylinders, of more or less hard material, in a very fine and very precise manner, and the fact that the plates are inked with the cylinder collector- ink in more or less flexible material, make the quantity of ink is the minimum necessary to obtain optimal inking, which represents a significant saving of ink compared to a direct inking, therefore less ink to be wiped on the surface of the plates and therefore it discharges the wiping device, which is very important.

- Un autre avantage très important est qu'une fois que l'ajustage de tous les cylindres sélecteurs des cou­leurs par rapport au cylindre collecteur-encreur et aux plaques a été effectué, il existe un registre automati­que entre l'encrage du dessin principal et du fond de sécurité et tout autre ajustement qui était nécessaire jusqu'à aujourd'hui est supprimé.- Another very important advantage is that once the adjustment of all the color selector cylinders in relation to the collector-inking cylinder and to the plates has been carried out, there is an automatic register between the inking of the main design and of the security fund and any other adjustments that were necessary until today are deleted.

- Etant donné la grandeur du cylindre collecteur-en­creur, il y a davantage de place le long de sa périphé­rie pour installer un plus grand nombre de cylindres sélecteurs des couleurs, préférablement quatre, et même cinq. C'est pourquoi, il est bien possible d'utiliser au moins un cylindre sélecteur des couleurs pour encrer le dessin principal et les trois ou quatre autres pour encrer d'une façon multicolore le fond de sécurité.- Given the size of the collector-inking cylinder, there is more room along its periphery to install a greater number of color picking cylinders, preferably four, and even five. Therefore, it is quite possible to use at least one color selector cylinder to ink the main design and the other three or four to ink the security background in a multicolored manner.

- On supprime bien entendu le dispositif d'encrage di­rect, ce qui rend la construction et l'entretien de la machine beaucoup plus facile.- Of course, the direct inking device is eliminated, which makes the construction and maintenance of the machine much easier.

L'invention sera décrite à titre d'exemple non limita­tif, en se référant au dessin annexé dont la figure unique représente, schématiquement, une machine taille-­douce pour l'impression à la feuille, réalisée confor­mément à la présente invention.The invention will be described by way of non-limiting example, with reference to the accompanying drawing, the single figure of which schematically represents an intaglio machine for printing on a sheet, produced in accordance with the present invention.

La machine représentée comprend un cylindre d'impres­sion 3, un cylindre porte-plaques 4 qui coopère avec celui-ci et qui a le même diamètre que lui, et un cy­lindre collecteur-encreur 5 en contact avec le cylindre porte-plaques 4. Le cylindre porte-plaques 4 est muni de plusieurs plaques d'impression gravées, régulière­ment distribuées. Dans le cas considéré, il porte trois plaques et a un diamètre de 840 mm. Le cylindre collec­teur-encreur 5, qui a une surface élastique, a le même diamètre que le cylindre porte-plaques 4 et est, dans l'exemple considéré, muni comme le cylindre d'impres­sion 3, de trois blanchets. Le long de la périphérie du cylindre collecteur-encreur 5 et en contact avec celui-­ci sont montés des cylindres sélecteurs des couleurs 7, chacun étant encré par son propre dispositif d'encrage 8.The machine shown comprises a printing cylinder 3, a plate cylinder 4 which cooperates with it and which has the same diameter as it, and a collector-inking cylinder 5 in contact with the plate cylinder 4. The plate cylinder 4 is provided with several engraved printing plates, regularly distributed. In the case considered, it carries three plates and has a diameter of 840 mm. The collector-inking cylinder 5, which has an elastic surface, has the same diameter as the plate cylinder 4 and is, in the example under consideration, fitted like the printing cylinder 3, with three blankets. Along the periphery of the collector-inking cylinder 5 and in contact therewith are mounted color selector cylinders 7, each being inked by its own inking device 8.

Le sens de rotation des différents cylindres est représenté par des flèches sur le dessin. Les trois cylindres mentionnés 3, 4 et 5 ainsi que les cylindres sélecteurs des couleurs 7 sont installés dans un bâti principal 6. Le cylindre collecteur-encreur 5 et les cylindres sélecteurs 7 peuvent aussi être installés dans un chariot mobile qui peut être séparé du bâti principal 6.The direction of rotation of the different cylinders is represented by arrows in the drawing. The three mentioned cylinders 3, 4 and 5 as well as the color selector cylinders 7 are installed in a main frame 6. The collector-inking cylinder 5 and the selector cylinders 7 can also be installed in a mobile carriage which can be separated from the frame main 6.

