JPH0775889B2 - Cylinder cleaning device - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a cylinder cleaning apparatus for removing dirt adhering to the outer peripheral surface of a cylinder of a processing machine such as an offset printing machine, a papermaking machine, a paper processing machine, a textile machine, and more particularly a rotary brush. The present invention relates to a cylinder cleaning device for performing dry cleaning.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art For example, since the surface of a blanket wound around a blanket cylinder of an offset printing machine is contaminated with printing paper dust or the like, the blanket surface is periodically cleaned to maintain high print quality. Need to be washed. Various devices have been conventionally proposed as devices for automatically performing this cleaning.

For example, as described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2-178048, a brush assembly is provided on the outer circumference of a blanket cylinder in parallel with the axial direction, and the brush assembly can be brought into contact with and separated from the outer circumference of the blanket cylinder. There is known a cleaning device in which a brush assembly and a blanket cylinder portion adjacent to the brush assembly are surrounded by a housing.

According to this apparatus, when the brush assembly is brought into contact with the rotating blanket cylinder to remove the paper dust or the like on the blanket, the removed paper dust or the like can be prevented from scattering around by the housing. Further, by sucking the air in the housing with a vacuum device or the like, the paper dust or the like can be discharged to a predetermined place.

Further, in the cleaning device disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 4-99628, a dry brush roll is provided so as to face the blanket cylinder so as to be parallel to and in contact with and away from the blanket cylinder. And is driven to rotate in the opposite direction at a predetermined relative rotation speed. Also in this proposal, the brush roll is surrounded by the housing, and the dust collecting portion for collecting the removed paper dust and the like is provided in the housing.

[0006]

In each of the conventional examples described above, an opening for allowing the brush to project toward the blanket cylinder is provided on the surface of the housing that faces the blanket cylinder. There is a problem that dust and the like collected in the housing is scattered from the opening to the outside. To solve this problem, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2-1780
In the cleaning device described in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 48, a flexible wiper made of rubber or the like is provided at the front and rear edges of the opening of the housing in the cylinder rotation direction. The wiper is in sliding contact with the surface of the blanket cylinder over the entire axial length to prevent scattering of dust and the like from the opening.

However, on the outer circumference of the blanket cylinder, a gap and a fitting for winding and locking both ends of the blanket are provided over the entire axial length. Therefore, when the flexible wiper passes through the gap, dust or the like may be scattered around the gap. The cleaning device described in JP-A-4-99628 does not consider this point. An object of the present invention is to provide a cylinder cleaning device capable of preventing the deposits removed from the outer periphery of the cylinder of a processing machine from scattering around.

[0008]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention according to claim 1 is a cylinder cleaning apparatus for removing dirt attached to an outer peripheral surface of a cylinder rotatably supported by a frame of a processing machine. And a housing surrounding the rotating brush and a portion of the cylinder adjacent to the rotating brush when the rotating brush provided so as to come in contact with and separate from the outer periphery of the cylinder comes into contact with the cylinder, and the inside of the housing. A suction means for sucking air, and an air outlet provided downstream of the housing in the rotational direction of the cylinder and blowing air toward the upstream side of the cylinder in the rotational direction of the cylinder onto the surface of the cylinder. . In a preferred first embodiment, air outlets are provided on the upstream side and the downstream side of the housing in the rotation direction of the cylinder. In the second aspect, the air outlets are provided at the upstream side, the downstream side in the rotation direction of the cylinder of the housing, and both axial ends of the cylinder.

[0009]

According to the cylinder cleaning device configured as described above, the inside and the outside of the opening formed on the surface of the housing facing the cylinder are acted by the action of the air curtain formed by the air blown from the air blowing port. Since it is partitioned, it can be removed from the surface of the cylinder with a rotating brush, and scattering of adhered substances floating in the housing can be prevented. In addition, since air is blown to the cylinder surface toward the upstream side in the direction of rotation of the cylinder, the adhered matter that has been once removed by the air knife effect adheres again due to the static electricity generated on the cylinder surface, and as the cylinder rotates, it moves outside the housing. It is also possible to prevent the phenomenon of being carried out. Here, when an air outlet is also provided on the upstream side in the rotation direction of the cylinder, it is possible to prevent paper dust, etc., which floats around in the housing on the cylinder upstream side due to the rotation of the rotating brush from scattering. It can be prevented. Further, when air outlets are provided at both ends of the cylinder in the axial direction, it is possible to prevent the air from scattering outside through a gap formed between both ends of the cylinder and the housing.

