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US 5,295,436 AGranted
Inner blanket securement assembly
AssigneeKoenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsHans-Jurgen Kittsteiner, Kurt G. Nagler, Erich G. Wieland
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Abstract
An inner blanket securement assembly utilizes spaced inner blanket engaging pins and an inner blanket hold-down device with a hook-shaped holding nose to secure an edge of an inner blanket to a cylinder. The inner blanket is structured using a plurality of inner layers within an outer casing that is closed and bag-shaped adjacent the leading edge of the inner blanket.
Claims6
An inner blanket securement assembly usable to secure an inner blanket of a multiple layer blanket arrangement to a cylinder, said inner blank securement assembly comprising:
- a rotatable cylinder having a peripheral, axially extending cylinder channel;
- a front wall surface in said cylinder channel;
- a plurality of inner blanket leading edge securement pins spaced axially along said front wall surface and having leading edge portions extending into said cylinder channel from said front wall surface;
- at least a first inner blanket hold-down device positioned on said front wall surface between spaced ones of said plurality of pins, said inner blanket hold-down device having a generally hook-shaped holding nose which forms a generally U-shaped channel that is sized to receive a portion of a leading edge of an inner blanket intermediate said securement pins;
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- spaced recesses at a radially inner portion of said front wall surface of said channel, said recesses facilitating removal of a leading edge of an inner blanket from said inner blanket securement assembly.
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