Sur les plaques d'impression gravées se trouvent gravés à la fois le dessin principal à imprimer, formé par des tailles de dimensions variables et relativement pro­fondes, avec une profondeur allant jusqu'à 250 à 300 microns, et le fond de sécurité formé par des tailles très fines, surtout constituées par des lignes très fines ou même des points, ces tailles étant moins profondes que celles constituant le dessin principal.On the engraved printing plates are engraved both the main drawing to be printed, formed by sizes of variable dimensions and relatively deep, with a depth of up to 250 to 300 microns, and the safety bottom formed by very fine sizes, especially consisting of very fine lines or even dots, these sizes being less deep than those constituting the main design.

A la périphérie du cylindre porte-plaques 4 se trouve, à la suite du cylindre collecteur-encreur 5, dans le sens de rotation, un dispositif d'essuyage 10 qui net­toie la surface des plaques gravées en dehors de leurs tailles et qui comprime l'encre dans les tailles.At the periphery of the plate cylinder 4 is, following the collector-inking cylinder 5, in the direction of rotation, a wiping device 10 which cleans the surface of the engraved plates outside their sizes and which compresses the ink in sizes.

En outre, à la périphérie du cylindre collecteur-en­creur 5 est prévu un dispositif de lavage automatique 11 des blanchets qui est mis hors contact de ce cy­lindre lors de l'opération d'impression.In addition, at the periphery of the collector-inking cylinder 5 is provided an automatic washing device 11 for blankets which is put out of contact with this cylinder during the printing operation.

Le cylindre collecteur-encreur 5 comporte, ainsi qu'il a été mentionné, trois blanchets de caoutchouc, comme utilisés pour des cylindres porte-blanchets offset. Sur ce cylindre collecteur-encreur 5 sont transférées tou­tes les différentes couleurs pour l'encrage complet des plaques gravées. C'est pourquoi il coopère avec autant de cylindres sélecteurs des couleurs 7 qu'il est prévu de couleurs différentes. Dans la forme d'exécution re­présentée, le cylindre collecteur-encreur 5 coopère avec quatre cylindres sélecteurs des couleurs 7 dont la surface est en matière dure, par exemple en matière plastique, en métal ou en caoutchouc durci, chaque cy­lindre sélecteur étant sectionné de façon à présenter des zones en relief dont les contours correspondent exactement à ceux des surfaces à imprimer dans la cou­leur respective. Ces zones en relief sont obtenues par tout moyen connu, par exemple par découpage au laser. Comme la surface des cylindres sélecteurs des couleurs est dure, il n'y a pas de limite en ce qui concerne la finesse du dessin que l'on veut obtenir. Il est même possible de réaliser un fond de sécurité présentant non seulement des lignes très fines, mais également des points, ce qui était irréalisable jusqu'à maintenant.The collector-inking cylinder 5 comprises, as has been mentioned, three rubber blankets, as used for offset blanket cylinders. On this collector-inking cylinder 5 are transferred all the different colors for the complete inking of the engraved plates. This is why it cooperates with as many color selector cylinders 7 as there are different colors. In the embodiment shown, the collector-inking cylinder 5 cooperates with four color selector cylinders 7 the surface of which is made of hard material, for example plastic, metal or hard rubber, each selector cylinder being sectioned so to present areas in relief whose contours correspond exactly to those of the surfaces to be printed in the respective color. These raised areas are obtained by any known means, for example by laser cutting. As the surface of the color selector cylinders is hard, there is no limit as to the fineness of the design that one wants to obtain. It is even possible to create a safety background with not only very fine lines, but also dots, which was previously impracticable.

Chaque cylindre sélecteur des couleurs 7 est associé à un dispositif d'encrage 8 comprenant l'encrier propre­ment dit et les rouleaux de transfert de la couleur. Le dispositif d'encrage inférieur, afin de le rendre plus commode à l'usager, comprend en outre deux rouleaux de transfert intermédiaires 8b et 8c entre le cylindre d'encrier 8a et les rouleaux 8d. Tous les dispositifs d'encrage 8 avec les rouleaux sont installés dans un chariot d'encrage mobile 9 qui peut être séparé du bâti principal 6, cette position de retrait est indiquée en traits mixtes sur la figure. Dans le cas où, comme men­tionné, le cylindre collecteur-encreur 5 et les cylin­dres sélecteurs des couleurs sont installés dans un chariot mobile séparé, le chariot d'encrage mobile 9 peut bien sur être séparé de celui-ci.Each color selector cylinder 7 is associated with an inking device 8 comprising the inkwell proper and the color transfer rollers. The lower inking device, in order to make it more convenient for the user, further comprises two intermediate transfer rollers 8b and 8c between the inkwell cylinder 8a and the rollers 8d. All the inking devices 8 with the rollers are installed in a mobile inking carriage 9 which can be separated from the main frame 6, this withdrawal position is indicated in phantom in the figure. In the case where, as mentioned, the collector-inking cylinder 5 and the color selector cylinders are installed in a separate mobile carriage, the mobile inking carriage 9 can of course be separated from the latter.

