EP0567797B1 - Vorrichtung zum Schränken von Druckplatten auf dem Plattenzylinder von Druckmaschinen, insbesondere Bogenoffsetdruckmaschinen - Google Patents

Vorrichtung zum Schränken von Druckplatten auf dem Plattenzylinder von Druckmaschinen, insbesondere Bogenoffsetdruckmaschinen Download PDF

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EP0567797B1
EP0567797B1 EP93105478A EP93105478A EP0567797B1 EP 0567797 B1 EP0567797 B1 EP 0567797B1 EP 93105478 A EP93105478 A EP 93105478A EP 93105478 A EP93105478 A EP 93105478A EP 0567797 B1 EP0567797 B1 EP 0567797B1
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Georg Hartung
Helmut Schild
Herbert Schoppe
Guido Reschke
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
    • B41F27/00—Devices for attaching printing elements or formes to supports
    • B41F27/12—Devices for attaching printing elements or formes to supports for attaching flexible printing formes
    • B41F27/1218—Devices for attaching printing elements or formes to supports for attaching flexible printing formes comprising printing plate tensioning devices
    • B41F27/1225—Devices for attaching printing elements or formes to supports for attaching flexible printing formes comprising printing plate tensioning devices moving in the printing plate end substantially rectilinearly
    • B41F27/1231—Devices for attaching printing elements or formes to supports for attaching flexible printing formes comprising printing plate tensioning devices moving in the printing plate end substantially rectilinearly by translatory motion substantially tangential to support surface
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41P—INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO PRINTING, LINING MACHINES, TYPEWRITERS, AND TO STAMPS
    • B41P2227/00—Mounting or handling printing plates; Forming printing surfaces in situ
    • B41P2227/40—Adjusting means for printing plates on the cylinder
    • B41P2227/43—Adjusting means for printing plates on the cylinder diagonally

