Manipulation of printing blankets
AssigneeDuco International Limited
InventorJohn M. Smith
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Abstract
A container for a printing blanket comprises a cassette of dimensions sufficient at least to contain a printing blanket in wound form. The cassette comprising a casing of generally cylindrical shape having a longitudinal opening for sheet-form egression of a printing blanket from within the cassette. In one preferred embodiment, the cassette has a pressure slide attached to or integral therewith adjacent to the longitudinal opening, for pressing a printing blanket on a press cylinder when the blanket is fed onto the cylinder. The cassette is employed in the manipulation of large adhesive-backed printing blankets for web-feed offset printing presses.
Claims1
A cassette for housing and applying an adhesively backed printing blanket to a printing press cylinder to which said blanket is to be adhesively bonded, said cassette comprising:
- a cassette casing having internal dimensions sufficient at least to contain said adhesively backed printing blanket in wound form, said cassette casing having a generally cylindrical shape;
- said casing having a longitudinal opening for sheet form egression of said printing blanket from within the cassette for application to said printing press cylinder.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.