Dans la forme d'exécution representée sur la figure, le rapport entre les diamètres des cylindres sélecteur des couleurs 7 et du cylindre collecteur-encreur 5 est 1:3.In the embodiment shown in the figure, the ratio between the diameters of the color selector cylinders 7 and the collector-inking cylinder 5 is 1: 3.

Le papier en forme de feuilles est amené à la machine par un dispositif d'alimentation des feuilles 1 et un cylindre de transfert 2 qui donne les feuilles au cy­lindre d'impression 3. Le papier, tenu sur ce cylindre par des pinces, passe entre ce cylindre et le cylindre porte-plaques 4 où il reçoit l'impression, et il est ensuite transporté par un autre cylindre de transfert 12 sur un dispositif de transport 13.The sheet-shaped paper is brought to the machine by a sheet feeder 1 and a transfer cylinder 2 which gives the sheets to the printing cylinder 3. The paper, held on this cylinder by clamps, passes between this cylinder and the plate cylinder 4 where it receives the impression, and it is then transported by another transfer cylinder 12 on a transport device 13.

Il s'est révélé que la pression entre le cylindre col­lecteur-encreur 5 et le cylindre porte-plaques 4 peut être plus faible que dans le cas d'un encrage direct au moyen d'un rouleau encreur et que, malgré cette faible pression, le remplissage complet des tailles est ga­ranti.It has been found that the pressure between the collector-inking cylinder 5 and the plate-carrying cylinder 4 can be lower than in the case of direct inking by means of an inking roller and that, despite this low pressure, full filling of sizes is guaranteed.

De même, entre les cylindres sélecteurs des couleurs 7 et le cylindre collecteur-encreur 5 on n'a besoin que d'une faible pression, réduite pratiquement à un simple contact, ce qui évite une déformation des zones très fines découpées sur les cylindres sélecteurs.Likewise, between the color selector cylinders 7 and the collector-inking cylinder 5, only a low pressure is required, which is reduced practically to a simple contact, which avoids deformation of the very fine zones cut out on the selector cylinders. .

Afin d'assurer un registre parfait entre les cylindres sélecteurs 7 sectionnés et les plaques d'impression gravées, on procède de la manière suivante: on monte sur la machine un des cylindres sélecteurs 7 non encore sectionné; ensuite on monte la plaque d'impression sur le cylindre porte-plaques 4 et on l'encre et l'essuie; on transfère ensuite son image, par l'intermédiaire du cylindre collecteur-encreur 5, sur le cylindre sélec­teur 7, de façon telle que l'image de la plaque reste imprimée sur ce cylindre non encore sectionné. Le cy­lindre sélecteur 7 est ensuite démonté de la machine et l'image de la plaque est utilisée pour découper la sur­face par tout moyen approprié. Dans le cas où la dé­coupe est obtenue au moyen d'un laser, l'image de la plaque sert comme base pour des coordonnées à intro­duire dans la machine laser afin que la découpe suive parfaitement le dessin en registre avec la plaque. On répète naturellement la même opération pour les autres cylindres sélecteurs 7 représentant les autres couleurs. Dans ces conditions, on arrive à un registre automati­que de l'encrage du fond de sécurité et du dessin prin­cipal.In order to ensure perfect register between the sectioned selector cylinders 7 and the engraved printing plates, the procedure is as follows: one of the selector cylinders 7 not yet sectioned is mounted on the machine; then the printing plate is mounted on the plate cylinder 4 and ink and wiped; its image is then transferred, via the collector-inking cylinder 5, to the selector cylinder 7, so that the image of the plate remains printed on this cylinder which has not yet been cut. The selector cylinder 7 is then removed from the machine and the image of the plate is used to cut the surface by any suitable means. In the case where the cut is obtained by means of a laser, the image of the plate serves as a basis for coordinates to be introduced into the laser machine so that the cut perfectly follows the design in register with the plate. The same operation is naturally repeated for the other selector cylinders 7 representing the other colors. Under these conditions, we arrive at an automatic register of the inking of the security background and the main design.