[0010]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the cylinder cleaning device of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. 1 to 3 show the structure of the main part of one embodiment of the present invention. This embodiment is applied to cleaning a blanket cylinder of an offset printing machine. In the figure, a rotary brush 2 is provided on the outer periphery of the blanket cylinder 1 in parallel with the axial direction of the cylinder 1. A housing 3 having a substantially U-shaped cross section is provided on the outer periphery of the rotating brush 2 in parallel to the axial direction of the cylinder 1 over the entire length, and a shaft 4 of the rotating brush 2 is rotatably supported on both end surfaces of the housing 3. ing. The shaft 4 is driven to rotate by a motor (not shown) provided in the housing 3. Further, the housing 3 is driven and moved in a direction of approaching and separating from the cylinder 1 by an actuator attached to a printing machine frame (not shown).

The housing 3 is composed of both side surfaces parallel to the axial direction of the cylinder 1 and both end surfaces orthogonal to each other and an upper surface, and the lower surface facing the cylinder 1 is open. The rotary brush 2 projects outward from the opening 3a of the housing 3, and when the housing 3 approaches the cylinder 1, the outer circumference of the rotary brush 2 contacts the outer circumference of the cylinder 1. An air passage 5 is provided on both sides of the opening 3a of the housing 3 in parallel with the axial direction of the cylinder 1 over the entire length. On the side of the air passage 5 facing the rotating brush 2, the outer circumference of the cylinder 1 is provided over the entire length. A slit 6 that opens toward the surface is provided. Here, the slit 6 constitutes an air outlet.

An air hose 7 connected to a vacuum pump (not shown) is attached to the housing 3 as an intake means. Further, a shaft 8 is rotatably provided between both end faces of the housing 3 in parallel with the axial direction, and one end of a scraper 10 is fixed to the shaft 8 via an arm 9. This scraper 10 has a rotating brush 2
It has a function of removing the paper dust and the like adhering to the rotating brush by inserting it into the rotating brush. Further, the base end of the handle 11 is fixed to one end of the shaft 8 projecting outward from one end face of the housing 3, and the tip end of the handle 11 is in an arc-shaped guide groove 12 formed in the end face of the housing 3. You are being guided.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described. The blanket cylinder 1 is rotated in the direction indicated by the arrow A, the housing 3 is brought close to the cylinder 1 by an actuator (not shown), and the outer circumference of the rotating brush 2 is brought into contact with the outer circumference of the cylinder 1. Then, attach the tip of the scraper 10 to the rotary brush 2
, The peripheral speed of the rotary brush 2 becomes slower than the peripheral speed of the cylinder 1,
It is possible to remove the paper dust and the like attached to the outer circumference of the cylinder 1. The scraper 10 scrapes off adhering substances such as paper dust on the rotary brush itself.

The removed paper dust or the like is discharged to the outside through the air hose 7 by a vacuum pump. At this time, by supplying compressed air to the air passage 5 and blowing it out from the slit 6, an air curtain is formed between the opening 3a of the housing 3 and the outer peripheral surface of the cylinder 1, and the paper dust or the like in the housing 3 is exposed to the outside. It can be prevented from scattering. At the same time, the suction efficiency of air by the vacuum pump can be increased. Furthermore, since air is directed toward the cylinder surface on the cylinder downstream side in the cylinder rotation direction and is blown upstream with respect to the cylinder rotation direction, the air knife effect causes
It is possible to prevent the paper dust and the like removed from the cylinder surface by the rotating brush from reattaching due to the static electricity generated in the cylinder. Similarly, by blowing air toward the cylinder surface on the cylinder upstream side with respect to the cylinder rotation direction, an air curtain is formed on the cylinder upstream side, and paper dust, etc. that is not sucked and is trapped inside the housing. , Prevents scattering to the outside. Further, by rotating the handle 11 in the direction of the arrow C and engaging the tip of the scraper 10 with the inside of the rotating brush 2, it is possible to scrape off paper dust and the like remaining inside the rotating brush 2.

According to this embodiment, the opening 3 of the housing 3
Since air is blown between a and the outer peripheral surface of the blanket cylinder 1 to form an air curtain, even if there is a groove or the like for locking the blanket on the surface of the cylinder 1, the opening 3a and the cylinder 1 It is possible to block the inside and the outside from the outer peripheral surface of the sheet, and to prevent paper dust and the like from scattering outside through the opening 3a.

