EP0588091A1 - Blanchet de revêtement pour un cylindre de contre-pression d'une rotative offset recto-verso à feuilles - Google Patents

Blanchet de revêtement pour un cylindre de contre-pression d'une rotative offset recto-verso à feuilles Download PDF

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EP0588091A1
EP0588091A1 EP93113247A EP93113247A EP0588091A1 EP 0588091 A1 EP0588091 A1 EP 0588091A1 EP 93113247 A EP93113247 A EP 93113247A EP 93113247 A EP93113247 A EP 93113247A EP 0588091 A1 EP0588091 A1 EP 0588091A1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41N—PRINTING PLATES OR FOILS; MATERIALS FOR SURFACES USED IN PRINTING MACHINES FOR PRINTING, INKING, DAMPING, OR THE LIKE; PREPARING SUCH SURFACES FOR USE AND CONSERVING THEM
    • B41N7/00—Shells for rollers of printing machines
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
    • B41F22/00—Means preventing smudging of machine parts or printed articles
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41N—PRINTING PLATES OR FOILS; MATERIALS FOR SURFACES USED IN PRINTING MACHINES FOR PRINTING, INKING, DAMPING, OR THE LIKE; PREPARING SUCH SURFACES FOR USE AND CONSERVING THEM
    • B41N2207/00—Location or type of the layers in shells for rollers of printing machines
    • B41N2207/02—Top layers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41N—PRINTING PLATES OR FOILS; MATERIALS FOR SURFACES USED IN PRINTING MACHINES FOR PRINTING, INKING, DAMPING, OR THE LIKE; PREPARING SUCH SURFACES FOR USE AND CONSERVING THEM
    • B41N2207/00—Location or type of the layers in shells for rollers of printing machines
    • B41N2207/10—Location or type of the layers in shells for rollers of printing machines characterised by inorganic compounds, e.g. pigments
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T428/00—Stock material or miscellaneous articles
    • Y10T428/12—All metal or with adjacent metals
    • Y10T428/12389—All metal or with adjacent metals having variation in thickness
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10T428/00—Stock material or miscellaneous articles
    • Y10T428/12—All metal or with adjacent metals
    • Y10T428/12493—Composite; i.e., plural, adjacent, spatially distinct metal components [e.g., layers, joint, etc.]
    • Y10T428/12771—Transition metal-base component
    • Y10T428/12806—Refractory [Group IVB, VB, or VIB] metal-base component
    • Y10T428/12826—Group VIB metal-base component
    • Y10T428/12847—Cr-base component
    • Y10T428/12854—Next to Co-, Fe-, or Ni-base component
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10T428/00—Stock material or miscellaneous articles
    • Y10T428/12—All metal or with adjacent metals
    • Y10T428/12993—Surface feature [e.g., rough, mirror]

