Sleeve exchange system
AssigneeWindmoeller & Hoelscher KG
InventorsFranz Plasswich, Dietmar Poetter
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Abstract
A system for the replacement of sleeves that can be slipped on arbors of ink transfer rollers of at least printing machine has a storage device, in which the sleeves not being, used in current ink transfer can be stored, and a transport device, with which several sleeves can be transported to the printing machine. The system has a transfer device the facilitates the transfer of the sleeves between the storage device and/or the transport device and the arbors of the ink transfer rollers, and/or between the storage device and the transport device.
Claims15
A system for exchanging a sleeve with an arbor of an ink transfer roller of a printing machine, said system comprising:
- a storage device, in which the sleeve, if not used in a current ink transfer, is stored;
- a transport device, with which the sleeve is transported from the storage device to the printing machine;
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- a device for exchanging the sleeve to and from the arbor, the device for exchanging the sleeve including
- a support element for receiving thereon the sleeve, as the sleeve is transported from the storage device to the arbor, the support element having an external diameter that is variable so as to provide for secured frictional engagement with a corresponding internal diameter of the sleeve during positioning to an initial position of the sleeve on the arbor, and subsequent disengagement therefrom once the sleeve is positioned at the initial position on the arbor,
- the system including, for exchangeability, so as accommodate a plurality of the sleeves, each of a different diameter, a corresponding plurality of the support elements, each of a different diameter,
- with the plurality of the support elements being coupleable to and decoupleable from the device for exchanging the sleeve to and from the arbor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.