EP2300230B1 - Walze für ein farbwerk einer druckmaschine - Google Patents

Walze für ein farbwerk einer druckmaschine Download PDF

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EP2300230B1
EP2300230B1 EP09738162A EP09738162A EP2300230B1 EP 2300230 B1 EP2300230 B1 EP 2300230B1 EP 09738162 A EP09738162 A EP 09738162A EP 09738162 A EP09738162 A EP 09738162A EP 2300230 B1 EP2300230 B1 EP 2300230B1
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Tony Hollings
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
    • B41F31/00—Inking arrangements or devices
    • B41F31/26—Construction of inking rollers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
    • B41F31/00—Inking arrangements or devices
    • B41F31/15—Devices for moving vibrator-rollers

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  • the present invention relates to a roller for an inking system of a printing machine. More specifically, it relates to an ink transfer roller that rolls against an oscillating ink transfer drum in an inking system for a printing machine.
  • a rotary printing machine includes a plate cylinder and a blanket cylinder. Pointing plates are mounted to the plate cylinder for transferring an inked image to the blanket cylinder that contacts the print medium to print the resulting image. Ink is fed to the printing plates mounted on the plate cylinder by an inking unit.
  • the inking unit of a conventional offset printing press comprises a train of ink rollers including two or three forme rollers in rolling engagement with the printing plates mounted on the plate cylinder.
  • the forme rollers are operable to feed ink to the printing plates as the plate cylinder rotates. Printing ink is suppled to the forme rollers via the train of ink rollers from an ink fountain.
  • each forme roller is in rolling engagement with a main ink distribution drum.
  • Ink is fed to the main ink distribution drum from an ink fountain via an auxiliary, drum and transfer rollers and is transferred from the main ink distribution drum to the forme rollers.
  • a mechanism is proved to cause the main ink distrubution drum and the auxiliary ink distribution drum to oscillate in a direction along their longitudinal axes, i.e. along the width of the printing press, as they rotate to cause ink to move laterally to ensure even distribution of ink across the forme rollers and, consequently, across the ink receptive areas of the printing plates.
  • the ink distribution drum and the transfer rollers are of different diameters.
  • the present invention seeks to overcome or substantially alleviate the problem referred to above.
  • roller to contact an oscillating ink transfer drum in an inking system for a printing machine, the roller comprising a cylindrical body having a longitudinal axis and a curved outer surface, wherein a recess is formed in the curved outer surface at an end of the cylindrical body.
  • a roller according to the present invention is characterised in that the recess extends axially inward from said end of the cylindrical body by a depth that gradually reduces from a maximum depth at which the recess starts, in a circumferential direction extending around said axis.
  • the recess is configured such that its depth gradually reduces in a circumferential direction until it reaches or merges with the end of the cylindrical body.
  • the recess may be configured such that its depth reduces in a circumferential direction over an angle of 180 degrees or less.
  • the recess is a first recess and a second recess extends axially inward from an end of the cylindrical body, the second recess extending axially inward by a depth that gradually reduces in the same circumferential direction as the first recess around said axis, wherein the depth of the second recess reduces in a circumferential direction over an angle of 180 degrees or less and said second recess is spaced in a circumferential direction from said first recess.
  • the start of the second recess where its depth is at its maximum, is spaced 180 degrees around the circumference of the cylindrical body from the start of the first recess, where its depth is at a maximum.
  • Each recess may have a radially extending wall, said wall defining a continuous curved surface extending in a circumferential direction around the longitudinal axis.
  • the continuous curved surface is preferably helically shaped.
  • a recess or first and second recesses are formed in both ends of the curved outer surface of the cylindrical body.
  • the recesses at each end are mirror images of each other, i.e. the ink transfer roller is symmetrical about a line extending through the middle of the roller at right-angles to its axis of rotation.
  • an inking system for a printing machine including a roller according to the invention and an ink transfer drum having a curved surface, the roller having a first diameter and the ink transfer drum having a second diameter which is different to the first diameter, the curved surface of said roller being in contact with the curved surface of the ink transfer drum such that said ink transfer drum and roller rotate together to transfer ink from the roller to the ink transfer drum, said ink transfer drum being configured to oscillate in an axial direction during rotation to evenly distribute transferred ink across its curved surface in an axial direction.
