EP1031416B1 - Flexodruckmaschine und Flexodruckverfahren - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a flexographic printing machine and to a method of flexographic printing.
- Flexographic printing machines generally comprise a printing cylinder and an impression cylinder, between which material can be passed by feed conveyors in order to imprint an image or images onto the material with water based inks.
- Both the printing cylinder and impression cylinder are expensive to manufacture. Accordingly, the impression cylinder tends to be made as small in diameter as possible as it is only required to press material onto the printing cylinder.
- the printing cylinder is generally of much larger diameter in order to hold the necessary image(s).
- the image(s) is held by a printing plate on the printing cylinder and is transferred directly from the printing plate to the material.
- the printing plate is generally constructed from metal or plastic.
- the material may comprise "container blanks" which can be individual sheets of cardboard, more specifically corrugated cardboard.
- the feed conveyors at either side of the impression cylinder have to be moved further apart to accommodate this larger diameter. Therefore, the minimum length of container blank that can be handled by the machine is increased. This also means that when individual sheets are being imprinted, they are held less firmly such that the clarity of the printed image may suffer.
- GB-A-1 069 202 discloses a printing machine in which the impression roller is replaced by a slit in a straight edge through which a stream of high pressure gas is emitted directly onto a web.
- GB-A-1 017 640 discloses a printing machine in which the impression roller is replaced by an impression pad having a bore through which air under pressure is supplied to ports that in turn lead to an elongate slit adjacent the printing cylinder. Air is applied directly onto the material being printed to force it against the printing cylinder.
- the present invention attempts to address these problems in a direction entirely contrary to the aforementioned.
- a flexographic printing machine which comprises a printing cylinder and pressure applying means for, in use, urging material against said printing cylinder to facilitate the transfer of an image to said material, characterised in that, in use, said pressure applying means ejects a fluid which indirectly urges said material against said printing cylinder.
- One advantage of this arrangement is that high press speeds can be maintained without a reduction in print quality.
- a further advantage of such an arrangement is that a substantially even pressure can be applied across material as it passes through the printing machine.
- Another advantage is that this pressure can be readily adjusted to accommodate different materials or different print density, for example.
- said pressure applying means comprises an elongate member extending substantially perpendicular to the direction of travel of said material through said flexographic printing machine.
- said flexographic printing machine further comprises an orifice through which, in use, said fluid is ejected.
- said flexographic printing machine further comprises a plurality of orifices through which, in use, said fluid is ejected.
- Container blanks made of cardboard are particularly susceptible to the problem of warpage, which is frequently caused by uncontrollable ambient moisture levels around the print press.
- Existing flexographic printing machines have difficulty handling warped blanks and, in at least preferred embodiments, the present invention seeks to address this problem.
- said flexographic printing machine further comprises a low coefficient of friction material, the arrangement being such that, in use, said low coefficient of friction material inhibits damage to warped material passing between said pressure applying means and said printing cylinder.
- One advantage of this arrangement is that the pressure of fluid ejected from the pressure applying means does not have to be high enough to correct any warps in the container blanks. This helps to reduce energy consumption.
- said flexographic printing machine further comprises an elongate chamber which, in use, supplies fluid to said orifice or said plurality of orifices.
- said elongate member houses said elongate chamber and said orifice or said plurality of orifices.
- said elongate chamber is substantially rectangular in cross section.
- said flexographic printing machine further comprises an impression roller, wherein in use, said impression roller is urged onto said material by said fluid so that said impression roller applies a substantially even pressure to said material.
- said impression roller is housed in a chamber which comprises a seat, the arrangement being such that, in use, said impression roller is urged against said seat by said fluid when no material is passing between said impression roller and said printing cylinder.
- said flexographic printing machine further comprises feed means.
- said flexographic printing machine further comprises a fluid supply which is arranged, in use, to supply fluid to said pressure applying means.
- said fluid comprises a gas.
- a flexographic printing machine comprising a plurality of flexographic printing machines in accordance with the present invention.
- FIG. 1 is particularly illustrative of a flexographic printing machine which imprints very high resolution, multi-coloured images on either a web, or a succession of individual sheets such as "container blanks".
- Sheets of material 11 to be imprinted are typically conveyed to the nip between printing cylinder 10 and impression cylinder 12 by a feed conveyor 14.
- feed conveyors are well known in the printing art, and disclosed for example in US-A-5 782 183.
- material 11 in Fig. 1 is illustrated as being conveyed on the bottom reach 16 a of the conveyor against which they are held by a pressure differential above and below the material 11.
- conveyors 14, 14' and 14" may be replaced by conveyors which convey the material 11 on their upper reaches 16 b , and that for certain applications, one or all of the conveyors may be replaced by pairs of feed rollers (not shown).
- the feed conveyors, or pairs of feed rollers must be moved farther and farther away from each other.
