EP0812686B1 - Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Aufbringen einer ebenen Druckplatte auf einen fliegend gelagerten Plattenzylinder einer Druckmaschine - Google Patents

Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Aufbringen einer ebenen Druckplatte auf einen fliegend gelagerten Plattenzylinder einer Druckmaschine Download PDF

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EP0812686B1
EP0812686B1 EP97109541A EP97109541A EP0812686B1 EP 0812686 B1 EP0812686 B1 EP 0812686B1 EP 97109541 A EP97109541 A EP 97109541A EP 97109541 A EP97109541 A EP 97109541A EP 0812686 B1 EP0812686 B1 EP 0812686B1
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Matthew Alan Taylor
Gregory William Weiss
John Joseph Dowling
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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
    • B41P2217/00—Printing machines of special types or for particular purposes
    • B41P2217/10—Printing machines of special types or for particular purposes characterised by their constructional features
    • B41P2217/15—Machines with cylinders only supported on one side, e.g. cantilever construction
    • 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
    • B41P2227/20—Means enabling or facilitating exchange of tubular printing or impression members, e.g. printing sleeves, blankets
    • B41P2227/21—Means facilitating exchange of sleeves mounted on cylinders without removing the cylinder from the press
    • 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 present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for application a flat pressure plate on a cantilevered plate cylinder Printing machine, in particular an offset web-fed rotary printing machine.
  • a method for pushing a conventional printing plate onto one side flying plate cylinder body is e.g. B. is described in GB 2 286 365.
  • the process shows the problem that it is difficult to insert the flat printing plate to maintain a cylindrical shape while maintaining concentricity with the plate cylinder receive. They also cause the elastic sheet material (usually Aluminum), inherent forces that cause the pressure plate in their original flat state tends to remain, friction between the plate material and the plate cylinder body, which increases the forces that must be applied to to push the plate onto the plate cylinder body, and thus also the danger of Damage to the plate increased. Such damage can e.g. B. Changes in the length of the flat plate or the geometry of the curved plate, which significantly affects the quality of the printed product.
  • a printing roller for a flexographic printing unit in which a seamless pressure sleeve in the axial direction on a pipe or steel pipe designated cylinder body using blown air, which from openings in the Cylinder body emerges, is pushed on.
  • the present invention comprises a method of applying a planar Printing plate on a flying plate cylinder of a printing machine the following Steps:
  • the printing plate is first brought into a substantially cylindrical shape, preferably by hand, and then into a hollow tube with an inner diameter that slightly larger than the outer diameter of the plate cylinder body is inserted.
  • the tube with the pressure plate is placed on the plate cylinder body via a mandrel pushed on, the mandrel concentric with the plate cylinder body on this is arranged and has an outer diameter which is smaller than the inner diameter of the tube and larger than the outer diameter of the plate cylinder body.
  • the printing plate is opened by actuating a plate clamping device clamped to the cylinder and pulled the tube down from the plate cylinder.
  • the ends of the Bent the pressure plate before inserting the pressure plate into the tube has a recess in which the plate ends move freely can when the tube with the pressure plate is pushed onto the plate cylinder body becomes.
  • the gap in the Pressure plate by means of an identifier or mark on the tube on the gap of the Plate cylinder body aligned.
  • the mandrel has one tapered, tapered part to insert and guide the pressure plate containing pipe to facilitate when it moves to the plate cylinder body becomes.
  • air passage openings are in the circumferential surface of the mandrel is provided to create an air bed that the Applying the tube and the pressure plate to the plate cylinder body additionally facilitated.
  • the peripheral surface of the A low mandrel with regard to the material of the pressure plate Coefficient of friction is provided.
  • the outer diameter of the Mandrel and the inner diameter of the tube selected so that when the Tube with the pressure plate over the mandrel, the pressure plate in a circular Cross section is pressed, the inner diameter of which is slightly larger than that Outside diameter of the plate cylinder body is.
  • Air passage openings are provided through which an air bed is created on which the Tube with the pressure plate are moved over the plate cylinder body.
  • the mandrel is permanently on attached to the plate cylinder body. According to another embodiment of the invention the mandrel is removed from the plate cylinder body during operation of the printing press.
  • the mandrel is mechanical or pneumatically stretchable and is stretched to the pressure plate against the inner surface of the Press the pipe after the front end of the pipe with the plate over the mandrel has been moved.
  • the tube when the printing plate is removed from the plate cylinder body, the tube is pushed over the plate cylinder body, the Clamping mechanism actuated to release the ends of the pressure plate, and the tube with the pressure plate located therein is moved down from the plate cylinder body.
  • the compressed air is switched on, when the pipe with the pressure plate is removed from the plate cylinder body.
  • the mandrel has a Arrangement of radially extending nozzles through which an air cushion is formed will, which forces the pressure plate against the inner surface of the tube when the tube with the Pressure plate is pushed over the plate cylinder body.
  • a plate cylinder body 2 is one Rotary printing press, in particular an offset web-fed rotary printing press in a side wall 4a of the printing machine is mounted on the fly to during a standstill to enable the printing press to replace the printing plate 6.
  • the pressure plate 6 is a commonly available flat offset printing plate that has a first and a second End 8a, 8b, which is usually in a known plate bending device are bent before the plate is applied to the plate cylinder body 2.