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  • the invention relates to a film as an elevator for an impression cylinder of an offset sheet-fed rotary printing machine for perfecting and printing, according to the preamble of patent claim 1.
  • Such a film is known from EP 0 017 776 B1.
  • nickel, chromium-nickel steel or a plastic with a high modulus of elasticity is provided as the carrier layer, and a chromium layer which compensates for the micro-roughness is located on this carrier layer.
  • the carrier layer has a surface, known from DE 24 46 188 C3, of statistically uniform, but irregularly distributed, convex and concave structural elements, the concave structural elements being designed in the form of spherical caps, so that the arc is supported on the poles of these spherical caps.
  • the ink release behavior of the sheet surface of the impression cylinder guiding the sheet is considerably improved compared to previously known designs.
  • the film not only prevents smear marks in face printing after the sheet is turned, but also improves the print quality of the reverse printing.
  • the improvement was essentially attributed to the formation of the surfaces supporting the bow as a spherical cap, because the spherical shape encourages the removal of the assumed color.
  • the chrome plating of the film already leads to good ink release behavior in the start-up time and is also easier to wash than the initially somewhat rougher carrier layer.
  • the very hard chrome layer extends the life of the sheet guiding the sheet, so that practically also the good Color release behavior of the film is preserved over its life.
  • an arc-guiding foil made of nickel is known as an elevator for the impression cylinder of rotary printing presses for perfecting, one surface of which is smooth and the opposite surface of which is provided with statistically uniformly distributed, equally high spherical caps.
  • This metal foil is made from nickel using a galvanic impression process using a negative mold.
  • the first foils molded in such a negative form are relatively smooth. However, the more foils that are produced, the more micro-roughness occurs on the structured surface. On the other hand, it was observed that such films showed reduced ink release behavior after start-up in the start-up phase. The optimal ink delivery behavior was only achieved after long use of the elevator in the machine.
  • the invention solves this problem by means of the training features according to claim 1.
  • a special form of realizing the features of the invention accordingly also provides that the convex elements of the spherical structure have the shape of an ice tip in the optical enlargement.
  • a film of a conventional type is retained, for example a film exchange for orders in a changed print pattern, for example up to 120 lines per cm.
  • the mold for the galvanic molding of the surface structure or the film according to the invention can be produced by means of galvanic techniques by etching or else by laser engraving.
  • the manufacturing process of the film is not influenced by the features of the invention.
  • the sheet 1 guiding or supporting the sheet on the circumference of the impression cylinder of a printing press is made of nickel, chromium-nickel steel or plastic. It has a thickness of approximately 0.2 to 0.4 mm.
  • the surface of the film 1 is composed of statistically uniformly distributed convex and concave structural elements, the convex structural elements 2 being designed as domes which are approximately at the same height with their poles. On these poles of the tops 2, the arch is supported on the impression cylinder.
  • the Height of the dome 2 compared to the concave structure is about 0.03 to 0.04 mm.
  • On the left edge of the picture in FIG. 1, the color splitting is symbolically illustrated when the sheet is lifted off a crest 2.
  • the convex structural elements 2 according to the invention allow a larger space for receiving color than the known spherical caps. This favorable space distribution also favors the removal of deposited paint, ie the film is easier and faster to wash.
  • FIG. 2 shows the same film 1, but without color guidance.
  • the convex structural elements 2 have an oval shape, in which the radius of curvature from the pole 4 to the transition 5 into the concave structural elements 6 increases continuously. In a special embodiment, this results in the shape of the tip of an egg 7, which is only shown for clarity in FIG. 2, in particular a chicken egg, the greatest length of which is determined by the tip of the pole 4 and the rear side 8 of the film. It follows from this that the radius of curvature of the convex structural elements, which are determined by the ice tip, increases continuously from the pole to the transition into the concave structural elements 6.
  • the tips of the poles 4 of the convex structural elements 2 are at the same height.
  • the latter are distributed statistically as uniformly as possible, albeit irregularly, in a known manner.
  • the convex structural elements 2 merge directly into the concave structural elements 6, so that the convex structural elements 2 are narrower than in the known arrangement according to FIG. 1
  • the resulting, relatively close arrangement of the convex structural elements is shown in FIG. 3.
  • FIG. 4 shows the arrangement of a film 1 as described above on a double-sized impression cylinder 9 of an offset sheet-fed printing machine in reverse printing after the sheet has been turned by the two cylinders 10 and 15.
  • the sheet 13 printed in face printing in the printing nip between the blanket cylinder 11 and a double-sized counter-pressure cylinder 12 is fed to the storage cylinder 10 by the transfer cylinder 14 and then transported in the printing nip between the blanket cylinder 16 and the counter-pressure cylinder 9 through the turning cylinder 15.

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  • Registering, Tensioning, Guiding Webs, And Rollers Therefor (AREA)
EP93113247A 1992-09-12 1993-08-19 Blanchet de revêtement pour un cylindre de contre-pression d'une rotative offset recto-verso à feuilles Expired - Lifetime EP0588091B1 (fr)

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DE4230567A DE4230567C2 (de) 1992-09-12 1992-09-12 Folie als Aufzug für einen Gegendruckzylinder einer Offset-Bogen-Rotationsdruckmaschine zum Schön- und Widerdruck
DE4230567 1992-09-12

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CN (1) CN1030973C (fr)
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CA (1) CA2077871C (fr)
DE (2) DE4230567C2 (fr)
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EP0718100A1 (fr) * 1994-12-20 1996-06-26 Heidelberger Druckmaschinen Aktiengesellschaft Procédé pour appliquer une substance d'espacement sur des feuilles imprimées et machine à imprimer des feuilles équipée pour la mise en oeuvre du procédé
FR2775474A1 (fr) * 1998-02-27 1999-09-03 Heidelberger Druckmasch Ag Rouleau guide de bandes de papier

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DE4230567C2 (de) 1994-06-30
ATE135289T1 (de) 1996-03-15
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