EP1060884A1 - Aufspannvorrichtung für flexographische Druckplatten - Google Patents

Aufspannvorrichtung für flexographische Druckplatten Download PDF

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EP1060884A1
EP1060884A1 EP00110984A EP00110984A EP1060884A1 EP 1060884 A1 EP1060884 A1 EP 1060884A1 EP 00110984 A EP00110984 A EP 00110984A EP 00110984 A EP00110984 A EP 00110984A EP 1060884 A1 EP1060884 A1 EP 1060884A1
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Alberto Zanoli
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
    • B41F5/00—Rotary letterpress machines
    • B41F5/20—Rotary letterpress machines specially adapted for proof printing
    • 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
    • B41F27/005—Attaching and registering printing formes to supports
    • 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

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  • the present invention relates to a mounting device for flexographic printing plates in machines for mounting printing plates and for performing print tests.
  • Conventional flexographic printing plates are coated with a polyester film on their smooth face in order to give them stability over time.
  • the face is fixed by means of a double-adhesive tape to a mounting sleeve, made of polyester and like, which is appropriately fixed to the printing cylinder of the machines, on which there are systems for locking and tensioning the polyester mounting sleeve.
  • the printing cylinder or printing plate cylinder has a slot and oblique slits.
  • a profiled strip having a complementarily shaped cross-section engages in the slot and supports a flap of the mounting sleeve; the other flap of the mounting sleeve is fixed by means of straps and a hook in the oblique slits so as to tension the mounting sleeve on the printing cylinder.
  • Preparation of the print pattern ends with a print test, by moving the print cylinder toward an impression roller which is covered with paper sheets and is rotatably arranged parallel to the printing cylinder.
  • a problem that is often noted and strongly felt by the graphics industry is due to the fact that when preparing print patterns by using large flexographic printing plates for printing on corrugated cardboard and the like, the printing plate separates from the polyester mounting sleeve after mounting/fixing, on the printing cylinder, and the print test. In particular, this separation becomes apparent in the form of bubbles or of a partial separation of the mounting sleeve and the polyester film of the printing plate, and it occurs, due to the excessive weight, during the storage period between two print runs of the graphic item to be produced. This makes it impossible to use the entire system.
  • the aim of the present invention is to eliminate the drawbacks noted above, by providing a mounting device for flexographic printing plates in which by using a printing cylinder it is possible to avoid separation of the printing plates from the mounting sleeve.
  • an object of the present invention is to provide a device which allows to perform the operations for mounting and fixing the printing plate on the printing cylinder very quickly and precisely.
  • Another object of the present invention is to achieve the above aim and object with a structure which is simple, relatively easy to provide in practice, safe in use, effective in operation and having a relatively low cost.
  • Another object of the present invention is to provide a device which can be easily obtained starting from commonly commercially available elements and materials and can also assume various configurations.
  • the present mounting device for flexographic printing plates which can be applied to a machine for mounting at least one flexographic printing plate and for performing print tests, said machine being provided at the front, in a horizontally parallel and mutually movable arrangement, with an impression roller, with a printing cylinder which is meant to be covered by a mounting sleeve, and with optical means adapted to register points of the impression roller with points of the printing plate viewed by transparency, said printing plate being fixable to said mounting sleeve by means of double-adhesive tape, wherein the device comprises a longitudinal member which is parallel to said roller and cylinder and forms, in an upward region, a substantially flat surface which is co-planar with respect to an upper plane of tangency of said printing cylinder and lies in front of it.
  • the reference numeral 1 generally designates a machine for mounting flexographic printing plates and for performing print tests to which a device for mounting flexographic printing plates according to the invention is applied.
  • the machine 1 comprises a footing 2 on which side walls 3 rest (see Figure 1).
  • Guides 4 for the sliding of sliders 5 which carry supports 6 rise vertically parallel to the side walls 3 and in front of them.
  • Supports 6 accommodate, at their tops 7, bearings 8 which horizontally and rotatably support a printing cylinder 9 by means of pivot-like axial ends 9a.
  • the printing cylinder 9 is movable, by virtue of the sliders 5, between a mounting position and a raised print test position.
  • a printing plate 10 is positioned and fixed on a mounting sleeve 11, preferably made of polyester, which covers the printing cylinder 9 by means of a polyester film 10a of the printing plate 10 made of photopolymer and a double-adhesive tape 12 (see Figures 3, 4 and 5), thus forming the print pattern.