  • the depth of the recess gradually reduces in an anti-clockwise direction when viewed looking at the end of the roller, the roller being configured to rotate in an anti-clockwise direction to transfer ink from the roller to the ink transfer drum.
  • Figure 1 a part 1 of an ink transfer system or ink train of an inking system for a printing press comprising an ink distribution drum 2 and an ink transfer roller 3.
  • the curved cylindrical surface of the ink transfer roller 3 lies in contact with the curved surface of the ink distribution drum 2 so that ink on the ink transfer roller 3 is transferred to the ink distribution drum 3 as they rotate about the ink distribution drum rotates about its longitudinal axis "A" and the ink transfer roller 3 rotates about its longitudinal axis "B".
  • ink transfer roller 3 and ink distribution drum 2 are of different diameters, as is conventional, to ensure that any patterns formed in the ink on the surface of the roller 3 or ink distribution drum 2 is not reinforced as they rotate but is eradicated due to the procession of the rollers 2, 3.
  • the ink distribution drum 2 is mounted so that it can oscillate in an axial direction (in the direction of arrow "X" in Figure 1 ) as it rotates.
  • the extremes of movement of the ink distribution drum are shown by the dashed lines marked 2a and 2b.
  • This oscillation of the ink distribution drum 2 is well-known in the art and serves to move ink in a widthwise direction across the surface of the ink distribution drum 2 to ensure that an even coating of ink is transferred to the plate cylinder of the press.
  • the frequency of oscillation is generally in the region of between 3.5 and 4Hz and the extent of the oscillation may be in the order of approximately 25mm.
  • FIG. 2 An enlarged view of the left hand end of the ink distribution drum 2 and ink transfer roller 3 is shown in Figure 2 , from which it can be appreciated that, during oscillation and rotation of the drum 2 and roller 3, excess ink is pushed to the ends and builds up in the form of a bead 4, that forms between the ink distribution drum 2 and ink transfer roller 3. This excess ink may be sprayed off the roller 3.
  • FIG. 3 One end of a modified ink transfer roller 5 according to an embodiment of the present invention, is shown in Figure 3 . Although only one end of the roller 5 is shown, it will be appreciated that the other end of the roller 5 may have the same configuration. Ideally the other end has a mirror-image recess so that the roller can be mounted for rotation in either direction. It is envisaged that the roller 3 can be mounted for rotation in either direction.
  • the end of the roller 5 is provided with a recess, shoulder or cut-out portion 6 which extends inwardly from the end wall 7 of the roller 5 and extends around the circumference of the roller 5 by an angle of approximately 180 degrees or less.
  • a second, identical recess, shoulder or cut-out portion 8 extends circumferentially around the remaining circumference of the roller 5 and is shown in dashed lines in the Figure.
  • the or each recess essentially has a "saw-tooth" shape.
  • the recess 6 has a maximum depth at the point indicated by arrow "D", i.e. at the 12 o'clock position as the roller is shown in the Figure.
  • the "depth” referred to here is the extent of the recess 6 in an axially inwardly extending direction from the end wall 7.
  • the maximum depth “D” may be in the order of about 16mm or in the order of about half the oscillation distance.
  • the depth of the recess 6 gradually reduces in a circumferential direction extending around said axis, i.e. in a anti-clockwise direction, as shown in the Figure, until it merges into or meets the end wall 7.
  • the second recess 8 has its maximum depth (indicated by arrow "E") at a location which is 180 degrees around the circumference of the roller 5.
  • Each recess 6,8 has a bottom radially extending wall 9 which defines a continuous curved surface extending in a circumferential direction around the longitudinal axis B of the ink transfer roller 5 .
  • this surface is helically shaped.
  • the wall 9 has an edge 9a.
  • a bead of ink may still form on the surface of the ink distribution drum 2, but rather than extending circumferentially around the drum at right-angles to its axis of rotation, it is now follows an angled or part helical path around the circumference, defined by the upper edge 9a of the wall 9.
  • a at least a portion of the bead is contiguously "run-over” or picked-up by the ink transfer drum 2 in subsequent revolutions due to the procession of the ink distribution drum 2 and transfer roller 3 as they rotate, so that the ink forming the bead is being continuously dragged back into the main body of ink, thereby maintaining a layer of ink of substantially constant thickness across the surface of the ink distribution drum 2 and ink transfer roller 3.

