EP1155858B1 - Device for controlling automatic printing plate changing means and folding device status switching device - Google Patents

Device for controlling automatic printing plate changing means and folding device status switching device Download PDF

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EP1155858B1
EP1155858B1 EP01111906A EP01111906A EP1155858B1 EP 1155858 B1 EP1155858 B1 EP 1155858B1 EP 01111906 A EP01111906 A EP 01111906A EP 01111906 A EP01111906 A EP 01111906A EP 1155858 B1 EP1155858 B1 EP 1155858B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
    • B41F33/00—Indicating, counting, warning, control or safety devices
    • B41F33/16—Programming systems for automatic control of sequence of operations
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
    • B41F13/00—Common details of rotary presses or machines
    • B41F13/54—Auxiliary folding, cutting, collecting or depositing of sheets or webs
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
    • B41F13/00—Common details of rotary presses or machines
    • B41F13/54—Auxiliary folding, cutting, collecting or depositing of sheets or webs
    • B41F13/56—Folding or cutting
    • 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
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
    • B41F33/00—Indicating, counting, warning, control or safety devices
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
    • B41F33/00—Indicating, counting, warning, control or safety devices
    • B41F33/0009—Central control units
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41P—INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO PRINTING, LINING MACHINES, TYPEWRITERS, AND TO STAMPS
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  • the invention relates to a device for controlling an automatic printing plate changing device and a folding device status switching device, and particularly to a device with a cam mechanism and a guide mechanism wherein an automatic printing plate change (APC) and a folding device status switch are operated simultaneously.
  • APC automatic printing plate change
  • the purpose of the present invention is to resolve the above problems by simultaneously operating the changing of the printing plates and the switching of the folding device status in the folding device.
  • the device according to the present invention for controlling an automatic printing plate changing device and a folding device status switching device further includes means for intermitting travel of a web in the folding device while the printing plate supported on the plate cylinder is being changed.
  • FIG. 1 A preferred embodiment of a web offset printing press according to the present invention is shown in Fig. 1.
  • the web offset printing press as shown in Fig. 1, continuously activates each device so that the previous job can be automatically switched to the next job.
  • the web offset printing press comprises a sheet supply device 100, a plurality of printing units 200, a drying device 300, a cooling device, a web passing device 500, a drag device 600, a folding device 700, and so on.
  • two web rolls 101 and 102 are attached to the both ends of a turret arm 104, respectively, and the turret arm 104 is pivotally mounted such that the arm 104 is rotatable about a central axis 103.
  • a web 10 printing sheet
  • a web from the next web roll 102 is jointed and supplied to the printing units 200.
  • blanket cylinders 201, 202 and printing cylinders 203, 204 are arranged symmetrically with respect to a horizontal web traveling path.
  • a blanket cleaning device 205 (206) is provided at each blanket cylinder 201 (202) and an automatic printing plate changer (APC) 202 (208) is provided at the printing cylinder 203 (204).
  • the upper automatic printing plate changer 207 provides a guide frame 211 rotatable about a supporting axis 209, and an actuation 213 shifts the guide frame 211 from a stand by position to a printing plate changing position as shown in a dotted line.
  • a holder 215 for holding an old printing plate or a new printing plate is provided.
  • the old printing plate is released from the printing cylinder 203.
  • the old printing plate is guided along the guide frame 211 so that the old printing plate can be picked up by extending/shrinking an actuator (not shown).
  • the new printing plate is supplied to a printing cylinder 203 along the guide frame 211.
  • the new printing plate is attached to the printing cylinder 203.
  • a lower automatic printing plate changing device 208 provides a guide frame 212 rotatable about a supporting axis 210, and an actuator 214 shifts the guide frame 212 from a stand by position to a printing plate changing position along a dotted line as shown in the drawing.
  • a holder 216 for holding the old printing plate or the new printing plate is provided at the guide frame 212.
  • the old printing plate is disengaged from the printing cylinder 204.
  • the old printing plate is lowered along the guide frame 211.
  • an ink supplement device 800 is provided as shown in Fig. 4.
