Convertible buffers for web presses
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Indigo B.V.
InventorsEyal Peleg, Itzik Kent, Benji Ruhm, Erez Elias
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Abstract
In one example, a web press includes a web press station and a convertible buffer near the web press station, the convertible buffer being configured to convert to a platform for accessing the web press station. A method for performing web press maintenance is also disclosed.
Claims15
A web press comprising:
- a web press station;
- and
- a convertible buffer near the web press station, the convertible buffer being configured to deploy a platform for accessing the web press station.
A buffer for a web press, comprising idlers and a standing platform, the buffer being convertible between an operating configuration in which spacing among the idlers is altered to change a web path length and the standing platform is not deployed and a non-operating configuration in which the standing platform is deployed for accessing an adjacent web press station.
A method for performing web press maintenance comprising:
- converting a buffer from an operating configuration to a non-operating configuration with a deployed standing platform, the buffer being adjacent to a web press station;
- and
- standing on the standing platform to access the web press station for maintenance.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.