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  • the invention relates to a device for setting printing plates on the plate cylinder of printing presses, in particular sheetfed offset printing presses.
  • the plate cylinders of sheet-fed offset printing presses have an axially parallel cylinder pit, in which a front or rear tensioning rail which is assigned to the printing start or the printing end of the printing plate is arranged.
  • the pressure plate placed around the outer circumference of the plate cylinder is fastened (clamped) with its corresponding edges in the front and in the rear clamping rail and then generally clamped over the clamping rail assigned to the printing end.
  • the individual printing plates must be aligned with one another in such a way that the individual partial images can be printed one above the other with a precise fit.
  • the front and / or the rear tensioning rail mostly have adjusting means in the form of adjusting screws with which the side, circumferential and in particular the inclined register can be adjusted.
  • DE 3 936 459 C1 describes such a device for tensioning printing plates.
  • Print images lying obliquely with respect to the axes of the plate cylinder can either be inclined with respect to the blanket cylinder or in be advantageously compensated for by appropriate setting of the printing plate on the plate cylinder.
  • the front and rear tensioning rails are mechanically coupled to one another via gear elements and perform a parallelogram-like movement when they are entangled.
  • Devices of this type show the subjects of EP 0 308 797 B1, DE 3 731 642 A1 and EP 0 401 500 A2. From JP-AO 319736 and JP-AO 319737 it is known to pivotally mount a tensioning rail assigned to the printing end via a curved rail.
  • the individual curves are arranged as a mirror image of the format center of the plate cylinder and each have radii of curvature which, over the length of the printing plate, result in an effective fulcrum of the printing clamping rail around a point at the beginning of the printing plate.
  • These devices can be driven in particular by motors integrated in the plate cylinder.
  • these solutions all require a high level of engineering.
  • DE 2 606 773 A1 discloses a tensioning rail consisting of an upper and a lower clamping bar, which can be divided into several sections and is also supported in a cylinder-fixed manner by means of a plurality of adjusting means in the form of tensioning screws.
  • An end of the pressure plate is folded (e.g. start of printing) by adjusting the amount of the individual tensioning screws, the release end of the plate being loosened and tensioned again after the crossing. Executed by hand is a correspondingly time-consuming procedure. Motor adjustment is also difficult to set up because of the multiple clamping screws.
  • the object of the present invention is therefore to create a device according to claim 1, so that a twisting movement of the tensioning rail can be carried out in a simple manner both with manual adjustability and with motorized adjustment.
  • the tensioning rail in particular associated with the start of pressure, is supported in a cylinder-fixed manner via a plurality of tensioning screws having different thread pitches.
  • These tensioning screws either have their corresponding thread in the tensioning rail and are turned through it, or the tensioning screws interact with threaded parts arranged in a cylinder-fixed manner.
  • tension screw is used for any type of screw gear or joint by means of which the tensioning rail is supported by the channel wall assigned to it.
  • the thread pitches of the tensioning screws are adjusted in their amount to the spacing of the tensioning screws transversely to the pressure direction in such a way that, when all tensioning screws are rotated by one and the same angular amount, a corresponding interlocking movement results.
  • all clamping screws can be turned simultaneously by one and the same angular amount, these are, for example, lever arms to one in the axial direction of the plate cylinder movably mounted actuator rod as an actuating element.
  • This adjusting rod can then be moved in the axial direction according to the desired entanglement via a threaded spindle.
  • This can be, for example, a threaded spindle, which is manually operated via a tool and is accessible on a cylinder side wall, and is screwed into a corresponding thread in the actuating rod.
  • the actuating element for example in turn a threaded spindle together with an actuating rod, can also be driven by a motor arranged in the plate cylinder.
  • a motor arranged in the plate cylinder.
  • an electric motor could be used here that drives the threaded spindle via a gear.
  • a preferred embodiment of the invention provides a pneumatic drive which has two working cylinders (single-acting).
  • the adjusting rod can also have toothed sections in the manner of a toothed rack, which mesh with toothed segments on the corresponding clamping screws.
  • the adjusting rod could also be rotatably mounted and, in sections, have screw toothings which form worm drives with the toothed segments.
  • the entanglement of a printing plate via the tensioning rail designed according to the invention at the beginning of the print is preferably carried out with the tensioning plate released (printing end tensioning rail).
  • the clamping on the printing end tensioning rail is additionally released, so that the pressure plate in the detection area of the printing end tensioning rail realigns itself during the interlacing.
  • the printing plate is clamped and clamped via the printing end clamping rail.
  • FIG. 1 shows the part of the plate cylinder 1 assigned to the start of printing with the cylinder pit 2 and the clamping rail 3 arranged therein. In the exemplary embodiment, this is supported by a total of four clamping screws 4 on the wall 5 of the cylinder pit 2 assigned to the beginning of printing.
  • the tensioning screws 4 are arranged in the area between the front tensioning rail 3 and the wall 5 of the cylinder pit 2 assigned to the start of pressure.
  • One end of the clamping screws 4 is screwed into threaded bushes 4.1 supported on the cylinder.
