US3427961A - Numbering machine adjuster for printing presses - Google Patents

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US3427961A
US3427961A US633955A US3427961DA US3427961A US 3427961 A US3427961 A US 3427961A US 633955 A US633955 A US 633955A US 3427961D A US3427961D A US 3427961DA US 3427961 A US3427961 A US 3427961A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41K—STAMPS; STAMPING OR NUMBERING APPARATUS OR DEVICES
    • B41K3/00—Apparatus for stamping articles having integral means for supporting the articles to be stamped
    • B41K3/02—Apparatus for stamping articles having integral means for supporting the articles to be stamped with stamping surface located above article-supporting surface
    • B41K3/12—Apparatus for stamping articles having integral means for supporting the articles to be stamped with stamping surface located above article-supporting surface with curved stamping surface for stamping by rolling contact
    • B41K3/121—Apparatus for stamping articles having integral means for supporting the articles to be stamped with stamping surface located above article-supporting surface with curved stamping surface for stamping by rolling contact using stamping rollers having changeable characters
    • B41K3/123—Apparatus for stamping articles having integral means for supporting the articles to be stamped with stamping surface located above article-supporting surface with curved stamping surface for stamping by rolling contact using stamping rollers having changeable characters having adjustable type-carrying wheels
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06M—COUNTING MECHANISMS; COUNTING OF OBJECTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
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  • a numbering machine adjuster for printing presses that comprises a printing cylinder, a shaft axially displaceable relative to the cylinder for coupling the number printing wheels with a manual operating member and, respectively, with indicating wheels.
  • the coupling is carried out by means of two adjusting rings secured to the shaft.
  • Three sleeves are provided in alignment on the shaft, and the shaft is sufliciently long so that it extends in the farthest working position, in which one end portion is pushed all the way into the cylinder, with its other end portion beyond the confines of the cylinder, and one of the sleeves covers that extending other end portion of the shaft.
  • the invention relates to a number machine adjuster for printing presses, and relates more particularly to such number machine adjusters for label printing presses.
  • the invention is based on the known construction of a numbering machine adjuster, for instance of the type shown in German Patent No. 1,121,079 (British Patent No. 893,959/ 1962), and comprises a shaft that is axially displaceable for coupling on one hand the number printing wheels with a knurled disc by means of an adjusting ring that is firmly connected to the shaft and, on the other hand, for coupling the number printing wheels with indicating wheels by means of a second adjusting ring which is also firmly connected to the shaft.
  • the shaft On the shaft, there are mounted, displaceable therewith, two sleeves which are located between the adjusting rings, or between one of the adjusting rings and the knurled disc, and wherein the adjusting rings as well as the sleeves have projections which engage into recesses between the number printing wheels and the indicating wheels.
  • a third sleeve is arranged on an extension of the shaft, namely on that end of the shaft that is remote from the end that carries the knurled disc, and the shaft extension projects beyond the printing cylinder 3,42 7,96 1 Patented Feb. 18, 1969 in the farthest working position.
  • the farthest working position is here defined as that position in which the other end of the shaft that carries the knurled disc is fully pushed into the printing cylinder.
  • the projections of the sleeves which engage into the recesses of the number printing wheels and of the indicating wheels are formed by round bars embedded into recesses of the sleeves with about one-half of their cross section.
  • the position of the indicating wheels relative to the number printing wheels is changed in accordance with the instant invention as compared with the known constructions, so that the indicating wheels are arranged between the number printing wheels and the knurled disc.
  • This re-positioning of the indicating wheels makes possible the elimination of the pointer rod within the zone of the number printing wheels; the pointer rod had been placed in the known constructions in such a position for connecting an indicator arranged above the indicating wheels with the knurled disc and to enable it to be axially displaced.
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an embodiment in accordance with the invention
  • FIG. 2 is a fragmentary sectional view taken on the line 2-2 of FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 3a is a plan view of the embodiment illustrated in FIG. 1, as seen in the direction 3a of FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 3b is an elevational view as seen in the direction 3b of FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 4 is a sectional view taken along the line 44 of FIG. 2;
  • FIG. 5 is a sectional view taken on the line 5-5 of FIG. 2;
  • FIG. 6 is a fragmentary sectional view taken on the line 66 of FIG. 2;
  • FIG. 7 is a fragmentary sectional view, taken on the line 7--7 of FIG. 2;
  • FIG. 8 is a sectional view, similar to FIG. 2 but embodying a modification.
  • a printing cylinder 1 that carries number printing wheels 2, preferably several, for instance three, groups thereof as shown; and an inking or color imparting roll (not shown) is mounted near the printing wheels 2.
  • the wheels 2 are mounted on a shaft 3 by means of two sleeves 4" and 4". As shown, for each group of printing wheels 2 there is one shaft 3. These sleeves are mounted axially immovably on the shaft 3. The sleeves are furthermore arranged non-rotatably relative to the printing cylinder 1, by means explained below.
  • Each shaft 3 also carries indicating wheels 5, that are positioned thereon by means of two sleeves, namely the aforesaid sleeve 4" and a sleeve 4.
  • the sleeve 4" projects in the farthest working position of the shaft 3 from the cylinder 1 towards the left in the drawing.
  • the farthest working position is that in which the other end of the shaft 3, namely that which carries the sleeve 4, is fully pushed into the printing cylinder 1.
  • two adjusting rings 6 and 7 are secured to the shaft 3. They are secured by means of pins 6 and 7' that extend with their upper ends as projections 8 beyond the sleeves 4', 4" and 4".
  • Corresponding projections 8 are formed in the sleeves, such as by half-embedded cylindrical bars, as shown in FIG. 1.
