Device for supplying printing plates to a printing machine
AssigneeHeidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
InventorsHermann Beisel, Peter T. Blaser, Dieter Hauck, Rudolf Hutzenlaub, Helmut Ja/ ger, Hans-Georg Jahn, Robert Mu/ ller, Anton Rodi, Nikolaus Spiegel
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Abstract
A device designed as a magazine is disclosed for supplying printing plates to a plate cylinder of a printing machine, in particular to ensure the automatic exchange of printing plates by means of a plate supply arrangement. The plate supply arrangement (16) has several distributed (second) holding means (55) for the printing plates (9) that can be successively activated.
Claims17
In a printing machine, an apparatus for removing and delivering printing plates to a printing plate cylinder of the printing machine for automatic printing plate exchange, comprising:
- a magazine, a plate removal and a plate delivery device disposed in said magazine, said plate removal device having first retaining means;
- said plate delivery device having a plurality of second retaining means for the printing plate disposed in distributed fashion and activatable successively;
- a sensor disposed in said magazine for monitoring a rear edge of the printing plate with regard to satisfactory delivery to the printing plate cylinder;
- said second retaining means including a retaining device associated with a front edge of the printing plate, said retaining device being shiftably mounted for shifting in controlled fashion transversely to a plane defined by the printing plate upon delivery of the printing plate to the printing plate cylinder so that the rear edge of the printing plate can move past said retaining device without colliding therewith.
The apparatus according to claim l, including a carriage and a guide disposed in said magazine, said second retaining means being disposed on said carriage, and said carriage being movable along said guide.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.