In the above embodiment, the air passage 5 and the slit 6 are provided.
Although the description has been given of the case where the above is provided on both sides of the opening 3a of the housing 3, it may be provided only on one side of the opening 3a on the arrow B side. That is, since the paper dust and the like collect on the downstream side of the rotating brush 2 in the rotation direction shown by the arrow B, the effect of preventing scattering to the outside can be obtained even if the air passage 5 and the slit 6 on the upstream side are omitted. Further, by providing the air passages 5 and the slits 6 at both ends in the direction perpendicular to the axial direction of the opening 3a, the scattering prevention effect can be further improved.

In the above embodiment, the rotary brush is rotated by the frictional force with the cylinder, but the rotary brush may be driven by a motor. The cylinder cleaning device of the present invention is arranged in close proximity without the opening of the housing touching the outer periphery of the cylinder,
Moreover, since the opening of the housing separates the inside from the outside by the air curtain formed by the air blown toward the cylinder surface, for example, in the cylinder provided with the gap for arranging the mechanism for gripping the printing paper. Can also be applied.

[0018]

As described above, according to the cylinder cleaning apparatus of the present invention, the rotary brush is directed toward the upstream side in the rotational direction of the cylinder, or toward the upstream side and the downstream side in the rotational direction of the cylinder. Since the air outlet for blowing air to the cylinder surface is provided in the housing, the air curtain formed between the opening and the cylinder outer peripheral surface
It is possible to almost completely prevent the adhered matter removed from the cylinder surface from scattering to the surroundings, and also to remove the adhered matter removed to the cylinder surface by the air knife effect by blowing air toward the cylinder upstream side to the cylinder surface. Redeposition is prevented and the cylinder cleaning effect is enhanced. Further, by providing the air outlet in the housing in the axial direction of the cylinder, it is possible to further enhance the prevention of scattering of paper dust or the like to the outside.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side sectional view showing a configuration of a main part of an embodiment of a cylinder cleaning device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an external side view of the cylinder cleaning device of the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the cylinder cleaning device of the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 blanket cylinder, 2 rotating brushes, 3 housing, 5 air passages, 6 slits, 7 air hoses, 10 scrapers

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A cylinder cleaning device for removing dirt adhering to an outer peripheral surface of a cylinder rotatably supported by a frame of a processing machine, the rotary brush being provided on the outer periphery of the cylinder so as to be contactable and separable. A housing surrounding the rotary brush and a portion of the cylinder close to the rotary brush when the rotary brush comes into contact with the cylinder; an intake means for sucking air in the housing; and the cylinder of the housing. Provided on the downstream side in the rotation direction of
And an air outlet for blowing air toward the cylinder surface toward the upstream side in the rotation direction of the cylinder. 2. A rotatably supported by a frame of a processing machine.
Cylinder that removes dirt adhering to the outer peripheral surface of the cylinder
A cleaning device, Rotating brush provided on the outer circumference of the cylinder so as to be able to come into contact with and separate from it.
When, When the rotating brush comes into contact with the cylinder,
Rolling brush and part of the cylinder close to the rotating brush
A housing that surrounds the minute, Intake means for sucking air in the housing, An upstream side of the housing in the rotation direction of the cylinder, and
With an air outlet provided on the downstream side, The air outlet on the upstream side in the rotation direction of the cylinder is a cylinder.
Air toward the downstream side of the cylinder surface
On the downstream side in the rotation direction of the cylinder.
The air outlet of is directed toward the upstream side in the cylinder rotation direction.
Characterized in that air is blown onto the cylinder surface
Cylinder cleaning device. 3. A rotatably supported by a frame of a processing machine.
Cylinder that removes dirt adhering to the outer peripheral surface of the cylinder
A cleaning device, Rotating brush provided on the outer circumference of the cylinder so as to be able to come into contact with and separate from it.
When, When the rotating brush comes into contact with the cylinder,
Rolling brush and part of the cylinder close to the rotating brush
A housing that surrounds the minute, Intake means for sucking air in the housing, Upstream side, downstream side of the housing in the rotation direction of the cylinder
Side and cylinder axis Blown on both sides in the direction
With outlet The air outlet on the upstream side in the rotation direction of the cylinder is a cylinder.
Air toward the downstream side of the cylinder surface
On the downstream side in the rotation direction of the cylinder.
The air outlet of is directed toward the upstream side in the cylinder rotation direction.
Characterized in that air is blown onto the cylinder surface
Cylinder cleaning device.