  • the adjusting rings 6 and 7 form with the sleeves 4, 4" and 4" coupling means that are mounted on the shaft 3.
  • Each shaft 3 has on the left side (FIGS. 1, 2) an extension which in the aforesaid farthest working position projects with the sleeve 4" at least partially from the printing cylinder 1.
  • a manual operating member On the right end of the shaft 3 (as viewed in the drawing), there is provided a manual operating member, namely a knurled disc 9.
  • the projections 8 and 8' engage into recesses 13 which, as shown in FIGS. 4 to 6, are provided on the number printing wheels 2 and on the indicating wheels 5.
  • the projections 8 and 8 also engage into recesses 14 of bearing bushings 10 that are arranged in printing cylinder 1. This engagement of the projections 8', as best shown in FIG. 7, secures the sleeves 4, 4" and 4" to be non-rotatable, as previously pointed out, relative to the cylinder 1.
  • the indicating wheels 5 are located between the number printing wheels 2 and the knurled disc 9 (see FIGS. 2, 3a and 3b). Owing to the positive blocking of the indicating wheels 5 and of the number printing wheels 2 by the sleeves 4', 4" and 4", the function of the apparatus is protected against torques acting on the indicating wheels 5 or on the number printing wheels 2 such as may be caused, for example, by excess printing ink.
  • the printing wheels 2, as usual in label printing presses, are pressed against an inking or color imparting roll.
  • the printing ink or printing color thus imparted to the printing wheels 2 may, under certain conditions, for instance when the color imparting roll is too moist and hence gives off too much color, be squeezed between the adjoining printing wheels 2. This, in turn, might in other machines cause a transmission of torque onto the printing wheels. As previously explained, however, the instant adjuster does not suffer from that disadvantage.
  • Pointer rods 11 with pointers 12 are provided, as shown in FIGS. 1, 3a and 3b.
  • the pointer rods 11 extend only over the range of the indicating wheels 5 and, in contrast to the prior art, no longer over the range of the number printing wheels 2. Owing to this re-positioning of the indicating wheels 5 (in the drawing, towards the righthand side), the printing cylinder 1, due to its mounting near one end, can easily be exchanged. This is of great advantage for the practical application of the whole device.
  • a plurality of shafts 3, for instance three shafts 3, are provided.
  • the adjustment will need to be carried out for each of the plurality of shafts 3.
  • the adjusting of only one of these shafts 3 will be described, it being understood that the same movements will be carried out with each of the shafts 3 separately, in succession.
  • the pointer 12 of that shaft is positioned, by means of the rod 11 to the desired indicating wheel 5.
  • the adjusting rings 6 and 7 will thereby be moved to the corresponding position.
  • FIG. 8 in which all parts that correspond to the embodiment of FIGS. 1 to 7 are marked with the same reference numerals, there is shown a simplified construction of the numbering device.
  • the position of the indicating wheels 5 relative to the number printing wheels 2 and the knurled disc 9 is such that, as in the known constructions, the number printing wheels 2 are arranged between the indicating wheels 5 and the knurled disc 9.
  • the sleeve 4" that cooperates in the embodiment of FIGS. 1 to 7 with the number printing wheels 2 is, however, in the modification of FIG. 8 provided for the positive locating of the indicating wheels 5.
  • a numbering machine adjuster for label printing presses comprising a printing cylinder, at least one shaft, at least one group of number printing wheels and at least one group of indicating wheels surrounding said shaft, said two groups being spaced apart from each other, three sleeves mounted on said shaft, said shaft mounting a manual operating member near one shaft end, coupling means mounted on said shaft, said shaft being axially oppositely displaceable relative to said cylinder whereby said coupling means will couple a number printing wheel with said operating member and, respectively, with an indicating wheel, said coupling means comprising two adjusting rings secured to said shaft and three sleeves aligned on and surrounding said shaft and displaceable therewith, securing means between said sleeves and said cylinder operable for securing said sleeves against rotation relative to said cylinder, each adjusting ring being disposed between two sleeves, each wheel having a recess, said adjusting rings and sleeves including projections engaging into said recesses of the number printing wheels and of the indicating wheels, said shaft comprising at the other end and an extension projecting beyond said printing cylinder when
  • said securing means comprising a recess defined in each of said sleeves aligned with the recesses of said wheels, bushings secured in said printing cylinder guiding said sleeves and each bushing having a recess opposite said aligned sleeve recesses, said recesses of said sleeves and of said bushings completing a passage, and cylindrical bars disposed in said passage and forming said sleeve projections, said bars also engaging the recesses of at least some of said number printing wheels and of at least some of said indicating wheels, each of said cylindrical bars being embedded in a recess of a sleeve to about one-half of its cross section.
  • a numbering machine adjuster as claimed in claim 1, said indicating wheels being arranged between the said numbering wheels and said manual operating memher.

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US3898927A (en) * 1972-07-03 1975-08-12 Nippon Steel Corp Rolling-type marking machine
US3902413A (en) * 1973-09-27 1975-09-02 Powell Shademarker Company Shade marker
US4027585A (en) * 1974-11-11 1977-06-07 Litton Business Systems, Inc. Document imprinter
US4004506A (en) * 1975-02-03 1977-01-25 Brandt-Pra, Inc. Endorser drum having indexable self-aligning print wheels
US4207814A (en) * 1976-12-30 1980-06-17 Schenk William D Apparatus for printing serial numbers with check digits
US4271758A (en) * 1977-10-20 1981-06-09 Maschinenbau "Wam" M. Osterhof Kg Selective locking display wheels in digit printers
CN114771117A (zh) * 2022-05-25 2022-07-22 广西中烟工业有限责任公司 快换式自锁紧定位冲压钢印装置及生产线
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