  • the ends 8a and 8b are each in grooves known clamping device 10, which is arranged in the plate cylinder body 2, recorded, as shown schematically in Fig. 3.
  • Such a facility is e.g. B. known from US 5,284,093.
  • the Pressure plate 6 In order to apply the pressure plate 6 to the plate cylinder body 2, the Pressure plate 6 preferably rolled up loosely by hand so that it is one in assumes a substantially cylindrical shape, as shown in Fig. 1.
  • the pressure plate 6 is then inserted into a hollow tube 12 having an inner diameter d which is slightly larger than the outer diameter of the plate cylinder body 2.
  • the pipe 12 preferably consists of a rigid material, e.g. B. plastic or metal, it can however, it may also be formed from an elastic or partially elastic material.
  • the inner surface of the tube 12th for example from "Teflon" ®, which has a low coefficient of friction, in particular with respect to the material of the pressure plate 6. Consequently, the pressure plate 6 in the Tube 12 can be moved with ease, so that the risk of damage to the illustrated surface of the printing plate 6 is reduced.
  • a mandrel 16 is coaxial with the Plate cylinder body 2 mounted, as shown in Figures 1 and 2.
  • the Mandrel 16 can either permanently or on the plate cylinder body 2 easily removable manner at the free end 14 of the plate cylinder body 2nd to be appropriate.
  • the mandrel 16 has a peripheral surface 18 on that is slightly larger than the outer diameter of the plate cylinder body 2, but somewhat is smaller than the inner diameter d of the tube 12.
  • the peripheral surface 18 of the Mandrel 16 can be somewhat conical and preferably also from one Material, e.g. B. "Teflon" ® exist, which has a low coefficient of friction in has particular with respect to the material of the pressure plate 6.
  • the mandrel 16 preferably has a recess 20 which a free Movement of the bevelled ends 8a, 8b of the pressure plate 6 is permitted if this is to the side is applied to the plate cylinder body 2.
  • the pipe 2 is arranged concentrically with respect to the mandrel 16 and then the Pressure plate 6 containing tube 12 from the side over the mandrel 16 and on the Plate cylinder body 2 moves, the mandrel 16, the pressure plate 6 against the Presses the inner surface of the tube 12 so that the pressure plate 6 assumes a circular shape, which corresponds essentially to the round shape of the plate cylinder body 2. Since the in the between the inner surface of the tube 12 and the outer peripheral surface of the Clamping mandrel 16 formed pressure plate 6 preferably fit in a space tensioned state, it experiences a permanent, uniform deformation, so that the pressure plate 6 even after passing through the mandrel 16 its circular shape keeps.
  • the clamping device 10 is actuated and the pressure plate attached, so that it sits securely on the plate cylinder body 2. Then the tube 12 is laterally from the plate cylinder is removed and the press can work.
  • Tube 12 moves from the side over the plate cylinder body 2, the Clamping device 10 actuated to release the ends 8a, 8b of the pressure plate 6, and that Tube 12 together with the pressure plate 6 laterally from Plate cylinder body 2 moved down. Because of the remaining in the pressure plate 6 elastic forces contact the outer surface of the inner surface of the tube 12 while this is moved down from the plate cylinder body 2. To the danger of This can further reduce damage to the imaged surface of the printing plate Tube 12 for removing the pressure plate 6 have a larger inner diameter d than the tube 12 which is used for the application of the pressure plate 6.
  • the Mandrel 16 have a tapered part 22, which the application of Tube 12 with the loosely rolled pressure plate 6 on the mandrel 16 facilitated.
  • the tapered part 22 has a diameter which extends in the direction of the Plate cylinder body 2 enlarged.
  • air nozzles or air passage openings 24 be provided, to which compressed air is supplied from a compressed air source 26, with Purpose of applying the tube 12 with the pressure plate 6 on the Plate cylinder body 2 creates an air bed.
  • too Air passage openings or air nozzles 28 in the peripheral surface of the Plate cylinder body 2 may be provided with the same compressed air source 26th are connected.
  • the the air passage openings 24 and / or the Air outlet openings 28 blown air or compressed air is preferably supplied by a Valve 30 controlled, the z. B. in turn from the central control unit 32 Printing machine or can be controlled manually.
  • the air passage openings 24, 28 compressed air is preferably supplied during the application and / or removal the pressure plate 6 on and off the plate cylinder body 2, as above already described, forming an air bed for this purpose.
  • an identifier or indexing device 34 preferably a mark to be provided on the outer surface of the tube 12 to the Gap in the plate cylinder body 2 better on that in the pressure plate 6 between the two To align ends 8a, 8b formed gap or hem.
  • the support elements 152 are arranged on the plate cylinder body 2 and allow radial movement of the segments 150 with respect to the center of the Plate cylinder body 2, as indicated by the dashed lines in Fig. 3.
  • segments 150 of the stretchable Mandrel 16 has a circumferential curvature 154 that the curvature of the inner surface corresponds to the tube 12. As shown in FIG.
  • the segments 150 are first in their interior Position (see the solid lines in Fig. 3), and after the end of the tube 12th has been moved with the pressure plate 6 over the mandrel 16, the compressed air switched on and the segments 150 through the compressed air to the inner surface of the tube 12 pressed, the pressure plate 6 being pressed against the inner surface of the tube 12 until the corresponding part of the pressure plate 6 assumes a circular shape. After that it will Pipe 12 pushed laterally onto the plate cylinder body 2, as already described above. To remove the pressure plate 6, or the tube 12, the compressed air is used to stretch the Mandrel 16 turned off and the mandrel 16 by elastic means, for. B. by holding springs (not shown) or supplying suction air instead of compressed air drawn together.
  • the Mandrel 16 have a series of radially extending nozzles 156, which over a Valve 30 to a compressed air source, e.g. B. the compressed air source 26 are connected.
  • a compressed air source e.g. B. the compressed air source 26 are connected.

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