Device and Method for Applying and Curing a Polymer Layer on a Cylindrical Body

A layer producing system for producing a polymer layer on a cylindrical substrate, the layer producing system comprising:

• a coating device configured to coat the cylindrical substrate with a flowable polymer and produce a still flowable polymer layer;
• a curing device configured to cure the still flowable polymer layer on the substrate;
• a substrate receptacle configured to bear the cylindrical substrate;
• a coating translation device configured to produce a translational movement of the coating device relative to the cylindrical substrate in a longitudinal direction of the cylindrical substrate;
• a curing translation device configured to produce a translational movement of the curing device relative to the cylindrical substrate in the longitudinal direction of the cylindrical substrate;
• a rotation device configured to move the cylindrical substrate in the substrate receptacle in a rotational direction;
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• a motion control unit configured to coordinate the movements carried out by the coating translation device and the curing translation device with the movement of the rotation device,
• wherein the cylindrical substrate is a printing plate selected from the group consisting of a gravure plate, a gravure cylinder, a patterning plate, a patterning cylinder, an embossing plate, an embossing cylinder, a letterpress plate, a letterpress cylinder, a coating roller, and an inking roller.

A method for producing a polymer layer on a cylindrical substrate, wherein the cylindrical substrate is a printing plate selected from the group consisting of a gravure plate, a gravure cylinder, a patterning plate, a patterning cylinder, an embossing plate, an embossing cylinder, a letterpress plate, a letterpress cylinder, a coating roller, and an inking roller, the method comprising:

• coating, via a coating device, the cylindrical substrate with a flowable polymer and producing a flowable polymer layer;
• curing, via a curing device, the flowable polymer layer on the cylindrical substrate;
• bearing the cylindrical substrate in a substrate receptacle;
• during the coating, moving the coating device in a translational movement relative to the cylindrical substrate in a longitudinal direction of the cylindrical substrate;
• during the curing, moving the curing device in a translational movement relative to the cylindrical substrate in the longitudinal direction of the cylindrical substrate;
• during the coating and the curing, moving the cylindrical substrate in the substrate receptacle in a rotational direction;
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• coordinating the translational movements with the rotational movement of the cylindrical substrate.