Comme cela se voit sur le dessin, l'agencement de la machine est préférablement tel que la ligne reliant les axes du cylindre d'impression 3 et du cylindre porte-­plaques 4 est perpendiculaire à la ligne reliant les axes du cylindre porte-plaques 4 et du cylindre collec­ teur-encreur 5 et que le cylindre d'impression 3 est situé au moins approximativement verticalement au des­sus du cylindre porte-plaques 4. Dans ces conditions, même si le cylindre porte-plaques devait céder à la flexion de quelques fractions de millimètres, due à la grande pression nécessaire pour imprimer en taille-­douce, cela n'interfèrerait en rien le cylindre collec­teur-encreur 5.As can be seen in the drawing, the arrangement of the machine is preferably such that the line connecting the axes of the printing cylinder 3 and the plate cylinder 4 is perpendicular to the line connecting the axes of the plate cylinder 4 and collec cylinder teur-inker 5 and that the printing cylinder 3 is located at least approximately vertically above the plate cylinder 4. Under these conditions, even if the plate cylinder were to yield to the bending of a few fractions of millimeters, due at the great pressure necessary for intaglio printing, this would in no way interfere with the collector-inking cylinder 5.

Il est aussi possible que le cylindre collecteur-en­creur 5 au lieu d'avoir des blanchets individuels, soit muni d'une surface souple, continue et lisse, surtout s'il s'agit d'une machine d'impression à la bobine.It is also possible that the collector-inking cylinder 5, instead of having individual blankets, is provided with a flexible, continuous and smooth surface, especially if it is a spool printing machine.

On peut également prévoir que le diamètre du cylindre collecteur-encreur 5 ait un diamètre égal à deux fois, même trois fois, le diamètre du cylindre porte-plaques 4, si une dimension réduite de celui-ci permet, pour des raisons pratiques, une telle grandeur du cylindre collecteur-encreur 5. Cela donnerait encore plus de place pour installer un plus grand nombre de cylindres sélecteurs des couleurs, avec leur dispositif d'encrage. Dans ce cas, le nombre de blanchets sur le cylindre collecteur-encreur 5 est deux fois, respectivement trois fois, le nombre de plaques sur le cylindre porte-­plaques 4.It is also possible to provide that the diameter of the collector-inking cylinder 5 has a diameter equal to twice, even three times, the diameter of the plate cylinder 4, if a reduced dimension of the latter allows, for practical reasons, a such size of the collector-inking cylinder 5. This would give even more room to install a greater number of color-selecting cylinders, with their inking device. In this case, the number of blankets on the collector-inking cylinder 5 is twice, respectively three times, the number of plates on the plate cylinder 4.

L'invention n'est pas limitée à la forme d'exécution qui vient d'être écrite, mais couvre également des for­mes d'exécution différentes notamment en ce qui concer­ne le nombre des plaques d'impression et le nombre de couleurs imprimées.The invention is not limited to the embodiment which has just been written, but also covers different embodiments in particular as regards the number of printing plates and the number of colors printed.