  • the mounting sleeve 11 has (see Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4), on a first flap 11a, a profiled strip 11c which can engage a first slot 9b which has a complementary cross-section and is provided in the printing cylinder 9, whereas on the second flap 11b the mounting sleeve 11 has through holes 11d. Holes 11d are engaged by a hook 13a which is connected to a tensioning band 13 which has, at its other end, a pawl 14 which can engage a second slot 9d or one of the several advantageously spaced slits 9c provided on the printing cylinder 9 in order to make the mounting sleeve 11 adhere to the printing cylinder 9.
  • the printing cylinder 9 makes contact with an impression roller 15 which can rotate parallel to the printing cylinder 9 and is meant to be covered by a sheet of paper 16 which bears lines and dots formed by a stylus 17 and which are made to register, in the mounting position, with points of the printing plate seen against the light by virtue of optical means.
  • the optical means disclosed in EP 0728580 comprise a semitransparent mirror 17a and a TV camera 17b, which are arranged at the front of, and as an extension of, the impression roller 15, and monitors 17c located on the top 18 of the machine.
  • Arms 19 are connected at the tops 7 of the supports 6 and support a horizontal longitudinal member 20 which is parallel to, and located in front of, the printing cylinder 9, so as to leave a gap 23 between the printing cylinder 9 and the longitudinal member 20.
  • the longitudinal member 20, preferably constituted by a profiled element, forms in an upward region a substantially flat surface 21 which is co-planar with respect to the upper plane of tangency of the printing cylinder 9.
  • the surface 21 has, as a front extension, a rounded portion 22 which extends downwards.
  • a cross-member 24, preferably having a box-like configuration, is located in front of the longitudinal member and is spaced therefrom; one face 24b of the cross-member is co-planar to the upper plane of tangency.
  • the sleeve engages, by means of the profiled strip 11c of the first flap 11a, the first slot 9b of the printing cylinder 9.
  • the mounting sleeve 11 is then passed over the surface 21, guided by means of the rounded 22 portion into the passage, in a downward direction, and is tensioned by means of the tensioning band 13, which engages by means of the pawl 14 the second slot 9d located in front of the first slot 9b.
  • position sensors are active; such sensors are constituted by a first switch 26a and by a second switch 26b, both of which can be actuated by a cam and are adapted to limit the angular stroke of the printing cylinder 90 in an interval of approximately 270° in order to prevent the mounting sleeve 11 from separating from the first and second slots 9b, 9d of the printing cylinder 9.
  • the first switch 26a With reference to an initial position in which the slots 9b, 9d are proximate to the line that is perpendicular to the upper plane of tangency, the first switch 26a in fact prevents rotations of the printing cylinder 9 in the opposite direction with respect to the arrow A of Figure 2, since this would cause disengagement of the profiled strip 11c of the first flap 11a of the mounting sleeve 11 at the longitudinal member 20, whereas the second switch 26b enables rotations in the direction of the arrow A up to a value of approximately 270°, beyond which the pawl 14 of the tensioning band 13 would disengage at the longitudinal member 20.
  • the device according to the invention applied to the machine provides for the fixing of several printing plates simultaneously.
  • the sleeve In operation, in order to fix the printing plate 10 flat on the mounting sleeve 11, the sleeve is made to move in the direction A of the arrow from the surface 21 to the printing cylinder through the passage 25 and is then guided at a portion 11e by means of the rounded portion 22 on the surface 21, so that a wide portion of the mounting sleeve 11 is co-planar to the plane of arrangement defined by the surface 21. At this point it is possible to fix the printing plate 10 flat on the mounting sleeve 11, the printing plate resting with an end portion on the face 24b of the cross-member 24 so that it is extended flat during fixing.
  • the tensioning band 13 is removed and replaced by another shorter one and is engaged in one of the several slits 9c, so that the print pattern thus prepared passes through the passage 23 during the print test.
  • the printing plate 10 is not large, it is possible to use conventional mounting, in which the mounting sleeve 11 surrounds the printing cylinder 9, passing through the passage 23 (see Figure 6). During fixing, the printing plate 10 rests on the surface 21 and on the face 24b, moving in the direction from the surface 21 to the printing cylinder 9.
  • the invention achieves the intended aim and objects, allowing to mount printing plates on sleeves in a flat configuration by means of a device which is easy to provide and can be applied to any machine for mounting printing plates and performing print tests and to machines that are already in use.
EP00110984A 1999-06-08 2000-05-29 Aufspannvorrichtung für flexographische Druckplatten Withdrawn EP1060884A1 (de)