  • the ink supply device 800 supplies ink 802 in an ink fountain 801 on an ink fountain roller 803 by adjusting an open degree of each ink fountains keys 804-1, 801-2, ... 801-n.
  • Ink supplied on the ink fountain roller 803 is transferred to a printing plate 807 through a group 806 of ink rollers by operating an ink ductor roller 805. Simultaneously with such an ink supply operation, dampening water 808 is supplied to the printing plate 807 through a group of dampening rollers 809.
  • the ink supply device 800 when changing the old printing plate 807 to a new printing plate, printing data such as an open degree of the each ink fountain keys 804-1, 804-2, ... 804-n corresponding to a picture pattern of the new printing plate, a rotational amount of the ink fountain roller 803, and a supply amount of dampening water in the dampening water tank 808 is preset as described below.
  • the blanket cleaning device 205 (206) removes foreign matter such as remained ink and so on by contacting a brush or cloth with the blanket cylinder 201 (202).
  • a drying machine 300 is a device for heating and drying a printed web 10 fed through the printing units 200.
  • a cooling device 400 is a device for cooling the web 10 passed through the drying machine 300.
  • a web path device 500 is a device for adjusting a passing direction to control a position of a web and its tensile force.
  • a folding device 700 is a device for cutting the web after dry and cool operations and folds each piece of the web 10.
  • folding devices based on combinations of cutting and folding the web, such as folding along a central line of the web with respect to a width direction, it is so-called as “former fold”, cutting a web having a predetermined length by a cut-off cylinder, folding a cut-off sheet by a folding cylinder along a width direction or a longitudinal direction, it is so called as “parallel fold”, and half folding parallel folded sheets by a chopper along an orthogonal direction.
  • An infeed dancer device 150 is provided between the sheet supply device 100 and the printing units 200, and a final unit dancer device 250 is provided between the printing units 200 and the drying machine 300.
  • the dancer device 150(250) winds a web among three rollers, and by moving a central roller in a vertical direction, removes slackness in the web caused by rotation of the printing units 200 in forward/backward directions.
  • These devices 200 through 700 are connected by on driving axis and driven by a main motor (not shown) mounted at the printing units 200.
  • the main motor can be disconnected from the driving axis by operating a driving clutch provided between the printing units 200 and the final unit dancer 250.
  • the offset rotary printing press constructed as described above, is provided with a control device for simultaneously conducting the printing plate change and the folding device status change in accordance with a flow-chart as shown in Fig. 5 by an operator's turning on of a start button for changing a printing plate and a folding device status upon changing a printing job.
  • step V1 when the switch for changing a printing plate and a folding device status is turned on, the rotary printing press is activated (step V1) and the driving clutch is turned off when the folding cylinder of the folding machine 700 has moved to a specific position (step V2).
  • the reason for turning of the driving clutch is to avoid occurrence troubles in the folding machine 700, such as the folded sheet falling from the gripping cylinder and the folding cylinder, caused by the reverse rotation in the folding machine 700 for cutting and folding the folded sheet.
  • step V3 the final unit dancer 250 is turned on (step V3) so that a web fed from the printing units 200 to the drying device 300 is prevented from becoming loose by winding the web around a roller moving in a up-down directions.
  • step V4 when the plate cylinder 203 (204) is moved to a specific position for exchanging the printing plate, the device (the printing units 200 only) is stopped (step V4).
  • the plate cylinders 203 (204) is rotated in the reverse direction, the old printing plate is removed from the plate cylinder 203 (204) by the automatic printing plate exchanger 207 (208) (step V5).
  • step V6 By rotating the plate cylinder 203 (204) in a reverse direction, a roller of the finial unit dancer 250 is returned to the original position (step V6). At the same time, the infeed dancer device 150 is turned on (step V7) in order to avoid the web fed from the printing units 200 to the sheet supply device 100 from loosening.
  • the machine (the printing units 200 only) is rotated in the forward direction, the new printing plate is supplied from the automatic printing plate exchanger 207 (208) and attached to the plate cylinder 203 (203) (step V9).
