Printing unit with automatically moveable tail tucker bar
AssigneeHeidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
InventorsJohn Joseph Dowling, Daniel Paul Gagne, Brian Joseph Gentle
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Abstract
A printing unit having a tucker bar capable of tucking a tail edge of a printing plate into an axially-extending gap of a plate cylinder and a tucker bar control device for automatically moving the tucker bar from an operating position to a non-operating position so as to permit access to the axially-extending gap. In addition, a method of plating a plate cylinder using such a tucker bar control device to automatically move the tucker bar so as to permit access to the axially-extending gap of the plate cylinder.
Claims10
A printing unit comprising:
- a plate cylinder having an axially-extending gap;
- a tucker bar having an operating position, the tucker bar in the operating position capable of tucking a tail end of a printing plate into the axially-extending gap;
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- a tucker bar control device for automatically moving the tucker bar away from the operating position to a non-operating position.
A method for plating a plate cylinder comprising:
- using a tucker bar control device to automatically move a tucker bar from an operating position to a non-operating position so as to permit access to an axially-extending gap in the plate cylinder;
- inserting a lead end of a printing plate into the axially-extending gap.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.