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1. Machine taille-douce pour l'impression à la feuille ou à la bobine des papiers valeurs, en particulier des billets de banque, comprenant un cylindre porte-plaques (4) avec plusieurs plaques d'impression, un cylindre d'impression (3), un dispositif d'essuyage (10) et un système d'encrage constitué par un cylindre collecteur-­encreur (5) ayant une surface élastique coopérant avec les plaques d'impression, par des cylindres sélecteurs des couleurs (7) présentant des reliefs correspondant aux zones colorées à imprimer dans des différentes couleurs et en contact avec la périphérie du cylindre collecteur-encreur (5) et par un dispositif d'encrage (8) associé à chaque cylindre sélecteur des couleurs (7), caractérisée par le fait que le diamètre du cylindre collecteur-encreur (5) est égal à N fois le diamètre du cylindre porte-plaques (4), N étant un nombre entier entre 1 et 3.1. Intaglio machine for printing sheet or reel of security papers, in particular banknotes, comprising a plate cylinder (4) with several printing plates, a printing cylinder ( 3), a wiping device (10) and an inking system constituted by a collector-inking cylinder (5) having an elastic surface cooperating with the printing plates, by color selector cylinders (7) having reliefs corresponding to the colored areas to be printed in different colors and in contact with the periphery of the collector-inking cylinder (5) and by an inking device (8) associated with each color selector cylinder (7), characterized by the fact that the diameter of the collector-ink cylinder (5) is equal to N times the diameter of the plate cylinder (4), N being an integer between 1 and 3. 2. Machine taille-douce selon la revendication 1, caractérisée par le fait que le cylindre collecteur-­encreur (5) est un cylindre porte-blanchets et que le rapport du nombre de blanchets au nombre de plaques d'impression est égal au rapport desdits diamètres.2. Intaglio machine according to claim 1, characterized in that the collector-inking cylinder (5) is a blanket cylinder and that the ratio of the number of blankets to the number of printing plates is equal to the ratio of said diameters. 3. Machine taille-douce selon les revendications 1 ou 2, caractérisée par le fait que le diamètre du cylindre collecteur-encreur est égal au diamètre du cylindre porte-plaques.3. Intaglio machine according to claims 1 or 2, characterized in that the diameter of the collector-inking cylinder is equal to the diameter of the plate cylinder. 4. Machine taille-douce selon l'une des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisée par le fait que le cylindre porte-­plaques (4) porte au moins deux, de préférence trois ou quatre, plaques d'impression.4. Intaglio machine according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the plate cylinder (4) carries at least two, preferably three or four, printing plates. 5. Machine taille-douce selon l'une des revendications 1 à 4, caractérisée par le fait qu'il y a au moins trois, de préférence quatre, cylindres sélecteurs des couleurs (7).5. Intaglio machine according to one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that there are at least three, preferably four, color selector cylinders (7). 6. Machine taille-douce selon l'une des revendications 1 à 5 dans laquelle les plaques d'impression sont munies de tailles représentant les éléments d'un dessin principal et de tailles moins profondes et plus fines représentant les éléments d'un fond de sécurité, caractérisée par le fait qu'au moins quelques unes des tailles du dessin principal ont une profondeur allant de 250 à 300 µ et qu'au moins un cylindre sélecteur des couleurs transmet l'encre au cylindre collecteur-­encreur (5) pour encrer les tailles représentant le dessin principal, pendant que les autres cylindres sélecteurs des couleurs transmettent l'encre au cylindre collecteur-encreur (5) pour encrer les tailles représentant le fond de sécurité multicolor.6. Intaglio machine according to one of claims 1 to 5 in which the printing plates are provided with sizes representing the elements of a main design and with shallower and finer sizes representing the elements of a background of security, characterized in that at least some of the sizes of the main design have a depth ranging from 250 to 300 µ and that at least one color selector cylinder transmits the ink to the collector-inking cylinder (5) for inking the sizes representing the main design, while the other color selector cylinders transmit the ink to the collector-inking cylinder (5) to ink the sizes representing the multicolored security background. 7. Machine taille-douce selon l'une des revendications 1 à 6, caractérisée par le fait que la ligne reliant les axes du cylindre d'impression (3) et du cylindre porte-plaques (4) est perpendiculaire à la ligne reliant les axes du cylindre porte-plaques (4) et du cylindre collecteur-encreur (5) et que le cylindre d'impression (3) se trouve au moins approximativement verticalement au dessus du cylindre porte-plaques (4).7. Intaglio machine according to one of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that the line connecting the axes of the printing cylinder (3) and the plate cylinder (4) is perpendicular to the line connecting the axes of the plate cylinder (4) and of the collector-inking cylinder (5) and that the printing cylinder (3) is located at least approximately vertically above the plate cylinder (4). 8. Machine taille-douce selon l'une des revendications 1 à 7, caractérisée par le fait que le cylindre porte-­plaques et le cylindre d'impression sont installés dans un bâti principal (6), que le cylindre collecteur-­encreur (5) et les cylindres sélecteurs des couleurs (7) sont installés dans un premier chariot et que les dispositifs d'encrage (8) sont installés dans un deuxième chariot.8. Intaglio machine according to one of claims 1 to 7, characterized in that the plate cylinder and the printing cylinder are installed in a main frame (6), that the collector-inking cylinder (5 ) and the color selector cylinders (7) are installed in a first carriage and the inking devices (8) are installed in a second carriage. 9. Machine taille-douce selon l'une des revendications 1 à 8, caractérisée par le fait qu'à la périphérie du cylindre collecteur-encreur (5) est prévu un dispositif de lavage automatique (11) des blanchets, respective­ment de la surface souple et continue de ce cylindre collecteur-encreur, ledit dispositif de lavage étant mis hors contact de ce cylindre lors de l'opération d'impression.9. Intaglio machine according to one of claims 1 to 8, characterized in that at the periphery of the collector-inking cylinder (5) is provided an automatic washing device (11) of the blankets, respectively from the surface flexible and continuous of this collector-inking cylinder, said washing device being put out of contact with this cylinder during the printing operation.
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