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IT1999BO000311A IT1309286B1 (it) 1999-06-08 1999-06-08 Dispositivo di montaggio per cliches flessografici.
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US6718873B1 (en) 2003-03-13 2004-04-13 Bieffebi S.P.A. Proof press for mounting flexographic printing plates
US7819060B2 (en) 2007-04-13 2010-10-26 E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And Company Method for mounting cylindrically-shaped printing forms
ITBO20090387A1 (it) * 2009-06-16 2010-12-17 Bieffebi Societa Per Azioni Apparato per il controllo di parametri geometrici di gruppi di stampa costituiti da cliché flessografici montati su rispettivi cilindri, da cliché flessografici montati su rispettivi sleeve portacliché e da cilindri/sleeves distributori di inchiostro
US9056450B2 (en) 2013-03-04 2015-06-16 Uni-Pixel Displays, Inc. Method of mounting a flexographic printing plate with structured patterned backing tape

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GB1018686A (en) * 1963-10-24 1966-02-02 John & Wm Burt Ltd Apparatus for laying-down flexible stereotype plates
US4936212A (en) * 1989-05-01 1990-06-26 Mosstype Corporation Flexographic printing plate transfer tray for mounter-proofer machine
US5488781A (en) * 1994-12-13 1996-02-06 Av Flexologic B.V. Positioning apparatus for printing plates
EP0728580A1 (de) * 1995-02-24 1996-08-28 BIEFFEBI S.p.A. Maschine zum Montieren von flexiblen Druckplatten auf Plattenzylindern von Flexodruckmaschinen und zum Abnehmen von Probedrucken
EP0808714A2 (de) * 1996-05-24 1997-11-26 KOENIG & BAUER-ALBERT AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum axialen Positionieren einer Druckplatte

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GB1018686A (en) * 1963-10-24 1966-02-02 John & Wm Burt Ltd Apparatus for laying-down flexible stereotype plates
US4936212A (en) * 1989-05-01 1990-06-26 Mosstype Corporation Flexographic printing plate transfer tray for mounter-proofer machine
US5488781A (en) * 1994-12-13 1996-02-06 Av Flexologic B.V. Positioning apparatus for printing plates
EP0728580A1 (de) * 1995-02-24 1996-08-28 BIEFFEBI S.p.A. Maschine zum Montieren von flexiblen Druckplatten auf Plattenzylindern von Flexodruckmaschinen und zum Abnehmen von Probedrucken
EP0808714A2 (de) * 1996-05-24 1997-11-26 KOENIG & BAUER-ALBERT AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum axialen Positionieren einer Druckplatte

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US6718873B1 (en) 2003-03-13 2004-04-13 Bieffebi S.P.A. Proof press for mounting flexographic printing plates
EP1457322A1 (de) * 2003-03-13 2004-09-15 Bieffebi S.p.A. Andruckpresse zur Befestigung von Flexodruckplatten
US7819060B2 (en) 2007-04-13 2010-10-26 E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And Company Method for mounting cylindrically-shaped printing forms
ITBO20090387A1 (it) * 2009-06-16 2010-12-17 Bieffebi Societa Per Azioni Apparato per il controllo di parametri geometrici di gruppi di stampa costituiti da cliché flessografici montati su rispettivi cilindri, da cliché flessografici montati su rispettivi sleeve portacliché e da cilindri/sleeves distributori di inchiostro
WO2010146040A1 (en) * 2009-06-16 2010-12-23 Bieffebi - Societa' Per Azioni Apparatus for checking geometric parameters of printing assemblies constituted by flexographic printing plates mounted on respective rollers, by flexographic printing plates mounted on respective printing plate supporting sleeves and by inking rollers/sleeves
US9056450B2 (en) 2013-03-04 2015-06-16 Uni-Pixel Displays, Inc. Method of mounting a flexographic printing plate with structured patterned backing tape

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