Device for cleaning cylinders of printing machines
AssigneeVeb Kombinat Polygraph "Werner Lamberz" Leipzig
InventorsJoerg Kaempfe, Wolfgang Meurer, Hans Kammel, Otto Nedwig
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A device for cleaning a cylinder of a printing machine by a washing cloth rolled from a supply roll and brought in contact with the surface of the printing cylinder by a pressing arrangement includes two rollers for transporting the washing cloth, a cutting device and a spraying device. The cleaning device is formed as a functional unit removable from and pivotable and lockable in opposite side walls connectable to the printing machine.
Claims4
A device for cleaning a cylinder of a printing machine with a washing cloth, comprising a supply roll for the washing cloth;
- pressing means for pressing the washing cloth against the printing cylinder;
- a transporting roller and a counter pressure roller for pulling the washing cloth from said supply roll to said pressing means;
- opposite side walls rigidly supported in the printing machine and supporting said transporting roller;
- opposite plates, scanning means on said supply roll for controlling the amount of washing cloth on said supply roll in operation;
- an elastic hollow member loaded with pressure medium and operating as said pressing means;
- means for cutting a portion of the washing cloth passing the printing cylinder;
- and means for spraying washing fluid onto the printing cylinder;
- said supply roller, said scanning means, said elastic hollow member and said counter pressure roller being assembled in said plates into a functional unit and said plates are arranged in said side walls so that said functional unit is removable from, pivotable in and lockable in said side walls, said plates further supporting said scanning means and said spraying means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.