  • step V10 the final unit dancer 250 is turned on (step V10) to prevent the web fed from the printing units 200 to the drying machine 300 from becoming loose. Simultaneously, the roller of the infeed dancer device 150 is returned to the original position (step V11).
  • step V12 When setting of the new printing plate on the plate cylinder 203 (204) has completed, the machine (the printing units 200 only) is stopped (step V12).
  • a brake of the folding machine is turned on (step V13) to change folding device status simultaneously.
  • the folding device status is changed by adjusting a phase of the folding cylinder and the gripping cylinder (step V14) and a selection of a cam /guide member (step V15).
  • An adjustment of the phase of the folding cylinder and the gripping cylinder means to change the phase of a gripping board of the gripping cylinder with respect to a needle and a knife of the folding cylinder corresponding to a single parallel fold or a double parallel fold.
  • the adjustment is made by a gear transmission mechanism.
  • Switching of the cam/guide member includes cam switching for changing a phase of a cam mechanism for switching an operation timing of a gripping claw, knife, needle and so on provided at a cutting cylinder, a folding cylinder and a gripping cylinder and a guide switching mechanism for changing the single parallel fold, the double parallel fold, and a delta fold.
  • a cam switching mechanism comprises a cam holder 3 rotatably supported and having, on an outer peripheral portion thereof, protrusions 3a, 3b, a circular cam 4 attached to the cam holder 3 and having a predetermined outer peripheral shape, a cam follower 15 that rolls on the outer peripheral surface of the cam 4, a link plate 8 connected to the protrusion 3b of the cam holder 3 and extends and retreats to rotate the cam holder 3, a lever 10, an air cylinder 13, a first stopper 6 for restricting rotation of the cam 4 in one rotating direction caused by the extension the air cylinder 13, a second stopper 14 for restricting rotation of the cam 4 in the opposite rotating direction caused by retraction the air cylinder 13, and a third stopper 5 for urging the protrusion 3a of the cam holder 3, restricted from rotating in the opposite direction by the second stopper 14, in the rotating direction restricted by the second stopper 14.
  • the detailed description of the above structure is described in Japanese Patent Publication No. 2000-130538 published on May 12, 2000 based on Japanese
  • the device as shown in Fig. 7, is a parallel folding device having a first gripping cylinder 23 and a second gripping cylinder 24, the peripheral surfaces of which are in contact with each other.
  • a belt 21 is wound on the first gripping cylinder 23 and rollers 20a through 20d arranged parallel to the first gripping cylinder 23.
  • the roller 20d is moved along a solid line in Fig. 7 and the belt 21 is moved to a guiding position.
  • a sheet is changed from the first gripping cylinder 23 to the second gripping cylinder 24 to parallel-fold the sheet once.
  • the roller 20d is moved toward an arrow along a dotted line in Fig. 7 and the belt 21 is shifted to a shelter position.
  • the double parallel fold or the delta fold is operated when the sheet is passed from the first gripping cylinder 23 to the second gripping cylinder 24.
  • step V16 Upon finishing the above exchange of the printing plates and the selection of folding device status, the driving clutch is turned on (step V16), and the dancer device 150, 250 is returned to the original position (step V17).
  • each devices 100 through 800 are automatically operated by an operator's pushing of one button so that the total operation time can be shortened and the operator's task/burden becomes lighter.
  • an automatic printing plate changing and a folding device status switching can be operated.
  • the automatic printing plate changing and the folding device status switching are operated in parallel so that the total operation time can be shortened.
  • the dancer devices 150, 250 wind up the web 10 among three rollers to prevent the web 10 from becoming loose at a portion between the sheet supplement device 100, the printing units 200, and the drying machine 300.
  • the previous job is automatically changed to the new job by pushing one button.
  • the automatic printing plate changing and the folding device status switching are simultaneously operated so that the total operation time can be shortened.
  • the web In the operation for changing printing plates, even if the web is rotated in forward/backward directions, the web can be wound such that the web does not become loose at a portion between adjacent devices.

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