EP0714771A2 - Procédé et dispositif pour la préparation d'une plaque d'impression - Google Patents

Procédé et dispositif pour la préparation d'une plaque d'impression Download PDF

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EP0714771A2
EP0714771A2 EP95118336A EP95118336A EP0714771A2 EP 0714771 A2 EP0714771 A2 EP 0714771A2 EP 95118336 A EP95118336 A EP 95118336A EP 95118336 A EP95118336 A EP 95118336A EP 0714771 A2 EP0714771 A2 EP 0714771A2
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Bernhard Walter Wolfgang Muth
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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
    • B41F27/1206—Feeding to or removing from the forme cylinder
    • 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
    • B41P2227/60—Devices for transferring printing plates
    • B41P2227/62—Devices for introducing printing plates

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  • the invention relates to a method and a device for carrying out the method for providing a printing plate to be mounted on a plate cylinder according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • DE 42 19 822 A1 discloses a method and a device for mounting printing plates. There, a printing plate to be assembled is provided by a provision device within the reach of a robot.
  • the provision device is a stationary frame with a hook rail into which the pressure plate is hung. From there, the printing plate is transported by the robot in the vicinity of the cylinder and mounted on the cylinder.
  • a disadvantage of this device is that the space between two printing units is very limited and access to the printing units is made considerably more difficult. In addition, the accessibility of the printing unit is still hindered by a device for supporting one end of the printing plate. It is particularly disadvantageous that the robot has complicated multi-axis movements, for example pivoting movements to carry out the printing plate and thus builds complex and expensive.
  • JP 1-176 558 and US 47 27 807 A show devices in which a printing plate is prepositioned hanging. This printing plate is then mounted on a plate cylinder by a multi-axis handling device.
  • the invention has for its object to provide a method and an apparatus for performing the method for providing a printing plate for mounting on a plate cylinder of a rotary printing press, in which a handling device for transporting the printing plate from a waiting position to hanging the printing plate in a fastening device of the Plate cylinder covers short distances, while at the same time an easy provision of the printing plate is made possible without restricting the accessibility of the printing units.
  • an existing inking unit protection is used as the printing plate preparation device, so that no additional space is required.
  • the printing plates are changed very quickly, since a handling device only has to travel short distances to transport and assemble the printing plates. So is one considerable reduction in makeready times possible.
  • the handling device required for assembly and transport only has to move in one plane, so complicated pivoting movements are not necessary.
  • the printing plate is advantageously hooked into the printing plate preparation device in a position remote from the cylinder, as a result of which good, risk-free accessibility is possible both for manual operation and for automatic transport systems.
  • a plate cylinder 1 of a rotary printing press is mounted in side frames 3, 4 so that it can rotate about its cylinder axis 2.
  • This plate cylinder 1 is provided with fastening devices 6, 7, 8, 9 for receiving Pressure plates 11 provided.
  • four fastening devices 6, 7, 8, 9 are arranged in the plate cylinder 1 in the axial direction, parallel to the cylinder axis 2.
  • the length of the fastening devices 6, 7, 8, 9 is in each case approximately half the cylinder length.
  • These fastening devices 6, 7, 8, 9 are again subdivided to the width of the printing plate (ie two printing plates 11 are provided for each fastening device 6, 7, 8, 9) and can be actuated independently both within this subdivision and among themselves.
  • the fastening devices 6, 7, 8, 9 are offset from one another by approximately 90 ° in the circumferential direction of the plate cylinder 1.
  • Each fastening device 6, 7 is assigned a fastening device 8, 9 opposite each other.
  • a handling device 12 is arranged in the side frames 3, 4 for the assembly, disassembly and transport of printing plates 11.
  • the handling device 12 consists essentially of frame-fixed linear drives 13, 14, a cross member 16 axially extending parallel to the cylinder axis 2 and a number, for. As in the present example four, gripper devices 17.
  • the gripping devices 17 are fastened to the crossbar 16 moved by the synchronized linear drives 13, 14.
  • the gripping devices 17 are moved in a transport plane 18 which is parallel to both the linear drives 13, 14 and also extends to a tangent defined by plate cylinder 1 and the prepositioned printing plate 11.
  • the pressure plates 11 used are provided with front and rear hook-in bends 19, 21 which cooperate with the fastening devices 6, 7, 8, 9.
  • the hooked-in folds 19, 21 are designed to be dimensionally stable and each have legs 22, 23 which have an opening angle Alpha, for. B. 45 °. Depending on this opening angle Alpha and a length of the legs 22, 23, a height h21 of the hooked-in bevels 19, 21 results.
  • the plate cylinder 1 is assigned an inking unit guard 24 near the cylinder, which is mounted in the side frames 3, 4 so that it can be pivoted upwards by means of axle journals 26 near the cylinder.
  • This inking unit protection 24 is designed as a cylinder-long printing plate store 24, consisting of a discharge shaft 27 and a printing plate preparation device 28.
