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US 5,782,182 AGranted
Printing group for a color-printing web-fed rotary press
AssigneeKoenig & Bauer-Albert Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsWolfgang Gunter Ruckmann, Martin Heinz Schoeps
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Abstract
A printing system for a multi-color web-fed rotary printing press utilizes a plurality of printing system units that are arranged in a vertical array. Each printing system unit includes a left printing unit and a right printing unit. The left or the right units are supported in a frame which is shiftable horizontally with the respect to the frame that supports the other units.
Claims21
A printing system for the multi-color printing of one or more webs in a web-fed rotary printing press comprising:
- a plurality of left printing units, each of said left printing units having a left inking system, a left printing cylinder and a left rubber blanket cylinders;
- a plurality of right printing units, each of said right printing units having a right inking system, a right printing cylinder and a right rubber blanket cylinder;
- a plurality of bridge printing units formed by cooperating ones of said left and right printing units, each of said bridge printing units having one of said left printing units and one of said right printing units, said left and right blanket cylinders in each of said bridge printing units being engageable with each other to print a web passing vertically therebetween, said plurality of bridge printing units being disposed one above the other;
- a left frame element for receiving said plurality of left printing units;
- a right frame element for receiving said plurality of right printing units;
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- means for supporting at least one of said left and right frame elements for horizontal movement with respect to the other of said left and right frame elements so that said left and right frame elements can be separated by a horizontal distance from each other to separate said left and right blanket cylinders in said plurality of bridge printing units from each other.
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