- a printing cylinder which is generally identified by reference numeral 10'' and which is shown as having a conventional printing plate 18 which rotates in the direction of arrow A and imprints images on material 11.
- Material 11 is illustrated as being one of a continuous series of individual sheets of or blanks, such as container blanks, which pass through one or more printing stages.
- Transverse element 20 On the side of the material 11 which is opposite to printing plate 18, there is disposed a transverse element 20 which extends across the width of the machine generally perpendicular to the direction of travel of material 11.
- Transverse element 20 may be referred to as an elongate element or "beam” since it does not rotate, and it extends as a stationary element across the lateral extent or width of the printing machine between side walls 25 of the machine as shown schematically in Fig. 3.
- Transverse element 20 includes a longitudinally extending chamber 22.
- chamber 22 is supplied with a gas, such as air, at superatmospheric pressure from a compressor or other source of pressurised gas.
- the compressed gas in chamber 22 flows out through one or more passages 26 to one or more orifices 28.
- Orifices 28 are located adjacent the backside of material 11 and directly opposite to the point at which material 11 is contacted by printing plate 18.
- the fluid pressure of the gas urges material 11 against the printing plate 18, which helps to ensure an even pressure across the width of material 11, thus achieving a good quality print whilst maintaining high throughput.
- the pressure is also easily variable by applying different pressures for different types of material.
- Transverse element 20 has a rectangular cross section and chamber 22 is a groove in the beam covered by a sealed cap or strip 23.
- the transverse element 20 is of circular cross section, and may be a hollow tube of metal or plastic composition. Orifices 28 and passages 26 comprise one or more ports 28' which direct the pressurised gas against the backside of material 11. In use, the transverse element 20 operates in a similar fashion to the transverse element 20 of Fig. 2.
- orifices 28 may comprise a series of individual openings or ports 28', or they may be in the shape of one or more elongated slots 28''. That is, depending upon the size, shape and weight of material 11 and the pressure in chamber 22, the number of orifices 28 extending along the longitudinal length of the transverse element 20 may be preferred to be a large plurality of small, individual ports 28', or one or more slots 28''. Also, transverse element 20 may be composed of any suitable metal, or even plastic, so long as it is sufficiently rigid to extend across the width of the machine.
- transverse element 20 is illustrated as including layer 30 of low coefficient of friction composition, such as well known plastics materials.
- Layer 30 is positioned between the material 11 and transverse element 20. If the material 11 is sufficiently warped, bent, creased or otherwise distorted and non-planar such as to instantaneously contact transverse element 20, it will instead contact layer 30. Thus, damage to the material 11 is inhibited.
- the orifices 28 may include enlarged areas or lands 32 such that, in use, when the high pressure gas is ejected from passages 26 it is diffused in the land area 32 by expansion. This forms a "cushion" or film of gas between material 11 and the transverse element 20.
- lands 32 my be formed directly in the transverse element 20, as in Fig. 6, or in layer 30 as in Fig. 5.
- high velocity jet(s) 36 may be directed against the backside of the material 11 whereby it is primarily the dynamic fluid pressure of the gas jet(s) 36 which urges material 11 against printing plate 18 on the printing cylinder 10''.
- Such jet(s) of gas 36 may be produced by utilising narrow passages 26, and/or high velocity nozzles 38, and/or the use of high pressure chambers 22.
- transverse element 20 may be positioned closer to the backside of material 11 so as to form a film or cushion of pressurised gas between material 11 and the adjacent surface of transverse element 20.
- passages 26 may be made larger, and/or a land 32 may be provided so as to diffuse the gas over a larger surface area and form the film or cushion.
- the film mode may also be prompted by the provision of multiple passages 26 along the direction of material movement, and the film may be formed with a land area 32' as illustrated in Fig. 9-B.
- Fig. 10 schematically illustrates an embodiment of the present invention in which the material to be printed does contact a solid element, but where the solid element is urged against the material to be printed by fluid pressure.
- numeral 20 continues to indicate a transverse element as previously described, and numeral 22 continues to indicate a chamber of compressed gas.
- numeral 40 indicates an impression roller that, in use, can rotate freely, such as ball or elongated element. Impression roller 40 is mounted in a chamber 42 in transverse element 20, and it will be understood that the impression roller 40 can be solid or hollow as shown.
- the compressed gas from high pressure chamber 22 is conducted to chamber 42 by one or more passages 44, and it will be noted that the diameter of the upper portion of chamber 42 is slightly larger than that of impression roller 40.
- the bottom portion of chamber 42 is of the same diameter as impression roller 40 such that, in use, impression roller 40 acts as a valve head which seats on a valve seat 46 when no material 11 is passing between impression roller 40 and printing cylinder 10''. This inhibits the escape of gas from the chamber 42.
- impression roller 40 acts as a valve head which seats on a valve seat 46 when no material 11 is passing between impression roller 40 and printing cylinder 10''. This inhibits the escape of gas from the chamber 42.
