Device for changing printing forms or plates

Device for changing printing forms on cylinders of printing presses, including a swivelable printing-form loading unit having respective compartments for feeding and for removing printing forms, the loading unit being swivelable into an operating position at a gap formed in a printing-form cylinder equipped with clamping devices, and into a loading position wherein the loading unit is retracted from the operating position thereof, comprising:

• a holding element having an insertion region for a printing form to be removed from the printing-form cylinder, and said holding element having devices for transporting a printing form to be fed onto the printing-form cylinder, the printing-form loading unit being swivelable into a vertical loading position thereof at said holding element;
• a plurality of stops for the printing forms and one of said stops having a prestressed lever;
• and
• control units operatively associated with the printing-form removing and feeding compartments of the printing-form loading unit for actuating said stops.