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US 2012/0067231 A1Published application
Loading and/or unloading die cutting cylinders
OwnerMichael Alan Vandenberg, Odis Lee Hicks, JR.inventors
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Abstract
A revolving indexer for use in connection with a printing machine utilizing die cutting cylinders including a shuttle for sliding the die cutting cylinder out from the printing machine and printing web and a sliding shuttle deck for loading the die cutting cylinder into the revolving indexer is provided.
Claims12
A printing machine utilizing replaceable die cutting cylinders comprising:
- a revolving indexer rotatingly coupled to the printing machine in a position above a moving printing machine web, said revolving indexer adapted to releasably receive a die cutting cylinder therein;
- a shuttle slidably coupled to the printing machine such that said shuttle may be slid in a direction transverse to the printing machine for loading and unloading of die cutting cylinders by an operator;
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- a sliding shuttle deck slidably coupled to said shuttle, said shuttle deck adapted to releasably receive a die cutting cylinder thereon such that said shuttle deck may be slid towards said revolving indexer when said shuttle deck is loaded with a die cutting cylinder.
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A printing machine comprising:
- a moving web to be printed;
- a die cutting cylinder;
- a revolving indexer rotatingly coupled to the printing machine in a position above said web, said revolving indexer adapted to releasably receive a die cutting cylinder therein;
- a shuttle slidably coupled to the printing machine such that said shuttle may be slid in a direction transverse to the web for loading and unloading of die cutting cylinders by an operator;
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- a sliding shuttle deck slidably coupled to said shuttle, said shuttle deck adapted to releasably receive said die cutting cylinder thereon such that said shuttle deck may be slid towards said revolving indexer when said shuttle deck is loaded with a die cutting cylinder.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.