- the pressurised gas around the upper portion of impression roller 40 in chamber 42 urges impression roller 40 onto material 11.
- the impression roller 40 also rotates freely in the chamber 42 and offers little resistance to the passage of material 11 whilst maintaining pressure on the same. Pressure is also applied substantially evenly along the length of impression roller 40 which is transferred to material 11. This helps to reduce uneven print quality and inhibits "whipping" of impression roller 40.
- the valve is opened the pressure of the gas which escapes around the sides of impression roller 40 also helps to urge the material 11 onto the printing cylinder 10''.
- the chamber 22 need not be located as close to the orifices 28; for example, the chamber 22 may located some distance away from the material 11, and connected via tubes to orifices near material 11.
- backside is the side of material 11 opposite that which is to be imprinted.
- the material 11 may also be fed to the bottom portion of a printing cylinder, below which a conventional impression cylinder is normally positioned and where, in accordance with the present invention, transverse element 20 may be located.
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- Flexographiedruck-Maschine, die einen Druckzylinder (10") und Druckausübungsmittel (20), die im Gebrauch Material gegen den Druckzylinder (10") pressen, um die Übertragung eines Bildes auf das Material zu erleichtern, umfaßt, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Druckausübungsmittel (20) im Gebrauch ein Fluid ausspritzen, das das Material indirekt gegen den Druckzylinder (10") preßt.
- Flexographiedruck-Maschine nach Anspruch 1, bei der die Druckausübungsmittel (20) ein langgestrecktes Element (20) umfassen, das im wesentlichen senkrecht zu der Bewegungsrichtung des Materials durch die Flexographiedruck-Maschine verläuft.
- Flexographiedruck-Maschine nach Anspruch 2, die ferner eine Öffnung (42, 44) umfaßt, durch die im Gebrauch das Fluid ausgespritzt wird.
- Flexographiedruck-Maschine nach Anspruch 2 oder 3, die ferner mehrere Öffnungen (42, 44) umfaßt, durch die im Gebrauch das Fluid ausgespritzt wird.
- Flexographiedruck-Maschine nach einem vorhergehenden Anspruch, die ferner ein Material (30) mit niedrigem Reibkoeffizienten umfaßt, wobei die Anordnung derart ist, daß im Gebrauch das Material (30) mit niedrigem Reibkoeffizienten eine Beschädigung von verwundenem Material, das sich zwischen den Druckausübungsmitteln und dem Druckzylinder bewegt, verhindert.
- Flexographiedruck-Maschine nach einem der Ansprüche 3 oder 4, die ferner eine langgestreckte Kammer (22) umfaßt, die im Gebrauch Fluid zu der Öffnung oder zu den mehreren Öffnungen liefert.
- Flexographiedruck-Maschine nach Anspruch 6, bei der das langgestreckte Element (20) die langgestreckte Kammer (22) sowie die Öffnung oder die mehreren Öffnungen (42, 44) aufnimmt.
- Flexographiedruck-Maschine nach Anspruch 6 oder 7, bei der die langgestreckte Kammer (22) einen im wesentlichen rechtwinkligen Querschnitt besitzt.
- Flexographiedruck-Maschine nach einem vorhergehenden Anspruch, die ferner eine Prägewalze (40) umfaßt, wobei im Gebrauch die Prägewalze (40) durch das Fluid gegen das Material gepreßt wird, so daß die Prägewalze (40) einen im wesentlichen gleichmäßigen Druck auf das Material ausübt.
- Flexographiedruck-Maschine nach Anspruch 9, bei der die Prägewalze (40) in einer Kammer (42) untergebracht ist, die einen Sitz (46) aufweist, wobei die Anordnung derart ist, daß die Prägewalze (40) im Gebrauch durch ' das Fluid gegen den Sitz (46) gepreßt wird, wenn sich zwischen der Prägewalze (40) und dem Druckzylinder (10") kein Material bewegt.
- Flexographiedruck-Maschine nach einem vorhergehenden Anspruch, die ferner Zufuhrmittel umfaßt.
- Flexographiedruck-Maschine nach einem vorhergehenden Anspruch, die ferner eine Fluidversorgung umfaßt, die so beschaffen ist, daß sie im Gebrauch Fluid an die Druckausübungsmittel liefert.
- Flexographiedruck-Maschine nach einem vorhergehenden Anspruch, bei der das Fluid ein Gas umfaßt.
- Flexographiedruck-Maschine, die mehrere Flexographiedruck-Maschinen nach einem vorhergehenden Anspruch umfaßt.
- Verfahren zum Flexographiedruck, das eine Flexographiedruck-Maschine nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 14 verwendet und die folgenden Schritte umfaßt:Zuführen von Material an die Flexographiedruck-Maschine; undPressen des Materials gegen den Druckzylinder durch den Fluiddruck auf indirekte Weise.
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