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  1. Walze zum Kontaktieren einer oszillierenden Farbübergabetrommel in einem Farbwerk fur eine Druckmaschine, wobei die Walze einen zylindrischen Körper (5) mit einer Längsachse und einer gekrümmten Außenfläche umfasst, wobei eine Aussparung (6, 8) in der gekrummten Außenfläche an einem Ende des zylindrischen Korpers gebildet ist, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass sich die Aussparung (6, 8) axial nach innen gerichtet ab besagtem Ende des zylindrischen Korpers um eine Tiefe erstreckt, die sich graduell von einer Hochsttiefe, mit der die Aussparung (6, 8) beginnt, in einer Umfangsrichtung reduziert, die sich um besagte Achse herum erstreckt.
  2. Walze nach Anspruch 1, wobei die Aussparung (6, 8) derart konfiguriert ist, dass sich ihre Tiefe graduell in einer Umfangsrichtung reduziert, bis sie das Ende des zylindrischen Korpers (5) erreicht.
  3. Walze nach Anspruch 1 oder Anspruch 2, wobei die Aussparung (6, 8) derart konfiguriert ist, dass sich ihre Tiefe in einer Umfangsrichtung über einen Winkel von 180 Grad oder weniger reduziert.
  4. Walze nach Anspruch 3, wobei die besagte Aussparung eine erste Aussparung (6) ist und sich eine zweite Aussparung (8) axial nach innen gerichtet ab einem Ende des zylindrischen Korpers (5) erstreckt, wobei sich die zweite Aussparung (8) axial nach innen gerichtet um eine Tiefe erstreckt, die sich in der gleichen Umfangsrichtung wie die erste Aussparung (6) um die besagte Achse herum reduziert, wobei sich die Tiefe der zweiten Aussparung (8) in einer Umfangsrichtung über einen Winkel von 180 Grad oder weniger reduziert und die besagte zweite Aussparung (8) in einer Umfangsrichtung von der besagten ersten Aussparung (6) beabstandet ist.
  5. Walze nach Anspruch 4, wobei der Anfang der zweiten Aussparung (8), wo ihre Tiefe am größten ist, 180 Grad um den Umfang des zylindrischen Körpers (5) herum vom Anfang der ersten Aussparung (6) beabstandet ist, wo ihre Tiefer am großten ist.
  6. Walze nach einem beliebigen der Anspruche, wobei die oder jede Aussparung (6, 8) eine sich radial erstreckende Wand (9) aufweist, die besagte Wand (9) eine kontinuierlich gekrummte Oberflache definiert, die sich in einer Umfangsrichtung um die Langsachse herum erstreckt.
  7. Walze nach Anspruch 6, wobei die kontinuierlich gekrummte Oberfläche (19) schraubenförmig gebildet ist.
  8. Walze nach einem beliebigen vorhergehenden Anspruch, wobei eine Aussparung (6) oder erste und zweite Aussparungen (6, 8) in beiden enden der gekrummten Außenfläche des zylindrischen Körpers (5) gebildet sind.
  9. Farbwerk für eine Druckmaschine, das eine Walze nach einem beliebigen vorhergehenden Anspruch und eine Farbubergabetrommel (2) mit einer gekrümmten Oberflache einschließt, wobei die Walze einen ersten Durchmesser hat und die Farbübergabetrommel (2) einen zweiten Durchmesser hat, der vom ersten Durchmesser verschieden ist, wobei die gekrümmte Oberfläche der besagten Walze derart in Kontakt mit der gekrümmten Oberfläche der Farbubergabetrommel(2) ist, dass die besagte Farbubergabetrommel (2) und die Walze zusammen rotieren, um Farbe von der Walze auf die Farbubergabetrommel (2) zu übergeben, wobei die besagte Farbübergabetrommel (2) konfiguriert ist, während Rotation in einer axialen Richtung zu oszillieren, um übergebene Farbe gleichmäßig über ihre gekrümmte Oberflache in einer axialen Richtung zu verteilen.
  10. Farbwerk nach Anspruch 9, wobei sich die Tiefe der Aussparung (6, 8) graduell in einer Gegenuhrzeigerrichtung reduziert, wenn man auf das Ende der Walze schaut, wobei die Walze konfiguriert ist, in einer Gegenuhrzeigerrichtung zu rotieren, um Farbe von der Walze auf die Farbübergabetrommel (2) zu übergeben.
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