  • the discharge shaft 27, which is used to hold used printing plates 11, has an upper and a lower, opposite wall 29, 31, the discharge shaft 27 at its cylinder-near end being approximately parallel to the transport plane 18 of the printing plate 11. At this straight end, close to the cylinder, there is a quarter-circular section, which ends in a straight part.
  • the printing plate preparation device 28 is pivotally mounted with respect to the cylinder axis 2.
  • the pressure plate preparation device 28 has a swivel arm 32 on both sides of the discharge shaft 27, which are pivotably connected to the pressure plate store 24 by means of axle journals 33. These swivel arms 32 are connected at their cylinder end by a first suspension strip 34.
  • This hanging strip 34 extends axially, parallel to the cylinder axis 2 and has a nose-shaped cross section. The cross section is adapted in the direction of the plate cylinder 1 of the front hook-in bend 19 of the pressure plate 11.
  • a support surface 36 of the mounting rail 34 is formed parallel to the transport plane 18 and a mounting surface 37 adjoining it in the direction of the plate cylinder 1 closes with the support surface 36 an opening angle Beta of z. B. 45 °.
  • One end of the hanging bar 34 pointing away from the plate cylinder 1 is provided with a chamfer 38 which is designed such that a height h38 of the chamfer 38 with respect to the contact surface 36 is greater than a height h21 of the rear hooking fold 21 of the pressure plate 11.
  • the chamfer thus serves 38 of the mounting bracket 34 as a guide surface for the rear mounting edge 21 of the pressure plate 11.
  • a second mounting bracket 39 remote from the cylinder can be fastened between the swivel arms 32 at a distance a be. However, it can also have its own swivel arms 32 and thus be pivotably supported independently of the first hanging bar 34.
  • This second hanging bar 39 serves to receive a second, new pressure plate 40.
  • the hanging strips 34, 39 are provided with stops (not shown) for the axial positioning of the pressure plates 11, 40.
  • the printing plate preparation device 28 can be pivoted by means of drives (not shown) from a waiting position "W" near the cylinder, which is used for mounting the printing plates 11 on the plate cylinder 1, into a preparation position "B" remote from the cylinder, which serves for placing the printing plates 11 on the mounting rails 34, 39 .
  • the waiting position "W" the bearing surface 36 of the hanging bar 34 is approximately parallel to the transport plane 18, ie the hanging bar 34 and thus the pressure plate 11 is approximately horizontal in the example shown.
  • a preparation position "B" is reached in which the support surface 36 of the hanging bar 34 and thus the printing plate 11 is approximately vertical. If two suspension strips 34, 39 are provided, these are offset in the preparation position "B” as seen in the vertical direction in such a way that there is an intermediate space of width b between the suspended first pressure plate 11 and the second suspension strip 39.
  • the pressure plates 11, 40 can be hooked in manually or, as indicated in the present example, by means of a feed device 41.
  • This feed device 41 can consist of a 3-axis robot 41, the first axis of which in the direction of the cylinder axis 2, the second axis in the vertical direction and whose third axis lies in the horizontal direction.
  • This robot 41 is provided with a suction gripper 42 for receiving the pressure plates 11, 40.
  • the robot 41 guides a pressure plate 11, 40 fastened to the suction gripper 42 into an axial position predetermined with respect to the plate cylinder 1.
  • a pressure plate 11, 40 fastened to the suction gripper 42 After reaching the axial position one of the position of the hanging bar 34 horizontal position z. B. started by means of a pneumatic cylinder 43, whereupon z. B. a vertical position is reached by means of a second pneumatic cylinder 44.
  • the new, first pressure plate 11 is thus suspended with its front hooking bend 19 vertically and axially pre-positioned in the hooking bar 34.
  • This process can be repeated several times in different axial positions with further pressure plates 11 in order to mount the pressure plates 11 required for the plate cylinder 1 in the axial direction.
  • a second hanging bar 39 is provided, this hanging process proceeds in accordance with the first, only with the vertical position of the suction gripper 42 of the robot 41 which is adapted to the second hanging bar 39.
  • the printing plate preparation device 28 pivots with its hanging bars 34, 39 by approximately 90 ° from its ready position "B” into its waiting position "W", with which the suspended printing plates 11, 40 are approximately parallel to the transport plane 18, d. H. almost horizontal in the example shown.
  • the handling device 12 can grasp these pre-positioned printing plates 11, transport them to a fastening device 6, 7, 8, 9 of the plate cylinder 1 and hang them in this fastening device 6, 7, 8, 9.
  • the movement for positioning the hanging strips 34, 39 from the horizontal waiting position "W" close to the cylinder into the vertical standby position "B" remote from the cylinder can also take place by means of a guide track, articulated coupling or a combined linear / pivoting movement instead of the described pivoting movement.
  • the pivoting process can be repeated, for example.

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EP95118336A 1994-11-30 1995-11-22 Procédé et dispositif pour la préparation d'une plaque d'impression Expired - Lifetime EP0714771B1 (fr)

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DE4442574A DE4442574C2 (de) 1994-11-30 1994-11-30 Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Bereitstellung einer Druckplatte

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EP0714771A3 (fr) 1997-07-23
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