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US 5,960,714 AGranted
Rotary printing machine with cylinders having an uncoverable end face
AssigneeMAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG
InventorsJosef Gottling, Horst Dauer, Xaver Bachmeir, Bernhard Feller
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Abstract
A rotary printing machine in which cylinders are uncovered by a swinging door or a removable flap. Journals are separated from the cylinder bodies and remain, together with bearings arranged in the door or the flap. At a separation point the journals have truncated conical projections which are inserted into corresponding truncated conical depressions in the end face of the cylinder body.
Claims9
A rotary printing machine, comprising:
- side walls;
- at least one cylinder mounted in the side walls and having a journal and a cylinder body;
- a door mounted in one of the side walls in swingable fashion;
- bearing means arranged at the door for supporting the journal of the cylinder so that an end face of the cylinder facing the door can be uncovered by swinging of the door;
- and
- means for separating at least part of the journal from the cylinder body together with the bearing by swinging the door, the separating means being arranged at the end face of the cylinder facing the door and including a conical pair of truncated conical projections and corresponding truncated conical depressions.
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A rotary printing machine, comprising:
- side walls;
- at least one cylinder mounted in the side walls and having a journal and a cylinder body;
- a flap removably mounted in one of the side walls;
- and
- a bearing mounted at the flap, the cylinder being mounted to the bearing, the cylinder having a separation point configured at an end face of the cylinder facing the flap, the separation point including a conical pair having truncated conical projections and corresponding truncated conical depressions whereby at least part of the journal is separable from the cylinder body and removable together with the bearing by means of the flap.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.