Antilinting device for ink fountains
AssigneeBaldwin-Gegenheimer GmbH
InventorJohn MacPhee
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Abstract
A device for scraping the ink film including lint and debris from an ink fountain roller consisting of a relatively thin, relatively narrow, flexible blade positioned in contact with the surface of the ink fountain roller, the blade being reciprocated along the length of the roller so as to remove ink, lint and debris from the surface of the roller to thereby prevent clogging of the ink metering nip.
Claims5
An antilinting system for use in a printing press having an ink fountain, an ink fountain blade, an ink fountain roller, an ink metering nip formed between the terminal end of the ink fountain blade and the ink fountain roller and an ink agitator means extending into said ink fountain and reciprocating along the full length of the ink fountain roller comprising:
- (a) a blade holder having a relatively narrow, flexible, scraping blade adjustably attached to said blade holder;
- (b) means for adjustably positioning said scraping blade adjacent the surface of said ink fountain roller and above said ink fountain so that said flexible blade can be moved a predetermined distance from the surface of said ink fountain roller so as to remove the ink film and lint on said ink fountain roller whereby the ink film and lint falls into said ink fountain and the lint will not clog said ink metering nip;
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- (c) means interconnecting said blade holder and said flexible scraping blade to said ink agitator means so that said flexible blade reciprocates back and forth along the entire length of said ink fountain roller so as to continuously remove ink and lint from said ink fountain roller.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.