  • the tensioning rail 3, which is divided several times, for example, is supported on the other end of the tensioning screws 4 via an adjusting screw 4.2.
  • the adjusting screws 4.2 have, for example, a crowned end and serve the Basic setting of the tensioning rail 3 (circumferential and inclined register).
  • FIG. 2b shows a section through the tensioning rail 3, which in a manner known per se consists of an upper and a lower terminal block 6, 7.
  • the lower clamping bar 7 is displaceable relative to the upper clamping bar 6 and can be moved, for example, by pneumatic or mechanical drive means (not shown) for inserting a pressure plate into the gap 8 and for clamping.
  • the adjusting screws 4.2 are screwed with their thread into a correspondingly designed thread of the upper terminal strip.
  • the adjusting screws 4.2 are passed through the latter, so that the lower clamping bar 7 can be displaced relative to the upper clamping bar 6.
  • the tensioning rail 3 is supported by guides, not shown, for example via the upper terminal strip 6 on the bottom of the cylinder pit 2 in accordance with the intended interlocking movements.
  • the clamping screws 4 with the threaded bushes 4.1 have different thread pitches, the thread pitches being matched to one another in accordance with the spacing of the clamping screws 4, so that simultaneous turning of the clamping screws 4 by one and the same angular amount entangles the clamping rail 3 with respect to the wall 5 of the Cylinder pit 2 causes.
  • the clamping screw 4 shown on the far right has the smallest and the clamping screw 4 shown on the left has the largest thread pitch along with the corresponding threaded bores in the threaded bushes 4.1.
  • the intermediate clamping screws 4 have correspondingly smaller thread pitches.
  • the tensioning rail 3 is oriented parallel to the wall 5 in its starting position (adjusting screws 4.2). When turning all clamping screws 4 by the max. provided angular amount, the clamping rail 3 is then pivoted back into the left end of the wall 5.
  • adjusting rod 9 which is displaceably mounted in the axial direction of the plate cylinder 1. This can be achieved by sliding or roller bearings (not shown) on the floor the cylinder pit 2 be stored.
  • the actuating rod 9 is part of the actuating element 12.
  • the lever arms 10 are led out through recesses in the threaded bushes 4.1 corresponding to the maximum rotation angle (e.g. 60 °) provided for the clamping screws 4.
  • the fork-shaped ends of the lever arms 10 of each clamping screw 4 are each attached to a driving pin 11 attached to the adjusting rod 9.
  • the distances between the driving pins 11 on the adjusting rod 9 correspond to those of the clamping screws 4.
  • the arrangement described can be designed such that the clamping rail 3 is in the starting position according to FIG. 1 when the lever arms 10 in the position shown in FIG 2a are pivoted.
  • the actuating element 12 consists here of a threaded spindle 13 which is supported in a cylinder-fixed manner and rotatably mounted and which is screwed into a corresponding threaded part of the actuating rod 9.
  • the arrangement shown here can be located, for example, in the left part of the cylinder pit 2 according to FIG. 1.
  • the threaded spindle 13 can be driven by a motor 15 via a gear 14 consisting of gear wheels.
  • the motor 15 can be located on the bottom of the cylinder pit 2 or in a recess provided for this purpose.
  • the motor 15 can be an electric motor, for example, which is designed to displace the actuating rod 9 via the threaded spindle 13 and the gear 14 by predetermined distances. Corresponding entanglement amounts thus result from the clamping screws 4.
  • the motor 15 receives the supply energy and the corresponding control via a rotary transformer which is attached, for example, to a pin of the plate cylinder 1.
  • the previously described and preferred embodiment provides, in addition to the clamping screws 4, in addition to threaded bushes 4.1 with the different thread pitches, also adjusting screws 4.2.
  • the tensioning screws 4 with their different threads it would also be possible for the tensioning screws 4 with their different threads to be rotated through the tensioning rail 3 instead of the adjustment screws 4.2.
  • the tensioning rail 3 would thus be supported directly over the ends of the tensioning screws 4 (without further adjustment possibility) on the wall 5 of the cylinder pit.
  • FIG. 4 shows a preferred embodiment of the motor 15 according to FIG. 3, two single-acting pneumatic working cylinders 16, 17 working against a spring force (not shown) being used.
  • two gears 20, 21 of a locking mechanism with teeth which are stepped in mirror image relative to one another are arranged on a shaft 22 of the transmission 14.
  • One working cylinder 16, 17 with its Piston rods 18, 19 lie in a plane of a gear wheel 20, 21 in such a way that the thrust of the piston rod 18 or 19 is quasi tangential to the outer circumference of the respective gear wheel 20, 21.
  • the ends of the piston rods 18, 19 have driving knives acting on the principle of ratchet pawls, which engage with one advance of a piston rod 18, 19 in one step of one of the gearwheels 20, 21 and thus bring about a gradual entrainment of the respective gearwheel 20, 21.
  • the working cylinder 16 with the piston rod 18 and the gear 20 is a stepping gear for converting thrust into rotation, wherein the gear 20 shown is only taken clockwise.
  • the gear 20 shown is only taken clockwise.
  • entrainment takes place counterclockwise, which is not hindered by the piston rod 18 in the starting position.
  • the described application of the two pneumatic working cylinders 16, 17 thus represents a drive which can be controlled in both directions of rotation and which provides a high drive torque in a compact installation space.

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EP93105478A 1992-04-30 1993-04-02 Vorrichtung zum Schränken von Druckplatten auf dem Plattenzylinder von Druckmaschinen, insbesondere Bogenoffsetdruckmaschinen Expired - Lifetime EP0567797B1 (de)

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