Convertible buffers for web presses
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsEyal Peleg, Itzik Kent, Benji Ruhm, Erez Elias
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Abstract
In one example, a web press includes a web press station (610) and a convertible buffer (600) near the web press station, the convertible buffer being configured to convert to a platform (630) for accessing the web press station. A method for performing web press maintenance is also disclosed.
Claims20
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, in which the buffer, when in the operating condition, coordinates different web speeds by dynamically adjusting a length of a substrate path within the buffer.
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, in which the buffer alters a substrate path length to coordinate web speeds between adjacent machines during operation of a web press, in which the buffer occupies all the area between two adjacent machines.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.